It is in the Talysh Mountains, a northwestern subrange of the Alborz (Elburz) mountain range, about 286 km to the south of Baku and 76 km to the south-west of Masallı.

At those times, a carpet-weaving factory, which is no longer operational, functioned in Yardimli.

Historian G.Gullayev closes this toponym in the name of the Pecheneg tribes.

In 1924, Archaeologist I.Azimbeyov explained the toponym in the meaning of "helpers" in Turkish.

[1] According to Caucasian Calendar of 1915, 145 people, mainly the Azerbaijanis shown in the calendar as Tatars, lived in Yardimli village of Lankaran Uyezd of Baku Governorate in 1914.