United Rusal : DATE OF BOARD MEETING CLOSURE OF REGISTER OF MEMBERS

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(Incorporated under the laws of Jersey with limited liability)

United Company RUSAL Plc (the "Company") announces that a meeting of the Board of Directors (the "Board") will be held on Thursday, 29 September 2016, for the purposes of, among other matters, considering the declaration of an interim dividend payable in cash to shareholders of the Company whose names appear on the principal register of shareholders of the Company in Jersey at 4:30pm Jersey time on 3 October 2016 and to the shareholders registered in the Hong Kong overseas branch register of shareholders of the Company at 4:30pm Hong Kong time on 3 October 2016.

Subject to the Board's approval of the proposed declaration of interim dividend as mentioned above, the principal register of shareholders of the Company in Jersey and the Hong Kong overseas branch register of shareholders of the Company will be closed on 3 October 2016 during which no transfer of shares of the Company can be registered.

19 September 2016

By Order of the board of directors of

Company Secretary

As at the date of this announcement, the executive Directors are Mr. Oleg Deripaska, Mr. Vladislav Soloviev and Mr. Siegfried Wolf, the non-executive Directors are Mr. Maxim Sokov, Mr. Dmitry Afanasiev, Mr. Len Blavatnik, Mr. Ivan Glasenberg, Mr. Maksim Goldman, Ms. Gulzhan Moldazhanova, Mr. Daniel Lesin Wolfe, Ms. Olga Mashkovskaya, and Ms. Ekaterina Nikitina, and the independent non-executive Directors are Mr. Matthias Warnig (Chairman), Mr. Philip Lader, Dr. Elsie Leung Oi-sie, Mr. Mark Garber, Mr. Dmitry Vasiliev and Mr. Bernard Zonneveld.

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