Exhibit 4.44  FEDERAL SUPERVISORY SERVICE FOR
COMMUNICATIONS  LICENCE  No. 49809  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 2 pages  Effective
  period of Licence :
  from August 22, 2007 to
  August 22, 2012Date of beginning of services provision:
  August 22, 2007(on or prior
  to)  Deputy Manager, Federal Supervisory Service for
  Communications
  
  S. A. Malyanov


Conditions for Performance of Activities Under Licence No. 49809**  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 August 22, 2007.  3.        The Licensee shall be
obliged to provide mobile radiophone communication services (GSM 900/1800
networks) under this License in the territory of the Bashkortostan Republic.  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.  1


7.        This Licensee was issued
based on results of considering the application for renewal of Licence No. 40889
dated August 22, 1997 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 issued as a renewal of
Licence No. 40889 dated August 22, 1997.  Deputy Manager,Federal Supervisory Service for Communications
  (stamp)
  S. A. Malyanov  2