RUDENKO, S. I. 1885 — 1969. Russian Art Historian and Archaeologist. A specialist of Scythian antiquity.

Publications: Kul’tura naselenija Gornogo Altaja v skifskoe vremja. M. 1953, English by M. W. Thompson, Frozen tombs of Siberia: the Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen. 31+340 p. 180 p. Berkeley – L.A. 1970.

– Kul’tura hunnov i noinulinskie kurgani. 124 p. 73 pl. M.–Lg. 1962, German by H. Pollems, Die Kultur der Hsiung-nu und die Hügelgräber von Noin Ula. Antiquitas 7. Bonn 1969.

Sources: Not in Miliband.

RUDIN, Semën Gesselevič. Leningrad 21.7.1929 — 22.8.1973. Russian Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of an official. In 1947-52 studied Indology in Leningrad. From 1955 until his death taught Indology at Leningrad. In 1966 one year in India studying i.al. the Nilghiri languages (Toda, Kota, Kurumba). Kand. filol. nauk 1968 Leningrad. He was mainly a Tamil scholar and Dravidian linguist, but also taught Hindi, Urdu and Bengali and wrote on Hindi phonetics.

Publications: at least 20 publications, including:

– kand.diss. Morfologiče struktura tamil’skogo jazyka. MS. of 207 p. Lg. 1968, publ. 168 p. M. 1972.

– “Nekotorye voprosy fonetiki jazyka hindustani”, Uč. zap. Inst. Vostokov. 13, 1958, 233-265; phonetic supplement to the Russko-hindi slovar’. M. 1957, 1257-1276.

– with A. M. Pjatigorskij: Tamil’sko-russkij slovar’. 1384 p. M. 1960.

– “Zamečanija o tamil’skom slovesnom udarenii”, Voprosy grammatiki jazykov stran Azii. Lg. 1964, 57-70; “O narečijah sovremennogo literaturnogo tamil’skogo jazyka”, Issledovanija po filologii stran Azii i Afriki. 1966; “Služebnye slova sovr. lit. tam. jaz. i ih grammatičeskie razrjady”, Problemy filosofii stran Azii i Afriki. Lg. 1966, 54-66.

– “Grammatical word-classes in Modern Literary Tamil”, 2nd Int. Tamil Conf. Madras 1968.

– translations from Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and Malayālam.

Sources: *N.V. Gurov & G.A. Zograf, NAA 1973:6, 238-240; Miliband, Biobibliogr. slovar’ sovetskih vostokovedov. 1977; Zograf, IIJ 16, 1975, 222-224.