L. N. Kiseleva. The Dari Language of Afghanistan (Yazyk dari Afganistana). Series: Languages of the Peoples of Asia and Africa, 1985. In Russian.

Киселева Л. Н. Язык дари Афганистана / Академия наук СССР, Институт востоковедения ; редактор М. И. Карпова ; младшие редакторы Л. Б. Годунова, Д. Ш. Хесина ; художник И. Д. Бритвенко ; художественный редактор Б. Л. Резников. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки / серия основана проф. Г. П. Сердюченко).
Москва : Издательство «Наука», Главная редакция восточной литературы [ГРВЛ], 1985. — 128 с.
Издательская мягкая шрифтовая обложка тёмно-коричневого цвета со светлым картушем-щитом в виде стилизованного восточного пятиугольника, обрамлённого двойной линейкой и украшенного орнаментальными виньетками-знаками вверху и внизу — характерное оформление серийных выпусков «Языков народов Азии и Африки». Обычный формат 60×90/16 (около 145×220 мм). Тираж 2 000 экземпляров.
Состояние: хорошее.  
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Kiseleva L. N. The Dari Language of Afghanistan / USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies ; editor M. I. Karpova ; junior editors L. B. Godunova, D. Sh. Khesina ; artist I. D. Britvenko ; art editor B. L. Reznikov. — (Languages of the Peoples of Asia and Africa / series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko).
Moscow : Nauka Publishing House, Main Editorial Office of Oriental Literature [GRVL], 1985. — 128 pp.
Publisher's dark-brown printed paper wrappers with a pale cartouche in the form of a stylised Oriental pentagonal shield framed by a double rule and crowned by decorative vignettes at head and foot — the characteristic dust-jacket design of the GRVL "Languages of the Peoples of Asia and Africa" series. Standard format 60×90/16 (approximately 145×220 mm). Print run of 2,000 copies.
Condition: good.

A scarce and bibliographically significant entry in the celebrated Nauka GRVL series "Languages of the Peoples of Asia and Africa" (Языки народов Азии и Африки), founded in 1959 by Professor G. P. Serdyuchenko. The series — a uniformly designed corpus of more than a hundred compact, technically rigorous grammatical descriptions issued over four decades by the Main Editorial Office of Oriental Literature — represents the high-water mark of Soviet linguistic encyclopaedism and remains a fundamental reference shelf for orientalists, comparative linguists and historical-linguistic specialists worldwide; the individual volumes have for some years been actively collected. Lidia Nikolaevna Kiseleva (1923–2017) was the principal Soviet specialist on the languages of Afghanistan, long-time senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, co-author with V. I. Mikolaichik of the standard Dari–Russian dictionary, and the author of the most authoritative grammatical descriptions of Dari produced in the USSR. The present volume — the first systematic compact grammar of Afghan Dari to appear in Russian, covering phonetics, graphics, lexicon, word-formation, phraseology, morphology, syntax and a corpus appendix — was published at a moment of particular geopolitical resonance: in 1985, the sixth year of Soviet military involvement in Afghanistan, when official Soviet interest in Dari (as the principal language of administration, education and the urban population of Afghanistan) was at its highest, and when the book served simultaneously as an academic reference and as the linguistic foundation for a generation of Soviet diplomats, intelligence officers, military translators and aid personnel working in Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif and the provinces. With a print run of only 2,000 copies, distributed primarily through specialised academic channels, the volume is now uncommon outside the major orientalist libraries and is sought after by collectors of Afghan-related Soviet imprints and by working linguists.