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
	Other Northeast Caucasian-speaking peoples; Especially Tsakhurs

Rutulians,^[7] Rutuls (Rutul: Мыхабыр, romanized: Mykhabyr), also known as the Rutul people are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group native to Dagestan and adjacent parts of Azerbaijan. According to the 2021 Russian census, there were 34,259 Rutuls in Russia.^[3] The Rutul language is a member of the Northeast Caucasian language family; its speakers often have a good command of Azeri and Russian, as Rutul was not a written language until 1990. The Rutul culture is close to that of the Tsakhur and other peoples who inhabit the basin of the upper reaches of the Samur River. Most of the Rutuls are engaged in cattle breeding (mostly sheep husbandry), farming, and gardening.

Geography

Most of the Rutulians live in the Rutulsky District of 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 to Sunni Islam. The earliest attempts of Arabs to 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 in Khnov in 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 village Luchek on which the chronograph text in the Arabian language is cut, Islam carrying the statement here to 128 of Hijra, that is 745–746. Other stone with the chronograph text has remained in a settlement Ikhrek mosque of Ikhrek, in it is spoken «about restoration of the destroyed mosque in 407 of Hijra»

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. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
^ ^a ^b "Rutuls". rutulia.com. Archived from the original on January 15, 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Национальный состав населения Российской Федерации согласно переписи населения 2021 года" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
^ 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 from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-24. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
^ 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. Retrieved 2024-07-14.

[rutulia-2] "Rutuls". rutulia.com. Archived from the original on January 15, 2018.

[perepis2010-3] "Национальный состав населения Российской Федерации согласно переписи населения 2021 года" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2023-01-05.

[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 from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-24. Retrieved 2015-11-25.

[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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