Chapaevsk

(until 1929, Ivashchenkovo), a city (since 1927) under oblast jurisdiction in Kuibyshev Oblast, RSFSR. Located on the right bank of the Chapaevka River, a tributary of the Volga. Railroad station on the Syzran’-Kuibyshev line, 43 km southwest of Kuibyshev. Population, 87,000 (1976). Chapaevsk has a chemical-fertilizer plant, a silicates plant, a plant for the manufacture of reinforced-concrete products, a cannery, a milk plant, meat-packing and food-processing combines, a clothing factory, and a motor-vehicle transportation combine. Educational institutions include a chemical engineering technicum. Chapaevsk was named for V. I. Chapaev.