Jacob I VolkovJacob Volkov was born in Ashkabad, the capital of Turkmenistan. When he was only a year old, his family, along with two small villages, escaped to Iran with their wagons and cattle. At 16 years of age, he left his village and went to Tehran, the capial of Iran, to study in an American mission school. There, he studied the English language and other subjects in Farsi, while working for an American sergeant's family in Thran. After immigrating to the United States of America, he served in the US Army in Japan during the Korean Conflict as a medic. At the end his military service, he went to college and earned BA and MA degrees in English and Russian languages at the University of California in Berkeley and in Davis. Upon graduation, he taught these languages in high school and College. He is re-tired now and lives with his wife of 63 years in Fresno, California. Read More Read Less