Margarita Borissowna Rudenko was one of the most famous Russian women in Kurdology and is known as a very successful Kurdologist.
She was born on 09-05-1926 in Tiflis.
She has conducted dozens of researches on Kurdish language and literature.
She was one of the founders of the Russian Kurdologists' Association and she had an extensive knowledge of Kurdish language and literature.
She wrote the first manuscript on the Kurdish literature, which is now available in the Saltykow-Shtschedrin Library in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Ms. Margarita talks about Kurdish poets of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their literary masterpieces such as Sheikh Sanaan by Faqe Teyran in the seventeenth century, Mamuzin by Ahmadi Khani in the seventeenth century, or Leyla and Majnoon by Khair Batlisi in the eighteenth century, Joseph and Zelekha of Salim Suleiman in the sixteenth century and many others.
Margarita had devoted her entire life to becoming more familiar with the Kurdish language and literature.
She was one of the prominent Russian writers who in the 1970s held dozens of literary conferences and scientific research on Kurdish literary masterpieces and language at the University of Oriental Sciences in the State University of Yerevan, Armenia.
In addition to all this, she has conducted research on Kurdish folklore and Kurdish ethnography.
She published the first manuscript of Kurdish ethnography by the historian Mullah Mahmoud Bayazidi, Kurdish stories, photography, Kurdish stories, Kurdish folklore and other traditions on the Kurds.
She was a famous Russian philologist, orientalist, and Kurdologist, an expert in Kurdish language, culture and history, a literary scholar and an ethnographer. In 1954 she received herPhD in philology.
She 27-07-1976 in Leningrad.[1]