Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ọ hapụrụ ndị agha ya na 1921 iji gaa n'ihu n'ọmụmụ ihe ya na Frunze Military Academy, nke ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na 1925. N'ihi ọmarịcha agụmakwụkwọ ya, a kpọrọ Chuikov ka ọ nọrọ na Frunze Military Academy maka otu afọ ọzọ iji mụọ asụsụ Chinese na akụkọ ihe mere eme na Ngalaba Ọmụmụ Ọwụwa Anyanwụ. N'oge mgbụsị akwụkwọ nke 1926, Chuikov sonyeere ndị nnọchi anya Soviet nke gara Harbin, Changchun, Port Arthur, Dalian, Tianjin na Beijing, obodo dị n'ebe ugwu ọwụwa anyanwụ na n'ebe ugwu China. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'oge mgbụsị akwụkwọ nke 1927, e zigara Chuikov na China dị ka onye agha agha. Chuikov mere njem nke ukwuu na ndịda China na Sichuan, wee bụrụ onye maara asụsụ Chinese nke ọma, wee nweta nghọta miri emi banyere ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị na ọdịbendị China. N'afọ 1929, n'oge
China Eastern Railway Incident, a manyere Chuikov ịhapụ China mgbe Soviet Union kwụsịrị mmekọrịta mmekọrịta ya na Republic of China na July 13. E kenyere Chuikov na ndị agha Red Banner Far Eastern Army e hiwere ọhụrụ na Khabarovsk ma rụọ ọrụ na ọgụgụ isi ndị agha, na-akọ akụkọ na Vasily Blyukher, onye isi ndị agha Far Eastern. Ndị agha Soviet Far Eastern meriri ndị agha Northeastern nke Zhang Xueliang, na Chuikov sonyere na mkparịta ụka nke weghachiri njikwa Soviet nke China Eastern Railway.