Rank: Colonel. Branch of military: army corps of engineers. Fyodor Kozlov was born in 1919 in the village of Blagodatnoye, Novogrigoryevsky uyezd, Stavropol province (now-Blagodatnoye (Petrovsky district, Stavropol territory)) in a Russian peasant family. After graduating from Blagodatnenskaya elementary school, he studied at Petrovskaya secondary school No. 1. He was distinguished by hard work and perseverance, took an active part in the public life of the school. He was fond of music and played in string and wind orchestras. After finishing the seventh grade, he studied at the Petrovsky pedagogical school. First, he worked as a teacher, and then as the head of the Shangala elementary school. In 1939, Kozlov graduated from the Stavropol pedagogical Institute, after which he worked as a school Director. Since 1939, Fyodor Kozlov served in the red Army. Place of call: Shpakovsky RVC, Ordzhonikidze region, Shpakovsky district. He was drafted into the Red Army in 1939. In 1941, he graduated from the Borisov military engineering school in Arkhangelsk. Our countryman Fyodor Kozlov also walked the difficult roads of war. Everything was prepared for a man on the harsh military roads. In 1942, he was seriously wounded. But no matter what part of the front he was on, he was distinguished by such qualities as: courage, determination, courage. By the beginning of August 1944, the 8th Guards army of the 1st Belorussian front was fighting on the Eastern Bank of the Vistula in the Magnushev area. To the North, seventy kilometers away, Warsaw was Smoking in the ruins. The commander of the engineering sapper battalion of the guards, major F. A. Kozlov, received an order: immediately ensure the crossing of the river. Immediately, so tonight. Another crossing in Kozlov's life. And here - the Vistula. Kozlov came out on the steep Bank of the river and stopped in the bushes. Quiet around. There's an enemy ahead, beyond the water barrier. "How to swim up to the German unnoticed, how then to win back the bridgehead and hold it?» - these questions occupied the commander. Carefully, inch by inch, he scanned the opposite Bank with binoculars. I didn't expect an easy victory. The enemy is still strong. He is firmly entrenched, waiting, alert. The defense will be fierce. The high Bank is a very advantageous position for him. It's scheduled to start after midnight. At nightfall, they launched floating vehicles: boats, rafts, ferries, loaded them with weapons and ammunition. The commander checked everything in a masterly manner and allowed the soldiers to rest. I couldn't sleep. Over and over again, he calculated the details of the upcoming crossing in his mind, analyzing whether everything was planned correctly. And time was flying fast. As commander of the 270th engineer-sapper battalion (64th engineer-sapper brigade, 8th Guards army, 1st Belorussian front), Fyodor Andreevich ensured the crossing of three artillery regiments, a mortar division, ammunition and other property across the Vistula northeast of Magnushev, which allowed him to develop success in the battles on the bridgehead. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 24, 1945, for courage, bravery and heroism in the fight against the Nazi invaders in Kozlov, Fyodor Andreevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the order of Lenin and the gold Star medal (No. 5930). In the award list of the guards, major Suvorov notes:"...Acting boldly and decisively, despising death, Guard major Kozlov was directly on the ferry... " After the war, after graduating from the Frunze Military Academy (1950), Fyodor Andreevich Kozlov continued to serve in the Soviet Armed Forces. He held the position of Deputy chief for combat and political training in the operational Department of the headquarters of the red banner Transcaucasian military district in Tbilisi. He was the head of the operational Department of the 4th combined arms army in Baku. From 1962 to 1963, he was a military adviser at the Soviet Embassy in the Republic of Cuba. After returning, he was sent to the military attache in Somalia. On November 18, 1971, Colonel Fyodor Kozlov died of acute heart failure while on a business trip to Mogadishu, Somalia. He was buried in Stavropol, at the Oktyabrsky cemetery.