Chaban, a former luge athlete who won the doubles gold medal along with Zubkov at the 1994 Junior World Championships, previously served as the coach of the national skeleton team.

He will now lead the Russian bobsleigh coaching staff as the country continues its preparations for next year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

It was recently claimed Russian athletes would be able to compete at the Games in the South Korean resort as they are set to avoid a complete ban from the event despite the McLaren Report alleging an institutional doping regime was present at Sochi 2014.

The International Olympic Committee are reportedly considering sanctioning Russia with a fine and not a blanket ban from Pyeongchang 2018.

"The Commission of the Ministry of Transport approved the candidature of Chaban as head coach of the Russian national team in bobsleigh and skeleton," Zubkov, who was among the over 1,000 Russian athletes implicated in the McLaren Report, said.

Zubkov claimed that Chaban had been appointed as he has the sufficient competitive experience and team knowledge required for the role.

The RBSF head also confirmed Chaban will be replaced as skeleton coach by Anatoly Chelyshev, who trains Sochi 2014 Olympic gold medallist Alexander Tretyakov.

Tretyakov was among four Russians given a provisional suspension in December after he was named in the McLaren Report, which claimed that more than 1,000 Russian athletes had benefited from state-sponsored doping from 2011 to 2015.

It was then lifted eight days later after an International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation independent tribunal concluded there was "not yet sufficient evidence" to maintain it.