Eight of the home nation’s victories at the two-day event, held at the Centre of Sport and Education of SAMBO-70, came in combat sambo.

There were triumphs on day one for Alexander Nesterov in the 57 kilograms category, Adam Taldiev at 68kg and Khadis Ibragimov at 100kg.

Day two saw wins for Artush Arsyan at 52kg, Sergey Razin at 62kg, Murat Tlyarukov at 74kg, Mikhail Udovichenko at 90kg and Pasha Kharkhachaev at over 100kg.

The only competitor to break Russia’s stranglehold on the discipline was Belarus’ Yauheni Aleksievich, who won the 82kg event on day one.

Five of Russia’s other nine successes came in men’s competition, while the remainder came in women’s events.

In men’s action, there were wins for Ivan Panyukhin at 52kg, Ruslan Bagdasarian at 62kg, Maxim Ivanov at 74kg, Andrey Perepelyuk at 82kg and Viktor Osipenko at 100kg.

Elena Bondareva was among the quartet of Russian winners in women’s competition after coming out on top in the 48kg category.

Tatiana Kazenyuk, Ekaterina Onoprienko and Galina Ambartsumyan also topped podiums at 60kg, 64kg and 72kg respectively.

Belarus’ four golds put them second in the medal standings with wins for Kseniya Danilovich and Katsiaryna Kaliuzhnaya in the respective women's 52kg and over 80kg categories, and Yauheni Ilyukhin in the men's 90kg division, adding to Aleksievich's combat sambo success.

Mongolia and Azerbaijan won two gold medals each with the former's coming through Purevdorj Damdinsuren in the men's over 100kg and Battsetseg Tsog-Ochir in the women's 68kg, and the latter's coming courtesy of Mehman Khalilov in the men's 57kg and Emil Hasanov in the men's 68kg.

Bulgaria and Romania claimed one gold medal apiece thanks to wins for Mariya Oryashkova in the women's 80kg and Daniela Poroineanu in the women's 56kg.

The Sambo World Cup is also referred to as the A Kharlampiev Memorial World Cup in honour of Anatoly A. Kharlampiev, one of the founding fathers of the sport.

A Russian-language only sambo referees seminar was held on the eve of the tournament.