Nikolai Baturin (5 August 1936 – 16 May 2019) was an Estonian award-winning novelist and playwright.
After attending high school, military service took him for five years to the Caspian oil-fields and the Atlantic Ocean; for fifteen years he was a hunter in the Siberian taiga.
Baturin debuted with a collection of poetry, Maa-alused järved (Underground Lakes, 1968), in the last wave of the "cassette" generation in the 1960s.
In addition to fiction, he has written plays, poetry, screenplays, and essays.
Baturin lived at his home farm by Lake Võrts.