Pyotr Chernyshev

Pyotr Chernyshev
Born	1914 Bolshie Verdy, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1979 Soviet Union
Figure skating career
Country	Soviet Union

Pyotr Sergeevich Chernyshev (also written as Tchernyshev, Russian: Пётр Серге́евич Чернышев; 1914–1979) was a chief engineer of Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod, a major pipe-construction specialist. Formerly a Soviet figure skater, four time national figure skating champion.^[1] Stalin Prize winner (1952) for the development of steam turbines of high pressure.

His grandson Peter Tchernyshev represented the U.S. in ice dancing.^[2]

• Hero of Socialist Labour - 1962
• Order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Order of October Revolution
• Stalin Prize