# Pyotr Vail
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'''Pyotr Lvovich Vail''' ({{langx|ru|Пётр Львович Вайль}}; born 29 September 1949, [Riga](/source/Riga), [Latvian SSR](/source/Latvian_SSR) – 7 December 2009, [Prague](/source/Prague), [Czech Republic](/source/Czech_Republic)) was a Russian author, journalist, essayist and deputy director of [Radio Liberty](/source/Radio_Liberty)'s Russia service.
==Life==
Born in [Riga](/source/Riga) 1949, he studied at the [Moscow Polygraphic Institute](/source/Moscow_Polygraphic_Institute).[{{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}}] He moved to the [United States](/source/United_States) in 1977, joining the station in the mid-1980s.
He moved to the [Prague](/source/Prague) headquarters in 1995.[{{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}}] In 1995, he reported from [Chechnya](/source/Chechnya).[{{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}}]
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](/source/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](/source/Nobel_Prize)-winning poet [Joseph Brodsky](/source/Joseph_Brodsky), with [Lev Losev](/source/Lev_Losev). He died in a Prague hospital.