Sergei Kozin

"Glad you're a friend, Sergei."

- Mason, upon meeting Sergei

Sergei Kozin is a prisoner of the Vorkuta gulag. Nicknamed the "Monster of Magadan," he possesses the brute strength, tackling two guards at once and killing them both, killing another guard with a pickaxe uppercut, and body slamming on an armory locker door to crack it open; he also has the hulking build to fit the name; apart from that, little is known of him.

Sergei is seen in the mission "Vorkuta," as part of the band of prisoners who took part in the uprising. He is shot to death by a guard while trying to hold open the gate to main armory for the rest of the prisoners to go through and is subsequently crushed by the gate. Mason avenges him by killing the man who shot him.

Trivia

 * Sergei at one point may have been a resident of Magadan, Russia, this is supported by his nickname, the "Monster of Magadan." It may also hints that he have been a Gulag inmate long before the events in Black Ops since Magadan was known in Russia as the center of the Soviet Gulag system.


 * Sergei is voiced by Travis Willingham.
 * It's interesting to note that Sergei shares his surname with Vadim Kozin (1903–1994), a popular Russian tenor in the 1930s. Sentenced to the Kolyma camps in 1944, he became a resident of Magadan since his release in 1950, and Magadan was where he died in 1994.


 * prisoners in the Prison Break section of Dead Ops Arcade are based off Sergei, possessing the same character model.
 * He has no notable speaking part, as most of what he says in "Vorkuta" are grunts.
 * An image of Sergei and the Vorkuta escape is an optional design for the Playercard.
 * Reznov's reaction to Sergei's death is very similar to his reaction to Chernov's death in Call of Duty: World at War.