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Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova (Russian: Наде́жда Петро́вна Дыренко́ва; 31 May 1899 - 28 October 1941) was a Soviet ethnographer, Turkic linguist, and folklorist.

Biography

Dyrenkova was born on 31 May 1899 in the village Soninka in Novgorod guberniya to a family of lumberjacks.

Dyrenkova died at her desk during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941. She had been ill from a severe sunburn contracted during fieldwork in 1932, and also contracted pneumonia shortly before her death.

Nicholas Poppe included Dyrenkova on a list of 29 outstanding Turkologists.

References

1. Решетов, А. М. (1995). "Отдание долга. Часть I. Памяти сотрудников Института этнографии, погибших в блокадном Ленинграде" (PDF). Этнографическое обозрение (2): 40–62.
2. Решетов, А. М. (1995). "Отдание долга. Часть I. Памяти сотрудников Института этнографии, погибших в блокадном Ленинграде" (PDF). Этнографическое обозрение (2): 42.
3. Nicholas Poppe (1965): Introduction to Altaic Linguistics. Volume 14 of Ural-altaische Bibliothek. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.

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