Lev Rukhin (Russian: Рухин Лев Борисович; 29 October [O.S. 16 October] 1912 in Moscow – 8 September 1959 in Leningrad) was a Soviet geologist. Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1944), professor of Saint Petersburg State University since 1945. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1941.