Frol Romanovich Kozlov was a Soviet politician and a member Secretariat from 1960 to 1964. He was a Hero of the Socialist Labour (1961).
Occupation
politician
Position held
deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, head of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
Frol Romanovich Kozlov (; – 30 January 1965) was a Soviet politician. Hero of Socialist Labour (1961).
Biography
Kozlov was born in the village of Loshchinino, Kasimovsky Uyezd of Ryazan Governorate. Between 1953 and 1957, Kozlov was the first secretary of the Leningrad Oblast CPSU Committee. 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.
For many years, he was considered Khrushchev's likely successor 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. 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.
