Pavel Pavlovich Kozlovsky
Belarusian and Soviet general
Pavel Pavlovich Kozlovsky (Belarusian: Павел Паўлавіч Казлоўскі, Russian: Павел Павлович Козловский), also translated as Paul Kozlowski, is a retired Soviet and Belarusian military leader and independent politician. A colonel-general in the Army of Belarus following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, he was appointed the second Minister of Defence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, serving from 1992 to 1994. In this role he was succeeded by Anatoly Kostenko. He unsuccessfully sought to challenge the incumbent President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in a campaign for the presidency in 2001, but failed to gather the sufficient number of signatures to stand in the election.
Early career
He was born on 9 March 1942 in the village of Volkovnya into a peasant family. His father was a Red Army soldier who was killed in 1945 during the Second World War. After graduating high school in 1961, Kozlovsky entered the Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School, which he graduated in 1965. He served in the following positions: company commander, regimental chief of staff, regimental commander, an divisional commander. During his Soviet Army service, he was stationed in the Transcaucasian Military District, specifically serving in the Georgian SSR and the Armenian SSR. He later graduated from the Frunze Military Academy and the General Staff Academy. In 1987, he was sent to the Belarusian Military District, holding the position of deputy commander.
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