The 31-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-year contract with the Istanbul giants.
According to reports in the Turkish media, Zenit will receive a transfer fee in the region of £4.7m for Alves, who has been capped 63 times at senior international level.
Alves joined Zenit from Porto in August 2010 in an £18.2m deal.
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| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | PTS | |
| 1 | FC KrasnodarKrasnodar | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 24 |
| 2 | Lokomotiv MoscowLokomotiv | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 11 | 24 |
| 3 | Zenit St PetersburgZenit | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 4 | 18 | 23 |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 20 |
| 5 | CSKA MoscowCSKA | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 6 | 13 | 17 |
| 6 | Spartak Moscow | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 16 |
| 7 | Rubin Kazan | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 15 | -3 | 12 |
| 8 | RostovRostov | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -4 | 12 |
| 9 | Akron TolyattiAkron | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 18 | -4 | 11 |
| 10 | Krylia SovetovKrylia Sovetov | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -5 | 11 |
| 11 | Nizhny Novgorod | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 19 | -10 | 10 |
| 12 | Dynamo MakhachkalaMakhachkala | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 10 |
| 13 | KhimkiKhimki | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 16 | -7 | 8 |
| 14 | OrenburgOrenburg | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 19 | -7 | 7 |
| 15 | Akhmat GroznyAkhmat Grozny | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 18 | -11 | 6 |
| 16 | Fakel | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 17 | -13 | 6 |
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