Vasiliy Mantsev

Vasiliy Nikolayevich Mantsev (; 5 March 1889 – 19 August 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and high-ranking official of the Cheka.

Early career Mantsev was born in Moscow into a large family of Old Believers. His father was an office worker. He studied law at Moscow University, but did not graduate. He was active in the 1905 Revolution, joining the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906. After several arrests he was sent into internal exile, but in 1911 he escaped from Vladimir to France, and was a pupil at the school for revolutionaries that Vladimir Lenin had set up in Longjumeau. He returned to Moscow illegally in 1913, and was again arrested and exiled to Vologda Oblast.

From March 1922, Mantsev was People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. From 1923 to 1924 he was a member of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b). From August 1923, a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection of the USSR. Since October 1923, a member of the board of the GPU (OGPU). From 1924 to 1936 he was the head of the Economic Planning Department of the Supreme Economic Council, the Deputy People's Commissar of Finance of the USSR. In 1936–37, he was deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR.

Arrest and death Mantsev was arrested during the Great Purge on 22 October 1937. - an accusation that the communist authorities acknowledged to have been false, after Stalin's death.

Mantsev was sentenced to death on 28 July, and executed on 19 August 1938. He was rehabilitated in 1956.