PETRUNIČEVA, Zorja Nikolaevna. Moscow 26.7.1926 — 27.5.1995. Russian Indologist (Historian and Telugu Scholar). Daughter of an official. Graduated 1948 at Moscow, in history. Kand. ist. nauk 1955. From 1953 naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute of Academy of Science in Moscow.

Publications: At least 120 publications, i.a.

– Kand.diss. Krestjanskoe i nacional’noe dviženie v Hajderabadskom Telingane posle vtoroj mirovoj vojny. Manuscript of 218 p. M. 1954.

– “Nacional’no-osvoboditel’ dviženie v knjažestve Kašmir”, UZInstVv 1, 1950, 157-224.

– Transl. from Telugu with K. S. Ramayya: Balaramamurti Jetukuri, Kratkaja istorija naroda andhra. 175 p. M. 1956; with O. Barannikova: Noč’ju na vokzale. 144 p. M. 1982.

– Jazyk telugu. 112 p. M. 1960.

– Transl. from Telugu: Gurazada Apparao, Izbr. proizvedenija. 228 p. M. 1962; “Šri Šri – poèt Andhry”, Poèzija narodov Indii. M. 1962, 162-190; Sny i dejstvitel’nost’: Novelly pisatelej Andhry. 118 p. M. 1970; Gorodok moj, Sirivada: Sovrem. proza Andhry. M. 1978.

– With N. V. Gurov: Literatura telugu. 249 p. M. 1967.

– With S. J. Dzenit & N. V. Gurov: Telugu-russkij slovar’. 744 p. M. 1972.

– Sovrem. prozaiki telugu (20-e – 50-e gg.). 212 p. M. 1979; Gurazada Apparao. 160 p. M. 1985.

Sources: Miliband 1977, 1995.