[6] Okhotsimsky's leadership was instrumental in the development within his department of the remarkable group of young talents collectively nicknamed "Keldysh boys".

Okhotsimsky contributed to the planning of multiple space missions including launches to Moon, Mars and Venus.

Okhotsimsky studied the general problem of how rockets could increase their range by dropping parts of their construction during flight.

A few successful models of 6-legged walking robots were created including systems with autonomous vision able to climb the stairs and handle complicated terrain.

[10] In the work of Okhotsimsky and his school realistic mechanical modeling of the motion was typically combined with sophisticated algorithms adapted to the context of a particular task.

Until his last days he remained a staunch supporter of the leading role of the Academy of Science as a center of fundamental research in Russia.

Okhotsimsky was one of the 5 initiators of the creation of the Department of Control and Applied Mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.