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PROFILE:
Arkady Chernyshev (03.16.1914 - 04.17.1992)
USSR Merited Sports Master (1948),
USSR Merited Sports Coach (ZTR SSSR, 1957)
IIHF Hall of Fame (builder, 1999).
Player's Career:
- In hockey, played as Forward with the Dynamo Moscow;
scored 4 goals in 11 games in the USSR Elite Hockey
League in 1946-1948
- USSR Gold 1947
- Played bandy (USSR Cup 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941)
and soccer (USSR Gold 1937, 1940)
Coaching Career:
- Dynamo Moscow Player/Coach in 1946-1948
- Dynamo Moscow Head Coach in 1948-1975
- USSR Gold 1947, 1954
- Team USSR Head Coach in 1954-1957, 1961-1972
- WC Gold in 1954, 1956, 1963-1971
- Olympics Gold in 1956, 1964, 1968, 1972
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CHERNYSHEV
ARKADY CHERNYSHEV:
Historical Milestones
of Russian Hockey
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December
22, 1946
Scored the 1st goal ever of the national
championships
January 26, 1947
Dynamo Moscow (head coach: Chernyshev)
wins the 1st USSR Elite League Championship
January 29, 1954
USSR 8, Finland 1
USSR (head coach: Chernyshev) wins its
1st official game
February 26, 1954
USSR 7, Finland 1
USSR (head coach: Chernyshev) wins in
its 1st game at the WCs
March
7, 1954
USSR 7, Canada 1
USSR (head coach: Chernyshev) wins its
1st WC title.
January 19, 1956
USSR 5, Sweden 1
USSR (head coach: Chernyshev) wins its
1st game at the Olympics.
February 4, 1956
USSR 2, Canada 0
USSR (head coach: Chernyshev) wins its
1st Olympic gold medal.
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Top
World Tournaments:
All-Time Most Successful
Russian Coaches
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Coaches
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WC
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OG
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CC
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Total
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Chernyshev
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11
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4
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15
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Tarasov
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9
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3
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12
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Tikhonov
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8
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3
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1
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12
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Yurzinov
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7
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3
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1
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11
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Notes:
WC - WC gold
medals
OG - Olympics gold medals
CC - World Cup (Canada Cup)
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The 1972 Summit Series was a major break-through for
the Russian hockey school on the international arena.
The first face-to-face encounter with the elite NHL talent
showed the world the strength and mastery of the game
that the Soviets were able to achieve through a relatively
short period of time. Although 1972 Team USSR was prepared
for the Series by Bobrov, most of innovations and hockey
achievements that the Soviets demonstrated in September
1972 still reflected the results of successful work by
Bobrov's predecessors, Tarasov and Chernyshev.
Arkady CHERNYSHEV is a legend of Soviet hockey
and one of the founders of the Russian hockey school.
Most of the time, his name is mentioned in association
with the other Russian legend, Anatoly
Tarasov. Tarasov and Chernyshev coached the Soviet
squad to the 9 consecutive world titles in 1963-1971.
In North America, Chernyshev's coaching successes are
quiet often overshadowed in favor of his partner of many
years, Hall-of-Famer Anatoly Tarasov.
Needless to say, it was Chernyshev who was the "official"
head coach of the Soviet national team during the Tarasov-Chernyshev's
era. If the gold medal count can become any measurement
of coaches' success, Chrenyshev should be called the all-time
most successful Soviet coach on the international arena.
With 4 gold Olympic medals and 11 world titles, Chernyshev
leads the list leaving behind such coaching legends as
Tarasov and Tikhonov.
Being two completely different personalities, Chernyshev
and Tarasov created one of the most successful and well-ballanced
coaching combinations in the history of hockey. Tarasov
was emotional and explosive, prone to lose his temper
in many situations. On the contrary, Chernyshev impressed
people with his diplomatic skills, superb communications
and rationalism.
Tarasov was at his best on the ice rink, working face-to-face
with the players, guiding the team directly from the bench
during the game. Chernyshev very seldom spent time with
the national team players on the ice, mostly overseeing
the practice or game in the stands. Due to Chernyshev's
obvious educational and motivational talent, the Soviet
players preferred to have one-on-one conversations with
Chernyshev than with Tarasov.
The
list of legendary personalities graduated from Chernyshev's
hockey university includes the Team USSR 1972 members,
Valery Vasiliev
and Alexander Maltsev,
Viktor Tikhonov and
Vladimir Yurzinov.
After the Olympics in Sapporo, Tarasov and Chernyshev
made an announcement about their official retirement from
coaching Team USSR. Due to the history of complicated
relationship with their successor, Vsevolod
Bobrov, Tarasov was distanced from coaching or
consulting the national team. On the other hand, Chernyshev
was still involved in preparing Team USSR for the Summit
1972. It was Chernyshev and Kulagin
that prepared the scouting report on Team Canada in 1972.
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