In recognition of the 422nd's achievements in Operation Ring, it was re-designated as the 81st Guards Rifle Division on March 1, 1943, and Morozov was promoted to the rank of major general the same day.

During his retirement he lived in Voronezh and Stalingrad (Volgograd) and wrote several volumes of memoirs before he died on July 11, 1979.

Morozov was born on January 6, 1905, at the Kagalnitskaya stanitsa in the Don Host Oblast, and graduated from a parochial school in 1914.

Following the Soviet defeat in the war the division transferred to Crimea to fight in the Perekop-Chongar Offensive against White forces in November, then fought against the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine.

He was appointed chief of staff of the 116th Rifle Regiment of the division in October but did not serve in the position due to his being on leave.

At the time, the commander of 35th Army, Major General Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zaitsev,[4] described Morozov as follows:Overall and political development are both satisfactory.

On August 4, the division transferred to the 57th Army and fought in fierce defensive battles, covering the southern approaches to the city.

At the end of August, the division defended the line of Tundutovo and Chapurniki, before transferring to the 64th Army less the 1334th Rifle Regiment, on the night of September 18–19.

The 422nd advanced from the Gornaya Polyana area towards Yelshanka and the northwestern outskirts of the city centre during the second half of October with an army shock group tasked with capturing Kuporosnoe, Yelshanka and the southern part of Stalingrad to the Darnitsa River, then clearing the city centre of German troops to link up with the 62nd Army.

[1] Morozov led his division through Operation Uranus, the Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad, beginning in the second half of November.

At the beginning of December it was withdrawn into the army reserve, covering the front from Chervlenaya River to Tsybenko and Novy Rogachik.

On January 29, he personally took the surrender of Lieutenant General Edler von Daniels and his 376th Infantry Division in the ruins of the city.

For its actions, the 422nd became the 81st Guards Rifle Division on 1 March 1943;[7] Morozov was promoted to major general on the next day.

After a period at the disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate from April 1950, he became head of the military department of the Stalingrad Agricultural Institute in December of that year, his last position before retirement in February 1955.