Boris Tikhonovich Kozhevnikov (1906–1985) was a Soviet composer, military conductor, colonel, and teacher. He was born on 13 December 1906 in Veliky Novgorod.
He graduated in 1933 from the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute, where he studied composition and conducting. In 1931–1932, alongside his studies, he worked as a conductor and composer at Kharkiv drama theatres and wrote music for productions.
In 1942 Kozhevnikov undertook advanced study at the Military Faculty of the Moscow Conservatory and defended a Candidate of Arts dissertation entitled The Small Mixed Wind Orchestra. He taught at the conservatory's Military Faculty from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he began teaching orchestration and theoretical subjects at the Higher School of Military Bandmasters of the Red Army, and he headed the Institute of Military Conductors from 1950 to 1954.
He returned to the Moscow Conservatory in 1954. Until 1960 he headed its Department of Music Theory and History, and from 1960 to 1966 he led the Department of Orchestration at the Military Faculty. His students included Yevgeny Aksyonov, Nikolai Balandin, Ivan Boyko, Daniil Braslavsky, Leonid Dunayev, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Mikhail Katz, Yevgeny Moskalenko, Vladimir Petrov, and Vladimir Khudoley.
Kozhevnikov wrote about 200 musical works, including five symphonies, with particular attention to music for wind orchestra. His publications included a 1950 manual on orchestration for wind orchestra, written with N. A. Zudin, and volumes 3–4, part 2, of History of Russian Soviet Music (1959–1963).
He was named an Honoured Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and received the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Badge of Honour, and the Alexander Alexandrov Silver Medal in 1972. He died in Moscow on 8 April 1985; his ashes were placed in the columbarium at Vagankovo Cemetery.