Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei irava - I hangaia i te tau 1918, he Russian, a muri ake nei ko te Soviet, he whakaturanga o te ope Whero i hangaia i te Raki o te Rawhiti i te wa o te Pakanga Taiao o Ruhia. I tapaina te ingoa ki tana rangatira tuatahi, a Vasily Chapayev. Ka rite ki te whakahau a Chapayev i rongonui i te wa o te pakanga, na reira i whakawhiwhia ki tona ingoa, i tohua ko te 25th Chapayev Rifle Division (). I whakawhitihia te wehenga ki te hauauru ki te whawhai i te Pakanga Polish-Soviet a i tohaina ki Ukraine i te wa o te pakanga. I nekehia ki mua ki te whai wāhi ki te noho a te Soviet i Bessarabia
I te tau 1940, ka hoki te wehenga ki te rawhiti i muri i te whakaekenga a Tiamana ki te Soviet Union i roto i te Operation Barbarossa. I whakakorehia i muri i te whakangaromanga i te whakapae o Sevastopol i te waenganui o te tau 1942.