Exhibit 4.24

FEDERAL SURVEILLANCE SERVICE FOR COMMUNICATIONS

LICENSE

No. 31111

Details of the Licensee:

Open Joint Stock Company

Vimpel-Communications

Location:

127083, Moscow, Ul. 8-Marta, 10, bldg. 14

Type of Services:

Telematic telecommunications services

This License includes license terms on 2 pages



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|Term of validity of the License:    |  | from August 1, 2002 to August 1, 2007
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|Services to be rendered as of       |  |                                       |  |              
|(no later than):                    |  | August 1, 2003                       
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|Deputy Head                         |  | /s/ S.A. Malyanov                    
|of the Federal Surveillance Service |  | [Signature]                           |  | S.A. Malyanov
|for Communications                  |  | [Seal]                                |  |              



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Federal Surveillance Service for Communications

Terms of Activities under License # 31111**

1. OAO
Vimpel-Communications (the Licensee) shall comply with the term of this License.

2. The Licensee shall commence the provision of telecommunications
services under this License not later than August 1, 2003.

3. The Licensee shall render telecommunications services in accordance with this License
in the territory of:

Republics: Adygeia, Altai, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia-Halmg Tangch, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Mary
El, Mordovia, Severnaya Osetia  Alania, Tatarstan, Tyva, Khakassia, Chechnya and Chyvashia;

Krais: Altai, Krasnodar,
Krasnoyarsk and Stavropol;

Autonomous Okrugs: Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) and Evenkia;

Oblasts: Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Kostroma, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Oryol,
Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tomsk, Tula, Ulianovsk, Yaroslavl.

4. Under this License the Licensee shall provide the
subscriber and/or the user* with:

a) facsimile transmission;

b) e-mail messaging;

c) access to information using information communications technologies.

5. The Licensee shall provide telecommunications services in compliance with the rules on provision of telecommunications services approved by the Government of the
Russian Federation.

6. In the course of rendering the telecommunications services the Licensee shall observe the rules for interconnection of the
telecommunications lines and interaction thereof approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, as they apply to the interconnection of the data transmission network of the Licensee to the public telecommunications network, interconnection of
other telecommunications networks to the data transmission network of the Licensee, recording and throughput of traffic in the data transmission network of the Licensee, and recording and throughput of traffic from and to the telecommunications
networks of other operators.

7. This License is issued upon the review of the application for reissuance of License # 23072 dated August 1,
2002, without tender (auction, bidding). No license requirements relating to performance by the Licensee of obligations assumed by it in the course of tender (auction, bidding) towards receipt of the License, are established.



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8. In the course of provision of service under this License the Licensee shall meet the requirements set forth in the
course of radio frequency band allocation and radio frequency or channel designation.

9. The Licensee shall ensure that the networks and communication
devices meet the technical requirements set forth by the Federal Executive Authority for Telecommunications as agreed upon with the authorized state bodies carrying out investigations, with the view to assist in conducting of such investigations, as
well as take steps to prevent disclosure of the organizational and tactical methods of such investigations.

10. The Licensee is not a general service
operator. No license requirements relating to general telecommunications services under general telecommunications services agreements are established.



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|* | Provision of services contemplated in this License can be supplemented by the provision of other services that are technologically interconnected with the services of the mobile
radiotelephony telecommunications within the public telecommunications network, and aimed at the increase of their customer value, if a separate license is not required therefore.
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|** | This License is issued to replace License No. 23072 dated August 1, 2002.
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|Deputy Head of the Federal Surveillance
Service |  | /s/ S.A. Malyanov
|for Communications                              |  | [signature]       |  | S.A. Malyanov
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