Chernov (russian: Чернов) is a Slavic surname formed from the Russian word ''Chyorny'' (russian: Чёрный) meaning ''black''. The feminine form of the surname is Chernova (or Tchernova). Some people with this name include: *

Alex Chernov Alex Chernov, (born 12 May 1938) is an Australian lawyer, judge and barrister who served as the 28th Governor of Victoria, from 2011 to 2015. Chernov also served as Vice-President of the Australian Bar Association, from 1986 to 1987, President ...

(born 1938), an Australian judge, Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, and Governor of Victoria * Alexander Chernov (1877–1963), a Soviet geologist, paleonthologist, and

Hero of Socialist Labor The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

* Anatoly Chernov (1919–1953), a Soviet aircraft pilot and

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

Andrei Chernov Andrei Aleksandrovich Chernov (russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Чернов, translit=Andréj Aleksándrovič Černóv; 27 August 1966 – 16 August 2017), also known as Andrew Chernov and Ache, was a Soviet and Russian prog ...

(1966–2017), a Russian programmer, one of the founders of

Runet Runet (russian: Рунет), a portmanteau of ru (code for both the Russian language and Russia's top-level domain) and net/network, is the Russian-language community on the Internet and websites. The term Runet was coined in Israel in the spr ...

and the creator of the

KOI8-R KOI8-R (RFC 1489) is an 8-bit character encoding, derived from the KOI-8 encoding by the programmer Andrei Chernov in 1993 and designed to cover Russian, which uses a Cyrillic alphabet. KOI8-R was based on Russian Morse code, which was created fr ...

character encoding Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to Graphics, graphical character (computing), characters, especially the written characters of Language, human language, allowing them to be Data storage, stored, Data communication, transmi ...

Artyom Chernov Artyom Chernov (28 April 1982 – 11 December 2020) was a Russian professional ice hockey centre who played for HC Vityaz of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was drafted 162nd overall by the Dallas Stars in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. Chern ...

(1982–2020), a Russian professional ice hockey centre * Boris Chernov, designer of a series of light flying boats such as the Gidroplan Che-22 Korvet and the Chernov Che-25 * Dmitry Chernov (1839–1921), a Russian metallurgist * Evgeniy Demitrievich Chernov, a Soviet admiral, former commander of

Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets 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, ...

Georgy Chernov George A. Chernov (April 21, 1906 – April 6, 2009) was a Soviet geologist. He discovered the Vorkuta coal deposits and the petroleum district of the Bolshezemelskaya tundra, including the Usinskoye oil field, Usinskoe and Kharyaginskoye oil fie ...

(April 21, 1906 – April 6, 2009) was a Russian geologist and

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (russian: Орден «За заслуги перед Отечеством», ''Orden "Za zaslugi pered Otechestvom"'') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by P ...

* Matvei Chernov (1914–1944), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union * Mikhail Chernov, a Russian ice-hockey player * Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Chernov (April 22, 1879 — August 1, 1938) a Russian composer and music professor * Mstyslav Chernov (born 1985), an

Associated Press The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspa ...

journalist and photographer *

Natalia Chernova Natalia Chernova (Russian: Наталья Чернова; born March 6, 1976 in Krasnodar, Russia)

, a Russian gymnast * Tatyana Chernova (born 1988), a Russian heptathlete *

Viktor Chernov Viktor Mikhailovich Chernov (russian: Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Черно́в; December 7, 1873 – April 15, 1952) was a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party. He was the primar ...

(1873–1952), the founder of Socialist-Revolutionary Party *

Vladimir Chernov Vladimir Nikolaïevitch Chernov (born 22 September 1953) is a Russian baritone, particularly associated with the Russian and Italian opera repertories. Early life Vladimir Chernov was born in a small village near the town of Krasnodar in southe ...

, famous singer at

The Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operat ...

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