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Share Issue/Capital Change • Dec 30, 2015

PAO TMK / Miscellaneous 30-Dec-2015 / 07:59 CET/CEST Dissemination of a RegulatoryAnnouncement, transmitted by EquityStory.RS, LLC - a company of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ----------

----------------------------------------------------------------- December 30, 2015 PRESS RELEASE TMK Completed a Deal with VTB Bank PAO TMK ('TMK' or 'the Company'), one of the world's leading producers of tubular products for the oil and gas industry, on December 29, 2015, completed a deal with VTB Bank to raise around RUB 10 billion by selling its shares. Part of the shares will be delivered in the course of 2016. TMK has a right to buy the shares back. The funds will be used to reduce debt by repaying bank loans in 2016. TMK's management believes this transaction is beneficial to the Company, its creditors and investors. It will enable TMK to significantly reduce the debt by using its own shares. *** For further information regarding TMK please visit www.tmk-group.com or download the YourTube iPad application from the App Store

https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/yourtube/id516074932?mt=8&ls=1 or contact: TMK IR Department: Marina Badudina Tel: +7 (495) 775-7600 IR@tmk-group.com TMK PR Department:Alexander Goryunov Tel: +7 (495) 775-7600 PR@tmk-group.com *** TMK (www.tmk-group.com) TMK (LSE: TMKS) is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel pipe for oil and gas industry, operating 30 production sites in the United States, Russia, Canada, Romania, Oman, UAE and Kazakhstan with two R&D centers in Russia and the USA. In 2014, TMK's pipe shipments totalled 4.4 million tonnes. The largest share of TMK's sales belongs to high margin oil country tubular goods (OCTG), shipped to customers in over 80 countries. TMK delivers its products along with an extensive package of services in heat treating, protective coating, premium connections threading, warehousing and pipe repairing. TMK's securities are listed on the London Stock Exchange, the OTCQX International Premier trading platform in the U.S. and on the Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS. TMK's assets structure by division:

Russian division: American division: Volzhsky Pipe Plant; 12 plants of TMK IPSCO; Seversky Tube Works; OFS International LLC. Taganrog Metallurgical European division: Works; TMK-ARTROM; Sinarsky Pipe Plant; TMK-RESITA. TMK-CPW; Middle East Division: TMK-Kaztrubprom; TMK GIPI (Oman); TMK-Premium Service; Dhabi). TMK Oilfield Services.

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30-Dec-2015 The EquityStory.RS, LLC Distribution Services include RegulatoryAnnouncements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap.de/ukreg -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: PAO TMK 40/2a Pokrovka 105062 Moscow Russia Phone: +7 495 775-7600 Fax: +7 495 775-7601 E-mail: tmk@tmk-group.com Internet: tmk-group.com ISIN: US87260R2013 Category Code: MSC TIDM: TMKS Sequence Number: 2950 Time of Receipt: 30-Dec-2015 / 07:58 CET/CEST End of Announcement EquityStory.RS, LLC News Service