title: Arkady Chernyshev
text: # Arkady Chernyshev
  
  Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev (Russian: Аркадий Иванович Чернышёв; March 16, 1914 – April 17, 1992) was a Russian ice hockey, football and bandy player, who played in the Soviet Top Hockey League. As a coach, he led Dynamo Moscow and the Soviet Union national ice hockey team. Chernyshev was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1948, and the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.
  
  ## Career
  
  Chernyshev served as Dynamo Moscow team head coach from 1946 until 1974.
  
  Under his leadership, Dynamo Moscow won the USSR Championship title in the seasons 1946/1947 and 1953/1954.
  
  They places second in the seasons 1949/1950, 1950/1951, 1958/1959, 1959/1960, 1961/1962, 1962/1963, 1963/1964, 1970/1971, 1971/1972.
  
  They placed third 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 the USSR national team head coach 1954–1957 and 1962–1972 guiding the team to:
  
  Eleven World Championships titles (1954, 1956, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971).
  
  Eleven European Championship titles (1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970).
  
  Four Olympic titles (1956, 1964, 1968, 1972).
  
  The Kontinental Hockey League, a Russia-based ice hockey league, has one of its four divisions named after Chernyshev.
  
  ## Honours
  
  Chernyshev was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1948, and the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.
  
  Chernyshev won three USSR football Championship titles (1937, 1940, 1947), as well as five USSR bandy Cup titles (1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1948).
  
  The hockey part of VTB Arena stadium in Moscow is also named after Chernyshev.
  
  