What is Viktor Kozin?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Victor Kozin | image = Kozin-viktor-.jpg | image_size = | alt = Kozin Victor | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1953|2|22|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Sita]], [[Khabarovsky Kray]], [[Russia]] | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = [[Russia]] | nationality = | fields = [[shipbuilding]], [[mechanics]], [[applied mathematics]], [[inventor]], [[theoretical physics]] | workplaces = [[Komsomolsk-on-Amur State Technical University|KnAGTU]] [[Komsomolsk-on-Amur State Pedagogical University|KnAGPU]] | alma_mater = [[Komsomolsk-on-Amur State Technical Institute|KnATI]] | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | footnotes = [http://www.artkaif.com/viktor-kozin facebook.com/viktor.kozin] }} '''Viktor Mikhailovich Kozin''' ({{lang-ru| [[:ru:Козин, Виктор Михайлович|Козин, Виктор Михайлович]] }}) (born February 22, 1953) is a [[Russia]]n [[naval engineer]], ship designer and inventor of a new method of icebreaking, called the [[resonance method of ice destruction]]. He received his Assistant Professorship in Technical Sciences ([[Ph.D.]]) for his work ''Mechanics of deformable solids'' in [[Vladivostok]] in 1994. He became a full Professor in 1996 and was awarded the title Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation in 2000. Since 2008 he is a member of the [[Russian Academy of Natural Sciences]] (RANS). Kozin was awarded a diploma from the President of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] (1999) and won grants from the [[Russian Ministry of Education]] (2006). He received multiple prizes for his academic and scientific achievements in the theory of [[watercraft]] statics and dynamics, design of vessel