Both men's and women's races, due to be staged at the Krylatskoye Sports Centre, will take place in the evening.

The venue, located just outside of Moscow’s city centre, played host to last year’s event and tomorrow’s World Cup races mark the sixth time it has come to Russia’s capital.

Twenty-thirteen world champion Ekaterina Tudegesheva will hope to harness the energy of the home crowd as she attempts to chase down Olympic champion Patrizia Kummer of Switzerland at the top of the parallel slalom leaderboard.

The Russian currently sits in second place on a score of 1360 points, 90 adrift of the Swiss competitor, who won the Moscow World Cup stop back in 2012.

Tudegesheva is also bidding to claim the overall Alpine Snowboard World Cup crown, though she has a tough task on her hands if she is to overhaul current leader Esther Ledecká of the Czech Republic.

Ledecká, gold medallist at last year's World Championships in Kreischberg, comes into the event having claimed victory in the parallel giant slalom event in the Slovenian resort of Rogla last Saturday (January 23).

The Czech remains the one to beat as she has 2,790 points, while the Russian has 2,560.

Russian hopes in the men’s competition fall on reigning world champion Andrey Sobolev, who took victory in Rogla last weekend and is second in the overall standings.

Formidable Bulgarian Radoslav Yankov heads the leaderboard on 3,090 points, with Sobolev some way behind on 1996.

Sobolev’s compatriot Vic Wild, double Olympic champion at Sochi 2014 who was born in America, also arrives in good form as he was third at the event in Slovenia.

A host of other world champions are expected to compete in Moscow, including 2015 victor Claudia Riegler of Austria and Italian Roland Fischnaller, who triumphed in the men’s parallel giant slalom at the events in 2011 and 2012.