Exhibit 4.47  FEDERAL
SUPERVISORY SERVICE FOR MASS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION
AND PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE  LICENCE  No. 56082  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
  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. 56082**  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 the city of Moscow and the Moscow Region.  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. 24136
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.  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. 24136 dated October 24, 2002.  Deputy Manager,Federal Supervisory Service forMass Media, Communication andProtection of Cultural
  Heritage
  
  (stamp)
  
  S.B.
  Vlasova  2