September 9 at the age of 75 Arkady Volsky died owing to hard and continuous illness. Arkady Volsky was a well-known public and state figure, Honorary President and founder of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs that he headed for over 15 years.
In 1988 Arkady Volsky was the representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the USSR Supreme Council Presidium in the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous District (NKAD) of the Azerbaijani SSR, while since January 1989 he chaired the Special Management Committee of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous District.
In spring 1989 he was elected people’s deputy of the USSR from the Stepanakert territorial electoral district, NKAD. He was a member of the USSR Supreme Council Committee on Defense and State Security, reports Interfax.
