Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bulat is a type of steel alloy known in Russia from medieval times and regularly mentioned in Russian legends as material of choice for cold steel. The name is a Russian transliteration of the Persian word (transliterated pulad), meaning steel. There are no known sources indicating that the origin of bulat is Russian while the name suggests that the immediate source of it was Persia. It is highly possible that bulat steel is made using the same process as wootz steel.