16 Facts About Arkady Volsky

Arkady Volsky was a Soviet politician and businessman.

Arkady Volsky served as a senior aide to three Soviet General Secretaries, including Mikhail Gorbachev, and was one of three Deputy Prime Ministers in the last government of the Soviet Union between August and December 1991.

Arkady Volsky was founder and the first head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Arkady Volsky studied metallurgy at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and graduated with an engineering degree in 1955.

Arkady Volsky served as a senior aide to three Soviet General Secretaries.

Arkady Volsky continued to serve as an assistant on economic affairs to the next General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko.

When Chernenko died in 1985, Arkady Volsky became a senior aide to his successor Mikhail Gorbachev.

On 24 July 1988, Arkady Volsky was named as the representative of the Politburo in the Karabakh province or governor of the province.

Shortly after his defeat, Arkady Volsky was named as the head of the scientific and industrial union that was a pro-Gorbachev body consisting of the state enterprises directors.

On 24 August 1991, following the August Coup, Arkady Volsky was appointed by Gorbachev as deputy prime minister in the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Ivan Silayev for operative management of the USSR economy.

Arkady Volsky was in charge with industry and military complex until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

Arkady Volsky was one of the major leaders of Civic Union, a bloc of centrist figures, which was founded in December 1992.

In June 1995, Arkady Volsky was appointed by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin as deputy head of the peace mission for the conflict in the Chechen Republic.

Arkady Volsky met the Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev at his mountain hide-out near Grozny in July 1995.

Arkady Volsky was married and had two children, a son and a daughter.

Arkady Volsky died of complications of leukemia at age 74 in Moscow on 9 September 2006.