Background
At 6"10" (208 m), he played the forward position and was born in Omsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
At 6"10" (208 m), he played the forward position and was born in Omsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
He played professionally for Stroitel (1981–1986. 1988–1989), CSKA Moscow (1986–1988), the Atlanta Hawks (1989–1992), Panasonic Reggio Calabria (1992–1993), Panathinaikos (1993–1994), Olympiacos (1994–1995), and Kyiv (2000–2002). He was one of the founders of British Columbia Kyiv.
Volkov, who already retired from playing in 1995, returned for several appearances to help the newly found team in 2000.
He has also served as the team"s president He also came out briefly from retirement to play for the Ukraine national basketball team in 1998.
From 1999 to 2000, he served as Minister of Sports in Ukraine. In June 2007, he was elected the head of the Ukrainian Basketball Federation.
But against the will of his faction, he joined the Anti-Crisis Coalition, which prompted early elections.
In the early parliamentary elections in 2007 he was reelected to Parliament through the Party of Regions. Volkov was again elected through the Party of Regions to the Ukrainian Parliament in 2012. But left this party"s faction in parliament on 17 April 2014. and joined the (then new) faction Economic Development one week later.
Volkov was elected to the Ukrainian Parliament in 2006 on the party list of the Our Ukraine Bloc.