In St. Petersburg, at 4 Pobedy Street, a memorial plaque was erected to the famous science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky, said Deputy of the Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky. Strugatsky lived in this house from May 12, 1964 to November 19, 2012, until his death.
Preparations for the installation of the memorial plaque were long – due to the need to comply with the procedure established by city law. Including, at the request of the law, it was necessary to find an organization that would bear all the costs of designing, manufacturing and installing a memorial plaque. This was done by Tennis House LLC (CEO Mark Gazarh).
“There were also funny moments: in order to prepare a resolution on the installation of a memorial plaque, the committee on culture asked for … a certificate that Boris Strugatsky was a writer. “Can’t you look into the encyclopedia? Or bookstores?” I asked. “We understand everything, but the order is this…,” the committee replied sadly, said Boris Vishnevsky. – When I came to the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg for this certificate, unbridled fun began there: here, we will be the people who will issue a certificate that Boris Natanovich was a writer! A copy of this certificate still hangs on my wall in my office in the Legislative Assembly … “
As the parliamentarian noted, everything ended well – the board was installed and will remind everyone that one of the two great, kind and wise brothers lived in this house, on whose books more than one generation grew up. And whose work is extraordinarily relevant to this day, when we live in a bizarre mixture of the worlds of Hard to be a God, The Inhabited Island and Ugly Swans.
“And, by the way, very close to this house – at the intersection of Moskovsky Prospekt, Frunze Street and Pobeda Street – there is a square, which, on my initiative, in 2014 was called the Strugatsky Brothers Square. Petersburg is the only city in the world where the memory of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is immortalized in urban toponymy,” added Vishnevsky.
Boris Strugatsky is a writer, screenwriter, translator who, in collaboration with his brother Arkady Strugatsky, created several dozen works that have become classics of modern science and social fiction, including It’s Hard to Be a God, Roadside Picnic, Inhabited Island, Snail on the slope”, “Monday starts on Saturday” and many others.
Source: Rosbalt
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