Partners and Sponsors of the First Voronezh Investment Forum

Ilyushin Finance Co.

Ilyushin Finance Co. was founded in 1999. Member of "United Aircraft Corporation" (UAC) of Russia. Since then it became the largest Russian aircraft sales and leasing company. Offering its foreign and domestic clients various types of Russian-made aircraft IFC enjoys the state export credit support. As an essential part of the IFC's activity, after-sale support is provided by the specialized company - "IFC-Technik". The customer can choose a desirable service package (maintenance, engineering, aircraft and equipment monitoring, state and producers liaison) on the "power by hour" basis.

Company's website: www.ifc-leasing.com

Voronezh Region Builders' Union

The non-commercial partnership organization "Voronezh Region Builders' Union" was registered by the Voronezh Regional House in April, 2001. It was formed to resume business ties and cooperation between regional building enterprises and organizations, unite their intellectual, scientific and technological potential, human resources and economical strength for better protection of legitimate rights of ventures and individuals and establishing an attractive investment enviroment. The "Builders' Union" will represent its members and their interests at Voronezh, Voronezh Region and other local authorities legislative and administrative bodies, various state and public organizations.

Company's website: http://www.soyuzstroy.vrndex.ru

A universal commercial bank presents all the range of banking services. Set in 1994, general license of Bank of Russia № 2879. Main areas of activity include corporate banking business, retail banking, leasing, investments to real sector of economy, crediting individuals in Moscow and other regions with Avangard branches. The Bank is always in the list of the largest Russian banks (own capital and net assets).

Company's website: www.avangard.ru

International vertically integrated industrial holding manufactures construction materials. Cement output is 35 mln t per year, concrete - 2 mln cubic meters per year. The company makes all types of cement and supplies it to consumers in bulk and packages. Chief clients are leading Moscow construction companies, large regional companies, concrete structure plants, individual developers.

Company's website: www.eurocement.ru

OAO MInB was set in 1990, based on the Moscow department of the USSR Promstroibank. The Bank's priority relates to supporting the domestic economy real sector, which strengthens the Bank status as a reliable and stable financial Russian structure. Being a holder of the CB RF license, Moscow Industrial Bank presents diverse financial services to enterprises in all branches of economy, to local authorities and population. The Bank has accumulated experience of servicing budget organizations (accounts of administrative bodies and customs agencies, enterprises and organizations in social and communal areas).

Company's website: www.minbank.ru

The concern is set following the presidential decree 993 dt.29.07.2004 in line with the Federal program "Forming and developing military-industrial complex in 2002-2006" to preserve and develop technological and industrial potential in the radio electronic industry. The concern is to perform the state level task - develop management system in a tactical link, and manufacture civilian products. Voronezh research institute of communications is the head company of Sozvezdie (general director, doctor of science, professor, correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences - V.Borisov).

Company's website: www.sozvezdie.su

Managing company Agro-Invest is a dynamic developing company focusing on setting up and developing agricultural enterprises on the territory of the Russian Federation. The company is present in 6 regions of Russia. It attracts long-term foreign investments and uses international experience in restructuring and financial invigoration of agricultural companies.
Shareholders of the company are both big international companies and private investors.

Company's websites: www.agroinvest.com, www.blackearthfarming.se

Open joint stock company Ingosstrakh has been operating on the local and international markets since 1947. Today it is one of the biggest universal insurers of the federal level and one of the leaders of the Russian market both by the volume of premium and payed out compansations and by main financial indices. Charter capital constitutes 2.5 billion roubles. Ingosstrakh provides a full range of insurance services. It has licences for 20 types of insurance out of 23 stipulated by the Federal law, which makes it possible to ensure complex protection for the clients.

Company's website: http://www.ingos.ru/

DOMEDKO-HUKSLY is a group of companies, building and operating raw material manufacturing companies for construction, pulp and paper industry, and a number of chemical plants and housing and communal services. The company key industrial project is production of common lime and fine-dispersed fillers based on natural calcium carbonate in Krupennikovsky deposit. The plant is equipped with modern European machinery. The technology permits to produce mineral elements of top purity and quality, resulting in stable and precisely measured products. The product brand is to be Domedko-Huksly.

Company's website: domedco.integrate.ru

VASO is the largest industrial center in Voronezh and its area with highly concentrated modern technologies. The plant has been in existence for 75 years and turned into a large and well-equipped technological enterprise with highly qualified specialists. VASO has always been in the lead in the aircraft-construction field.

Company's website: www.vaso.ru

ООО BUNGE CIS is the Russian branch of Bunge Ltd. - international integrated company at the agriculture and food product market. Bunge was incorporated in Amsterdam in 1818, presently its head office is located in the USA. The company turnover amounts to 25 bln dollars per year. Bunge is the world leader in the area of refining oilseed and at the bottled oilseed market. In Russia the company sells sunflower, corn and seed oil branded Оleina and Ideal, it is also one of the largest grain traders. The company owns grain elevators in Voronezh area and Krasnodar territory and a port terminal in Rostov-on-Don. Bunge is about to complete the largest oil extraction plant in chernozem part of Voronezh area with investments exceeding 150 mln dollars.

Company's website: www.bunge.ru

Concern Krost was founded in 1990. Owner and Director-General - Alexei Dobashin
Today this is one of the Russian foremost multi-profile investment and construction holdings, which is implementing the complete development cycle - from design and construction works through subsequent real estate management, being the general contractor and project investor at the same time.
Concern is conducting business along five lines -
staple activities:

• construction;
• industry (15 plants);
• development of commercial and dwelling real estate;

• fitness - wellness - ELSE club spa-complexes (FWA&SPA);
• beer restaurants network business.

Company's website: http://www.krost.ru/en

A network of concrete production plants under trademark of Beton-222 was based on advanced developments in the field of concrete production and is by right considered unique in technical equipment. Suppliers of equipment for the network of concrete manufacturing enterprises became German company Liebherr, the world leader in this field. This is the only enterprise in Russia exercising complete visual control over all technological processes, including concrete mix, with the help of video cameras installed in concrete mixers. The plant laboratories provide for the products quality and develop new types of concrete with a wide range of operational characteristics.

Financial corporation URALSIB is a multi-profile financial structure successfully engaged in commercial and private banking, investment and insurance business. The corporation offers to its clients all types of corporate and individual financial servicing. The commercial bank services include all varieties of crediting, leasing, trade financing, factoring, private bank servicing. Investment area covers all range of broker services, asset management, mutual unit funds, depositary services, corporate financing and management consulting. The corporation has licenses for 95 types of insurance. It is active in developing electronic commerce services.

BANK URALSIB is the main asset management company of financial corporation URALSIB. Bank is ranked among the top Russian banks by its main financial indices. Regional net of the BANK incorporates more than 560 offices all around the country. Its offices operate as financial supermarkets offering a complex of modern products and services including traditional deposits, credits and mortgages, investment services, participation in funds of collective investments, insurance products.

Company's website: http://www.uralsib.ru/

ООО STROIMONTAZH 2004 is a professional investment-construction company, which in a leading capacity unites numerous participants of large-scale projects. The company performs management and comprehensive implementation of investment projects in constructing and renovating real estate objects, presents a full range of services at the real estate market: financing, designing, construction, design and construction supervision, realtor's activity with further maintenance of built (renovated) housing and non-housing complexes with supporting social, engineering and transport infrastructure.

Company's website: http://sm2004.ru

Group of companies "New Construction Technologies" is one of the largest construction holdings of Voronezh (ranked among top-five companies in the region). On the federal level NST functions under KRAYS GROUP brand.
The group comprises 16 companies providing full building process, the largest being OOO Glavmomolit Company, OOO Rosizvest, design institute Hyprocommundortrans, OOO NST-Engineering. We build apartment houses, trade and office centers, cottages, tailor-made houses, elite housing.
At present the company is implementing more than 50 projects both in Russia and abroad. The main office resides in Voronezh.

Company's website: www.n-s-t.ru/

The Prodimex Group was formed in 1992. Today Prodimex is one of the leaders of the Russian agricultural sector being the most important sugar producer in the country. The company controls 20% of Russian sugar market. It owns 15 sugar refineries and a citric acid plant in Voronezh, Belgorod, Tula, Orel and Penza regions, in the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, and in the Bashkortostan republic. Over 20 agricultural ventures are the Prodimex Holding members. The enterprises of the Prodimex Group are managed by the Prodimex Holding Company.

Company's website: http://www.prodimex.ru/

Joint Stock Commercial Bank "National Reserve Bank" was founded in April, 1994. In 1995 a group of partners bought it out from its former owners, the largest among the former was Gazprom. Present management came to the bank in June, 1995, from Russian Investment Financial Company, which used to specialize in Soviet and Russian commercial debts. In September 1996 National ReserveBank obtained general license for bank activity and by the end of the same year was listed among the top-10 Russian banks.

Company's website: www.nrb.ru

Agrokultura Group was founded in 2007. Main scopes of business are:

• crop-growing;
• husbandry;
• agricultural products processing.

JSC First Cargo Company is the largest operator of railway transportation in Russia. The main founder and common shares owner is JSC Russian Railways. Co-founder, Non-commercial organization Zheldorreforma, owns one common share.
First Cargo Company was founded in July, 2007 and started controlling car fleet in November. At present First Cargo Company owns more than 200 000 rolling-stock units of different types (75 thousand tank-wagons, 47 thousand gondola cars, 15 thousand open trucks, 14,3 thousand open trucks, 14,3 thousand covered carriages and about 49 thousand other carriages). The company accounts for 21% of the total Russia car fleet.
First Cargo Company provides the full range of cargo transportation services including 24-hour dispatcher control, cargo expedition and control during railway and mult-modal transportation; tariff setting; legal and marketing support of projects.
In the nearest future First Cargo Company plans to renew the rolling stock, strengthening market position and increasing the company's capitalization.

Company's website: http://www.pgkweb.ru/

SIBUR group is a leader of Russian petrochemistry, uniting 34 enterprises and dependent societies with over 100 units of petrochemical products. SIBUR group demonstrates dynamic development in line with modern technologies, is capable of securing long-term growth and development of the Russian petrochemical industry. The SIBUR holding controlling stock belongs to Gazprom group. Within recent years the company has been consistent in its financial achievements. Planned investments for 2007 amount to 16.9 bln rubles.

Company's website: www.sibur.ru

The open joint-stock company Voronezhsintezkautchuk (before 1992 Voronezh plant named after S.Kirov) is one of the leading world producers of synthetic rubber. The plant was commissioned in 1932. In 1998 it was attached to Siberia-Urals petrochemical company SIBUR. Presently the joint-stock company is one of the largest Russian producers of rubber - about 20% of the market, with the assortment exceeding 30 varieties, some of which have no analogues in Russia.

Company's website: www.vrnsk.ru

Amtel-Vredestein is a european manufacturer of premium-class motor car tyres. The company is the leader among top eurepoean tyres manufacturers and takes leading positions in the Russian market of high quality motor car tyres. The compnay sells motor car tyres under VREDESTЕIN, AMTEL and MALOYA brends produced in Enschede (the Netherlands); in Voronezh, Kirov and Moscow (Russia).

Company's website: http://www.amtel-vredestein.ru

EUROPAK set up in June 2003 is a modern dynamic company specializing in crimped cardboard and package manufacturing. Customers are mainly food industry ebterprises. At present EUROPAK is the only big company in Voronez region manufacturing these products. Management of the company stresses the fact that their investment project got substantial support from the region administration and the governor of the region Vladimir Kulakov personally took great interest in the project.
During the five years the company has invested 23 mln dollars in its development. Volume of production makes up 2 mln square meters per month. The company plans to enlarge production and continue implementing modern technologies with the help of its strategic partner - Petromash-Service.

Company's website: www.europack.su

The Atomenergoproject State Corporation (Moscow) is one of the Rosatom active engineering companies. Since the Corporation was established, the majority of Russian NPP power units have been designed by Atomenergoproject, including NPP Busher in Iran and NPP Kudankulam in India. The older nuclear plants in Russia are being modernized by Atomenergoproject. The State Corporation has been the leading engineering designer of NPP Belene in Bulgaria. In 2007Atomenergoproject (Moscow) launched the construction of the 1st unit of Novovoronezh NPP-2 within the framework of the Federal Target Program "Development of the Nuclear Power Industry of Russia in 2007-2010 and -2015." The new reactor of Novovoronezh NPP is a pressurised water reactor - 1200 (PWR-1200) based on Atomenergoproject best technological achievements (project NPP-2006). This is the evolutionary project, which is based on the NPP-92 technical solutions. The NPP-92 has been examined by international experts and awarded an official certificate of compliance with the requirements of the European exploiting organizations (EUR).

Company's website: www.rudgormash.ru

PJSC "Rudgormash" is a modern machine-manufacturing enterprise with 2600 employees. Its history began in post-war years, when former repair shops evolved into the machine-building plant and on January 1, 1949 "Mashmet" factory began manufacturing optional equipment for ferrous metallurgy enterprises: trolleys, perforators and electric carriages. In 2002 drilling rig SBSH-250, the Rudgormash main product, was declared a laureate of the contest "100 Best Products of Russia" and self-propelled mine car 5ВС 15М was awarded the contest diploma.

OSC KBKhA is one of the world leaders in the field of development of liquid rocket engines (LRE) for rocketry of national defense, science and national economics. It is a modern scientific and technological enterprise manufacturing competitive high-tech products.

Company's website: www.kbkha.ru

ОАО Corporation RIF was based on an experimental RIF micro-electronic plant, set in 1988 to manufacture electronic units, hybrid integral circuits on thick and thin-film technology, acousto-electronics. In 1994 RIF was turned into an open joint-stock company and presently operates on 100% private capital. The Corporation enterprises manufacture products developed in their own design bureaus. Creative quest of specialists allows to satisfy specific demands of clients to product design and parameters and to be dynamically responsive to requirements in Russia and all over the world.

Company's website: www.rif.vrn.ru

Bank Sosiete Generale Vostok (BSGV) was founded in Moscow in 1993. It's a universla bank, rendering a wide range of bank products and services to corporate and private clients. It's ranked among Top 30 of the biggest Russian Banks (Bank of Russia data as of April, the 1st, 2008). Bank Sosiete Generale Vostok is a branch pf Sosiete Generale Group - one of the biggest fifnacial groups in the world, renedering services to 22.5 million clients in 77 countries.

Company's website: www.bsgv.ru

Baltika Breweries is the largest FMCG producer in Russia. Since 1996, it has been the leader on the Russian beer market. The Company comprises 11 breweries across all of Russia. It has a wide portfolio of brands and its employees number around 12,000.

Company's website: www.baltika.ru

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS") is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS. Together with its subsidiaries, the Company services over 85.68 million subscribers. The regions of Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, in which MTS and its associates and subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services, have a total population of more than 230 million. Since June 2000, MTS' Level 3 ADRs have been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol MBT). Additional information about MTS can be found on MTS' website.

Company's website: http://www.mtsgsm.com/

The VimpelCom Group is a telecommunications operator, providing voice and data services, covered through a range of wireless, fixed and broadband technologies. The Group includes companies operating in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Armenia, in territories with a total population of about 250 million. VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"). VimpelCom's ADSs are listed on the NYSE under the symbol "VIP".

Company's website: www.beeline.ru

JSC MegaFon is the first all-Russia operator of mobile communications of GSM 900/1800 standard. It was founded in 2002 after restructuring and renaming of ZAO North-West GSM and merging under single brand with ZAO Sonic Duo (Moscow), ZAO Mobicom-Caucasus, ZAO Mibicom-Center, ZAO Mobicom-Novosibirsk, ZAO Mobicom-Khabarovsk, ZAO Mobicom-Kirov, JSC MSS Povolzhue, ZAO Volga GSM and ZAO Ural G S M House. Main shareholders of JSC MegaFon are JSC Telecominvest, JSC CT-Mobile, Sonera (Finland) and Telia (Sweden). The license portfolio of the company and 100% owned branch companies cover the whole territory of Russia. Subscribers base amounts to 38 million people.
Southern branch of ZAO Mibicom-Center is MegaFon operator in Voronezh, Lipetsk, Belgorod and Tambov regions.

Company's website: www.megafon.ru/

Russian Railways is one of the biggest railway companies in the world with 85,500 km of track and 1.2 million employees. Almost 1.3 billion passengers travel via Russian Railways annually as well as 1.3 billion tons of freight. Russian Railways accounts for over 3.6 % of Russia's GDP and handles almost 80% of all transportation in Russia.
The Company was set up in accordance with a Russian Government Decree dated May 2001: The Structural Reform Programme on Rail Transport and is the result of the first stage of reform in the rail sector.

Company's website: www.rzd.ru

Intourist group of companies is the largest Russian vertically integrated tourist holding, consisting of VAO Intourist management company and 4 business divisions - tour operation, hotel business, retail sales of tourist products and transport services. Total turnover in 2006 amounted to 338.31 mln dollars, revenues - 270.2 mln dollars (turnover by 9 months of 2007 - 381.9 mln dollars, revenues - 275 mln dollars). Geography of presence covers 80 regions of Russia. The company has 7000 partners in 168 countries.

Company's website: www.intourist.ru

Petrovskiy Passage Hotel is located in the most beautiful spot in the historical center of Voronezh. Its windows look at Petrovskiy square, Blagoveshchenskiy Cathedral and Voronezh storage lake. Conveniently situated in the heart of Voronezh, we are within walking distance of the most significant historical sites, administrative offices, and entertaining objects. The hotel comprises 40 comfortable guest rooms, each equipped with a telephone, a satellite television, high-speed Internet, a safe, an air-conditioner and a mini- bar. You will feel home far from home. Your stay at Petrovskiy Passage Hotel will be comfortable and secure (our security system works round-the-clock and covers the hotel territory and the parking lot as well).

Company's website: www.passazh-v.ru