Margarita RudenkoMargarita Borisovna Rudenko was a Russian philologist, Orientalist, Kurdologist, literature researcher and ethnographist. She received her Doctor of Sciences degree in 1954.PublicationsOpisanie kurdskikh rukopiseĭ leningradskikh sobraniĭ, 1961Kurdskie narodnye skazki, 1970Kurdskaja obrjadovaja poėzija : pochoronnye pričitanija, 1982Literaturnai︠a︡ i folʹklornye versii kurdskoĭ poėmy "I︠U︡suf i Zelikha", 1986