Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An kafa shi a cikin 1918, ya kasance Rasha, kuma daga baya Soviet, Red Army formation da aka 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. An tura shi don shiga cikin aikin Soviet na Bessarabia
A 1940, rukunin ya koma gabas bayan Jamus ta mamaye Soviet Union a cikin Operation Barbarossa. An rushe shi bayan an hallaka shi a cikin kewaye da Sevastopol a tsakiyar 1942.