Conscripted into the Red Army in September 1926, Baksov was sent to study at the Lenin Combined Central Asian Military School in Tashkent.

Baksov was sent to study at the Budyonny Red Banner Cavalry Officers Improvement Course (KUKS) from November 1934 to June 1935, then appointed senior course commander at the 2nd NKVD Border School in Kharkov.

From May 1936 he studied at the Frunze Military Academy and after graduation in May 1939 was appointed deputy chief of the Main Directorate of NKVD Forces for the Protection of Important Industrial Enterprises.

From June to July Baksov was encircled with the division, but managed to reach Soviet lines with a group of soldiers, retaining their uniforms and documents.

In late September the division was withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command with the 6th Guards Army and relocated to the vicinity of Gorodok, Kalinin Oblast.

Developing the offensive, the corps advanced more than 100 km in a few days, then as part of the 2nd Baltic and then the Leningrad Front from April 1945 fought in the blockade of the Courland Pocket until the end of the war.

From August 1946 he studied at the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy, and upon his graduation in February 1948 was at the disposal of the Foreign Relations Directorate of the General Staff.

From September 1954 Baksov was chief of staff, and from April 1955 first deputy commander and member of the Military Council of the Moscow Air Defense District.