Born January 17, 1929 in Moscow. Father - Bunkin Vasily Fedorovich (1894-1943), engineer-surveyor. Mother - Bunkin (virgin) Antonina S. (1893-1947), accountant. Brother - Bunkin, Boris V. (1922 g. born.), Academician of Academy of Sciences of Russia, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Lenin and State Prizes of USSR and Russia, scientific director of the Central Design Bureau "Almaz". Wife - Bunkin Ludmila (1927. born.), candidate of biological sciences. Sons: Bunkin Aleksei Fedorovich (1952. born.) Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Bunkin Nikolai Fedorovich (1960. born.) Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. F.V. Bunkin belongs to a generation of physicists of the mid-twentieth century, which transformed the ministry of science to life. They managed to turn the existing presentation, open new paths to the eternal way of knowing the world. These enthusiasts and romantics determined spirit of the times, actively influencing the fate of the country. Their work combines deep fundamental knowledge, supported by experimental data, and the phenomenal intuition - the indispensable companion of discovery. Honors scholars were further developed in the work of their students and followers. Roots Bunkin - in Vladimir region, in the village of Stavrovo. After the October Revolution, parents settled in the village Aksinino (now - the Moscow neighborhood Khimki-Khovrino). Fedor Vasil'evich Bunkin born in the year of "great change". In 1936 the family moved to the outskirts of Moscow in the two-story barracks, which stood not far from the Bird Market. Father, a surveyor, a lot of time spent in forwarding shipments. F.V. Bunkin was 12 years old when the war. The share of boys fell all the hardships and deprivation difficult wartime. After a 7-th grade, in 1944, he enrolled in college road, and two years later received a matriculation certificate and became a student - a freshman at the thermo faculty of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. . In 1947 was declared the admission of students on the 1 st and 2 nd courses of the new physical-technical faculty of Moscow State University (now the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute) . This is a special institution was founded on the personal orders of Stalin in 1946. Was the beginning of the cold war, and we had a short time to prepare a new generation of physicists, can realize the profound theoretical knowledge in practical affairs. The faculty was assembled the cream of contemporary Soviet physics: P.L. Kapitsa, L.D. Landau, NN. Semenov, MA. Lavrent'ev, MA. Leontovich and many other famous scientists. Successfully passing the interview, F.V. Bunkin in 1947, was enrolled at the 2-year student Faculty. On the student's time he kept a very vivid memories. Spread on the station "Dolgoprudnaya" Physical-Technical Institute was similar to the Lyceum of the time of Pushkin. Students feel their privileged, elite status, but it is not spoiled them, and has fostered, as with the Decembrists, a spirit of responsibility and ownership of global processes. Students were provided with a brilliant career: many of them rapidly gone from graduate to membership in the Academy of Sciences. His future work of the Mathematics and Physics lived up to their expectations.