Viktor Koval

Viktor Stanislavovich Koval (; 29 September 1947 – 1 February 2021) was a Russian-Soviet writer, poet, artist, and actor.

Biography Koval was born into a family of servicemen. A child actor, he appeared in a number of films from 1955 to 1961. He attended the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in the school of arts, and subsequently drew illustrations for books, magazines, and newspapers. He became a well-known poet in the 1970s, and participated in poetry festivals in Yaroslavl, Volgograd, London, Gothenburg, Milan, and so on. He was a member of the and . In 2007, he received the , given by the Literaturnaya Gazeta.

Viktor Koval died of COVID-19 in Moscow, on 1 February 2021, at the age of 73, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.

Filmography Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades (1955) The Rumyantsev Case (1955) (1955) An Unusual Summer (1956) (1957) (1958) (1961)