Josef (also Joseph, Jozef, sometimes Zhozef) Yakovlevich Kotin (; 10 March 1908,

Pavlohrad Pavlohrad (, ) is a city in eastern Ukraine, located within Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It serves as the administrative center of Pavlohrad Raion. Its population is approximately The rivers of Vovcha (runs through the city towards the Samara Riv ...

– 21 October 1979,

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) was a

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armored vehicle design engineer, Head of all three Leningrad armor design bureaux (1937–39), Chief Designer of the Narkomat for Tank Industry (1939-1941), Deputy

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for the tank industry of the

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(1941-1943), Director of the VNII-100 Research Institute at

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, Deputy Defense Industry Minister of the Soviet Union 1968–1972. He is best known for leading the design of some of the

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, SU-152 self-propelled heavy howitzer,

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tractor and many other armored vehicles and heavy machinery. He received the title of

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(1941) and four Stalin Prizes (1941, 1943, 1946 and 1948). He was married to Nataliya Poklonova, who was an engineer with the RKKA UMM (Soviet army office of motorization and Mechanization).Forczyk, Robert, Panzerjager vs. KV-1, p.13, Osprey, 2012

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