Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An kafa shi a cikin 1918, ya kasance Rasha, kuma daga baya Soviet, Red Army formation kafa a Gabashin Gabas a lokacin yakin basasa na Rasha. An kira shi bayan kwamandansa na farko, Vasily Chapayev. Kamar yadda umurnin Chapayev ya sami daraja a lokacin yakin kuma a sakamakon haka ya sami sunansa, wanda aka sanya shi a matsayin 25th Chapayev Rifle Division (). An tura sashin zuwa yamma don yin yaƙi a cikin Yakin Poland da Soviet kuma an tura shi zuwa Ukraine a lokacin tsakanin yaƙe-yaƙe. Ya ci gaba da shiga cikin
Soviet mamaye Bessarabia a 1940, sashin ya koma gabas bayan Jamus ta mamaye Tarayyar Soviet a cikin Operation Barbarossa. An rushe shi bayan an hallaka shi a cikin kewaye da Sevastopol a tsakiyar 1942.