Violetta Trofimovna Bovt[a] (9 May 1927 – 22 April 1995) was an American–Soviet ballet dancer.

In the 1930s, her father, a communist sympathizer, moved the family to the Soviet Union; he died in the early 1940s fighting at the World War II front near Leningrad.

[1] In 1944, Bovt graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and started dancing at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre.

A biographical TV film Интервью, которого не было (Interview that never happened) about Bovt was produced in 1968.

[4] In 1986, when the Soviet borders became softer, Bovt moved to Columbus, Ohio, where she was hired by BalletMet.