On August 28, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Arkady Strugatsky, a writer, was put into postal circulation

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.

Arkady Strugatsky was born on August 28, 1925, in Batumi. He was the eldest son of art historian N. Strugatsky. During his school years, he showed an aptitude for scientific and literary pursuits. In 1943, he was drafted into military service and enrolled in the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, which he graduated from in 1949 with a degree in Japanese and English translation. After being released from active duty, he became a professional writer, publishing documentary novel The Ashes of Bikini (co-authored with L. Petrov, the magazine version was published in 1956). 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 involved 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. He headed the methodological council for working with the Science Fiction Lovers Club at the All-Union Society of Booklovers, was a member of the All-Union Council of the Science Fiction Lovers Club, and later became its Chairman. He was elected to various positions in the prose section of the Moscow branch of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR, the Council for Science Fiction and Adventure Literature of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR, and the Council for Science Fiction and Adventure of the Union of Writers of the USSR. 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.

Design Artist: V. Khablovsky.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 156×120 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 54 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).

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In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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