Vasily Chapayev

[2] In 1926, the newspapers Pravda, Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda reported on the arrest of the former Cossack officer Trofimov-Mirsky, who allegedly shot Chapaev after capturing him during a raid on Lbishensk.

Chapaev's daughter Clavdiya and his great-granddaughter Yevgeniya wrote about the betrayal of the commander and the organization of his death by Leon Trotsky, as well as about the participation in the conspiracy of Pelageya Kameshkertseva.

Museums have also been opened in the buildings where the headquarters of the 25th Infantry Division was located during the Civil War: in the village of Krasny Yar in the Ufimsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, in the town of Belebey of the Republic of Bashkortostan, in the city of Uralsk and in the village of Lbischenskaya (now the town of Chapaev) at the site of the last battle division chief.

Dozens of settlements in the Samara (Chapayevsk), Saratov, Orenburg regions and other regions of Russia are named after Chapaev, Lbishensk in modern Kazakhstan was also renamed in his honor during the Soviet era, Chapaev streets exist in hundreds of settlements on the territory of the former USSR, the Chapaevka River was named after him.

In 1923, a Russian writer, Dmitriy Furmanov, who served as a commissar in Chapayev's division wrote a popular novel entitled Chapaev.

The German actor and singer Ernst Busch also recorded the song Tschapajews Tod, which talks about his death in the Ural.

Chapayev, along with his aide Petka, commissar Furmanov, and Anka the Mashine-gunner, became a recurring character in popular Russian jokes.

Сhapayev's birthplace (today the house-museum "Chapayevs' Log House "; moved from the original location)
The Chapaev museum in Cheboksary , Russia
Monument to Chapaev and the drama theatre in Samara, Russia
Chapayev on a 1948 Soviet postage stamp
The monument to Chapaev in Samara on a 1986 Soviet stamp commemorating the city's 400th anniversary