Batyr

Batyr lies in the Syuldyukar country of the Sakha interior, where forest and river meadows alternate across a sparsely settled northern land. Evenki hunters and Sakha herders followed game and pasture through the valleys with the seasons, travelling by boat in summer and over snow by sledge in winter. Russian service parties pushing into the Lena country in the seventeenth century found these communities scattered across great distances and collected fur tribute from them.