Arkady Chernyshev
Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev was a Soviet ice hockey and soccer player, who played in the Soviet Hockey League, also a coach for Dynamo Moscow and a distinguished coach for Soviet Union national ice hockey team.
Chernyshev won three USSR soccer Champion titles, as well as five USSR Bandy Cup titles.
Chernyshev served as Dynamo Moscow club coach, winning twice USSR Champion title, and also as USSR national team coach from 1948 till 1972, guiding the team to eleven World Champion titles, eleven Europe Champion titles and four Olympic Champion titles.
Chernyshev was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1948 and the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.
The Kontinental Hockey League, a Russian-based ice hockey league, has one of its four divisions named after Chernyshev.
The hockey part of VTB Arena stadium is also named after Chernyshev.
