Photo from the funds of the State historical archive of the Chuvash Republic Ministry of culture ČuvašiiFoto of the State historical archive of the Chuvash Republic Ministry of culture ČuvašiiPamâtnik the Chapayev in Cheboksary. Photo by KorobkoPamâtnik in children’s Park near the FACTORY. Photo By Sergey Korobko
9 February Chuvashia noted 125 anniversary of its legendary compatriot Commander Vasily Chapayev. Celebratory event “Chapaev and modernity”, organized by the Čuvašskim National Museum, opened the Conference “Čapaevskoe heritage”, presentation of the exhibition: the Red Army uniforms (1918-1940)-”We all wore an overcoat…”, illustration to the book Da Furmanov “Chapaev”, “Vasiliy Ivanovich Chapayev in art” and souvenir production, “Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev is a brand”, transfers the correspondent BakuToday .
In Cheboksary name Chapaeva Street, named after the square, there is a monument and Museum. His name in the city is a major industrial association. Here was born and a few times the humor Festival “Golden Čapaj”, which were the most famous comedians in the country.
The monument to the hero of the civil war Vasily Čapaevu (sculptor p. Balandin and architect v. Morozov) installed in the square round legendary in 1960, on the eve of the 40 anniversary of the Chuvash autonomous. Before restoration in 1984, the shape of the hero on the vzdyblennom Koné was concrete and then cast from bronze. Façade side 10-meter granite pedestal is decorated with bas-reliefs. The author of the monument was a supporter of realistic style, dohodivšego sometimes to naturalism. It appeared on komdive two left-wing boots-civil war boots were made in the same way as valenki-lekalu on one foot.
On the initiative of the Regional Committee of the KOMSOMOL and the Chuvash National Museum May 9, 1974, opened the Museum, named Chapaev. Next to the single-deck building Museum in 1986, established country house family Čapaevyh. After a long search, he was found in the village of Tohmeevo district of Cheboksary (recall that back in 1912, House of Ivan Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev, the father, was sold and taken out of d. Budajka).
Fate and military skill of V.i. Chapayev have dedicated their works of writers, poets, composers, painters. Light and manly image were in the novel “Chapayev” D. A. Furmanov and the eponymous film directors Vasilyiev. Legendary personality captivates not only domestic but also foreign historians. Thus, the fate of the Chapayev became a post-graduate student of the historical Faculty of the University of California at Berkeley Jason Morton. In 2011, he travelled in Chuvashia and worked in the reading room of the State historical archive of the Chuvash Republic thesis “V.i. Chapayev. Life and legend “. It is notable that in the Church of the ascension in gosistarhive Cheboksary is the metric record of birth in the village of Budajka Up County Kazan province January 28, 1887, Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his baptism. In 2010, this recording was included in the State registry of unique archival documents of the Chuvash Republic.
