Valeriya Kirpichenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Valeriya Kirpichenko

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Gatchina, Russia

Date of Death: 02-Jun-2015

Profession: orientalist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Valeriya Nikolaevna Kirpichenko (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ??????????, 11 January 1930 – 2 June 2015) was a Russian orientalist, translator, and philologist, specialising in Arabic literature. Born in 1930, Kirpichenko studied at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, graduating in 1962 and carrying out further academic study into the works of Egyptian author Yusuf Idris, defended her thesis in 1970.
In 1974 she began working as a professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where she would spend the rest of her life, becoming a doctor of philological sciences in 1987.
Over her life she authored more than 30 books and translated a number of Arabic authors into Russian.
In 2014 she was honoured as one of the ten best Arabic translators in the world.
She married another Russian specialist in Arabic culture, Vadim Kirpichenko, who served as a KGB intelligence officer and resident in Tunisia and Egypt, while their son, Sergei Kirpichenko, was another Arabic specialist, this time in the diplomatic service, who had postings to several Middle Eastern countries, including as ambassador to Egypt.