Yatagan – Large

Yatagan – bladed piercing-cutting and chopping-cutting melee weapons with a long single-edged blade with a double bend; something between a saber and a cleaver.
The yatagan, like any weapon, tends to “escape” from the hand when applying chopping blows under the action of centrifugal force. Therefore, in order for the fighter to be able to deliver chopping blows longer, even in a state of fatigue, very sophisticated measures were taken: the handle completely covered the lower part of the palm, forming specific extensions (“ears”), and sometimes continued with an emphasis on the second hand, which was located at all perpendicular to the straight part of the blade. The blade and handle had a variety of decorations – carving, notches and engraving. Yatagans were kept in scabbards and carried around the belt like daggers.