Pyotr Vail

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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.{{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 in 1977, joining the station in the mid-1980s.

He moved to the 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.{{cite news|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Peter_Vail_Veteran_RFERL_Broadcaster_Accomplished_Author_Dies_At_60/1898587.html|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, 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.

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