Exhibit 4.42  FEDERAL SUPERVISORY SERVICE FOR
COMMUNICATIONS  LICENCE  No. 46008  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 February 21, 2007 to
  February 21, 2012Date of beginning of services provision:
  
  February 21, 2007(on or prior to)   Deputy Manager, Federal Supervisory Service for
  Communications
  
  S. A. Malyanov


Conditions for Performance of Activities Under Licence No. 46008**  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 February 21, 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 Novosibirsk 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. 40901 dated February 21,
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.  
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  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. 40901 dated
  February 21, 1997.   Deputy Manager,Federal Supervisory Service for Communications
  
  (stamp)
  
  S. A. Malyanov  2