Exhibit 4.49  FEDERAL SUPERVISORY SERVICE FOR MASS MEDIA,
COMMUNICATION AND PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE  LICENCE  No. 56113 Licensee details: Mobile TeleSystems  Open Joint Stock Company  Legal address (place of residence):  109147 Moscow, Marksistskaya St., 4 Service description:  Mobile Radiophone
Communication Services  This Licence includes licence provisions on 3 pages  Effective period of Licence :
  from April 28, 2008 to April 28,
  2013Date of beginning of services provision:
  April 28, 2008(on or prior to)Deputy Manager,Federal Supervisory Service forMass Media, Communication andProtection of Cultural Heritage
  S.B. Vlasova


Conditions
for Performance of Activities Under
Licence No. 56113**  1.      Mobile
TeleSystems OJSC (the Licensee) shall be obliged to keep the term of this
License.  2.      The
Licensee shall be obliged to commence the provision of services under this License
on or prior to April 28, 2008.  3.      The
Licensee shall be obliged to provide mobile radiophone communication services
(GSM 900/1800 networks) under this License in the territory of:  Republic:
  UdmurtTerritory:
  PermAutonomous Districts:
  Khanty-Mansyisk-Ugra, Yamalo-NenetskRegions:
  Kirov, Kurgan, Orenburg, SverdlovskTyumen, Chelyabinsk  4.      In
accordance with this Licence, the Licensee shall be obliged to ensure that a subscriber
is provided with*:  a)
  
  an access to the Licensees network;b)
  
  connections in the Licensees mobile radiophone communication network
  for receiving (transferring) voice and non-voice information ensuring the
  communication continuity while providing services, irrespective of location
  of the subscriber, including while his/her moving;c)
  
  connections with subscribers and (or) users of fixed public-switched
  telephone networks;d)
  
  possibility of using GSM 900/1800 mobile radiophone communication
  network while being outside the territory specified in the License;e)
  
  an access to telematic communication services and data transmission
  services, except for data transmission for the purpose of voice data
  transfer;f)
  
  an access to call centre system;g)
  
  possibility of making free twenty-four-hour calls to emergency
  services.  1


5.      The
Licensee shall be obliged to provide communication services in accordance with
the Rules of Provision of Communication Services approved by the
Government of the Russian Federation.  6.      While
provisioning communication services, the Licensee shall be obliged to observe
the Rules of Connection and Interaction of Electrical Communication
Networks, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, when connecting
the Licensees mobile radiophone communication network to the public-switched
network, connecting the Licensees mobile radiophone communication network to
other communication networks, accounting and transferring the traffic in the
Licensees mobile radiophone communication network, accounting and transferring
the traffic from/to the communication networks of other operators.  7.      This
Licensee was issued based on results of considering the application for renewal
of Licence No. 24134 dated October 24, 2002 without tendering
(auction, competition). The license requirements for the Licensees discharge
of obligations, undertaken by the Licensee when participating in tenders
(auction, competition) to obtain respective license, were not established.  8.      The
Licensee shall adhere to the conditions, as established at the moment of allocation
of frequencies and assignment of a radio frequency or radio frequency channel,
in the process of provision of services under this License.  9.      The
Licensee shall have available a system to manage own communication network that
should conform to the standards applied to communication network management
systems, as prescribed by the federal executive body acting in the
communication field.  2


10.    The
Licensee shall be obliged to adhere to the requirements for networks and means
of communication regarding the performance of investigative work, as prescribed
by the federal executive body and approved by authorized state bodies which
conduct operational-investigative activities, and to take measures to prevent
the disclosure of organizational or tactical techniques of conducting of the
above.  
 *             The provision of
services stipulated by this License can entail provisioning other services
which are technically integrated into mobile radiophone services and are aimed at
improvement of their customer value, provided no additional license is required
for this purpose.  **           This Licence was
issued as a renewal of Licence No. 24134 dated October 24, 2002.  Deputy Manager, Federal Supervisory Service for Mass Media, Communication and Protection of Cultural Heritage
  (stamp)
  S.B. Vlasova