Konstantin Aleksandrovich Maltsev (Russian: Константин Александрович Мальцев) was a Soviet party and government figure, participant in the revolutionary movement, editor, rector of the Sverdlov Communist University, deputy People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR, chairman of the All-Union Committee for Radiofication and Broadcasting under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.
After the death of his parents, after finishing primary school, he moved to Kazan, then to his brother in Petrovsky Zavod in Transbaikal.
[1][3][4][5] In 1918, after the capture of Irkutsk by the White Army, he was arrested and held in the Aleksandrovsky Central [ru] for 11 months.
In 1920-1921 he served as head of the village, then organizational department of the Irkutsk provincial committee of the Communist Party.
In 1924-1927 he served Deputy Head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (since 1925 - VKP(b))[8].
In 1936-1939 he served as Chairman of the All-Union Committee for Radiofication and Radio Broadcasting under the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union.
In 1937, a number of articles were published in the newspaper Pravda criticizing the activities of the Radio Committee and its chairman Maltsev.
On July 8, 1941, he was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union for participating in a counter-revolutionary espionage and sabotage organization to capital punishment.