 Valeriya Kirpichenko

Valeriya Nikolaevna Kirpichenko (, 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.