Josef (also Jozef, sometimes Zhozef) Yakovlevich Kotin (russian: Жозеф Яковлевич Котин; 10 March 1908, Pavlograd,

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- 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

Kliment Voroshilov tank The Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tanks are a series of Soviet heavy tanks named after the Soviet defence commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov who operated with the Red Army during World War II. The KV tanks were known for their heavy armour pro ...

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, SU-152 self-propelled heavy howitzer, Kirovets K-700 tractor and many other armored vehicles and heavy machinery. Josef Kotin received the title of Hero of Socialist Labour (1941), he was four times a Stalin Prize winner (1941,1943,1946,1948). 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kotin, Josef 1908 births 1979 deaths Soviet engineers Heroes of Socialist Labour People from Pavlohrad Stalin Prize winners Tank designers