Monument to the revolutionary, hero of the First World War and the Patriotic Wars, V.I. Chapaev. The monument attracts only by its size! He's big enough, but with a completely unimaginable, awkward pose. I don't know who is the author of what misunderstanding, but it looks at least strange. In addition, a lowered saber does not add to the image of a hero in any way! I don't know, maybe the idea was to imagine him in the last minutes of his life, wounded, but continuing to command ... but it turned out so-so. The area around the monument is in disrepair. The tiles are falling off, and there's trash in the former fountain. There is a V.I. Chapaev Museum further down the road. Which is located in the building of the 25th Chapaev Division of the Turkmen Front. It was here that on September 5, 1919, the Lbishchensk raid of the White Guards unfolded (Chapaevsk was formerly called the village of Lbishchensk). As a result of the rapid raid, Vasili Ivanovich was killed, and by the way, Petka, his adjutant Peter Isakov.

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