Mikhail Semenovich Khozin (22 November 1896-27 February 1979) was a Colonel-General of the Soviet Red Army who commanded the 2nd Leningrad Front during World War II.
Biography[]
Mikhail Semenovich Khozin was born on 22 November 1896 in Skachiha, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Tambov Oblast, Russia), the son of a railroad worker. Khozin was a plumber and veteran of World War I (on the Romanian front) before becoming a railroad union figure and a Red Army soldier during the Russian Civil War. He took part in the fight against bandits in the Kuban region, Terek, and Dagestan during the war, and he became a divisional commander in 1935. From December 1937 to January 1939, he commanded the Leningrad Military District, and he was briefly chief of the Frunze Military Academy. Khozin was also appointed as the deputy leader of the Leningrad fronts under Georgy Zhukov, and he commanded the 2nd Leningrad Front during the first winter of the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1942). He was relieved of command after the failed Lyuban Offensive Operation and the destruction of the 2nd Shock Army, and he was sent to the quiet Volga Military District in 1944. He retired from the army in 1963, and he died in 1979.