Viktor Koval


Viktor Stanislavovich Koval 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