Viktor Koval

Viktor Stanislavovich Koval (Виктор Станиславович Коваль; 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 Союз художников России and Союз писателей Москвы. In 2007, he received the Золотой телёнок (премия), 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)
 * Храбрый заяц (1955)
 * An Unusual Summer (1956)
 * Под золотым орлом (1957)
 * Дружок (фильм) (1958)
 * Ljubuška (1961)