Education
Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces.
Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces.
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 (1937-1939), 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 All-Russian Research Institute-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, Instruction Section tank family, T-10 tank, Kirovets K-700 tractor and many other armored vehicles and heavy machinery.
