Josef Kotin
Josef Yakovlevich Kotin. Married to Nataliya Poklonova, who was an engineer with the RKKA UMM. Kotin was a Soviet armored vehicle design engineer, Head of all three Leningrad armor design bureaux, Chief Designer of the Narkomat for Tank Industry, Deputy Narkom for the tank industry of the Soviet Union, 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, he was four times a Stalin Prize winner.
