Boris Strugatsky

Boris Natanovich Strugatsky (1933-2012) was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, born in Leningrad. He studied astronomy at Leningrad State University, graduating in 1955, and worked as an astronomer and computer engineer at the Pulkovo Observatory. He joined the Writers' Union in 1964 and became a full-time writer in 1966.

With his older brother Arkady he wrote Roadside Picnic, Monday Begins on Saturday, Hard to Be a God and The Doomed City, and he led the Leningrad seminar for young science fiction writers from 1972. He continued to publish after Arkady's death in 1991, and died in Saint Petersburg on 19 November 2012.