Rimma Dmitrievna Kuruch (Russian: Римма Дмитриевна Куруч, 6 May 1938 – 8 July 2019) was a specialist in language education.
In 1961, she graduated from the Bălți State Pedagogical Institute in the Moldovan SSR with a degrees in Russian Language, Literature, and English and she began working as a teacher in rural schools in Moldova.
In 1967, she completed graduate studies at the Russian Academy of Education [ru] and she began work at Chernivtsi State University in the Ukrainian SSR in 1968.
There Kuruch participated as an editor and author in the project to create the first Sámi–Russian dictionary, Саамско–Русский Словарь/Са̄мь–Рӯшш Соагкнэһкь (published in 1985), which included 8,000 words, 400 proverbs and sayings, a sketch grammar, and extensive reference material.
In 1995, Kuruch published with Nina Afanasyeva Правила орфографии и пунктуации саамского языка (Sámi Language Spelling and Punctuation Rules).