Colonel Yevgeny Volgin

Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin (Russian: Евгений Борисович Волгин) was a Stalinist GRU colonel, as well as the strategic operations commander of the Soviet Union, who attempted to seize control of the Soviet Union by overthrowing Nikita Khrushchev and installing Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin in his place. Volgin was an extremely strong man, even for his large size. He combined his tremendous strength and military skills with the psychic ability of electrokinesis, gaining him the nickname "Thunderbolt" in the West.

Volgin was born sometime circa 1905, and later became a boxing champion as a young adult. During World War II, he took part in the Katyn Forest Massacre, in which the Soviets murdered over 20,000 Polish officers. During the massacre, he often removed the prisoners' blindfolds before beating them to death. During this time, he was serving in the domestic branch of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, stationed at the rear of the Red Army, and charged with punishing deserters.

Volgin was involved in putting down the Uprising of East Germany on June 17, 1953 and the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. He boasted that he personally "disposed" of over 100,000 anti-communist activists.

Prior to 1964, Volgin learned of the Philosophers' Legacy following his father's death, and illegally inherited a microfilm containing records of the enormous cache of funds. Volgin later used the Legacy to construct the Groznyj Grad-fortress in the mountains of Tselinoyarsk. He also managed to procure the blueprints for the Objekt 279 tank, after the project was shelved for being too costly, and used the Legacy to build at least eight of them. Volgin then conspired with the Brezhnev faction and the military to overthrow the Khruschev regime and seize power. He also hired Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin to develop his own designs for a walking tank when Khrushchev chose to develop Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov's Shagohod. However, after it became apparent that Granin's idea was not producing the results he desired, Volgin set his sights on Sokolov's Shagohod tank.