25th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 25th Rifle Division 'Chapayevskaya' (Russian: 25-я Чапаевская стрелковая дивизия) was a Russian, and later Soviet, Red Army formation formed during the Russian Civil War. It was named after its civil war commander, Vasily Chapayev. The division was disbanded and reformed several times until the collapse of the Soviet Union, when it entered service in the Ukrainian Army as the 25th Mechanised Division.
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