Frol Kozlov

Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionIn office
5 April 1960 – 21 June 1963Preceded byAleksey KirichenkoSucceeded byLeonid BrezhnevChairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSRIn office
19 December 1957 – 31 March 1958Preceded byMikhail YasnovSucceeded byDmitry PolyanskyFirst Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet UnionIn office
31 March 1958 – 4 May 1960PremierNikita KhrushchevPreceded byJoseph KuzminSucceeded byAlexei KosyginFull member of the 20th–21st, 22nd PolitburoIn office
29 June 1957 – 16 November 1964Member of the 20th–21st, 22nd SecretariatIn office
4 May 1960 – 16 November 1964 Personal detailsBorn(1908-08-18)18 August 1908
Loshchinino, Kasimovsky Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate, Russian EmpireDied30 January 1965(1965-01-30) (aged 56)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet UnionResting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, MoscowNationalitySovietPolitical partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1926–1964)

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

Biography

Kozlov was born in the village of Loshchinino (Лощинино), Kasimovsky Uyezd of Ryazan Governorate. 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][4] 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.^[5] At the time of his removal, Kozlov had already suffered a stroke, and he died shortly after his removal from office. In 1992, he was deemed partly responsible for the June 1962 Novocherkassk massacre.

His ashes were 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

External links

• Biography of Frol Kozlov (in Russian)

Party political offices
Preceded by Aleksey Kirichenko	Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 5 April 1960 – 15 July 1964	Succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev
Preceded by Aleksey Kirichenko	Senior Secretary of Cadres of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 4 May 1960 – 21 June 1963	Succeeded by Nikolai Podgorny