He will be assisted by Aleksandr Bogdanov and Aram Petrosyan. The fourth official will be Vasiliy Kazartsev. VAR will be operated by Aleksey Sukhoy and Maksim Gavrilin. 

In the previous 30 Zenit games refereed by Vitaliy Meshkov the team from St. Petersburg won 21 times, lost six times and three matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 29 September 2022 when Zenit played away against Spartak and lost 3-0.

The match against Dynamo will take place at the Gazprom Arena on Saturday 22 April and will kick off at 7pm St. Petersburg time.