Chapayevsk is a town in Samara Oblast, Russian Federation, forty kilometers from the city of Samara. The town is located on the right bank of the Chapaevska River, which is a Volga River tributary. Samara Oblast (Сама́рская о́бласть) is an administrative division of the Russian Federation. ... Samara (Russian: СамаÌра), from 1935 to 1991—Kuybyshev (Russian: КуÌйбышев), is a major city situated on the Volga River in the southeastern part of European Russia, Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District, the administrative center of Samara Oblast. ... Volga in Yaroslavl (autumn morning) Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge 8,000 m³/s Area watershed 1. ...
A settlement was founded in the area in 1909 due to Nicholas II's decree that a military plant be established there; in 1927 the settlement became the town of Chapayevsk. According to the Samara Region Administration website, the town's population is 82,000. Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia Nicholas II of Russia (18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last crowned Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. ...
In 1989, the first Russian facility for destruction of chemical weapons was built at Chapayevsk.
However, it has never been used for this purpose, since demands from local residents concerned about the hazards of planned transport of chemical agents to the facility caused it to be converted into an educational training center.
The plant was modified and turned into a training center for the destruction of chemical weapons, and cadets from the Saratov School and Chemical Defense Academy are sent to Chapayevsk to study organization of the chemical weapons destruction process.
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