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Information provided by the CIA helped Russian security services foil an attack on a St Petersburg cathedral, Russian media reports say.
The news has emerged in accounts of a phone call between the US and Russian presidents.
President Vladimir Putin thanked Donald Trump for the CIA's intervention, the Kremlin was quoted as saying.
Mr Putin promised to alert US officials if it received any similar intelligence relating to the US, Interfax reported.
Russia's FSB security service said in a statement on Friday that it had detained seven members of a cell of Islamic State supporters and seized a significant amount of explosives, weapons and extremist literature.
The cell was planning to carry out a suicide attack at a religious institution and kill citizens on Saturday, the FSB statement said (in Russian).
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