Pilot Kasjanov, who came second at last year’s European Championships, was flanked by Ilvir Huzin, Alexei Pushkarev and Aleksey Zaytsev as the quartet set a winning time of 1 min 36.20sec on the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic course.

It was the first victory for a four-man Russian team since January 2013 in Königssee, Germany, where Olympic champion Alexander Zubkov took the title alongside Alexey Negodaylo, Dmitry Trunenkov and Maxim Mokrousov. 

World champion Maximilian Arndt and his German crew of Kevin Korona, Alexander Rödiger and Ben Heber were just 0.04 seconds behind in second place after their two runs.

The Swiss team, piloted by Rico Peter and pushed by Simon Friedli, Thomas Amrhein and Fabio Badraun, finished third for the second time this winter with 0.22 seconds separating them and the Russians.

Latvia’s Ugis Zalims found himself in 17th place after the first run, but an impressive second run saw him come fifth and claim his best-ever World Cup result in the four-man format.

After five of this season’s eight World Cup races, Arndt and his team top the overall standings on 1,055 points having increased their advantage in Park City.

Fellow German Francesco Friedrich is second on 986, after finishing seventh in Park City, and Peter is third with 968.

The Russians' success was the first by a non-German crew this season.

Another four-man bobsleigh event is scheduled to take place tomorrow in Park City, along with the two-man.

Meanwhile, Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Melissa Lotholz claimed their third win of the season in the two-woman event.

Their combined time of 1:40.38 saw them home ahead of Austrians Christina Hengster and Sanne Monique Dekker who were 0.16 behind in second and third placed Americans Jamier Greubel Poser and Lauren Gibbs who were 0.47 back.

Humphries, who made history by piloting an all-female crew in the men's four-man in Lake Placid last time out, has 1085 points on top of the overall standings ahead of Greubel Poser who has 1050 and Hengster who is on 986.