Dmitri Timofejewitsch Koslow

Dmitri Timofejewitsch Koslow

Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov ( Russian Дмитрий Тимофеевич Козлов ; born October 23 ^{. Jul} / 4. November  1896 ^greg. In Rasguljajka today in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , †  6. December 1967 in Minsk ) was a Soviet military commander. He took part for the Russian Empire in World War I, for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War and the Soviet Union in World War II .

Life

1914-1941

He was born in Rasguljajka. He left school in 1915 and then joined the Tsar's army with the rank of Praporschtschik . He served in World War I and became an officer in 1917. In 1918 he joined the Red Army and commanded a battalion in the Russian Civil War .

In December 1922 he became commander of the 4th Turkestan Regiment and in September 1924 commander of the 109th regiment.

In 1930 he became head of the Kiev Infantry School. In January 1931 he became the commander and commissioner of the 44th Rifle Division. In December 1935 he got a teaching position at the Soviet Military Academy . In April 1940 he became deputy commander of the troops of the Odessa military district and in December 1940 head of the Soviet air defense. In 1940 he was appointed lieutenant general . He took part in the attack of the Soviet Union on Finland and also fought in the Soviet-Finnish war .

1941-1967

In January 1941 he commanded the Transcaucasian Military District and after the attack by the Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union in June 1941 he commanded the troops on the Transcaucasus Front . He directed the Soviet invasion of Iran .

In December 1941 he commanded the troops on the Transcaucasian front and in January 1942 on the Crimean front . He commanded the Kerch-Feodosia operation , which led to the brief reconquest of the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea, but cost heavy losses. The Red Army lost around 15,000 men, 37 tanks and several artillery pieces in the German counterattack. Koslow was withdrawn from the front and then commanded the 24th Army (from August). From October 1942 he was deputy commandant of the troops on the Voronezh Front .

Kozlov headed the defense of Kharkov . Here he suffered a defeat when the Germans recaptured the city on March 14, 1943. Between May and August 1943 he served on the Leningrad Front and from August 1943 he was deputy commandant of the troops on the Transbaikal Front , where in August 1945 he took part in Operation August Storm , the Soviet offensive against Japanese troops in Manchuria. Between 1946 and his retirement in 1954 he served as deputy commandant in the Transbaikal. He died in Minsk in 1967.

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• KA Zaleski: Империя Сталина. Биографический энциклопедический словарь. (Stalin's empire. Biographical Encyclopaedia.) Moscow, Veche, 2000.
• Overview of all commands and times of his promotions