Josef Kotin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Kotin

Russian engineer (1908-1979)

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1908

Place of Birth: Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 21-Oct-1979

Profession: engineer, politician

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Josef Yakovlevich Kotin (Russian: ????? ????????? ?????; 10 March 1908, Pavlograd, Russian Empire, now Ukraine -?21 October 1979, Moscow).
Married to Nataliya Poklonova, who was an engineer with the RKKA UMM (Soviet army office of motorization and Mechanization).
Kotin was a Soviet armor design engineer, Head of all three Leningrad armor design bureaux (1937–39), Chief Designer of the Narkomat for Tank Industry (1939-1941), Deputy Narkom for the tank industry of the Soviet Union (1941-1943), Director of the VNII-100 Research Institute at Kirov Plant, Deputy Defense Industry Minister of the Soviet Union 1968-1972.
He is best known for leading the design of some of the Kliment Voroshilov tanks, IS tank family, T-10 tank, 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 time Stalin Prize winner (1941,1943,1946,1948).