PJSC Polyus (LSE, MOEX — PLZL) (Polyus, the Company) announces that on 16 October 2020 it was notified that on 15 October 2020 JSC Polyus Krasnoyarsk transferred 1,808,142 ordinary shares with the nominal value of 1 Russian ruble each in the share capital of the Company to Polyus Gold International Limited (PGIL), as a return of the equivalent shares previously lent pursuant to a securities lending agreement dated 25 December 2019, as amended.