Pyotr Vail

{{Infobox writer  | name = Pyotr Vail | image = Pyotr Vail.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1949|9|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = Riga | death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|12|7|1949|9|29|df=yes}} | death_place = Prague | resting_place = | occupation = writer, editor, radio executive | language = Russian | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Moscow Polygraphic Institute | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russia service | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website =  | portaldisp = | module = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Petr Vajl' voice.oga|title=Pyotr Vail's voice|type=speech|description=From the Echo of Moscow program, 7 December 2006}} }} '''Pyotr Lvovich Vail''' ({{langx|ru|Пётр Львович Вайль}}; born 29 September 1949, Riga, Latvian SSR – 7 December 2009, Prague, Czech Republic) was a Russian author, journalist, essayist and deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russia service.

==Life== Born in Riga 1949, he studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.<ref name="RIC">{{cite web|url=http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9342/|title= Writer and Journalist Pyotr Vail Passes Away|date=8 December 2009|publisher=Russia-InfoCentre|accessdate=10 December 2009}}</ref> He moved to the United States in 1977, joining the station in the mid-1980s. He moved to the Prague headquarters in 1995.<ref name="Bloomberg">{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aly6PqofgRrg|title=Pyotr Vail, Russian Author and Journalist, Dies in Prague at 60 |last=Henry|first=Patrick|date=December 8, 2009|publisher=Bloomberg News|accessdate=10 December 2009}}</ref> In 1995, he reported from Chechnya.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Peter_Vail_Veteran_RFERL_Broadcaster_Accomplished_Author_Dies_At_60/1898587.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091223042218/http://www.rferl.org/content/Peter_Vail_Veteran_RFERL_Broadcaster_Accomplished_Author_Dies_At_60/1898587.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 23, 2009|title=Peter Vail, Veteran RFE/RL Broadcaster, Accomplished Author, Dies At 60|work=RFE/RL |author=Larissa Mitina|date=December 10, 2009}}</ref> Vail's best-known books include ''Genii mesta'' (''The Genius of Place'') and ''Stikhi pro menya'' (''Poems About Me''). He produced several books with Alexander Genis, including ''Russkaya kukhnya v izgnanii'' (''Russian Cuisine in Exile'') and ''60-e. Mir sovetskogo cheloveka'' (''The '60s. The World of Soviet People''). He co-edited ''Iosif Brodsky: trudy i dni'' (''Joseph Brodsky: Works and Days''), about Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, with Lev Losev. He died in a Prague hospital.<ref name="Bloomberg" />

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