Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Волков; 19 April 1949 – 31 August 1990) was a Soviet figure skater.

He died from stomach cancer on 31 August 1990 in Kharkiv and was buried in Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow.

[2] Volkov dreamed of becoming a pilot and tried twice to enter the flight academy in Rostov-on-Don.

Volkov won the individual world title in 1975, becoming the first Soviet man to do so.

After retiring from competition he worked as a figure skating coach, and spent four months in Austria in 1990 in this capacity.