Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Cherepanov ya koma Tarayyar Soviet a 1927, bayan mutuwar Sun a 1925 da kuma lalacewar dangantaka tsakanin Sin da Soviet tare da sabon shugaban Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek. (Duk da ci gaba da taimakon Soviet ga Kuomintang, Chiang mai adawa da kwaminisanci ya shirya kisan kiyashi na kwaminisanci a Shanghai kuma ya kori masu ba da shawara na Soviet.) Cherepanov ya shiga cikin shiga tsakani na Soviet na 1929
a cikin Inner Manchuria a matsayin kwamandan Rundunar Sojojin Red Army ta 39th Rifle Division a Soviet Far East.