On December 12, a postage stamp dedicated to Nikolai Kozlov, a military commander, a Hero of the Soviet Union, was put into postal circulation

Nikolai Kozlov (1926–1983) was a military commander, a Hero of the Soviet Union (1944).

He was born on December 12, 1926, in the village of Nefedkino of the Pokhvistnevsky District in the Samara Province. He did military service in the Red Army since September of 1942. N. Kozlov finished the accelerated course of the 1st Kharkov Stalin Tank School in Chirchik. In June of 1943, he graduated as a junior lieutenant and was appointed platoon commander of the 110th Tank Brigade of the 18th Tank Corps of the 5th Guards Tank Army. He took part in the battles on the Kursk Salient, in the Korsun-Shevchenkovsky and Jassy-Kishinev military operations and in the defeat of the enemy near Budapest. In 1946 and in 1961, he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Officer Armored School and the Military Academy of Armored Forces, accordingly. He occupied various command positions in the Soviet Army.

Nikolai Kozlov devoted his entire life to the service of the Motherland: his last position as Lieutenant General was the Head of the Krasnodar Military Order of the October Revolution Red Banner Academy named after Army General S.M. Shtemenko.

Nikolai Kozlov was awarded the Order of Lenin (1944), two Orders of the Red Star (1944, 1968), the Order For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class (1975), and medals.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of Nikolai Kozlov against the background of the building of the Krasnodar Military Academy named after Army General S.M. Shtemenko.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Krasnodar.


Design Artist: R. Komsa.
Face value: 60 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×50 mm, sheet size: 168×177 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 12 (4×3) stamps.
Quantity: 72 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).

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