Vladimir Volsky

Vladimir Kazimirovich Volsky (; 23 June 1877 – 4 October 1937) was a Russian revolutionary with a Narodnik orientation.

Biography Vladimir Volsky was born in Tambov, fathered by Kazimir Kazimirovich Volsky (3 September 1843 - 1913) an attorney in the Tambov District Court.

He graduated from school in 1894, and went on to study at the Physics and Mathematics Department of Moscow University, but in 1902 he was expelled to Vyatka and emigrated. Volsky joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) in 1903.

Vladimir secretly returned to Russia and joined the SR Central Committee in the Caucasus. He embraced the terrorist methods of the PSR, personally involving himself in a plot to assassinate the governor of Baku in 1904. Soon after, he was arrested in Tambov and once again sent to the Vyatka province. In 1908, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison and sent to the Vologda province. In 1911, he moved to Moscow, where he engaged in the creation of Social Revolutionary militant groups. During the First World War he was expelled to Kashin and Kostroma.

At the time of the February Revolution of 1917, Volsky was in Tver, where he soon became a leading member of the local party. Together with his brother, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly as the representative of Tver Oblast. Volsky was arrested by the Cheka and spent three years in the Pertominsk Camp of Special Designation. He was later transferred to the Solovki prison camp, and eventually sent into internal exile in Semipalatinsk.

He was again arrested in February 1937, during the Great Purge. On 22 September 1937 Stalin, Molotov and Zhdanov signed the "List of Persons Subject to the Court of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR" (Kazakh SSR). Volsky was shot for belonging to an "anti-Soviet terrorist organization." Volski'i was rehabilitated in 1991.