| Caption: | Dyrenkova in the 1920s |
| Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova | |
| Birth Date: | 1899 5, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Soninka, Novgorod guberniya, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Leningrad, Soviet Union |
| Fields: | Linguistics, Turkology, Folklore studies, Ethnography |
Nadezhda Petrovna Dyrenkova (; 31 May 1899 - 28 October 1941) was a Soviet ethnographer, Turkic linguist, and folklorist.
Dyrenkova was born on 31 May 1899 in the village Soninka in Novgorod guberniya to a family of lumberjacks.[1]
Dyrenkova died at her desk during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941. She had been ill from a severe sunburn contracted during fieldwork in 1932, and also contracted pneumonia shortly before her death.[2]
Nicholas Poppe included Dyrenkova on a list of 29 outstanding Turkologists.[3]