Arkady Chernyshev

Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev (Russian:. . Аркадий Иванович Чернышёв, * 3 Märzjul / March 16 1914greg in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire; † February 1992 in Moscow) was a Soviet ice hockey, bandy and football players and hockey coach.

Career

As a player

Arkady Chernyshev began his athletic career at Dynamo Moscow not as a hockey player, but as a bandy and football players. As early as 1937 he won with Dynamo in the winter Bandy Cup of the Soviet Union and in the summer the football championship. Winning the Bandy Championship he was able to repeat three more times (1938, 1940 and 1941), 1940, he was also re- football champions. Between 1945 and 1948, he completed 44 games for the FK Dinamo Minsk, but played from 1946 in parallel for Dynamo Moscow in the Soviet Hockey Championship.

On 22 December 1946, the first Soviet Hockey Championship was opened and Arkady Chernyshev scored the first goal in the history of this venerable league. Two months later he was together with his teammates, who were also bandy and football players celebrate the first Soviet championship. Until 1948, he played for Dynamo Moscow in the Elite League and scored four goals in 16 games. After retiring as an active player Tschernyschow Award 1948 Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

As a coach

During his time at Dynamo Tschernyschow worked as player-coach and was active in his time as a player to one of the most successful hockey coach of all time. First, he was head coach of HK Dynamo Moscow for 27 years (1948 - 1975), with whom he again champion in 1954, 1953 and 1972 the USSR Cup won and celebrated nine runner-up. Later he was head coach of Dinamo Riga.

Even greater success he could achieve as a coach or assistant coach of the Soviet national ice hockey team 1954-1972:

• Four-time Olympic gold medal in 1956, 1964, 1968 and 1972
• Eleven world titles, nine of directly consecutive 1963-1971

In 1957 he was again, this time as part of his work as a trainer, excellent as Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, but in 1999 took him into the IIHF Hall of Fame in the category Hockey functionary on. He died in February 1992 in Moscow.