Fedor Chernyy was born in 1917.

Leitenant Chernyy was posted to 482 IAP in December 1942. With this unit, he flew Polikarpov I-153 but without claiming anything.

In August 1942, he was posted to 267 IAP, which also was equipped with I-153s. This unit operated on the North Caucasus Front.

On 7 October, he didn’t return from a combat mission and was considered missing. However, he had been seriously wounded and hospitalised.

On recovery, he was posted to 975 IAP in March 1943. This unit operated on the Transcaucasian Front.

Between 18 June and 14 August 1943, they reequipped with Yak-1s before entering combat again on 14 August with their new aircraft on the Southern Front.

On 3 September, the unit became a guard’s unit and renamed to 117 GIAP.

Chernyy ended the war with 2 shared biplane victories and a total of 5.
These had been claimed during 461 combat missions (as of 21 July 1944).
During his career, he was decorated with three Orders of the Red Banner and the Order of Aleksandr Nevskiy.

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1942
	16/08/42		1/?	Bf 110	Shared destroyed	I-153		Guriyskaya	267 IAP
	05/10/42		1/6	FW 189 (a)	Shared destroyed	I-153		Tuapse	267 IAP
	1943
1	19/07/43		1	Ju 88	Destroyed	Yak-1		Dmitriyevka	975 IAP
2	27/07/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	Yak-1		Grigor'yevka	975 IAP
3	02/08/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	Yak-1		Russkiy	975 IAP
4	20/08/43		1	Ju 87	Destroyed	Yak-1		Semenovskiy	975 IAP
5	30/09/43		1	Ju 87	Destroyed	Yak-1		W Prishib station	117 GIAP

Biplane victories: 2 shared destroyed.
TOTAL: 5 and 2 shared destroyed.
(a) Not verified with Luftwaffe records.

Sources:
All aces of Stalin 1936-1953 – Mikhail Bykov, 2014
Soviet Aces 1936-1953
Soviet Fighter Pilots 1936-1953 - Mikhail Bykov