Pyotr Vail (Russian: Петр Вайль) was a Russian author, journalist, essayist and deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russian service.
Born in Riga 1949, he studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He moved to the United States in 1977, joining the radio station in the mid-1980s. He moved to the Prague headquarters in 1995. Vail's best-known books include The Genius of Place and Poems About Me. He produced several books with Alexander Genis, including Russian Cuisine in Exile and The '60s. The World of Soviet People. He co-edited Joseph Brodsky: Works and Days, about Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, with Lev Losev.