Monday Begins on Saturday

The novel is written from the point of view of a young programmer from Leningrad, Aleksandr Ivanovich Privalov, who picks up two hitchhikers during a road trip. After the two find out that he is a programmer, they manipulate him to stay in Solovets and work in the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry. The book contains a number of colorful characters. Modest Matveevich Kamnoedov (whose surname translates to "stone-eater") is an utterly idiotic administrator who does not understand the "Monday begins on Saturday" work ...

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Monday Begins on Saturday, Monday Begins on Saturday - Characters and Events, Monday Begins on Saturday - Genre classification, Monday Begins on Saturday - English Translation

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The two brothers Arkady (Арка́дий, August 28, 1925 – October 12, 1991) and Boris (Бори́с, born April 14, 1933) Strugatsky (Струга́цкий; alternate spelling: Strugatski) are Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction. Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Life and work. The Strugatsky brothers (Бра́тья Струга́цкие), as they are usually called, became the best-known Soviet science fiction writers with a well developed fan base. Th ...

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The legend has it that Georgy II, Grand Prince of Vladimir, first built the town of Maly Kitezh (Little Kitezh) on the Volga River (today's Krasny Kholm). It is sometimes erroneously called Gorodets, which was actually founded some 30 years before Georgy's birth. Later on, the prince crossed the rivers of Uzola, Sanda, and Kerzhenets and found a beautiful spot on the shores of the Svetloyar Lake, where he decided to build the town of Bolshoy Kitezh (Big Kitezh). It is believed that the name of the town came from the royal residence of Kideksha (near Suzda ...

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The Strugatsky brothers (Бра́тья Струга́цкие), as they are usually called, became the best-known Soviet science fiction writers with a well developed fan base. Their early work was influenced by Ivan Yefremov. Their most famous novel Piknik na obochine has been translated into English as Roadside Picnic in 1977 and was filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky under the title Stalker. Several other works have been translated into English, but did not receive even a fraction of the critical acclaim of Russian au ...

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Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Life and work, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Noon Universe, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Tributes, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Selected bibliography

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Several writers have to a varying degree paid their tribute to the works of Strugatsky brothers. Sergey Lukyanenko in his dylogy The Stars Are Cold Toys has the main character visit a world that is in many aspects strikingly similar to Earth from Noon Universe but in truth is revealed to be fundamentally different and oppressive. Kir Bulychev used an alien race called "Wanderers" (Странники) in one of his Alice, Girl from the Future stories. They share many attributes with the Wanderers from Noon Universe ...

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Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Life and work, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Noon Universe, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Tributes, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Selected bibliography

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Several of the books written by the Strugatskys take part in the same universe, unofficially known as the Wanderers universe (Russian: мир Странников, English transliteration: mir Strannikov) or The World of Noon (Russian: Мир Полдня, English transliteration: Mir Poldnya), which is another, perhaps better known, name for the fictional universe serving as a base for many of Strugatskys' texts. The name is due to the title of one of their texts, Полдень, XXII век (English transliteration: Polden', XXII ve ...

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Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Life and work, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Noon Universe, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Tributes, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Selected bibliography

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