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 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 7 | 25 | 37 |
| 2 | Zenit St PetersburgZenit | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 7 | 26 | 36 |
| 3 | Lokomotiv MoscowLokomotiv | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 12 | 34 |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 17 | 14 | 30 |
| 5 | Spartak Moscow | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 12 | 13 | 28 |
| 6 | CSKA MoscowCSKA | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 10 | 14 | 27 |
| 7 | Rubin Kazan | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 22 | -5 | 19 |
| 8 | RostovRostov | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 26 | -6 | 17 |
| 9 | Akron TolyattiAkron | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 30 | -11 | 16 |
| 10 | Nizhny Novgorod | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 27 | -12 | 15 |
| 11 | Dynamo MakhachkalaMakhachkala | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 14 | -5 | 15 |
| 12 | Krylia SovetovKrylia Sovetov | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 23 | -10 | 12 |
| 13 | KhimkiKhimki | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 28 | -12 | 12 |
| 14 | Fakel | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 23 | -13 | 12 |
| 15 | Akhmat GroznyAkhmat Grozny | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 29 | -16 | 9 |
| 16 | OrenburgOrenburg | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 30 | -14 | 8 |
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