Olimpiada Kozlova

Olimpiada Vasilyevna Kozlova (, August 6, 1906 – December 7, 1986) was a Soviet economist, professor, and founder of management education in the Soviet Union.

Life and career Kozlova was born on , 1906, in the Pokrovskaya Sloboda (now the city of Engels, Saratov Oblast) into a fishing family. She was ethnically Russian.

Her career began at the age of 10 in the Pokrovskaya artel of fishers.

In the mid-1920s, she worked as a turner at the Karbolit plant (Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast), then at the Moselectric plant in Moscow.

From 1927 to 1932, she was secretary of the village council of the village of Chernoe Ozero, Shatursky District, deputy chairman of the council, and deputy chairman of the executive committee of the council.

At the same time, Kozlova improved her education, entered the Moscow Institute of Soviet Cooperative Trade, which she graduated in 1937, and then the Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Awards Two Orders of Lenin (1967, 6 August 1976) Order of the October Revolution (1971) Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (1947) Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1942, 1961) Order of Friendship of Peoples (17 June 1981) Order of the Red Star (1943)

Legacy Kozlova's granddaughter and well-known phlox breeder, Yelena Alekseyevna Konstantinova, named one of the varieties she bred "Olimpiada" in honor of Kozlova. Kozlova's grave.