Batyya

The batyya is one of the oldest tools of the Sakha — part large knife, part short spear, mounted on a long haft and swung with the whole arm. For generations it was the blade a household reached for when an ordinary knife was simply too small: the tool of the hunt, the fish camp and the winter kitchen, used to butcher large animals, break down big fish and clear and cut around a taiga camp. This small collection holds two working recreations of that traditional blade, both hand-forged by a master smith of the Sakha Republic.
These are substantial, specialist pieces — long, heavy and forged from resilient 65G spring steel that flexes under a hard blow and springs back instead of cracking. The Yakut asymmetric grind is scaled up here to a chopping tool, so the edge drives deep into meat, bone and frozen carcass and pulls free cleanly. Each ships with a grip and sheath built for a tool of this size and mass.
The batyya makes no apology for being a specialist: it belongs in the hands of hunters, fishers and homesteaders who process large catches and carcasses and want the reach of a traditional Sakha blade. To see the wider family of blades it comes from, read what makes a Yakut blade; our guide to sharpening and care applies to its single bevel too, just at scale.