MOSCOW, Sep 15 Sergey Karasev has been appointed chief referee of the match of the 10th round Russian Football Championship between Dynamo Moscow and Zenit Petersburg, according to the official website of the Russian Football Union (RFU). The meeting will be held on September 17 in Moscow. Assistants Alexey Lunev and Roman Usachev will help Karasev, the reserve referee — Igor Panin. Vladimir Moskalev and assistant Valery Danchenko will be responsible for the VAR system. The match between the capital's clubs Spartak and Lokomotiv, which will take place on September 18 at the red-white arena, will be officiated by Kirill Levnikov's brigade. Referee assistants — Yegor Bolkhovitin and Andrey Bolotenkov, Roman Galimov was appointed reserve judge. Sergey Ivanov and assistant Dmitry Mosyakin will work on the VAR system.
The following are appointed as the main referees for other matches of the tour:
September 17
Ural (Yekaterinburg) – Akhmat (Grozny): Evgeny Kukulyak (VAR – Ivan Sidenkov);
Torpedo (Moscow) – CSKA (Moscow): Pavel Shadykhanov (VAR – Anton Frolov);
Rostov (Rostov-on-Don) – Wings of the Soviets (Samara): Pavel Kukuyan (VAR – Evgeny Turbin);
September 18
Nizhny Novgorod – Orenburg: Alexei Sukhoi (VAR – Vasily Kazartsev);
Krasnodar – Khimki: Vladislav Bezborodov (VAR – Artem Chistyakov);
Sochi – Fakel ( Voronezh): Yan Bobrovsky (VAR — Artem Lyubimov).