Vasili Ivanovich Koslov

Private Vasili Ivanovich Koslov (Russian: Василий Иванович Козлов) was a soldier in the Red Army who fought during World War II. Vasili was a playable character featured in the Russian campaign in Call of Duty 2.

Biography
Vasili Ivanovich Koslov was born in the Soviet Union. When he grew to adulthood he joined the Red Army to help protect his motherland from the German invaders. One of his motivations for fighting was the death of several of his relatives in German artillery fire, making him possibly the most sympathetic of the protagonists in the game.

Vasili first joined the Soviet Red Army in the afternoon of December 16th, 1941. A day later, Vasili traveled with his comrades in the back of a truck to Moscow and did some basic training with Commissar Letlev, and soon fought off a German attack. Vasili and his fellow comrades traveled to Stalingrad afterward and fought there for most of the war. Vasili had to destroy some Nazi tanks with some sticky bombs in combat. Vasili also protected his comrades by sniping and providing covering fire, quite often from regular infantry but as well from enemy machine guns or snipers. Vasili most likely survived the War, though it isn't confirmed.

Vasili is likely to have been the brother of Natasha but might have been mistaken for another Russian soldier with the same name but with two "S" in Yuri Petrenko's notes to his girlfriend Natasha in Call of Duty: United Offensive. If this is in fact his sister, then he presumably reunited with her after the war.

Trivia

 * In the Nazi Zombie maps Shi No Numa and Der Riese, when Nikolai gets a PTRS from the Mystery Box, he says "Vasili would be proud". It is possible that he was referring to this Vasili, or the famous real-world sniper, Vasily Zaytsev.
 * He has the same middle name as Alexei Ivanovich Voronin, the Russian protagonist of the first Call of Duty. But this does not mean anything, because Russian middle names are a patronymic, indicating the first name of the person's father. In this case, Koslov's (and Voronin's) fathers were both named Ivan (hence Ivanovich).
 * Although, he said in his diary, that at the "Red Army Training" he had never held a rifle before, he could use other guns and even German guns.
 * His name can be a reference to the real-world sniper Vasily Zaitsev.
 * In the Russian version of the game, he is sometimes referred to as 'Vasya' (Russian: Вася), a short way of saying Vassili.