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Kotin Joseph Yakovlevich

(February 26 1908 - October 21 1979)

  • Date of birth: February 26 1908
  • Date of death: October 21 1979
  • Travel to Chelyabinsk: guest
  • Place of birth: Pavlograd, Russian Empire
  • Date of death: Moscow
  • Place of birth: Novodevichy Cemetery
  • Occupation: armored vehicle design engineering
  • Alma mater: Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
  • Employer: Kirov Plant
  • Position: chief designer of the second design bureau of the Kirov plant in Leningrad, chief designer of the tank plant in Chelyabinsk (1941), chief designer of the Chelyabinsk plant № 100 (1943), Deputy Defence Minister (1968), member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the same Ministry (1972), engineer and head of department at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army of Stalin
  • Years of creativity start: 1941
  • Years of creativity end: 1979
  • Title: Colonel-General-engineer and chief designer of the People's Commissariat of Tank Industry of the USSR.
  • Achievements: Received the title of Hero of Socialist Labour (1941), was four times a Stalin Prize winner (1941,1943,1946,1948)
  • Level of Education: military education at the Academy of F.E. Dzerzhinsky