Arkady Chernyshev

Arkady Chernyshev
Personal information
Full name Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev
Date of birth (1914-03-16)March 16, 1914
Place of birth Moscow, Russian Empire
Date of death October 22, 1992(1992-10-22) (aged 78)
Place of death Moscow, Russia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Defender/Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1936-1944 FC Dynamo Moscow 84 (1)
1945-1948 FC Dinamo Minsk 70 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:12, 15 October 2009 (UTC).


Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev (Russian: Аркадий Иванович Чернышёв; March 16, 1914 in Moscow, Russia – October 22, 1992) was a Soviet ice hockey and soccer player, who played in the Soviet Hockey League, also a coach for Dynam Moscow club and a distinguished coach for Soviet Union national ice hockey team.

He won three USSR soccer Champion titles (1937, 1940, 1947), as well as five USSR Bandy Cup titles (1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1948).

Chernyshev served as Dynamo Moscow club coach, winning twice USSR Champion title (1947, 1954), and also as USSR national team coach from 1948 till 1972, guiding the team to eleven World Champion titles (1954, 1956, 1963—1971), eleven Europe Champion titles (1958—1960, 1963—1970) and four Olympic Champion titles (1956, 1964, 1968, 1972).

He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1948 and the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.

Kontinental Hockey League has a division bearing his name.

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