TEXT-EXTRACT 2 filename2.txt United States securities and exchange commission logo January 4, 2023 Nelli Galeeva Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Finance Mechel PAO Krasnoarmeyskaya Street 1 Moscow 125167 Russian Federation Re: Mechel PAO Form 20-F for the Year Ended December 31, 2021 Response Dated November 1, 2022 File No. 1-32328 Dear Nelli Galeeva: We issued comments to you on the above captioned filing on December 13, 2022. As of the date of this letter, these comments remain outstanding and unresolved. We expect you to provide a complete, substantive response to these comments by January 19, 2023. If you do not respond, we will, consistent with our obligations under the federal securities laws, decide how we will seek to resolve material outstanding comments and complete our review of your filing and your disclosure. Among other things, we may decide to release publicly, through the agency's EDGAR system, all correspondence, including this letter, relating to the review of your filings, consistent with the staff's decision to publicly release comment and response letters relating to disclosure filings it has reviewed. Please contact Mindy Hooker at (202) 551-3732, Ken Schuler at (202) 551-3718 or Hugh West at (202) 551-3872 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Manufacturing