| Viktor Koval | |
| Birth Name: | Viktor Stanislavovich Koval |
| Birth Date: | 29 September 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Occupation: | Writer Actor |
Viktor Stanislavovich Koval (ru|Виктор Станиславович Коваль; 29 September 1947 – 1 February 2021) was a Russian-Soviet writer, poet, artist, and actor.[1]
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.[2]