Margarita Borisovna Rudenko (in Russian: Маргарита Борисовна Руденко; 9 May 1926 in

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– 27 July 1976 in

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) was a Russian philologist, Orientalist, Kurdologist (specialist in

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and

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), literature researcher and ethnographist. She received her Doctor of Sciences degree in 1954.

Publications

* ''Opisanie kurdskikh rukopiseĭ leningradskikh sobraniĭ'', 1961 * ''Kurdskie narodnye skazki'', 1970 * ''Kurdskaja obrjadovaja poėzija : pochoronnye pričitanija'', 1982 * ''Literaturnai︠a︡ i folʹklornye versii kurdskoĭ poėmy "I︠U︡suf i Zelikha"'', 1986

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Ж. С. Мусаэлян. Маргарита Борисовна Руденко (статья для сайта Санкт-Петербургского Института восточных рукописей Российской Академии Наук, 2001)
1926 births 1976 deaths Russian orientalists 20th-century Russian non-fiction writers 20th-century Russian women writers {{Russia-linguist-stub