Fartma (Rutulian: ФартӀма, Хъартма)Dzheyranishvili, E. F. "The Rutul language." In: Languages of the Peoples of the USSR, vol. 4: Iberian-Caucasian languages. Eds. Bokarev, E. A. & Lomtatidze, K. V. Moscow: Nauka, 1967. (in Russian). is an abandoned Rutulian rural locality in Rutulsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia.Musayev, G. M. Rutuly (XIX — early XX centuries). Makhachkala: AOZT "Yupiter", 1997, p. 4 (in Russian).Makhmudova, S. M. et al. "Monoconsonantism of the Rutul verb root." Philological Sciences: Questions of Theory and Practice, 2015, no. 7-2, pp. 104–108. (in Russian).Jalilova, Kh. M. Rutuls: Socio-economic and political development in the XVII – first half of the XIX century. PhD thesis abstract. Makhachkala, 2000. (in Russian).
Etymology The name of the village is thought to come from the Rutul word хъар ("pit"), possibly referring to its location inside a large depression.
History The exact date of the settlement’s origin is unknown. It is believed to have appeared in the late 19th – early 20th centuries, when people from other villages, searching for favorable pastures, settled in Fartma.Lavrov, L. I. "Rutuls in the past and present." In: Caucasian Ethnographic Collection, vol. 3. Moscow–Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1962, pp. 110–157. (in Russian). The first houses soon appeared. Inhabitants belonged to two tukhums — mitarar and manafar.
In the 1960s, residents of Fartma and the nearby village of Natsma were resettled to Tsudik.Ibragimov, G. F. The Rutul language. Moscow: Nauka, 1978. (in Russian). Later, the fields where the village once stood were cultivated by the collective farm "Red Partisan".
A 1962 source mentions Fartma as an offshoot of Myukhrek, along with Natsma.
Geography The village was located on the slope of a mountain, at the winter pasture of Myukhrek. The area was well suited for agriculture and animal husbandry.
References
External links Fazil Dashlay: Article about Fartma (in Russian)