Background
Kozlova, the daughter of a physician, was born in Krasnoe Selo, a suburban village south of, and now part of, Saint St. Petersburg.
Kozlova, the daughter of a physician, was born in Krasnoe Selo, a suburban village south of, and now part of, Saint St. Petersburg.
Kozlova was based at the Department of Ornithology in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) from 1932 to 1975. There she produced the monographs Avifauna of the Tibetan Plateau, its Genetic Relationships and History in 1952, and The Birds of Zonal Steppes and Deserts of Central Asia in 1975. She also published many papers on avian taxonomy and phylogeny as well as writing extensive sections of The Birds of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (1951–1953) and the series Fauna of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.