Viktor Petrov (Ukrainian: Віктор Петров 1894 – 1969) was a prominent Soviet Ukrainian existentialist writer. He signed his works with pen names V. Domontovych (Ukrainian: В. Домонтович) and Viktor Ber (Ukrainian: Віктор Бер). Together with Valerian Pidmohylny Petrov is considered to be the founder of the Ukrainian intellectual novel. Although Petrov is remembered as a writer today, during his life he was a scientist in the first place. He wrote papers on archaeology, anthropology, history, philosophy and literature.