Boris Balkov

In Beyblade 2001, he was team Borg's trainer and also the main authority in the Abbey. Volkov was the one who selected the boys he thought would fit in the monastery to train them to become excellent beybladers who would be part of his army to gain more power.

After the failure of his plans to take over the world, he came back, in G Revolution, with an organisation called BEGA. His goal was now to transform Beyblade into a professional sport because, he said, he was a changed man after he had wandered in Russia and watched kids play Beyblade in the street. Of course, this sounded bizarre to everyone and, no matter how much he cried while explaining his story, people like team Neo Borg knew BEGA was in fact only a way to get more control, again.

Volkov was also behind the whole Barthez's Soldiers scandal as he was probably the one who recruited Barthez in the first place as a mean to win his way through the championship by cheating.

During the qualification rounds of BEGA, he was uncaring as to how the match between Brooklyn and Kai played out, as long as the winner was the one he had in mind: Brooklyn. Volkov told Hitoshi that he wanted the battle to be quickly over, and did not even raise an eyebrow at the damage Brooklyn was inflicting at Kai.

When BEGA fell, Volkov was run over by dozens of fans who were going to see Takao and Brooklyn battle. He was also peed on by a dog and a bird defecated on his face. Hitoshi exposed his true reasons for joining BEGA and resigned from his position there as coach.

Volkov seems to bring either fear or hatred from anybody who knew him at one point of history. For instance, while Kai, Yuriy, Sergei, Boris and Ivan display much loathing towards the man, younger kids such as Alexander are frightened by him and do anything he orders them to do.

In the manga, Volkov was actually only a subordinate to Dr. Zaggart, and both worked to learn more about holy beasts so Dr. Zaggart could steal them and ressuscitate his first son ZO. Volkov was also related to the Saint Shields, since they temporarily worked for the two men regarding the sacred beasts matter.

His name relates to "Volki Monastery", the Abbey, which emphasizes the fact he probably owns it.