Ivan Aleksandrovich Maltsev
Иван Александрович Мальцев
1898–1940
○ Died in custody, never rehabilitated
A state-security administrator who commanded regional apparatuses
The judgment recorded that at the Novosibirsk NKVD he permitted “unfounded arrests” and the falsification of investigative materials.
Ivan Maltsev was a Soviet official from a working-class background who became a regional commander in the security organs through the Revolution and Civil War. Moving through the Urals, Siberia and the North Caucasus, he exemplified how the VChK, OGPU and NKVD fused local administration with political control. As head of the Novosibirsk regional NKVD in 1938, he belonged to the special-troika apparatus and bore responsibility for the machinery of the Great Terror; he was later convicted and never rehabilitated.
Career Timeline
- 1917Commander of a Red Guard detachment at the Bilimbay works
- 1918–1921Political and military officer of the Red Army on the Eastern Front
- 1921–1925Yekaterinburg gubernia Cheka and GPU officer, then Tagil district chief
- 1925–1931Chief of the Chelyabinsk, Perm and Tomsk OGPU district offices
- 1931–1935Orenburg operational-sector chief, then aide to the OGPU plenipotentiary in the Middle Volga
- 1936–1938Head of NKVD in Adyghe Autonomous Oblast, then deputy chief in West Siberia and Novosibirsk
- 1938–1939Head of the Novosibirsk regional NKVD and member of a special troika