Arkady Natanovich and Boris Natanovich Strugatsky are classics of modern science and social fiction. The Strugatskys’ works were published in translations in 42 languages in 33 countries of the world. Four complete collections of their works have been published in Russian.
The novel takes place in a mysterious City, the inhabitants of which are involved in a strange Experiment. All of them were transferred here from different countries and eras, all receive a profession with the help of a distribution machine that does not take into account their education and preferences. And the orthodox communist Andrei Voronin, and the Wehrmacht officer Fritz Geiger, and the cosmopolitan philosopher Izya Katsman, and the village peasant Uncle Yura, and the American professor Donald Cooper, and the timid Chinese Wang. Everyone has their own goals and aspirations, everyone is trying to find their place in this unusual world …
According to the authors, the main task of the “Doomed City” is “to show how under the pressure of life circumstances the worldview of a young man is radically changing, how he passes from the position of a die-hard fanatic into the state of a person who seems to be hanging in an airless ideological space, without any support under feet … «
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