Margarita RudenkoMargarita Borisovna Rudenko was a Russian philologist, Orientalist, Kurdologist, 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