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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky · Arts & Literature

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Arkady: 1925, Batumi, USSR · Boris: 1933, Leningrad, USSR — Arkady: 1991, Moscow, Russia · Boris: 2012, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Where

Soviet Union · Russia

Biography

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author

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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were brothers and the most influential science-fiction writers of the Soviet era, authors of 'Roadside Picnic' (basis of Tarkovsky's 'Stalker'), 'Hard to Be a God' and 'Monday Begins on Saturday', works that used speculative fiction to probe ethics and Soviet society. Their father, Natan Strugatsky, was Jewish, giving them paternal Jewish ancestry.

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