Bakulin (Russian: Баку́лин; masculine) or Bakulina (Баку́лина; feminine) is a Russian last name.
There are two theories regarding the origins of this last name. According to the first one, it is a variety of the last name Abakumov, which is derived from a patronymic, itself derived from various forms of the Christian male first name Avvakum. However, it is also possible that this last name is related to the last name Bakunin, both of which derive from dialectal Russian words "бакуля" (bakulya) and "бакуня" (bakunya), meaning, depending on the dialect, chatterbox, talkative person or agile, business-like person.
The following people share this last name:
Alex Bakulin, general manager of Volzhanin, a Russian bus lease holding company
Alexey Bakulin, People's Commissar of Transport of the Soviet Union in 1937–1938
Arkadi Bakulin, First Team Coach of FC Astana, a Kazakh association football team
Barbara Bakulin, a member of the Polish team at the 1972 Summer Olympics Women's 4×100 meters relay
Ivan Bakulin, several people
Maria Bakulina, Russian center basketball player for WBC Dynamo Novosibirsk
Natalia Bakulina, 2001 Miss International contestant from Ukraine
Nicholas Savich Bakulin (1869-1962), Russian painter
Nikolay Bakulin, winner of Moscow City Chess Championship in 1964 and 1966
Sergey Bakulin (b. 1986), Russian race walker
Vitaly Bakulin (b. 1983), Russian association football player
Vladimir Bakulin (1939–2012), Soviet Olympic wrestler
Yelena Bakulina, one of the victims of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo
Yevhen Bakulin, member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrnafta, a Ukrainian oil and natural gas extracting company
