The successful candidate will succeed Yuri Ganus after he was dismissed in August 2020 following accusations of financial violations.

Mikhail Bukhanov stepped in as acting director general.

The deadline for submissions will end on November 15 and the procedure will consist of two stages.

First, applicants' questionnaire answers and documents will be verified for their accuracy and compliance with qualification requirements.

Interviews with the hiring committee and testing will follow in the second stage.

Ganus was sacked after a recommendation was approved by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC).

The RUSADA Supervisory Board had advised the dismissal of Ganus, after an audit allegedly revealed a "number of significant irregularities in the financial and economic activities" of the organisation.

Ganus, who denied the allegations, said he was removed because of his zero-tolerance approach to doping.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) had voiced concern at his sacking after he was appointed in 2017 to clean Russian sport after multiple doping scandals.

RUSADA was declared non-compliant by WADA in December 2019 after the country was found to have manipulated doping data at the Moscow Laboratory.

WADA had imposed a four-year package of punishments on Russia before the period of sanctions was cut to two years last December following an appeal by RUSADA.

In June, the organisation sent a roadmap to RUSADA to restore its status of compliance with it scheduled to be fully implemented by December 2022.