Nicolai Apollonovich Baikov (; 29 November 1872 in Kiev â 6 March 1958 in Brisbane) was an officer of the imperial Russian army, and explorer, a naturalist and a hunter. He spent many years in Manchuria and wrote numerous books on the region. Many of these have been translated into East Asian languages, but only <i>Big Game Hunting in Manchuria</i> was published in English.