Aleksandr Volkov

Aleksandr Volkov was born on Jul 15, 1891 in Russian Empire [now Kazakhstan]. Aleksandr Volkov's big-screen debut came with The Wizard of the Emerald City directed by Pavel Arsenov in 1994.

Alexander Melentjewitsch Volkov was the son of a former Russian sergeant and was born in today's Kazakhstan. His father taught him to read when he was four years old. He graduated from elementary school at the age of 12 at the top of his class and began studying mathematics in Tomsk in 1907. After completing his studies in 1910, he became a teacher first in Kolyvan in the Altai and then in Ust-Kamenogorsk at his former school.