Margarita Rudenko

Margarita Borisovna Rudenko (in Russian: Маргарита Борисовна Руденко; 9 May 1926 in Tiflis – 27 July 1976 in Leningrad) was a Russian philologist, Orientalist, Kurdologist (specialist in Kurdish language, culture and history), 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