Six months prior to his graduation from the South Slavic boarding school in Mykolaiv, which he attended between 1869 and 1873, Volov was forced to return to Shumen due to an illness.

He was appointed the main "apostle" of the 4th revolutionary district in Plovdiv, but after contradictions between him and his assistant Georgi Benkovski Volov gave up the leadership.

He organised the rebel army of Klisura with a cherry cannon and tried to raise the villages of Karlovo and Koprivstica to revolt, getting into several battles with the bands of the Ottomans militia (bashibosuk) along the way.

After three hours of fighting, the rebels were forced to retreat positions from the hill of the Klisura, Еvil Valey (Zli Dol, to Bulgarian - Зли Дол).

Following the uprising's utter defeat, he was betrayed to the Ottoman authorities during their attempt to flee to Romania and drowned in the Yantra River near Byala on 26 May 1876.