Fyodor Alexeyevich Bakunin (Russian: Фёдор Алексеевич Бакунин; 2 March 1898 – 22 January 1984) was a Soviet Army major general.

[1] Bakunin was born on 2 March 1898 in the village of Staroye Ilmovo in Kazan Governorate, the son of a worker.

He worked as a coal miner before being drafted into Imperial Russian Army as a private in February 1917.

Bakunin fought on the Eastern Front against the White Army led by Alexander Kolchak in the Kuznetsky District, Marinsk, and Kemerovo.

After graduating, in July 1921 he became a platoon commander at the 25th Infantry School of the Siberian Military District.

In March 1938, Bakunin became commander of the 11th Rifle Division of the Leningrad Military District at Kingisepp.

Western Front commander Semyon Timoshenko reported on 27 July that Bakunin had been turned over to a military tribunal for his ordering the breakout.

After reaching Soviet lines, he was at the disposal of the Western Front and the Main Personnel Directorate of the People's Commissariat for Defence.

In late December Bakunin became a senior lecturer in tactics at the Frunze Military Academy and was then the head of a course.