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Kolektiv avtorov: Velikaja otečestvennaja: Komdivy. Vojennyj biografičeskij slovar, Tom 4, Kučkovo pole, 2015, ISBN 978-5-9950-0602-2 (Коллектив авторов. Великая Отечественная: Комдивы. Военный биографический словарь / В. П. Горемыкин. — М.: Кучково поле, 2015. — Т. 4)
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Kolektiv avtorov: Velikaja otečestvennaja: Komdivy. Vojennyj biografičeskij slovar, Tom 4, Kučkovo pole, 2015, ISBN 978-5-9950-0602-2 (Коллектив авторов. Великая Отечественная: Комдивы. Военный биографический словарь / В. П. Горемыкин. — М.: Кучково поле, 2015. — Т. 4)
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Colonel Pyotr Sergeyevich KOZLOV
Pyotr Sergeyevich Kozlov was born on 5 October 1905 in the Belarusian village of Domamerichi
His service in the Red Army began on 3 October 1926, when he voluntarily enlisted in the United Belarusian Military School in Minsk. In September 1929, he graduated from it and was sent to the 99th Rifle Regiment of the 33rd Rifle Division in Mogilev, where he served as a platoon commander, deputy commander and company commander. In March 1935, he was appointed Battalion Chief of Staff in the 98th Rifle Regiment, but remained with the former regiment as Deputy Battalion Commander. It was not until August 1936 that he was transferred to the 98th Rifle Regiment at Bychow and served there as deputy chief and later as chief of staff of the regiment. In the summer of 1937 he temporarily commanded the division's airborne battalion (Olsufievo station). In October 1937, by decision of the Military Council of the District, he took command of the 99th Rifle Regiment in Mogilev. In August 1939, major P. S. Kozlov was appointed commander of the 574th Rifle Regiment of the 121st Rifle Division. During the Soviet-Finnish War, from 12 February 1940, he took command of the 39th Rifle Regiment of the 4th Rifle Division. Major Kozlov proved to be a courageous commander in a combat situation. He was wounded twice and suffered a concussion once in the fighting at Karelian Neck in early March 1940, but remained with the unit. He was awarded the Red Banner Order for combat heroism on 7 April 1940. On 9 May 1940, Colonel P. S. Kozlov was appointed Chief of Infantry of the 60th Rifle Division. At the end of October, he was sent to study at the Military Academy of Command and Navigation of the Red Army Air Staff.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War on 30 June 1941, he graduated from the academy and was appointed commander of the 17th Moscow People's Militia Rifle Division. It was formed from volunteers of industrial enterprises located on the territory of the Moskvoretsky district of Moscow. From 30 July 1941, the division was part of the 33rd Army and participated in the engineer work to reinforce the Rzhev-Viazem defensive line. On 26 September, it was renamed the 17th Rifle Division. It had its first combat baptism on 30 September 1941 on the Desna River near Spas-Demensk. After heavy fighting, its units had to withdraw to the Nara River. Casualties during the first ten days of fighting were enormous. By 10 October, only 584 of the 11,454 men who were available at the start of the fighting remained in service. In the Ugodi Zavod area (17 km east of Maloyaroslavets), the division was supplemented by marching reinforcements as well as the remnants of the 8th and 211th Rifle Division, and as early as the 17th. October, it joined the 43rd Army and entered the fray, tasked with blowing up the bridges over the Protva River near the villages of Sloboda, Chernaya Grjaza, and Trubino, organizing anti-tank defenses on possible enemy tank routes, and preventing enemy tanks from crossing the river. The numerically weak units of the division were thus tasked with defending a line 25-28 km long. On the division's left flank (the Vysokinichi area), the German 17th and 34th Infantry Division, on the right flank, parts of the 19th Panzer Division and 98th Infantry Division were moving along the highway from Maloyaroslavets. In these conditions, it was unrealistic for the division to hold the defensive line. The commander of the Western Frontgeneral-armyG. K. Zhukov nevertheless ordered the division to hold the defensive line. Zhukov ordered the commander of the 43rd Armylieutenant-generalS. D. Akimov to carry out a counterattack along the Warsaw Highway. However, after crossing the Protva River via Tarutino, the enemy got into the rear of the groupings of the 43rd Army prepared for a counterattack. The 17th Rifle Division of Colonel Kozlov withdrew in disorder under enemy pressure, endangering the other units. General-armyG. K. Zhukov ordered Colonel P. S. Kozlov arrested on 22 October 1941 and shot in front of the embarked unit. The new commander of the 43rd Armylieutenant-generalK. D. Golubev reported that the order to shoot Colonel Kozlov had been carried out (general-lieutenantS. D. Akimov withdrew at that time due to injury). It later turned out that this report was not based on fact.
General-lieutenant K. D. Golubev reported subsequently to the commander of the front: "To Army General Zhukov. 31.10.41. 23.40. I report a criminal fact. Today I found out on the spot that the former commander of the 17th Rifle Division, Kozlov, was not shot in front of the formation, but escaped. The circumstances of the case are as follows. After receiving your order to arrest and shoot the commander of the 17th Rifle Division in front of the formation, I instructed Seryukov, a member of the Military Council, and Lieutenant-General Akimov, who had arrived at the division, to do so. For unknown reasons they did not do so and sent the division commander to me. I sent him back with a guard, provided by the head of the army's special department, with the categorical instruction that the commander's order must be carried out. I was informed that he had been shot, and today I learned that he had not been shot, but that the guard had escaped. I am ordering an investigation."
In the trophy documents of the Army Group "Center", which are stored in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in the evening report of October 24, 1941, there is an entry, "The commander of the 17th Rifle Division has been captured."
During his capture, Kozlov was first registered in Stalag 367 (Chenstochowa), then in November 1942 he was sent for forced labour to Nuremberg and then on 4 December 1942 he was taken to the prisoner of war camp, Offlag 62 (XIII D) in Hammelburg. When interrogated after his capture, he testified:"Up to now I have been a soldier, and although I am a member of the Party, I am not well versed in politics, because I have not thought about it before. I must therefore start afresh. They told me something about the Führer and his program. I approve of his ideas. Here it is completely different. I can see it in the way I am being treated. I can't do nothing and sit idly by. If I can be used here, I will do anything. I also don't think about big things at all, I'm ready to start with small things."
In December 1942, along with several officers, he was handed over to the Gestapo as "politically unreliable" during an operation to identify "undesirable elements". After his imprisonment in the Gestapo prison in Nuremberg, he was sent to the concentration camp Flossenbürg on 5 January 1943 in a group of ten commanders and political workers. Colonel Kozlov was executed in this camp on 5 January 1943.
The Soviet state security authorities distrusted information about the execution and suspected Kozlov of having worked in the Warsaw and Poltava Intelligence School under the pseudonym "Bykov", but this information was not confirmed.
In 2005, the Veterans Council of the 17th Rifle Division and the State Museum of Defense of Moscow initiated a campaign to rehabilitate Kozlov, the division commander. At the time, it was believed that he was shot in October 1941 on the orders of Zhukov. By the decision of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of 5.10.2005, Colonel P. S. Kozlov was rehabilitated "as repressed on 22.10.1941 for political reasons in an extrajudicial manner". However, in 2009, in connection with "newly discovered circumstances ", an additional check revealed that P. S. Kozlov was not shot at that time because he had escaped the guard and was captured by the enemy..... Which proves that P. S. Kozlov was not subjected to repression, therefore he is not covered by the scope of the Law of the Russian Federation of 18.10.1991 No. 1761-1 "On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression"". On this basis, on 18.06.2009 the conclusion on the rehabilitation of Col. S. Kozlov was revoked.
Sources:
Kolektiv avtorov: Velikaya otechestvennaya: Komdivy. Voyennyj biograficheskij slovar, Vol. 4, Kuchkovo pole, 2015, ISBN 978-5-9950-0602-2 (Kolektiv авторов. The Great Patriotic War: Komdivs. Military biographical dictionary / V. П. Goremykin. - M.: Kučkovo pole, 2015. - Vol. 4)
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