Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev (russian: Аркадий Иванович Чернышёв; March 16, 1914 – April 17, 1992) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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and

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

player, who played in the Soviet Hockey League, also a

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for

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...

and a distinguished coach for

Soviet Union national ice hockey team The Soviet national ice hockey team was the national men's ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. From 1954, the team won at least one medal each year at either the Ice Hockey World Championships ...

Career

Chernyshev served as Dynamo Moscow club coach from 1946 till 1974. Dynamo Moscow winning the USSR Champion title in the seasons 1946/1947 and 1953/1954. Second place in the seasons 1949/1950, 1950/1951, 1958/1959, 1959/1960, 1961/1962, 1962/1963, 1963/1964, 1970/1971, 1971/1972 Third place in the seasons 1947/1948, 1948/1949, 1951/1952, 1952/1953, 1954/1955, 1955/1956, 1956/1957, 1957/1958, 1965/1966, 1966/1967, 1967/1968, 1968/1969, 1973/1974 Soviet Cup of hockey: Champions in the seasons 1952/1953 and 1971/1972 Runner-up in the seasons 1954/1955, 1955/1956, 1965/1966, 1968/1969, 1969/1970, 1973/1974 As USSR national team head coach 1954-1957, and 1962-1972 guiding the team to: Eleven World Champion titles (

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

, 1956,

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...

, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969,

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

) Eleven Europe Champion titles (1958,1959,1960,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970) Four Olympic Champion titles ( 1956,

, 1968,

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

). These achievements make Arkady Chernyshev the most successful coach in the history of international hockey. Chernyshev was inducted into the

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in 1948 and the

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in 1999. The

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...

, a Russian-based ice hockey league, has one of its four divisions named after Chernyshev. The hockey part of

VTB Arena The VTB Arena – Dynamo Central Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Moscow, Russia. It consists of an ice hockey and an association football venue. The football stadium is officially named Dynamo Central Stadium. The ice hockey venue is know ...

stadium is also named after Chernyshev.

Honours

Chernyshev won three

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Champion titles (1937, 1940, 1947), as well as five USSR

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Cup titles (1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1948).

References

External links

Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chernyshev, Arkady 1914 births 1992 deaths Soviet ice hockey players Soviet ice hockey coaches Footballers from Moscow IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Soviet footballers Soviet bandy players Soviet Union national ice hockey team coaches FC Dynamo Moscow players Soviet Top League players FC Dinamo Minsk players Association football defenders Association football midfielders