Alexander Yurievich Provotorov

Rostelecom-North West is a privately held telecommunications company. Its services include local and international telephone communication services of data transmission, access to the Internet , lease of channels , IP-TV, call centers, provision of telegraph services, provision of Internet access solutions, provision of data transmission network services, provision of intelligent network services and provision of audio and video conference services. The company was founded in November 2001 and is headquartered St. Petersburg, Russia.

Uralsvyazinform OJSC provides telephone network, mobile, and Internet data services to customers. The firm offers local, long distance and international telephone services, including fixed line, mobile, and data communications, Internet, TV and radio. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ekaterinburg, Russian.

Rostelecom-Volga is one of the largest telecommunication companies which provides a wide range of telephony, cellular, Internet and data transmission, TV and radio broadcasting, voice mail, paging and mobile communication services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Rostelecom-Center provides telecommunication services. The firm's telecommunications services include: local and inter-zonal telephony, high speed internet access based on xDSL technology, data transmission, wire line and wireless radio broadcasting, cable TV and also renders interconnection and traffic transfer services to other telecommunication operators. It is actively developing up-to-date broadband multiservice and subscriber access networks on the basis of the latest telecommunications technologies. The company was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

Telecommunication Investment Joint Stock Company (Svyazinvest) is one of the largest telecom holding companies in the world. Its charter capital was formed by consolidation of shares owned by the federal government in regional telecom operators, set up in the process of telecom sector privatization. Svyazinvest incorporates 7 large mega-regional telecom operators, OJSC Giprosvyaz and OJSC Rostelecom, the national domestic long-distance and international operator. Svyazinvest network covers nearly the whole of Russia and its capacity makes up over 90% of the total country's capacity. The holding company's subsidiaries operate public telephone networks which installed capacity is over 33 million telephone lines (of January 1, 2009). Subsidiaries have licenses for provision of local, domestic long-distance and international telephone services, data transmission, etc. They also provide ISDN services, wireless subscriber access and mobile services.

Part of Rostelecom PJSC, Nizhny Novgorod Cellular Communications is a Russian telecommunications company. The company is located in Russian Federation. Nizhny Novgorod Cellular Communications was acquired by Rostelecom-Volga from Russian Telecommunications Development Corp. on February 12, 2003 for $20 million.