Rutul people

Rutuls
Мыхабыр(Russia); MıxaӀbır(Azerbaijan); Mykhabyr(romanized);
	Flag of the Rutul Nationalist movement
Total population
	c.120,000
Regions with significant populations
Russia Dagestan;	34,259 (2021)
Azerbaijan	17,000 (~2000) - 40,000
Ukraine	137 (2001)
Georgia	103 (1989)
Languages
	Rutul,Russian,Azerbaijani
Religion
	Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
	OtherNortheast Caucasian-speaking peoples; EspeciallyTsakhurs

Rutulians,^[7]Rutuls(Rutul:Мыхабыр,romanized:Mykhabyr), also known as theRutul peopleare aNortheast Caucasian ethnic groupnative toDagestanand adjacent parts ofAzerbaijan.According to the2021 Russian census,there were 34,259 Rutuls in Russia.^[3]TheRutul languageis a member of theNortheast Caucasian language family;its speakers often have a good command ofAzeriandRussian,as Rutul was not a written language until 1990. The Rutul culture is close to that of theTsakhurand other peoples who inhabit thebasinof the upper reaches of theSamur River.Most of the Rutuls are engaged incattle breeding(mostlysheep husbandry),farming,andgardening.

Geography

Most of the Rutulians live in theRutulsky Districtof Dagestan. According to the 2010 census, 35,240 Rutulians lived in Russia.

Rutulian villages in Russia:Rutul,Luchek,Ikhrek,Myukhrek,Amsar,Kina,Vrush,Jilikhur,Kala,Pilek,Shinaz,Khnyukh,Natsma,Fartma,Kufa,Fuchukh,Kiche,Una,Tsudik,Aran,Rybalko,Borch,New Borch,Khnov,Chude

Rutulian villages and cities in Azerbaijan:Sheki (Nukha),Shin,Shorsu,Goybulaq,Kish,Dashyuz,Aydinbulakh,Baltali,Incha,Kudurlu,Boyuk Dahna,Khirsa

Religion

The Rutuls adhere toSunni Islam.The earliest attempts ofArabsto affirm as Dagestan concern the 7th century, and in Rutul's territory they made the greatest success. The earliest monument of Muslim culture testifies to it on caucasus - a tombstone of Sheikh Magomeda-ibn-Asada-ibn-Mugal, buried inKhnovin 675 AD^[8]About early Islamisation of Rutuls the earliest testify also in mountains of Dagestan monuments building epigraphic, found in some Rutul villages. It is a stone in a wall of a building of a mosque of settlement villageLuchekon which the chronograph text in the Arabian language is cut,Islamcarrying the statement here to 128 of Hijra, that is 745–746. Other stone with the chronograph text has remained in a settlementIkhrekmosque ofIkhrek,in it is spoken «about restoration of the destroyed mosque in 407 ofHijra»

Economics

The inhabitants led a sedentary lifestyle, engaged in horse breeding, transhumance sheep breeding, weapons manufacturing, blacksmithing, ceramics and hunting.^[9]

Notable Rutuls

Gasret Aliev- a Hero of Soviet Union, 1st secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Rutul from 1957 to 1961
Ulfat Idlibi- writer
İbrahim Şinasi- founder of Turkish dramaturgy
Saniyat Ganachueva- first Russian world champion in women's freestyle wrestling
Vadim Musaev- professional boxer
Ismayil Daghistanli- Azerbaijani and Soviet stage and film actor and pedagogue
Seyfula Magomedov- taekwondo practitioner, the first ever 4-time European Taekwondo Champion

Notes

^"ЛИРА - Руту́льцы".lezgi-kabir.ucoz.ru.Retrieved2024-07-14.
^^a ^b"Rutuls".rutulia.com.Archived fromthe originalon January 15, 2018.
^^a ^b"Национальный состав населения Российской Федерации согласно переписи населения 2021 года"(in Russian). Archived fromthe originalon 2022-12-30.Retrieved2023-01-05.
^Rutuls in Azerbayjan
^&n_page=4 State statistics committee of Ukraine - National composition of population, 2001 census(Ukrainian)
^Перепись в Грузии 1989 года - Census in Georgia, 1989
^Yurkov, Y.A.; Sokolin, V.L. (1998).Population of Russia: 1897-1997. Statistical Abstract(PDF).State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics (Goskomstat of Russia), 105679, Moscow, Izmailovskoye highway, 44; JSC "Moscow Publishing House"; PPO "Izvestiya" 103798, Moscow, Pushkinskaya Square, 5. p. 213.ISBN 5-89476-014-3.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2018-10-24.Retrieved2015-11-25.
^Vuchetich N. G.: "Chetyre mesyatsa v Dagestane" (Four months in Dagestan), "Caucasus" No.72 Tiflis, 1864.
^"Советская этнография", Publisher: Изд-во Академии наук, 1953, page 31

External links

Folk Songs and Dances of the Rutuls of Azerbaijan
rutulia.com— Rutul national website.

[1] "ЛИРА - Руту́льцы".lezgi-kabir.ucoz.ru.Retrieved2024-07-14.

[rutulia-2] "Rutuls".rutulia.com.Archived fromthe originalon January 15, 2018.

[perepis2010-3] "Национальный состав населения Российской Федерации согласно переписи населения 2021 года"(in Russian). Archived fromthe originalon 2022-12-30.Retrieved2023-01-05.

[ethnologue-rut-4] Rutuls in Azerbayjan

[5] &n_page=4 State statistics committee of Ukraine - National composition of population, 2001 census(Ukrainian)

[6] Перепись в Грузии 1989 года - Census in Georgia, 1989

[7] Yurkov, Y.A.; Sokolin, V.L. (1998).Population of Russia: 1897-1997. Statistical Abstract(PDF).State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics (Goskomstat of Russia), 105679, Moscow, Izmailovskoye highway, 44; JSC "Moscow Publishing House"; PPO "Izvestiya" 103798, Moscow, Pushkinskaya Square, 5. p. 213.ISBN 5-89476-014-3.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2018-10-24.Retrieved2015-11-25.

[vuchetich-8] Vuchetich N. G.: "Chetyre mesyatsa v Dagestane" (Four months in Dagestan), "Caucasus" No.72 Tiflis, 1864.

[sov-etn-9] "Советская этнография", Publisher: Изд-во Академии наук, 1953, page 31

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