Rosseti Volga : Report of Issuer of the issuer-grade securities for half 1 of 2023

REPORT OF THE ISSUER OF ISSUE-GRADE SECURITIES

Rosseti Volga, Public Joint-Stock Company

Issuer's Code: 04247-E

for 6 months 2023

Information contained in this Issuer's report is subject to disclosure in compliance with the

applicable laws on securities of the Russian Federation

Issuer's address:	42/44, Pervomayskaya Street, Saratov, the Saratov Region, 410031,
	the Russian Federation
Issuer's contact	Irina Vladimirovna Kakutina, Head of the Department of Corporate
person	Governance and Shareholder Relations
	Phone: [phone]
	E-mail: [e-mail]

Web-page	https://www.rossetivolga.ru;
address	http://www.e-disclosure.ru/portal/company.aspx?id=12131
General Director
Date: September 22, 2023	______________ A.I. Gavrilov
		signature

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Table of Contents
Table of Contents	2
Introduction	4
1.2. Information on the Issuer's position in the industry	8
1.3. Key operational performance indicators characterizing the Issuer's activities	8
1.4. Key financial performance indicators of the Issuer	9
1.4.1. Financial indicators calculated on the basis of consolidated financial statements
(financial statements)	9
1.4.2. Financial indicators calculated on the basis of accounting (financial) statements	13
1.4.3. Financial indicators of a credit institution	13
1.4.4. Other financial indicators	13
1.4.5. Analysis of the dynamics of changes in financial indicators given in sub-clauses
1.4.1-1.4.4 of this clause	13
1.5. Information about the Issuer's main suppliers	14
1.6. Information on the Issuer's principal debtors	14
1.7. Information on the Issuer's obligations	16
1.7.1. Information on the Issuer's principal creditors	16
1.7.2. Information on the Issuer's obligations from the security provided	17
1.7.3. Information on other material obligations of the Issuer	17
1.8. Information on the Issuer's development prospects	17
1.9. Information on the risks associated with the Issuer's activities	17
1.9.1. Industry-specific risks	18
1.9.2. Country and regional risks	20
1.9.3. Financial risks	21
1.9.4. Legal risks	23
1.9.5. Risk of loss of goodwill (reputation risk)	24
1.9.6. Strategic risk	25
1.9.7. Risks associated with the Issuer's activities	25
1.9.8. Information security risk	26
1.9.9. Environmental risk	27
1.9.10. Natural and climatic risk	28
1.9.11. Risks of credit institutions	28
1.9.12. Other risks that are material to the Issuer (the Issuer's Group)	28
Section 2. Information on the persons who are members of the Issuer's management bodies,
information on the organization of risk management, control over financial and business
activities and internal control, internal audit at the Issuer's facilities, as well as information on
the Issuer's employees	28
2.1. Information on the persons who are members of the Issuer's management bodies	28
2.1.1. Members of the Board of Directors (Supervisory Board) of the Issuer	28
2.1.2. Details of the Issuer's Sole Executive Body	44
2.1.3. Members of the collegial executive body of the Issuer	46
2.2. Information on the remuneration and/or expense allowance policy, as well as the amount
of remuneration and/or expense allowance for each management body of the Issuer	54
2.3. Information on the Issuer's organization of risk management, control over financial and
business activities, internal control and internal audit	57

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2.4. Information on the Issuer's persons responsible for organization and implementation of risk management, control over financial and business activities and internal control, internal

audit

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2.5. Information on any obligations of the Issuer to employees of the Issuer and employees of organizations controlled by the Issuer regarding the possibility of their participation in the

authorized capital of the Issuer	80
Section 3. Information on the Issuer's shareholders (participants, members), as well as on the
Issuer's interested-party transactions and major transactions of the Issuer	81
3.1. Information on the total number of the Issuer's shareholders (participants, members) ....	81

3.2. Information on the Issuer's shareholders (participants, members) or persons/entities entitled to dispose of votes attributable to voting shares (stakes) constituting the Issuer's

authorized (share) capital (share fund)

81

3.3. Information on the participation interest of the Russian Federation, a constituent entity of the Russian Federation or a municipality in the Issuer's authorized capital, the availability of

a special right (golden share)	81
3.4. The Issuer's interested-party transactions	82
3.5. Major transactions of the Issuer	82
Section 4. Additional information on the Issuer and securities placed by the Issuer	82
4.1. Organizations controlled by the Issuer that are of material importance to the Issuer	82
4.2. Additional information disclosed by issuers of green bonds, social impact bonds,
sustainable development bonds, adaptation bonds	86

4.2.1. Information on the implementation of project (-s) for the financing and/or refinancing of which the funds received from the placement of green bonds, social bonds, sustainable

development bonds, adaptation bonds are used	86
4.2.2. Description of the Issuer's Policy on management of cash received from placement of
green bonds, social bonds, sustainable development bonds, adaptation bonds	86
4.2.3. Report on the use of cash received from placement of green bonds, social bonds,
sustainable development bonds, adaptation bonds	86
4.2(1). Additional information disclosed by issuers of infrastructure bonds	87
4.2(2). Additional information disclosed by bond issuers related to sustainable development
goals	87
4.2(3). Additional information disclosed by issuers of climate transition bonds	87
4.3. Information on the person(-s)/entity(-ies) that provided a collateral for the Issuer's
secured bonds and details of such collateral provided for the Issuer's secured bonds	87
4.4. Information on declared and paid dividends on the Issuer's shares	87
4.5. Information on organizations in charge of recording rights to the Issuer's issue-grade
securities	89
4.5.1. Information about the registrar maintaining the register of holders of the Issuer's
securities	90
4.5.2. Information on the depository performing centralized record of rights to the Issuer's
securities	90
4.6. Information about the Issuer's auditor	90
Section 5. Consolidated financial statements (financial statements), accounting (financial)
statements of the Issuer	94
5.1. Consolidated financial statements (financial statements) of the Issuer	94
5.2. Accounting (financial) statements	94

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Introduction

The information contained in the Issuer's report is subject to disclosure in accordance with Clause 4 of Article 30 of the Federal Law "On the Securities Market."

Basis for the Issuer's obligation to disclose information in the form of the Issuer's

report.

The securities prospectus has been registered with respect to the Issuer's securities The Issuer is a public joint-stock company

Information on the statements which (reference to which) are contained in the Issuer's report and on the basis of which the Issuer's report discloses information on the Issuer's financial and business operations:

The report contains a reference to the following types of statements: consolidated financial statements, on the basis of which the Issuer's report discloses information on the Issuer's financial and business operations.

The report also contains a reference to the accounting (financial) statements, on the basis of which the Issuer's report discloses information on the Issuer's financial and business operations in the following Clauses: 1.3; 1.5; 1.6; 1.7.

Information about the Issuer's financial and business operations is reflective of its activities as an entity that, together with other entities, is defined as a group in accordance with IFRS.

The consolidated financial statements on the basis of which information on the Issuer's financial and business operations is disclosed in the Issuer's report give an objective and fair view of the Issuer's assets, liabilities, financial position, profit or loss. Information on the financial position and results of the Issuer's activities contains a fair view of the Issuer's activities, as well as the main risks associated with its activities.

This Issuer's report contains estimates and forecasts regarding future events and/or actions, prospects for the development of the economic sector in which the Issuer carries out its main activities, and the results of the Issuer's activities, its plans, the probability of certain events and certain actions. However, further actual results of the Issuer's activities may differ from the forecasted results for many reasons, thus investors shall not fully rely upon the estimates and forecasts provided in this Issuer's report. The acquisition of the Issuer's securities is associated with risks, including those described in this Issuer's report.

Other information that, in the Issuer's opinion, will be useful for stakeholders in making economic decisions:

In this Issuer's report, Rosseti Volga, Public Joint-Stock Company is also referred to as: Rosseti Volga, PJSC, the Issuer, the Company.

Full corporate name of the Issuer: in Russian - Публичное акционерное общество «Россети Волга», in English - Public Joint Stock Company «Rosseti Volga»;

Abbreviated name: in Russian - ПАО «Россети Волга», in English - Rosseti Volga, PJSC.

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Section 1. The Issuer's Management Report 1.1. General information about the Issuer and its activities

Full corporate name of the Issuer: Public Joint Stock Company «Rosseti Volga»

Abbreviated corporate name of the Issuer: Rosseti Volga, PJSC

The following corporate name in a foreign language is registered in the Issuer's Charter:

The Issuer's corporate name in a foreign language: Public Joint Stock Company «Rosseti Volga»; Rosseti Volga, PJSC

Location of the Issuer: Saratov, the Russian Federation

The Issuer's address: 42/44, Pervomayskaya Street, Saratov, the Saratov Region, 410031, the Russian Federation

Information about the form of incorporation of the Issuer:

The Company was established on June 29, 2007 in Saratov as a wholly owned subsidiary of RAO UES of Russia, OJSC on the basis of a resolution of the sole incorporator of RAO UES of Russia, OJSC (Order of the Management Board of RAO UES of Russia, OJSC No. 191r dated June 22, 2007) as part of implementation of the decision made by the Board of Directors of RAO UES of Russia, OJSC on participation in IDGC (Minutes No. 250 dated April 27, 2007).

In accordance with the IDGC configuration approved by the decision of the Board of Directors of RAO UES of Russia, OJSC (Minutes No. 250 dated April 27, 2007), IDGC of Volga, JSC included the following distribution grid companies (DGC): Volzhskaya IDC, OJSC, Mordovenergo, OJSC, Penzaenergo, OJSC, Orenburgenergo, OJSC, and Chuvashenergo, OJSC.

During the period from June 29, 2007 till March 31, 2008, IDGC of Volga, JSC ensured operation of the distribution grid companies encompassed by the Company in accordance with the IDGC configuration. Since October 1, 2007, IDGC of Volga, JSC has been the sole executive body of these companies.

On December 25, 2007, the Management Board of RAO UES of Russia, OJSC exercising functions of the extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of IDGC of Volga, JSC (Minutes of Meeting No. 1795pr/8 dated December 25, 2007) passed the resolution on the Company's restructuring through affiliation of Volzhskaya IDC, OJSC; Mordovenergo, OJSC; Orenburgenergo, OJSC, Penzaenergo, OJSC and Chuvashenergo, OJSC.

On April 1, 2008, the reorganization of IDGC of Volga, JSC was completed through affiliation of five distribution grid companies: Volzhskaya IDC, OJSC, Mordovenergo, OJSC, Orenburgenergo, OJSC, Penzaenergo, OJSC, and Chuvashenergo, OJSC. On April 1, 2008, DGCs, which became part of IDGC of Volga, JSC, ceased their activities as legal entities and began to operate as branches: Mordovenergo, Orenburgenergo, Penzaenergo, Samara Distribution Grids, Saratov Distribution Grids, Ulyanovsk Distribution Grids, and Chuvashenergo.

Since April 1, 2008 to the present, IDGC of Volga, JSC operates as a single operating company in the territory of 7 constituent entities of the Russian Federation: Chuvash Republic, Republic of Mordovia, Orenburg, Penza, Saratov, Samara and Ulyanovsk regions with a control center in Saratov.

In view of entry into force of amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (as amended on May 05, 2014) and abolition of closed and open joint-stock companies, the Company changed its form of incorporation: Interregional Distribution Grid Company of Volga, Open Joint-Stock Company (IDGC of Volga, JSC) was renamed to Interregional Distribution Grid Company of Volga, Public Joint-Stock Company (IDGC of Volga, PJSC). New version of the Charter as amended was approved on June 16, 2015 by the annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company and registered by the Inter-district Inspectorate of the

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