The 33-year-old, who is also the President of the Swimming Federation of Moscow, was handed the role during the first meeting of the Supreme Supervisory Board of the RSF.

In order to improve the effectiveness of the Board, the decision was taken to form four committees on the main aspects of its work - Budget and Finance, Human Resources, Strategic Development and Anti-Doping.

Korotyshkin was given the task of leading the latter.

"This structure of the work is not new, but quite effective," said Denis Valentinovich, the chairman of the Board. 

Korotyshkin finished behind Michael Phelps, winner of 23 Olympic gold medals and the most decorated Olympian in history, in the 100 metres butterfly at London 2012.

He shared the silver medal with South Africa's Chad le Clos after they both touched the wall in a time of 51.44sec.

The Russian has also won three International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships gold medals during his career.

He was part of the successful 4x100m relay team in Manchester in 2008 before claiming the 100m butterfly title in Dubai in 2010.

Korotyshkin was also part of the 4x50m freestyle team who were victorious in Doha in 2014.

He called time on his career just a day before last year's Russian Olympic trials were due to begin in Moscow.

At Rio 2016, Russian breaststroke star Yuliya Efimova claimed silver medals in both the 100m and 200m events and Anton Chupkov and Evgeny Rylov won bronzes in the respective 200m breaststroke and 200m backstroke finals.

The Russian swimming team's participation at Rio 2016 was overshadowed by doping allegations.

Seven of the 37-strong Russian squad, including Efimova, were declared ineligible by FINA following the publication of the McLaren Report into Russian doping.

However, they were granted permission to compete just days before competition began following successful appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.