Vasiliy Mantsev
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Vasiliy Mantsev | |
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Василий Манцев | |
| Chairman of the Ukrainian Cheka/GPU/OGPU | |
| In office 1919–1923 | |
| Preceded by | Aleksandr Rotenberg |
| Succeeded by | Vsevolod Balitsky |
| People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR | |
| In office March 22, 1922 – August, 1923 | |
| Preceded by | Mykola Skrypnyk |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Nikolayenko |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 March 1889 |
| Died | 19 August 1938 (aged 49) |
| Party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Other political affiliations | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1906–1917) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Russian Empire (1916–1917) Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1923) |
| Years of service | 1916–1917 1918–1923 |
| Battles/wars | Russian Civil War |
Vasiliy Nikolayevich Mantsev (Russian: Василий Николаевич Манцев; 5 March 1889 – 19 August 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and high-ranking official of the Cheka.
Mantsev was born in Moscow into a large family of Old Believers.[1] His father was an office worker. He studied law at Moscow University, but did not graduate.[2] He was active in the 1905 Revolution, joining the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906.[3] 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.[4] He returned to Moscow illegally in 1913, and was again arrested and exiled to Vologda Oblast.[3] In 1916, he was called up for the Imperial Army.
