Russia coach Guus Hiddink has included young CSKA Moscow midfielder Alan Dzagoev in his 22-man squad.

The 18-year old Dzagoev scored twice in CSKA's 3-1 win at defending champions Zenit St Petersburg two weeks ago - a victory which resurrected his team's hopes of a Champions League place - and also netted against Tomsk at the weekend.

Young Spartak Moscow striker Aleksandr Prudnikov also receives a first call-up, whilst Zenit midfielder Igor Denisov returns to the national squad for the first time since declining a place in Hiddink's Euro 2008 finals squad.

The major blow for Hiddink is the loss of central defender Denis Kolodin, who will miss the remainder of the Russian season after damaging his ankle in a collision with Korean Oh Beom-Seok during Dinamo Moscow's 3-3 draw with Krylya Sovetov Samara on Saturday.

Russia face Germany in Dortmund on October 11 before hosting Stuart Baxter's Finland at the Lokomotiv Stadium in Moscow four days later.

Russia squad: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit St Petersburg), Sergei Ryzhikov (Rubin Kazan); Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit St Petersburg), Aleksei Berezutsky, Vasili Berezutsky, Sergei Ignashevich (all CSKA Moscow), Renat Yanbaev (Lokomotiv Moscow); Yuri Zhirkov, Alan Dzagoev (both CSKA Moscow), Sergei Semak (Rubin Kazan), Igor Semshov (Dinamo Moscow), Diniar Bilyateldinov, Dmitri Torbinsky (both Lokomotiv Moscow), Konstantin Zyryanov, Igor Denisov (both Zenit St Petersburg), Ivan Saenko, Vladimir Bystrov (both Spartak Moscow); Andrei Arshavin, Pavel Pogrebniak (both Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham), Aleksandr Prudnikov (Spartak Moscow).