Emanuel Čučkov

Emanuel Hristov Čučkov (; 27 November 1901 – 1 September 1967) also known as Mane Čučkov was a Macedonian statesman, partisan, author and professor. but was released without charges due to lack of evidence.

Prior to his arrest, Čučkov worked as a substitute teacher in Ohrid. After becoming a high school professor, he worked in Belgrade, Svilajnac, Čačak, Bijeljina, Štip, Smederevska Palanka, Ćuprija and Skopje. In 1937 Čučkov got into contact with MANAPO, and later with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In April 1944 he became a member of the Initiative committee for the organization of the Antifascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM). In June, Čučkov, along with Metodija Andonov - Čento and Kiril Petrušev met with Josip Broz Tito on the island of Vis for consultations due to their activity.

After World War II Čučkov as a part of a commission for rating folk dances, Bitola, 1949. Between 1946 and 1950 Čučkov was a member of the People's Assembly of Macedonia. From 1946 to 1947 he was the director of the National and University Library "St. Kliment of Ohrid". As a musicologist and ethnologist, in 1947 he founded the Institute for Domestic Artistic Handicrafts "Macedonian Folklore", and from 1948 he became an associate of the newly founded Institute of National History. In 1949, he became the director of the state ensemble for folk songs and dances "Tanec".

In the 1950s, Čučkov became the vice president of the Higher Schools Committee. Then in 1954, he became a part-time assistant professor and in 1957 a full-time teacher of Economic Geography at the Faculty of Economics in Skopje. In March 1958, he defended his earlier doctoral dissertation. He is the author of several university and high school textbooks, manuals and research materials in the field of history, geography, economy, folklore, ethnography and education of the SR Macedonia.

He died in Skopje.