| Pyotr Vail | |
| Birth Date: | 29 September 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Riga |
| Death Place: | Prague |
| Occupation: | writer, editor, radio executive |
| Language: | Russian |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow Polygraphic Institute |
| Movement: | deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russia service |
Pyotr Lvovich Vail (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.
Born in Riga 1949, he studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.[1] He moved to the United States in 1977, joining the station in the mid-1980s. He moved to the Prague headquarters in 1995.[2] In 1995, he reported from Chechnya.[3] 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.