, better known as "Thunderbolt" in the West, is a Stalinist GRU colonel and one of the main antagonists of "". His body carries an electric charge of ten million volts (speculated by Soviet scientists to be the result of Electrokinesis) that he uses chiefly for fighting and torture. A sadistic brute of a man, Volgin delights in causing wanton destruction and inflicting pain on anyone who crosses his path. He is also revealed to have been one of the chief perpetrators behind the 1940 Katyn Forest Massacre.