Arkady Viktorovich Bakhin (Russian: Аркадий Викторович Бахин) is a retired military officer of the Russian Federation with the rank of General of the Army.

He graduated from the Moscow Higher Command School named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1973–1977), Frunze Academy (1984–1987), Military Academy of the General Staff of Armed Forces (1995–1997).

[1] On 9 July 2010 by order of the Minister of Defence, Bakhin was named to the position of interim commander of the Western Military District.

On 17 November 2015, General Bakhin was dismissed from his post and retired from military service by President Vladimir Putin.

[2] He has since served as a senior director at the state corporation Rosatom, where he oversees the production of all conventional (non-nuclear) weapons.