Frol Kozlov

Frol Kozlov Фрол Козло́в
First Deputy of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office 31 March 1958 – 4 May 1960
Premier	Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by	Joseph Kuzmin
Succeeded by	Alexei Kosygin
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR
In office 19 December 1957 – 31 March 1958
Preceded by	Mikhail Yasnov
Succeeded by	Dmitry Polyansky
Full member of the 20th–21st, 22nd Politburo
In office 29 June 1957 – 16 November 1964
Member of the 20th–21st, 22nd Secretariat
In office 4 May 1960 – 16 November 1964
Personal details
Born	Frol Romanovich Kozlov 18 August 1908 Loshchinino, Kasimovsky District Ryazan Province, Imperial Russia
Died	30 January 1965 (aged 56) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Frol Romanovich Kozlov (Russian: Фрол Рома́нович Козло́в; 18 August [O.S. 5 August] 1908 – 30 January 1965) was a Soviet politician, and a Hero of Socialist Labor (1961).

Biography

Kozlov was born in the village of Loshchinino (Russian: Лощинино), Ryazan Province. Between 1953 and 1957, Kozlov was the first secretary of the Leningrad Oblast CPSU Committee.^[1] He was elected a candidate member of the Presidium (as the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was then called) on 14 February 1957 and served as a full member from 29 June 1957 until he was relieved of his duties on 16 November 1964, following the ousting of his mentor, Nikita Khrushchev, a month earlier.

In July 1959, he visited the secretive Bohemian Grove encampment in northern California.^[2]

For many years, he was considered Khrushchev's likely successor ^[3] but even before his mentor's removal from office, Kozlov's position had been undermined by the effects of his alcoholism; in the spring of 1963 he was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee.^[4] At the time of his removal, Kozlov had already suffered a stroke, and he died shortly after his removal from office.

He was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

Decorations and awards

• Hero of Socialist Labour
• Four Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice
• Order of the Red Star

References

1. Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991 (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
2. "May - June 1959: Visit to the Soviet Union of W. Averell Harriman". U.S. Department of State. 26 June 1959. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
3. Time Magazine, Krushchev's Successor? 13 July 1959
4. Lisa A. Baglione (31 December 1998). To Agree or Not to Agree: Leadership, Bargaining, and Arms Control. University of Michigan Press. p. 45. ISBN 0-472-10930-8. Retrieved 28 October 2014.

External links

• Biography of Frol Kozlov (Russian)