{{short description|Russian engineer}} '''Josef''' (also '''Joseph''', '''Jozef''', sometimes '''Zhozef''') '''Yakovlevich Kotin''' ({{langx|ru|Жозеф Яковлевич Котин}}; 10 March 1908, Pavlohrad – 21 October 1979, Leningrad) was a Soviet 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 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.<ref name="warheroes">{{cite web|title=Котин Жозеф Яковлевич|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=9050|website=Warheroes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kpi.ua/en/node/8382|title = Joseph Kotin - a Prominent Designer of Armored | Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute}}</ref> 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.<ref name=warheroes/>
He received the title of Hero of Socialist Labour (1941), three Stalin Prizes first degree (1941, 1943, 1946), Stalin Prize second degree (1948).<ref name=warheroes/> He was married to Nataliya Poklonova, who was an engineer with the RKKA UMM (Soviet army office of motorization and Mechanization).<ref>Forczyk, Robert, Panzerjager vs. KV-1, p.13, Osprey, 2012</ref>
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