Education
Moscow State University. Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.
Moscow State University. Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.
Lieutenant General of Soviet Air Force. Worked at KB-11 (currently VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast). Later worked as director of NII-1011 (currently, VNIITF, Chelyabinsk-70/Snezhinsk).
His name was awarded to RFYaTs-VNIITF (Russian: РФЯЦ-ВНИИТФ) and to a street in Snezhinsk.
In 1962 a group of scientists led by Zababakhin produced first detonation nanodiamonds in VNIITF.
Lenin and Stalin Prizes (1949, 1951 and 1953, Hero of Socialist Labor (1953).
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.