Ivan Akimovich Babanin (Russian: Иван Акимович Бабанин; 10 June 1923 – 25 December 1994) was a captain of the Red Army.

Ivan Babanin was born on 10 June 1923, in Osinovy [ru] (now in Medvensky District, Kursk Oblast) into a peasant family.

After graduating from elementary school, he worked as a combine operator at a machine and tractor station.

[1] On the night of 5 December 1944, a platoon under the command of Babanin, among the first in the battalion, crossed the Danube near the city of Ercsi, south of Budapest, entrenched on the other side and defended the bridgehead, which ensured the successful crossing of other units of the Soviet troops.

[1] He died on 25 December 1994, and was buried at the memorial to those who fell during the Great Patriotic War in Kursk.