The hosts were represented in each of the dozen finals with only Georgia’s Shorena Sharadze and Uzbekistan’s Sarbon Ernazarov able to deny them victory.

Sharadze edged Oksana Lukyanchuk in the women’s 60 kilogram showdown and Ernazarov got the better of Georgiy Shemazashvili in the men’s 68kg gold medal match.

The women’s 60kg bronze medals went the way of Kazakhstan’s Azhar Kenbeil and Cameroon’s Paule Sitcheping.

Belarus’ Uladzislau Sayapin and Georgia’s Mindia Liluashvili shared the third step of the men’s 68kg podium.

Apart from those two categories, it was sheer Russian dominance started by Anna Kharitonova, who overcame Kazakhstan’s Gulnar Yerbolova in the women’s 52kg final with an arm lock.

Alesia Mlechko of Belarus and Bulgaria’s Magdalena Varbanova were the bronze medallists.

Victory for Igor Beglerov against Kyrgyzstan’s Belek Barakanov in the men’s 57kg doubled Russia’s tally before Mukhtar Gamzaev earned the country a third title at the expense of Uzbekistan’s Rakhmatjon Akhmedov in the combat men’s 57kg.

Belarus’ Dzhambulat Akhmadov and Japan’s Takahito Nakamura had to settle for third place in the men’s 57kg, just as Kyrgyzstan’s Uulu Bektursun Urmat and Turkmenistan’s Ahmet Tanriberdiyev had to in the combat men’s 57kg.

The locals were temporarily silenced as Lukyanchuk and then Shemazashvili fell to defeats, but Vadim Shagin soon got them cheering again with success by fall against Armenia’s Samvel Badalyan in the combat men’s 68kg - a category that saw Turkmenistan's Abdylla Babayev and Uzbekistan's Amrillo Madiev round out the podium.

Marina Mokhnatkina comfortably beat Belarus’ Rehina Shatrauskaya in the two-competitor women’s 68kg division to keep the Russian momentum going.

Andrey Perepelyuk then made it six out of eight after a hard-fought 7-6 win against another Belarusian, Tsimafei Yemelyanau, in the men’s 82kg.

Latvia’s Germans Zukovs and Georgia’s Niko Kutsia came third.

A Russian clean sweep of the combat men’s gold medals was completed by 82kg champion Nikolay Potashnik and 100kg winner Islam Abazov as Kazakhstan’s Yerzhan Kabdelov and Uzbekistan’s Islomjon Azimov came up short in the respective finals.

The United States won bronze medals in both categories, through Johnson Jajoute and Edward Wittern, with Morocco’s Mohammed El Hassani and Kyrgyzstan’s Aleksandr Hanin took the others at 82kg and 100kg respectively.

Sandwiched between Russia's final two combat men’s victories was success for Anastasia Filippovich against Kazakhstan’s Aktolkyn Smaganbetova in the women’s 80kg, and Eduard Kurginyan against Moldova’s Denis Tachii in the men’s 100kg.

Belarus’ Valeryia Smuhunova was the sole women’s 80kg bronze medallist, while Latvia’s Viktors Resko and Kazakhstan’s Chingis Shokputov had something to show for their performances in the men’s 100kg.

Uzbekistan’s one gold medal and two silvers puts them second in the medal standings after the first day of competition.

Tomorrow’s action is due to feature 15 categories including the men’s 52kg, 62kg, 74kg, 90kg and over 100kg, the women’s 48kg, 56kg, 64kg, 72kg and over 80kg, and the combat men's 52kg, 62kg, 74kg, 90kg and over 100kg.