About Us

Ural Macroregional Branch of OJSC Rostelecom (Rostelecom-Ural) is a business subdivision of OJSC Rostelecom that provides services under Utel brand in the territory of the Ural Federal District and Perm region.

April, 2011 Rostelecom-Ural is created on the basis of OJSC Uralsvyazinform. Ural Macroregional Branch includes 7 regional branches (in the Sverdlovsk region, Chelyabinsk region, Khanty-Mansi AD, Tyumen region, Yamal-Nenets AD, Kurgan region and Perm region).

Our mission statement is “Forming and meeting the customers’ needs in telecommunications and information services, integration into the global information community of the 21st century”.

Our main shareholder is the state-owned holding JSC Svyazinvest with 53% stake. The rest of the shares are distributed among institutional investors, nominees, holders of ADRs, and resident individuals.

The shares are traded on Russian Trading System, Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICES) (ticker symbols ursi, ursip) and on Berlin, Frankfurt stock exchanges and the US OTC market (ticker symbols: uvyzy, uvypy).