Vladimir (Volodya, Volodja) Pimonov (Russian: Владимир (Володя) Иванович Пимонов, March 31, 1955, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian-born Danish journalist, author and literary scholar.

[22] He left the Soviet Union in 1988 and settled in Denmark where he worked for a national daily newspaper Ekstra Bladet in Copenhagen for over two decades and also served as a Moscow correspondent.

[23][24] Pimonov was nominated for the Danish journalist award the Cavling Prize for a series of articles on the Soviet clandestine operations in Denmark during the Cold War[25] and the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism Award (Foreningen for Undersøgende Journalistik) for exposing poor working conditions and willful violations of safety rules in the Russian coal mines in Siberia that supply coal to Denmark.

[42][43][44] The authorities kept him under house arrest after he wrote an open letter to the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev protesting against the Kremlin's use of violence to suppress a peaceful demonstration in Moscow for the release of Jewish political prisoners.

[51] As a chess player and writer for the Soviet magazine 64-Chess review he appeared as one of the major characters in the 1988 book Searching for Bobby Fischer, by the American novelist Fred Waitzkin.