Vadym A. Rubel is a Ukrainian historian of the history of Japan, the civilizations of the Classic East and pre-Columbian America and the political history of the Far East. Doctor of science (History) (1999), professor (2002). Graduated from faculty of history of Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev.
Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan was an Armenian Soviet Communist Party official, journalist and functionary who was one of the first victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.
Vagif Samadoghlu was an Azerbaijani poet, playwright, publicist, People's Poet of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Vahan Tekeyan (Armenian: Վահան Թէքէեան was an Armenian poet and public activist. In his lifetime he was the most famous poet of the Armenian diaspora, and he remains a significant symbol of Armenian identity and cultural heritage.
Vahan Terian was an Armenian poet, lyrist and public activist. He is known for his sorrowful, romantic poems, the most famous of which are still read and sung in their musical versions.
Vahur Afanasjev was an Estonian novelist, poet, musician and film director best known for his novel Serafima and Bogdan a story following the lives in a village of Russian Orthodox Old Believers on the shore of the lake Peipus from the end of the World War II to the nineties. The novel won the 2017 Estonian Writers' Union's Novel Competition.
