Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev (Russian: Валерий Павлинович Шанцев; born 29 June 1947) is the former governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast from 8 August 2005, when he replaced Gennady Khodyrev until his resignation on 26 September 2017.

Later he graduated from the evening department of the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation and the Academy of National Economy.

At the Salyut factory, Shantsev first worked as an assistant to the master, then as the head of the workshop preparation department, as a senior engineer-technologist.

[citation needed] Since August 1991 - commercial director of the hockey club "Dynamo", at the same time the first deputy chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow organization of the Communist Party.

[citation needed] 30 May 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted Shantsev's resignation so that on 14 September 2014 Valery Pavlinovich took part in direct elections of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

[citation needed] 26 September 2017 prematurely left the post of Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region at his own request.

[citation needed] In early February 2018 he was appointed deputy general director of JSC Concern Morinformsystem-Agat for development.

[7][8][9][10] From 2021 has become a member of the board of directors of the AERPMAX company Руководство ООО АЭРОМАКС (АФК СИСТЕМА)[citation needed]