. Hard to Be a God; Author: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Original title: . Translators: Wendayne Ackerman (1973), Olena Bormashenko (2014) . With Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko, Yuriy Tsurilo, Evgeniy Gerchakov. A group of scientists are sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill..