Peter Tchernyshev (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Чернышёв; also romanized as Pyotr Andreyevich Chernyshev; born February 6, 1971) is a Russian-American ice dancer.

[2] He was originally a singles skater but injured his landing ankle at the age of 18 and it did not heal fully.

[1] He spent the next three years touring with the Russian All Stars in England and Turkey before returning to competition as an ice dancer.

[3] He later competed with Olga Pershankova for Russia and the Soviet Union but he and his partner had problems and split up.

[1] They had a successful tryout in Lake Placid, New York, and trained there for nine months with Natalia Dubova; then, due to Lang's homesickness, they moved to Detroit and began training with Igor Shpilband and Elizabeth Coates.

In 2000, Lang/Tchernyshev moved to Hackensack, New Jersey, to train with Alexander Zhulin, who coached them until the end of the 2001–02 season.

Peter Tchernyshev's grandfather, Pyotr Chernyshev, was a four-time Soviet champion in singles skating in the late 1930s.