Boris Strugatskiy

Boris Strugatskiy

writer

Boris Strugatskiy was born on Apr 15, 1933 in Russia]. Boris Strugatskiy's big-screen debut came with Stalker directed by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979. Boris Strugatskiy is known for Dead Man's Letters directed by Konstantin Lopushanskiy, Rolan Bykov stars as Professor Larsen and Iosif Ryklin as Khyummel-otets. The upcoming new movie Boris Strugatskiy plays is The Ugly Swans which will be released on Feb 21, 2019.

Born 1933 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now Saint Petersburg in Russia), Boris Natanovich Strugatskiy was a Soviet/Russian sci-fi writer, often writing in collaboration with his older brother Arkadiy Strugatskiy. Strugatskiys' father Natan Strugatskiy was a Jewish art critic and their mother was a Russian Orthodox teacher. Living in Leningrad with his mother, Boris survived the 1941-1944 siege of the city by the Nazi Germany army. In 1955 he graduated astronomy and went on to word as an astronomer and computer engineer. In 1958 the Strugatskiy brothers begun their artistic collaboration, which lasted until Arkadiy's death in 1991. In 1966 Boris quit his job to become a full-time writer and starting form 1972, he taught a speculative fiction writing seminar. In 1979, the brothers' best-known novel, "Piknik na obochine" ("Roadside Picnic") was loosely adapted for the screen by Andrei Tarkovsky as Stalker (1979). After his brother's death, Boris published two more books, which he wrote under a pseudonym. He died on November 19, 2012 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Writings of the Strugatskiys continue to inspire creators of movies (such as Prisoners of Power: Battlestar Rebellion (2008)) and video games (such as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007) and its sequels).

  • Birthday

    Apr 15, 1933
  • Place of Birth

    Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]