Exhibit 4.12  THE FEDERAL
SUPERVISORY SERVICE IN THE AREA OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MASS MEDIA  LICENCE  No. 61443  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
  in theArea of Communications andMass Media
  (stamp)
  C.K.Sitnikov


Conditions for Performance of Activities Under Licence No. 61443**  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:
  Buryatiya, Sakha (Yakutia)Territory:
  Khabarovsk, Primorsky, Kamchatka, ZabaykalskyAutonomous
  District:
  ChukotskAutonomous
  Region:
  JewishRegions:
  Amur, Irkutsk, Magadan, Sakhalin  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.  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 reissuance of
Licence No. 56066 dated April 28, 2008 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.  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 a reissuance of Licence No. 56066
dated April 28, 2008.  Deputy Manager,Federal Supervisory Service
  in theArea of Communications andMass Media
  (stamp)
  C.K.Sitnikov