Arkady Strugatsky (1925-1991) was a Russian Soviet writer, a scriptwriter, and a translator, who coauthored with his brother Boris Strugatsky (1933-2012) several dozen works considered classics of modern science and social fiction.
Working as an editor in the Moscow Goslitizdat and in later years, in the Detgiz Publishing Houses, he developed a creative method that allowed him to write jointly with B. Strugatsky, who lived permanently in Leningrad; their first joint publications appeared in 1958. He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1964. In the 1970s, he also worked with film studios of the Moldavian and Tajik Soviet Socialist Republics as a scriptwriter. Since late 1950s, he was engaged in translations of classical and modern Japanese literature, as well as English-language fiction. A number of his writings and translations were published under pseudonyms S. Berezhkov or S. Yaroslavtsev.
A. Strugatsky was a member of editorial boards of various collections and periodicals, such as The World of Adventures, Library of Modern Fiction, Knowledge is Power, and since 1985, of the Ural Pathfinder. Together with B. Strugatsky, he was the winner of many Russian and foreign literary awards.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Arkady Strugatsky against the background of an illustration for his story Hard to be a God.
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Format of the stamp |
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| Chalk surfaced |
Offset + security system |
Comb 12¼:12 |
42 × 30 mm |
54 thousand stamps |