Zenit St Petersburg moved level on points with Premier Liga leaders Spartak Moscow after a 1-0 win over Kuban Krasnodar while Spartak were held to a 1-1 draw with CSKA in the Moscow derby.
Konstatin Zurianov notched the decisive goal for Zenit 12 minutes from time to move the St Petersburg outfit onto 43 points after 23 matches - the same record as Spartak.
A crowd of 70,000 turned out to see substitute Dawid Janczyk net a dramatic last-minute leveller for champions CSKA after a Santos Mozart penalty on the half-hour mark looked to have put hosts Spartak on course for all three points.
Rostov remain rooted to the bottom after suffering their 11th defeat of the campaign - 2-0 at home to Lokomotiv Moscow.
A Peter Odemwingie penalty three minutes before the interval and a Dmitri Sychev strike midway through the second period did the damage for the visitors.
A crowd of 70,000 turned out to see substitute Dawid Janczyk net a dramatic last-minute leveller for champions CSKA after a Santos Mozart penalty on the half-hour mark looked to have put hosts Spartak on course for all three points.
Rostov remain rooted to the bottom after suffering their 11th defeat of the campaign - 2-0 at home to Lokomotiv Moscow.
A Peter Odemwingie penalty three minutes before the interval and a Dmitri Sychev strike midway through the second period did the damage for the visitors.
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