Viktor Stanislavovich Koval (Moscow, 1947 – Moscow, 2021) was a Russian poet, prose writer, artist and actor. Born into a military family, he worked as a child actor in films between 1955 and 1961, including Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades. He later studied at the art school of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.
As an illustrator he produced work for books, magazines and newspapers. From the 1970s he became known chiefly as a poet, and in the late 1980s he joined the poetry group Almanac, alongside D. Y. Prigov and L. Rubinstein among others. His poems appeared in periodicals such as Banner and Novaya Gazeta, and he took part in poetry festivals in Moscow, Yaroslavl, London and Milan. He published four poetry books and was a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Moscow Writers' Union.
In 2007 he received the Golden Calf Award from Literaturnaya Gazeta. Songs based on his poems were performed by Andrei Lipsky. Koval died of COVID-19 in Moscow on 1 February 2021.