Yelena Isinbayeva kicked-off her indoor season in style with the clearance of a world season leading 4.85m at the Russian Indoor Meeting in Moscow.

Russia's Pole Vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva was competing on home soil on Sunday for the first time since 2007 and she didn't disappoint the expectant crowd with a clearance at a world-leading 4.85m, before three attempts at a world indoor record.

The star attraction of the Russian Indoor meeting in Moscow went straight over 4.60m, 4.75m and then 4.85m on her first attempt.  She then changed to stiffer poles but had two failures at a world record height of 5.01m before having the bar raised to 5.02m for a third, unsuccessful, effort.

"For me, to compete in Russia is very emotional. Today, there were so many of my friends in the stands. I really wanted to make their trip worthwhile and, at times, it was difficult to concentrate, but I got a lot of positive emotions," Isinabayeva told All Sport.

"I had about 40 friends here, it was hard to find a place for all of them," she joked. "I would be happy to come back to the Russian Winter meeting next year and hopefully keep the crowd pleased with a world record."

Isinabyeva's next meeting will be the Zepter Pole Vault Stars meeting - a European Athletics Indoor Permit Meeting - in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 6 March.

Behind Isinbayeva, fellow Russians were in the next three places in the Pole Vault with Yulia Golubchikova going over 4.70m, former world record holder Svetlana Feofanova clearing 4.60m and Tatyana Polnova having best of 4.50m.

The spotlight may have firmly been on Isinbayeva but there was also a great performance in the Long Jump by the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships gold medallist Darya Klishina, who leapt out to a world-leading 6.87m.

It was the second best performance indoors by a junior (there are no formal indoor world junior records), just one centimetre shy of the 6.88m that the legendary Heike Dreschler, then Daute, recorded in 1983.

Klishina sailed out to 6.80m with her fifth round effort before producing her new personal best, indoors or out, with her last jump. Olga Kucherenko finished second with 6.71m.

Another 2010 world best came in the women's 800m when Mariya Savinova, the 2009 European indoor champion over the distance, clocked 1:59.23 with Great Britain's 2009 World Championships bronze medallist Jennifer Meadows finishing second in 2:00.71.

Mariya Savinova registered a world leading 1:59.23 in 800m.

There was some good women's short races as well with Tatyana Dektyareva winning the 60m hurdles in a personal best 7.94 while Yulia Katsura also got a personal best when winning the 60m in 7.20, the second best time by a European this year, with the reigning European indoor 60m champion Yevgeniya Polyakova having to settle for second in 7.24.

Among the men´s events, Yuriy Borzakovskiy got a Russian record of 1:16.12 in the rarely-run 600m while Ivan Ukhov still had some energy left after his win in Arnstadt, Germany, on Saturday and won the men's High Jump with 2.32m.

Ukhov's compatriot Aleksandr Shustov improved his absolute best to 2.32m while 2008 Olympic champion Andrey Silnov, in his first competition in nine months after missing almost all of last summer with injury, tied for third place with 2.25m.

The Ukraine's Andriy Makarchev won the Long Jump with indoor best of 8.04m, equalling the second best in the world this year although 2010 has been rather modest in terms of performance for this event so far.