Zare Alievna Yusupova (Russian: Заре Алиевна Юсупова; 16 December 1934 – 3 February 2022) was a Russian philologist specializing in the Kurdish language.
Career
Yusupova held a Doctor of Philological Sciences degree and worked as a professor at Saint Petersburg State University, where she taught Kurdish. She published more than 70 scientific works, including six monographs. Her main fields of research were the less studied Kurdish dialects, with a particular focus on Sorani and Hawrami (based on folklore and written materials), as well as the publication of classics of Kurdish literature.
Education
She graduated from Leningrad State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Iranian Philology. She completed her doctoral studies at the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, IOM RAS). Her thesis, defended in 1965 at Leningrad University, was titled Prepositions and postpositions in the southern dialect of the Kurdish language (Sorani).
Academic roles
Yusupova served as an Academic Councillor at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM RAS) and was an adviser to the Hebrew Academy of Sciences.
Later life and death
Yusupova died on 3 February 2022, at the age of 87, after a brief illness.
