title: Margarita Rudenko
text: # 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
  