He will be assisted by Dmitriy Safyan and Roman Konstantin Shalamberidze. The fourth official will be Ivan Abrosimov. VAR will be operated by Vladimir Moskalev and Sergey Tsyganok.
In the previous 31 Zenit games refereed by Vitaliy Meshkov the team from St. Petersburg won 22 times, lost six times and three matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 22 April 2023 when Zenit beat Dynamo 3-1 at the Gazprom Arena.
The match against Rostov will take place at the Gazprom Arena on Saturday 25 May and will kick off at 4.30pm St. Petersburg time.