deaths
October 12, 1991
Arkady Strugatsky, Russian author and translator (born 1925)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The brothers Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky were Soviet and Russian science-fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers. Their notable works include Hard to Be a God (1964), Monday Begins on Saturday (1965), and Roadside Picnic (1971), later adapted by Andrei Tarkovsky into the film Stalker (1979).