He will be assisted by Valentin Murashov and Aram Petrosyan. VAR will be operated by Rafael Shafeev and Evgeniy Bulanov.
In the previous 15 Zenit games refereed by Aleksey Sukhoy the team from St. Petersburg won nine times, lost once and five matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 17 April when Zenit faced Spartak at the Gazprom Arena and finished with a 0-0 draw.
The match against Fakel will take place in Voronezh on Monday 6 May and will kick off at 6pm St. Petersburg time.