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name: "Boris Strugatsky"
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born: "14 April 1933"
died: "19 November 2012"
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# Boris Strugatsky

Novelist and writer. Born 14 April 1933 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. Died 19 November 2012.

## Details

- **Work:** Novelist, Writer
- **Born:** 14 April 1933, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
- **Died:** 19 November 2012
- **Also known as:** Boris Strugatskiy, Борис Стругацкий, Boriss Strugatski, Boris Natanovitch Strougatski

## Biography

Boris Strugatsky was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer. He collaborated with his older brother Arkady on dozens of novels and stories from the late 1950s until Arkady's death in 1991. Their work often appeared under joint credit and included social and satirical themes that gained wide readership in the Soviet Union and beyond.

Strugatsky trained as an astronomer, graduating from Leningrad State University in 1955, and worked at the Pulkovo Observatory before becoming a full-time writer in 1966. He later led a seminar for young speculative fiction writers in Leningrad. The brothers wrote the screenplay for Andrei Tarkovsky's film *Stalker* (1979), adapted from their novel *Roadside Picnic*. After 1991 Strugatsky published two further novels under the pseudonym S. Vititsky.

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

## 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
- *Dead Man's Letters* (1986), Writer
- *The Inhabited Island* (2009), Novel
- *The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion* (2009), Novel
- *Magicians* (1982), Writer, Novel
- *Dead Mountaineer's Hotel* (1979), Novel, Screenplay
- *The Ugly Swans* (2006), Writer
- *Hard to Be a God* (1990), Novel

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