Pyotr Chernyshev

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.

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

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

Figure skating results

Event	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1946	1947	1948	1949
Soviet Championships	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd

Honours and awards

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