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name: "Arkady Strugatsky"
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born: "28 August 1925"
died: "12 October 1991"
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# Arkady Strugatsky

Novelist and writer. Born 28 August 1925 in Batumi, Adjar ASSR, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR [now Adjara, Republic of Georgia]. Died 12 October 1991.

## Details

- **Work:** Novelist, Writer
- **Born:** 28 August 1925, Batumi, Adjar ASSR, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR [now Adjara, Republic of Georgia]
- **Died:** 12 October 1991
- **Also known as:** Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Аркадий Стругацкий, Arkady Strugatskiy, Arkadiy Strugatsky, Arkadi Strugatski, Arcadi Natanovitch Strougatski

## Biography

Arkady Strugatsky was a Soviet-Russian science fiction writer. He collaborated with his brother Boris Strugatsky on novels, short stories and screenplays from the late 1950s until his death.

The brothers wrote the screenplay for Andrei Tarkovsky's film *Stalker* (1979), based on their novel *Roadside Picnic*. Strugatsky is credited as writer and novelist on the film. Other works adapted for the screen include *Dead Mountaineer's Hotel* (1979) and *Magicians* (1982).

He was born on 28 August 1925 in Batumi and died on 12 October 1991 in Moscow. He trained as a military interpreter before working as an editor and writer.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ru.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stalker* (1979), Fi1m 86, Novel, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/stalker.md)

## Also known for

- *Hard to Be a God* (2014), Novel
- *The Inhabited Island* (2009), Novel
- *The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion* (2009), Novel
- *Magicians* (1982), Novel, Writer
- *Dead Mountaineer's Hotel* (1979), Novel, Screenplay
- *The Ugly Swans* (2006), Writer
- *Hard to Be a God* (1990), Novel

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