**EXHIBIT 8**

**List of Consolidated Subsidiaries**

The following is a list of consolidated subsidiaries of Open Joint Stock Company “Vimpel-Communications” as of December 31, 2002 and the jurisdiction of incorporation of each.

  

|                **Subsidiary****** |   | **Jurisdiction of Incorporation****** |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|---------------------------------------|
|                                                                                                         |   |                                  |
| Closed Joint Stock Company BeeOnLine-Portal                                                                  |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company Cellular Company                                                                  |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company Extel                                                                             |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company Impuls KB                                                                         |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company Mobile Communication Center-Lipetsk                                               |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company Mobile Communication Center-Nizhny Novgorod                                       |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company Mobile Communication Center-Ryazan                                                |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company Mobile Communication Center-Smolensk                                              |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company Mobile Communication Center-Tver(1)                                               |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company MSS Start                                                                         |   | Russia                                |
| Closed Joint Stock Company RTI Service-Svyaz                                                                 |   | Russia                                |
| Limited Liability Company Vostok-Zapad Telecom                                                               |   | Russia                                |
| Open Joint Stock Company Bee-Line Samara                                                                     |   | Russia                                |
| Open Joint Stock Company “KB Impuls”                                                               |   | Russia                                |
| Open Joint Stock Company “Orensot”                                                                 |   | Russia                                |
| Open Joint Stock Company VimpelCom-Region                                                                    |   | Russia                                |
| VC ESOP N.V.                                                                                                 |   | Netherlands                           |
| VimpelCom Finance B.V.                                                                                       |   | Netherlands                           |
| VimpelCom B.V.                                                                                               |   | Netherlands                           |
| VimpelCom (BVI) Limited                                                                                      |   | British Virgin Islands                |
| VC Limited                                                                                                   |   | British Virgin Islands                |

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(1) We disposed of our interest in Closed Joint Stock Company Mobile Communication Center-Tver in 2003.