Please answer the following question: Facts: - death date: october 31 , 1985 - birth date: 1909 - name: , qanate kurdo - ethnicity: yezidi - nationality: soviet - death place: leningrad , ussr - birth place: kars , kars oblast , russian empire - occupation: writer , translator , linguist , academic Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of qanate kurdo .
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qanate kurdo or kanat kalashevich kurdoev , -lrb- russian : '' , '' , kurdish : '' qanate kurdo '' ; 1909 -- october 31 , 1985 -rrb- , was a kurdish writer , linguist and academic .he was born in the village of '' susiz '' near kars in north-eastern turkey .he attended a kurdish school in tbilisi .many other kurdish writers -lrb- such as dr. '' Cerkez bakayev '' -rrb- in the former soviet union were also educated in that school .in 1928 , he went to saint petersburg to continue his studies , where he attended the language , history and literature department of university of leningrad .he received his phd in 1941 .after world war ii he began teaching kurdish language and culture in the faculty of oriental studies .in 1960 , he became the head of the new kurdology section of the faculty .he died in leningrad on october 31 , 1985 .