[3] As an aviation engineer at Korolyov Design Bureau, he was involved in the development of the Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft prior to his selection as a cosmonaut.

[7] A tomato variety from Ukraine was named Cosmonaut Volkov in his memory by his friend the space scientist and gardener Mikhailovich Maslov.

[2] 1973 to 2015, the Pilotcosmonaut-Volkov-Award (later Volkov-Cup) was given for the best sports acrobatics since 2016 called Zolotov-Cup; while alive, Volkov became the first chairman of the Soviet Society of Sportsacrobatics in 1970.

[10] An account of Volkov's life and space career appears in the 2003 book Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon by Colin Burgess.

In the 1999 film Virus, an alien intelligence infects the research vessel "Akademic Vladislav Volkov" 's computer system via a space transmission.