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PJSC Mechel : Mechel Wins Award for Social and Ecological Projects in 
Chelyabinsk 
 
2020-12-24 / 12:10 MSK 
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            MECHEL WINS AWARD FOR SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL PROJECTS 
                               IN CHELYABINSK 
 
   Moscow, Russia - 24 December 2020 - Mechel Group became a laureate of the 
      "Region Development. Best for Russia 2020" Award. For the contest, the 
   company submitted its projects of improving Chelyabinsk's environment and 
                                  promoting the region's stable development. 
 
      The award aims to highlight the most efficient regional practices that 
  enable fruitful cooperation between businesses, society and authorities in 
     the business's territory of presence. The award's expert council, which 
includes heads and representatives of more than 20 Russian regions, voted on 
the best projects in 14 key categories, from retail to digital technologies. 
 
One of the program's priorities is to showcase best regional practices aimed 
  at resolving acute social and economic problems. Mechel became the best in 
     the "Social Projects and Stable Development" category, winning the Best 
                                              Ecological Project nomination. 
 
   Mechel presented its social and ecological initiatives for consideration, 
 including the project of urban beautification and greening in Chelyabinsk's 
  courtyards and public areas. Over the past three years, the company joined 
forces with public ecologists to conduct over 150 such events, planting more 
 than 2,000 trees and shrubs and distributing more than 30,000 free saplings 
         to city dwellers. Mechel also arranged for compensatory planting in 
  Chelyabinsk's Balandino Wood that had suffered from forest fires - a total 
                                of 100,000 pine saplings were planted there. 
 
       The company also presented for expert evaluation its ecological grant 
  contest Eco-Projector, which had been held three times in a row. Proactive 
 city inhabitants present their ecological projects for consideration by the 
      contest's jury. Experts choose the most important ideas for ecological 
        education, volunteering and city beautification. Authors of the best 
  projects receive the company's grants for implementation. Over these three 
   years, more than 80 ecological initiatives were implemented with Mechel's 
                                                                    support. 
 
     Mechel's stable development measures include an annual ecological forum 
   Ecoengineering, which is an open space for discussing environment issues. 
         The forum invites various experts, college professors, students and 
ecologically minded city inhabitants, with about 1,000 people taking part in 
        the forum every year. Such a discussion area helps create awareness, 
 implement scientific achievements and new technologies for the environment, 
                 and improve popular ecological education in Southern Urals. 
 
   "We are very glad that our stable development projects in Chelyabinsk won 
recognition by representatives of Russian regions. We sincerely believe that 
          such social initiatives help create conditions for stable regional 
    development. These projects complement the ecological agreements we have 
    signed with Chelyabinsk Region's Governor Alexey Texler. We consistently 
     fulfill the obligations we have assumed on decreasing our impact on the 
environment by upgrading our facilities. At the same time, we are interested 
       in reducing social tensions in the region, creating opportunities for 
     discussing ecological problems, building good neighborly relations with 
   local communities, and promoting interesting ideas aimed at improving the 
 city environment," Mechel PAO's Chief Executive Officer Oleg Korzhov noted. 
 
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Mechel PAO 
 
Ekaterina Videman 
 
Tel: + 7 495 221 88 88 
 
ekaterina.videman@mechel.com 
 
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       Mechel is an international mining and steel company. Its products are 
    marketed in Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa. Mechel unites 
            producers of coal, iron ore concentrate, steel, rolled products, 
      ferroalloys, heat and electric power. All of its enterprises work in a 
   single production chain, from raw materials to high value-added products. 
 
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    Some of the information in this press release may contain projections or 
      other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future 
financial performance of Mechel, as defined in the safe harbor provisions of 
       the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We wish to 
      caution you that these statements are only predictions and that actual 
   events or results may differ materially. We do not intend to update these 
    statements. We refer you to the documents Mechel files from time to time 
  with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Form 20-F. 
     These documents contain and identify important factors, including those 
      contained in the section captioned "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Note 
Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in our Form 20-F, that could cause the 
 actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections 
  or forward-looking statements, including, among others, the achievement of 
 anticipated levels of profitability, growth, cost and synergy of our recent 
      acquisitions, the impact of competitive pricing, the ability to obtain 
  necessary regulatory approvals and licenses, the impact of developments in 
  the Russian economic, political and legal environment, volatility in stock 
markets or in the price of our shares or ADRs, financial risk management and 
              the impact of general business and global economic conditions. 
 
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Company:     PJSC Mechel 
             1 Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, Moscow, Russia 
             127006 Moscow 
             Russia 
Phone:       +7 (495) 221-88-88 
Fax:         +7 (495) 221-88-00 
E-mail:      press@mechel.com 
Internet:    www.mechel.ru/ 
ISIN:        US5838406081, RU000A0DKXV5 
WKN:         A2AC1G 
Listed:      Foreign Exchange(s) Moscow, NYSE 
EQS News ID: 1157343 
 
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