Anastasia Myskina and Vera Zvonareva powered Russia to their first Fed Cup title by winning the decisive doubles against holders France on Sunday.
Russia, the hot favourites, had Myskina to thank for a nervy 3-2 victory in the final which underlines the country's domination of the women's game.
The French Open champion gave the home team all three points by winning both her singles matches before teaming up with Zvonareva to beat Emilie Loit and Marion Bartoli 7-6 7-5.
The two nations were level at 2-2 after Tatiana Golovin kept alive France's hopes of retaining the title by crushing U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4 6-1 in the second reverse singles.
Myskina had put the home team ahead 2-1 when she eased past Nathalie Dechy 6-3 6-4.
Russia captain Shamil Tarpishchev chose to replace doubles specialist Elena Likhovtseva with Myskina for the decider and his gamble paid off as it was the world number three who looked the much steadier of the four players.
The Russians saved four set points and then survived a tense tiebreaker to clinch the first set before wrapping up the match and the overall victory after two hours 13 minutes.
"It's a great feeling to lead your team, your country to victory," said Myskina, who this year became the first Russian woman to win a grand slam title when she beat compatriot Elena Dementieva in the French Open final.
