writer, screenwriter, translator, who created in co-authorship with his brother Boris Strugatsky (1933-2012) several dozen works considered classics of modern science and social fiction.
The eldest son of art historian N. Z. Strugatsky. In his school years he showed aptitude for scientific and writing activities. After evacuation from besieged Leningrad in 1942, he worked for some time in the village of Tashla, Orenburg region, called to his brother Boris and his mother-teacher, delivered on the "Road of Life". In 1943 he was called up for military service, and enrolled in the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, which he graduated in 1949 with a specialty "translator from Japanese and English languages". Until 1955 he was in the military service, served first in the Kansk school of military interpreters, then in the garrison in Kamchatka and OSNAZ units in Khabarovsk. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals. In the Far East he married Elena Ilinichna Oshanina (daughter of I. M. Oshanin). Daughter Maria Strugatskaya later married Yegor Gaidar.
After his retirement from the reserve Arkady Strugatsky professionally engaged in literary activity, publishing a documentary novel "Ashes of Bikini" (co-authored with L. Petrov, the magazine version was published in 1956). Working as an editor at Moscow Goslitizdat and later at Detgiz, he developed a creative method that allowed him to write together with Boris Strugatsky, who lived permanently in Leningrad; their first joint publications appeared in 1958. Member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1964. In the 1970s he also worked with the film studios of the Moldavian and Tajik Soviet Socialist Republics as a screenwriter. He co-wrote the script of A. Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker". In the last decades of his life, without leaving the co-creation with his brother Boris, he created three independent works: the fairy tale "Expedition to the Underworld" (1974-1984), the story "Details of the Life of Nikita Vorontsov" (1984) and the story "The Devil Among Men" (published posthumously in 1993). Since the late 1950s he has been engaged in translations of classical and modern Japanese literature (in particular, Ueda Akinari, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, the medieval novel The Tale of Yoshitsune, Abe Kobo), as well as English-language fiction (Andre Norton, Hola Clement, Isaac Asimov, and some others). A number of works and translations have been published under the pseudonyms S. Berezhkov or S. Yaroslavtsev.
Arkady Strugatsky was a member of the editorial boards of various collections and periodicals: "World of Adventures", "Library of Modern Fiction", "Knowledge is Power", since 1985 - "Ural Pathfinder". He headed the methodical council on work with CLF at the All-Union Society of Booklovers, was a member of the All-Union Council of CLF, and later its chairman. He was elected to various positions in the Prose Section of the Moscow Branch of the SP RSFSR, the Council for Science Fiction and Adventure Literature of the SP RSFSR, and the Council for Science Fiction and Adventure of the SP USSR. Together with Boris Strugatsky he was the winner of many Russian and foreign literary prizes.
