He will be assisted by Vladislav Nazarov and Ilya Eleferenko. VAR will be operated by Sergey Cheban and Denis Bereznov. The fourth official will be Evgeniy Galimov.

In the previous nine Zenit games refereed by Aleksey Sukhoy the team from St. Petersburg won six times and three matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 24 February when Zenit won 3-0 against Volga Ulyanovsk in a Cup game.

The match against Orenburg will take place at the Gazovik Stadium on Saturday 20 May and will kick off at 4:30pm St. Petersburg time.