![]() ![]() Arkadiy died on Octoin Moscow, USSR (now in Russia). ![]() ![]() In 1979, the brothers' best-known novel, "Piknik na obochine" ("Roadside Picnic") was loosely adapted for the screen by Andrei Tarkovsky as Stalker (1979). In 1958 the Strugatskiy brothers begun their artistic collaboration, which lasted until Arkadiy's death. He worked for the military until 1955, when he became a writer instead. In 1949 he graduated the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow as Japanese and English interpreter. The following year he was drafted into the Soviet army and went to study at the artillery school in Aktyubinsk. He was evacuated from the city during the siege of Leningrad in 1942 along with his father, who didn't survive the journey. When Arkadiy was a child, the family moved to Leningrad. Strugatskiys' father Natan Strugatskiy was a Jewish art critic and their mother was a Russian Orthodox teacher. Born on Augin Batumi, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR (now in Georgia), Arkadiy Natanovich Strugatskiy was a Soviet/Russian sci-fi writer, often writing in collaboration with his younger brother Boris Strugatskiy. ![]()
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