Viktor Savvich Klimenko (born 24 November 1942) is a singer[1] who made himself known as the "Singing Cossack".

[2] In 1970, Klimenko released the album Stenka Rasin across Europe.

The album, containing Russian songs, went gold in the Finnish market—the first record to do so in Finland.

In 1973, he played in the Norwegian "comedy-humour-musical" Kofferten (Swedish: Ryck mig i vaskan), a co-operation between Sveriges Radio, BBC, YLE, and NRK.

Klimenko rebranded himself as a Gospel singer in 1980, after having a personal religious revelation.