Anatoly Pavlovich KOZLOV was born in 1936.
Kozlov graduated from the Army School of Engineering in Kaliningrad in 1959, having obtained the qualification of building technician. From 1959 to 1963 he served in the army. During this period, he took correspondence courses at the Institute of Electric Energy, and later at the Tomsk Polytechnic.
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He became bored with army service and applied for demobilization papers. In 1963 he was ruled to be unfit by a medical board and demobilized. He lived in Karaganda, worked as a project engineer, then as chief engineer at a factory, and then as a master mechanic in the mines. He was a member of the Communist Party.
In 1968 he moved to the Urals. He lost his Party card when he wrote a statement about his unsuitability for the Party. In 1969 he lived in the township of Strezhevoye (Tomsk Region, Siberia), working as a chief mechanic; he left this job because he did not want to have a leading position. He got a job as a carpenter in a Department of Repairs and Building.
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He began to write poetry at the age of 15, and later turned to prose as well. He sent his manuscripts to publishing houses, but they were not published. In the winter of 1971, he gave some of his works to a friend to read. When he got them back, he lost the file containing them on the way home.
Soon after, he was arrested on charges of having composed and disseminated slanderous fabrications: Article 190-1 (RSFSR Criminal Code). In September and October 1971, he underwent an in-patient psychiatric examination in Tomsk Psychiatric Hospital, and was pronounced responsible. The diagnosis was signed by M. Veselkova, K. Koshkareva and T Vezhenkova, doctors at Tomsk Psychiatric Hospital.
Kozlov was sentenced to two years in a labour camp.
In 1972, while he was in the camp, charges were drawn up against him under Articles 70, pt. 1, and 72 (RSFSR Criminal Code). He was accused of founding an organization in the camp to struggle against the existing system. In May 1972 he was again subjected to an in-patient psychiatric examination at Tomsk Psychiatric Hospital. He was declared non-responsible.
The diagnosis read: “A. P. Kozlov suffers from a chronic mental illness in the form of paranoid schizophrenia.” The commission’s conclusion was: “He is non-responsible and requires compulsory treatment in a special psychiatric hospital.” The report was signed by M. Veselkova, Z. Cheredovaya and E. Khokhlova, doctors at Tomsk Psychiatric Hospital.
It is not known where A. P, Kozlov is now.
Both psychiatric diagnoses are published in Archive of the Chronicle, number 2.
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