Frol Kozlov

Frol Kozlov Фрол Козло́в
Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office 1960–1963
First Secretary	Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by	Nikolay Ignatov
Succeeded by	Leonid Brezhnev
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
Premier	Nikolai Bulganin Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by	Mikhail Yasnov
Succeeded by	Dmitry Polyansky
Personal details
Born	18 August 1908(1908-08-18) Ryazan Province, Imperial Russia
Died	30 January 1965(1965-01-30) (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, Hero of Socialist Labor (1961).

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.

He was for many years thought to be Khrushchev's likely successor as the dominant figure in the Soviet hierarchy of power. This was clearly what Khrushchev had intended^{[citation needed]}, but even before his mentor's removal from office in October 1964 Kozlov's position in the Soviet hierarchy had been undermined by the effects of his alcoholism; in 1963 he had ceased to be Secretary of the Party Central Committee, replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. At the time of his resignation in November 1964, Kozlov was already seriously ill after a stroke and died two months later. He was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, which indicates that he was not in deep disgrace under Brezhnev (later, neither Khrushchev nor Anastas Mikoyan were allowed to be buried there).

External links

• Biography of Frol Kozlov (Russian)