He was made a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1957, and granted the title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR [ru] in 1946.
Chernov was born on July 11, 1877, in Solikamsk in the Solikamsky Uyezd of the Perm Governorate of the Russian Empire.
The paleontological material he collected served as the basis for the Paleozoic stratigraphy of the western slopes of the Northern Urals and Pai-Khoi.
In his early works, he studied the geology of the Kama region: "Essay on the geological structure of the environs of Solikamsk" (1888), "On the question of the conditions for the occurrence of the Kama salt-bearing strata" (1908) and others.
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