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. Biography 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.