KHL Chernyshev Division

The KHL's Chernyshev Division was formed in 2008 as part of the league's inauguration. It is one of 4 divisions and part of the Eastern conference since the second season of KHL when the conferences were established. It is named in honor of Arkady Chernyshev; Soviet Master of Sports, IIHF Hall of Fame inductee and former Dynamo Moscow head coach.

• Admiral Vladivostok
• Amur Khabarovsk
• Avangard Omsk
• Barys Astana
• Metallurg Novokuznetsk
• Salavat Yulaev Ufa
• Sibir Novosibirsk

In the first KHL season, the division alignment was determined by team strength and the Chernyshev Division consisted of: Ak Bars Kazan, Barys Astana, Dynamo Moscow, Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and Vityaz Chekhov.
With the geographical alignment of the divisions for the 2009–10 season, the composition of the Chernyshev division was completely changed. Only Barys Astana remained and was joined by Avangard Omsk, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, Sibir Novosibirsk, Amur Khabarovsk and Metallurg Novokuznetsk. It thus became the division with the most easterly located teams.
Newcomers Admiral Vladivostok, who joined the KHL in the 2013–14 season, were added to the Chernyshev Division.

• 2014: Barys Astana (26–18–6–4, 94 points)
• 2013: Avangard Omsk (26–11–9–6, 102 points)
• 2012: Avangard Omsk (26–18–5–5, 93 points)
• 2011: Avangard Omsk (31–9–11–3, 118 points – Continental Cup winner)
• 2010: Salavat Yulaev Ufa (37–8–7–4, 129 points – Continental Cup winner)
• 2009: Ak Bars Kazan (36–10–6–4, 122 points)

Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev [Аркадий Иванович Чернышёв; March 16, 1914 in Moscow, Russia – October 22, 1992] was a Soviet ice hockey and soccer player, who played in the Soviet Hockey League, also a coach for Dynam Moscow club and a distinguished coach for Soviet Union national ice hockey team.

·    He won three USSR soccer Champion titles (1937, 1940, 1947), as well as five USSR Bandy Cup titles (1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1948).

·    Chernyshev served as Dynamo Moscow club coach, winning twice USSR Champion title (1947, 1954), and also as USSR national team coach from 1948 till 1972, guiding the team to eleven World Champion titles (1954, 1956, 1963—1971), eleven Europe Champion titles (1958—1960, 1963—1970) and four Olympic Champion titles (1956, 1964, 1968, 1972).

·    He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1948 and the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.

·    Kontinental Hockey League has a division bearing his name.