Lonely and frustrated, Arkady buried his father in Vologda and went to Orenburg. The train in which the boy and his father were evacuated was blasted and Arkady was the only survivor in his train car.
The blockade of Leningrad lasted 872 days and left more than a million and a half dead. In 1942, together with his father, Arkady was evacuated from Saint Petersburg (his mother and younger brother were evacuated a bit later), which was under siege from the Germans. When WWII broke out, Arkady first helped constructing defenses and then assisted at the grenade manufactory.
Two months after the elder son was born, in autumn 1925, the family moved to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Image from Arkady Strugatsky was born on 28 August 1925 in Batumi, Georgia his mother was a teacher and his father – a fine arts expert, who at the same time earned a bit on the side as a newspaper editor.
The brothers have always tried to write not just about spaceships, technology or other fantastic stuff, but also about people and their problems.Īt the beginning of the 1990s the brothers became the best-known and loved Soviet science-fiction writers abroad – their works were translated into multiple languages and published in 27 countries a success Russian writers rarely experienced in the West. Strugatsky novels were very different from ordinary sci-fi novels: strictly speaking they didn’t write showpiece science fiction. Though the early works of the Strugatsky bothers lacked individuality – at the beginning of their writing career their novels and short stories resembled those of Ivan Yefremov, a Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author who was the brothers’ lifetime icon and role model. They became the spiritual leaders of Russian sci-fi literature in the 1960s, and to this day, their influence remains immense - entire generations were brought up on their books and loved them for their unique style. Image from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are well-known Soviet-Russian science fiction writers with a highly developed fan base.
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