Frol Kozlov

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Frol Romanovich Kozlov (Russian: Фрол Романович Козлов) (18 August [O.S. 5 August] 1908 - January 30, 1965) was a Soviet statesman, 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.

As the Time cover illustrated shows, he was for many years thought to be Khrushchev's likely successor as the dominant figure in the Soviet regime. This was clearly what Khrushchev had intended, 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.