Dynamo’s new coach Sergey Silkin has celebrated a confident victory over city rivals Spartak Moscow in his maiden game in charge.

­partak had looked forward to spoiling his debut.The Red-and-Whites have not beaten their rivals in seven straight matches over the last three-and-a-half years.

However, it was Dynamo who controlled the early possession, but wasted several great scoring opportunities.

The danger was mounting for Spartak, and Igor Semshov finally broke the deadlock after 34 minutes with a diving header.

Spartak were lacking five key players due to injury and failed to create anything worthy of a goal.

Dynamo doubled their tally with former Liverpool forward Andrey Voronin sending the ball into the net in a powerful shot, with 25 minutes to go, making it 2-0.

“As we expected it turned out to be a tight game. We started good from the kick-off and as a result scored. In the second half we doubled the lead and relaxed, but played confident in defense and didn't give Spartak a chance to score,” Voronin said.

Meanwhile, Spartak coach Valery Karpin said his players do not deserve a single bad word.

“These are the best players, who are fit to play at the moment. I can't blame them, and ask anything more of them. They lack some skills but not passion on the pitch. They did everything they could,” he said.

So, Dynamo celebrated the debut of their new head coach with three valuable points, and climbed to the fourth spot, while Spartak suffered their sixth defeat in 15 matches, and lie eighth.

CSKA Moscow 3-1 Lokomotiv Moscow

CSKA have maintained their spot at the Russian Premier League summit, with the Army Men seeing off city rivals Lokomotiv 3-1 in the second Moscow derby of the night.

Seydou Doumbia got the ball rolling 13 minutes in after great work from the industrious Vagner Love on the outside, 1-0.

Lokomotiv's first attack of note then resulted in the equalizer. Jan Durica brilliantly lobbed his free-kick home right before the half-hour mark, 1-1.

It was all one-way CSKA traffic after that.

The Army Men's go-ahead strike was an absolute clinker from Zoran Tosic, 2-1.  

Attack after attack would follow with the security strike coming 58 minutes in.

Keisuke Honda played a beautiful pass to Tosic, with the Serb holding on to the ball for just the right length of time before teeing up Doumbia for his second goal, 3-1.

Zenit Saint Petersburg 1-0 Kuban Krasnodar

Zenit are keeping the pressure up on the leaders though. The St Petersburg side beat Kuban courtesy of veteran Konstantin Zyranov's 35th minute strike.

The reigning champions remain two points behind CSKA, but the Muscovites do hold a game-in-hand.

Elsewhere, Rubin stay third, a couple of points adrift of Zenit courtesy of a 2-0 win at home to Volga.

High-flying Anzhi saw off second-from-bottom Krylya Sovietov 3-0, but not before captain Roberto Carlos left the pitch after a banana was thrown at him two minutes from time.

Amkar beat Spartak Nalchik 1-0, while Terek have won their second game after parting with Ruud Gullit as the Grozny team top Krasnodar 2-0.

And FC Tom and Rostov played a 1-1 draw in the night’s last game.