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They were led by Igor Dyatlov, a graduate of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. Later, a search party found the bodies of the hikers. It is still unclear what caused their death. Today, February 2, the tragedy is exactly 60 years old. In this regard, a conference was held in Yekaterinburg, at which researchers voiced several versions of what happened. Below we publish the most unusual of them.

60 years of the death of the Dyatlov group: the prosecutor's office is investigating the most mysterious tragedy of the twentieth century

THE ROCKET IS TO LAULT IN EVERYTHING

At the conference, the participants first of all returned to the version that the tests of a certain weapon ruined the tourists. So, academician Peter Bartolomey, who went hiking with Igor Dyatlov more than once in his youth, noted that the group was experienced and even without a topographic map, its members could go along a difficult route.

A year before the death of the tour group, Igor Dyatlov and I climbed the mountain, ”recalls Peter Bartolomey. - We didn’t have a map, so Igor Dyatlov led us along the route of 50 kilometers just from memory. It was enough for him to simply fly by plane shortly before the trip over this place, so that later he would not get lost on the spot. On this trip, we set up a tent on skis for the first time. It was in this way that the Dyatlov tourist group, a year later, set up a tent before their death.

According to Peter Bartolomey, Igor Dyatlov's tour group died not on the evening of February 1, but on the morning of February 2.

There is information that on February 2 there was a rocket launch from Kapustin Yar with an emergency abort, - reports Piotr Bartolomei. - It was at six o'clock in the morning in Moscow. We are at eight in the morning. We made a request to the Ministry of Defense with the help of Eduard Rossel, a member of the Federation Council. But he was told that "the events of that time are still classified information at the federal level."

But, as our journalists managed to find out, the R5-M launch of February 2, 1959 has nothing to do with the death of tourists.

AN-2 FLIGHTING PAST DOWN TOURISTS WITH FUEL

Valentin Yakimenko, who participated in the search for tourists in 1959, expressed his version - a certain flying object became the cause of the death of young people. He assures that he found the lost footage taken with a camera that Igor Dyatlov's tour group had.

There are light fragments on the frames, reminiscent of trimming of some details, - says Valentin Yakymenko. - There are clusters that resemble the northern lights, the ionization of the atmosphere. There were also several photographs. They have an object with a bright spot on them. And substance comes out of it. The object is clearly flying. I believe that this is an An-2 aircraft with fuel leaking from the tank. If this fuel, 1200 liters, spilled on the members of the tourist group, then this is probably what caused the young people to flee from the tent.

TOURISTS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THE FORBIDDEN ZONE

Another researcher put forward a version of the forbidden zone, allegedly existing in the area of ​​the Dyatlov Pass, which was visited by tourists.

In 1959, I was a student at UPI, and my father turned out to be the main defendant in the death of the Dyatlov group, because he signed all the route sheets that they went on, ”Yuri Gordo said. - Everyone believed that he sent them to certain death in the restricted area. He was expelled from the party for this. In the Regional Party Committee, they later explained that it was necessary to punish someone indicatively.

Yuri Gordo considers the fact that his father did not immediately manage to fly in search of the missing tourists as confirmation of the existence of the restricted zone.

Father discovered the trace of the KGB when he went to the Uktus airport to ask for a plane in search, - says Yuri Gordo. - He was told that "we do not fly to restricted areas." However, through his friend in the Regional Committee of the CPSU, he nevertheless achieved this flight. And on the very first flight, a certain person in civilian clothes flew with him, who controlled all their actions.

Yuri Gordo considers the incident with the spy Francis Gary Powers to be another confirmation of the existence of the restricted zone. On May 1, 1960, his plane with high-precision photographic equipment was shot down over Sverdlovsk.

Powers flew over the Dyatlov Pass, he was interested in the restricted area, the researcher says. - Such a crazy flight - from Pakistan to fly such a distance without landing ... He tried to photograph the restricted area at such a height, but he was shot down.

TOURISTS DIE ELSEWHERE

One of the most striking versions voiced at the conference was the one according to which the tourists died in a completely different place where their bodies were found.

I believe that the tourists died on Mount Otorten, suggested Shamil Sabirov, a researcher. - There was a test of nuclear weapons at an altitude of about 10 kilotons. And this explosion covered the group. Dubinina and Zolotorev stood on the street, so they got the most. The rest were in the tent. Thus, all the main events took place on Otorten. And the tent that was found on Mount Holatchakhl is nothing more than a staging.

According to the researcher, this is evidenced by the fact that the found tent was set up not by professional tourists, but by amateurs who do not know how to do it right.

This tent has no central posts, - says Shamil Sabirov. - There is a cut stick. It was put up by people who have no idea how it's done.

Why is this case unsettling?
The main thing is that after reading thousands of articles and watching video clips, I understand that all researchers start an investigation from someone else's invented version of the development of events at the Dyatlov Pass.

I am embarrassed by the cliches that seem to be embedded in the minds of researchers.

Stamp "The tent was cut from the inside by tourists when something frightened them."
Anyone who wanted to make the tent lighter could cut the tent. Anyone could cut, after the death of tourists.
Can you imagine a situation when a truck with cognac suddenly crashes near your house? Anyone brave will want to take a bottle for themselves. And here is the same situation. Tourists died "near Mansi's house." Three weeks will pass before the official location of the tent. During this time, "both a beetle and a toad" could visit the site of the tragedy.
Not all people are afraid of the dead. Different chains of traces could appear there, why are these traces of tourists? Why is it believed that the traces appeared at the same time?

Stamp "Tourists have not lost anything." Judging by the way the investigation was conducted, no one really knew what things the tourists had. Identified things Yudin, identification
carried out negligently. I think that food and shoes were stolen, and then in order to convince people that nothing was stolen, they had to deliver food and look for the stolen shoes.

Stamp "Tourists frozen in dynamic poses". Where do you see dynamic poses? Lying on your back? Lying on your side? One hugging the other? Tourists froze in more than strange positions. Two under the cedar - Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, someone shifted after they died. I note that the bodies were shifted before they became stiff. The body of Lyuda Dubinina could not move from the bodies of other tourists with whom she was found, thanks to the flow of water from the stream. The bodies of Kolevatov, Zolotarev, Thibaut lay directly in the stream, in the stream of water and did not move anywhere because 4 meters of packed snow lay on top. The body of Lyuda Dubinina lay in accordance with the terrain on which it was located. This could only happen if Luda was dying in this position, or someone moved the body when it had not yet frozen. Here is such a strange thing. The bodies were not numb, but they were carried, turned over, undressed. By the way, only Kolevatov and Zolotarev have a normal pose for those who are freezing (one warms the other with his body) and this would be normal if they were not found in the stream. One researcher writes that tourists deliberately lay down in the stream to bask in the water, saying that the water is warmer than the surrounding air. Sometimes I want to take researchers outside to break away from computers and get closer to reality.

Stamp "Walked from the tent to the cedar in socks, and then made the flooring, lit a fire." In general, it is unrealistic to walk in the snow in socks. The legs immediately begin to hurt so much that I want to get on all fours, so as not to step on the frozen feet. It is impossible to walk without shoes in the snow! IMPOSSIBLE! All the more so for a long time to walk, make a fire, carry wounded comrades, make flooring, try to return to the tent. The legs freeze immediately and hurt so much that it is IMPOSSIBLE to step on them! Go and walk in the snow, check it out! On the site of the Dyatlov Pass, I would organize a 1.5 km race in socks for researchers, and for those who return to the tent, I would give out the Order of Dyatlov and the mountains of the Dead!

And a bunch of clichés "No one ran away from the camps" (well, no one), "Not a single shot was fired", "The tent was set up in accordance with all the rules" (only Yudin could tell if it was set up in accordance with all the rules), "At the site of the tragedy there were no more people" (and who then left a flashlight on the slope of the tent after the tent was covered with snow, who left a trail of urine near the tent, where did the extra skis come from)?
From article to article, researchers repeat these clichés like parrots.

It all happened on the night of February 2nd.
And how is this proven? A picture of where the tent is set up? Last diary entry? Nothing has been proven. Since the case was started on February 6, the accident could have occurred from the night of February 2 to the evening of February 5. And that's three whole days! During this time, it was possible to fly to Moscow and return. We are persistently told about February 2. Why and who needs it? It is beneficial for someone that three days disappear, the group's route for these days disappears. So that a large number of search engines slow down at the Dyatlov Pass and go no further. The picture of setting up the tent is extremely strange. The slope is completely different, there is much more snow, it is impossible to identify people in the picture, and the tourists had nothing to dig such a big hole with, they did not have a single shovel.
They write that the snow was dug with skis. Do you remember these wooden skis, they could break, because the crust, at the place where the tent was set up, was hard.

The storage shed is also a big oddity, both the place and the way it is installed. Only a complete fool can bury food in the snow and leave them for two days. In the snow, any animal will sniff out and dig up valuable food supplies for the winter. Yes, and Mansi hunters could find a storehouse and take precious products. The storehouse was made in a place where they were not going to return, the storehouse was made not before the ascent, but far from Mount Otorten, where they were going to climb. I am especially pleased with the 4kg boiled sausage found in the storehouse. Who needs to take boiled sausage on a hike? And if they did, they would eat it first.

The main thing is the last four tourists found with severe life-long injuries.
Three - Zolotarev, Kolevatov, Tibo, were found in the stream. These three were lying when they died. And they should have been found on the floor. They could not spend the effort to make a flooring, but die in a stream on the snow. So, someone came after their death (if the flooring was made by tourists), on the sixth or seventh of February, removed the frozen bodies from the flooring, when they were not yet covered with snow, and put these bodies in the stream. And who could it be if, according to the assurances of many researchers, there was no one at the pass except for a group of tourists? Then LUDA Dubinina did it (For the fact that Zolotarev took off her jacket and hat, deprived her of the last warm clothes)! Because only she was found in a dynamic pose! She killed everyone, put the last ones in a stream and died of grief, praying on a stone. And then a mouse came and gnawed off her tongue. Mouse, comrades, the cause of everything that happened! It's like a fairytale.

For those who think that tourists dug a lair in the snow, not knowing that a stream flows under the lair, there is one argument. It is necessary to answer the question, how did the tourists dig a lair for four people if the skis were left under the tent? It is very important to look on the Internet how such dens are made (they are made for one person).

From the beginning of the opening of the case on February 6 to the discovery of the first corpses and the reopening of the case on February 26, 20 days of investigative actions will take place, about which we know nothing. During this time, shoes will disappear from the corpses and will be transferred to the tent, the corpses will be carried, shifted, pockets turned inside out, clothes will be mixed up. An incomprehensible warehouse will appear, the products in which will be covered with cardboard, which no one in the group carried or took with them.

Who knew, but could not reveal to us - fools, the whole truth? And this is Lev Ivanov, the investigator in charge of the case. Why did he write the article?
HE wrote an article and put the answer in plain sight! Here are the words from the article.
“When we landed in the taiga, and then skied up Mount OTORTEN, we literally found and dug out a snow-covered tent of tourists at the very top.” (From the article "The Secret of the Fireballs" by Lev Ivanov, investigator in the case of the death of the group).
What do you think, Ivanov mistakenly named one mountain after another? Holatchakhl confused with Otorten? Mechanically, as they say now about Tempalov's note, he automatically changed the name, because he was thinking about one mountain, but named another?
I note that “literally at the very top”, literally! Did they find a tent on the top of Mount Holatchakhl? At least? No, on the slope.

The actions and responses of the modern prosecutor's office are simply ridiculous! Nothing has changed in the minds of the prosecutor's office from the "King of Peas" to the present day. They say that prosecutor Tempalov made a mistake with the date in the memo. And the criminal case was also started erroneously on a different date (February 6, and not February 25-26, when they found the tent). And in this case, there are radiograms that contradict the general course of searching for the bodies of tourists.
This case is a matter of blunders and inconsistencies, or maybe very thoughtful work.
It is interesting that the tourists themselves gave the films to develop. When I read about it for the first time, I was very surprised. I myself was engaged in photography and I know that in case of unsuccessful development, the film can be spoiled, illuminated. The film was placed in a tank and the solution was poured in complete darkness. Leave such important documents to chance. "What negligence!" - I thought then.

Let's just say everything went smoothly. Tourists lost their minds and put up a tent 1.5 km from their storehouse on a mountainside during a hurricane wind. Then they left the tent and all went down the slope, where they died from freezing.
Someone, unknown, made a statement to the police that he had seen an abandoned tent and several corpses of tourists. According to the statement, the investigator had to check the information and make sure that all the tourists died or come to the aid of those who survived. The police detachment went to the specified place where they were convinced of the reliability of the information and had to carry out initial investigative measures - an inspection of the scene. This squad finds a tent and corpses of tourists. It's absolutely incredible! Hurricane weather continues, strong winds blow. The corpses of tourists are far from the tent. This detachment finds the corpses, which they then look for and cannot find the groups of search detachments, for some reason drags the corpses of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, and covers them with a blanket, shifts the corpses of the last four into the stream and takes off the shoes from the corpses of Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, Slobodin, then folds the shoes into the tent, cuts the slope at the tent. And only then, when the relatives of the dead begin to "sound the alarm", they forget about the place where they found the corpses and the tent, and they search again, they make a false storehouse. How many incredible actions in the ordinary death of tourists from a hurricane and frost.

1.1. One trace of urine. “When investigating cases, there are no minor details: investigators have a motto: attention to detail! Near the tent, a natural trace was found that one man left it for small needs. He went out barefoot, in some woolen socks (“for a minute”). Then this trace of unshod feet is traced down into the valley. (From Lev Ivanov's article "The Mystery of the Fireballs").
Many will keep silent about this, as if they themselves have never seen a toilet. It is not customary to talk about it. And we'll talk. If you went on a long winter hike with backpacks and a tent, then you do not need to explain how difficult it is to relieve yourself if there are two sexes on the hike, when the girls go to the left and the boys go to the right. In the conditions of a hike, when you need to pee, take off your backpack, skis, find a bush to hide behind, take off several layers of clothes and expose your ass to a 20-degree frost, it is impossible to defecate during the hike itself, this can be done only during a halt and parking. It is even more difficult when you want "by and large", but there are no bushes and trees. Very soon, tourists will no longer be shy during the trip. This happens in groups of athletes, when, for example, there is one locker room and boys and girls must change at the same time.
In short, we came to the parking lot and immediately decided where the conditional toilet was. They trampled down the snow and here you have nine traces of urine and nine "heaps". And only then climbed into the tent and began to prepare for bed. And to think that you can leave the tent one at a time (climbing over others), or one peed and no one else wanted to, this is stupidity.
What follows from the fact that only one trace of urine was found? There was only one person in the tent.
I cannot link this conclusion to the whole story. Suppose Kolmogorova remained in the tent, and everyone, immediately after setting up the tent, went towards the forest to look for bushes to relieve themselves.
Or, the fact that tourists did not put up a tent in this place, but someone else set it up there.

1.2. Ski under the tent.
I recommend everyone to go on a winter hike and try to put skis (9 pairs) under the tent. Very soon you will realize that the skis are hard and there is no heat from them, and they will also occupy an area equal to half the long Dyatlov tent. And the other half? Ski under the tent, it's some kind of "crap". Skis are vital equipment. Without them, it is impossible to move through the snow. Skis must be protected and always kept in combat readiness. For example, someone was going to go for firewood, and the skis are under the tent.
Conclusion? A tent was set up on skis by someone who does not know how to take care of them during a hike, when you can only move on skis.
Wooden skis could break if they were stepped on unsuccessfully, especially the bent nose of the ski could break. I know this because I often skied these very skis as a child.

1.3. Cold overnight.
A cold overnight stay is an overnight stay in a tent at sub-zero air temperatures (outside). It is very good if you can heat the tent with a stove on a cold night. A wood-burning stove is another "hemorrhoid". If the furnace is heated, it heats up very strongly. There is always the possibility of fire. In order to heat the stove, you need a person on duty. He must watch the stove, lay firewood, see that no coal falls out, so that the stove does not smoke. This is a complex process. Like the installation of the stove, so is the process of melting and firing. It is impossible to kindle the stove with raw wood. There should always be a supply of dry firewood. It takes a lot of firewood to keep firewood burning all night. They must be dry, otherwise the oven will smoke. It is impossible to sleep in a smoky tent. After setting up the tent, you need to immediately put up the stove, remove the pipe, melt it, and then climb into the tent.
It is interesting that the tent was set up for the last night, but the stove was not assembled for the furnace. Or maybe the one who set up the tent did not know how to put up the stove correctly?
Can a person spend the night in a canvas tent at minus twenty without a stove? I think it must be a northern hardened person. To survive here, special conditions are needed. For example - to spend only one night in such conditions.
And the question is, where to get dry firewood? You can take them from local people, or you can find sushnina (dry standing tree) in the forest. Cut down a tree, saw it into logs, then split them into logs with an ax.
I think only in the most extreme case a tourist will set up a tent at a distance of one and a half kilometers from the nearest dry tree.

This is now we are going on a hike with a gas stove and gas canisters. Even such a stove and cylinders have weight, but this weight is incomparably lighter than a wood stove. The gas stove is practically safe, no attendant is needed to keep an eye on it.

1.4. Excess weight.
Hiking in winter, when you need to walk 300 km, even without luggage on the beaten track and flat road, is difficult. Don't believe? Walk at least 100 km and let a car follow you, which will save you in case of emergency. And then a hike with the capture of peaks and overnight in a tent. And now you need not only to move, but also to carry luggage. How much can a woman carry? We find the norm - 7 kg. If you start counting how much luggage weight was for each tourist on a hike, then you get big numbers (30kg). Only products were found in a storehouse weighing 55 kg. Add to them the weight of the tent, stove, ice ax, saws, other equipment, add three liters of alcohol, felt boots, firewood for the stove. Add to this figure the weight of things, after the departure of Yudin, and you will understand that this is a lot, almost prohibitively a lot, especially for women. Often, researchers write that women on a campaign were sad for some unknown reason. That's the reason for you - too much baggage. It is not for nothing that the locals and a cart with a horse help the Dyatlovites.

1.5. Why did Yudin leave?
And he realized that he would not be able to carry the things that were loaded on him for 300 km. He was the wisest in the whole story. As soon as the horse turned back, he also turned back. I look at the smiling face of Yudin in the last farewell photo and cannot believe that the person is very ill and has left the race, referring to the disease. I watched an interview with Yudin and it was clear how carefully he thinks over his answers, how he avoids answering questions, how cunning in some places, how his eyes shift and how restlessly he behaves. It may not mean anything, or maybe he knew something that he could not tell people.

1.6. Discipline.
Reading the diaries, it was a wonder how the discipline in the Dyatlov group "limped". They got up late, got ready for a long time, did stupid things, "dogged". Responsibilities were not assigned. Suffice it to mention that during one of the nights, a quilted jacket burned down, and a torn tent was repaired during the campaign. With such discipline, in the conditions of a campaign of the third group of complexity, they would have died without any missiles, UFOs, evil military, convicts, Mansi and other people.

1.7. From new.
It turned out that on February 2, all the tourists of the group were alive, there was a guide with a horse who brought their luggage, and this fact was reported to the public! This fact suggests that the Dyatlovites most likely climbed Otorten. And it was necessary to look for artifacts on Mount Otorten and not on the Dyatlov Pass.
The researchers found the witness Salter P.I., who said that there were 11 bodies that were brought from the pass almost simultaneously, they were very dirty. Just think, where did they find the dirt when there was snow all around? Fallen into the mud in winter? Found a bunker, and there is dirt? Where is wet and muddy in winter?
And quite latest news- another person is buried in Zolotarev's grave (which I doubt, such important research).

Often researchers cite seemingly similar cases of death of tourists, for example, the death of Korovina's group in the mountains of Khamar-Daban. I think that the case of the death of the Dyatlov group differs in one significant detail. When the Dyatlovites went down to the cedar, they were able to light a fire. I believe that a fire is a very important condition for survival. In this case, someone could die, but not the whole group. Korovina's group was younger, with less experience (children).

I think we'll find out exactly how the tourists died. Very great resonance. A large number of people took up the search. Everything does not disappear and somewhere there is a document with the answer to all our questions. Now a lot of different equipment and equipment from private people. Many tourists and researchers follow in the footsteps of the Dyatlov group.

Old.

This version arose as a result of many years of studying documents available on the Internet about the death of Igor Dyatlov's group, thanks to tourist experience and spending the night in a tent at sub-zero air temperatures (from -5 to -15 degrees).
The case of the death of tourists in the region of Mount Otorten was started on February 6, 1959, how could this happen if the tent was found only on February 26? Very simple. Someone found the dead tourists and made a statement to the investigator. Who could it be? Could probably be a hunter or one of the tourists, the one who survived.
It was not the bird on the tail that brought the news.
- I know that the bodies of dead tourists lie on Mount Otorten. - Said the man.
So you killed them. - Answered the investigator. (Typical situation for Russia).
But what if four tourists went out to people, reported the death of their comrades and died as a result of the work of a zealous investigator? Such cases are not rare in Russia.
Kill, as a result of investigative pressure, and then fell down on supernatural forces. Remember the very good and revealing film "Cold Summer of 53rd"? It was a time when tens of thousands of criminals were released from the camps, and the main characters Kopalych and Luzga were serving their sentences - one as an "English spy", and the second for being surrounded and only one day in captivity.
The interrogation of the head of the communications unit of the Vizhai forest department Popov V.A. began on February 6, 1959: “The witness testified: in the second half of January 1959, in the village of Vizhai, I saw two groups of tourists who were heading to the region of the Ural Range.” There is a memo from the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel I.V. Tempalov dated February 15 "... on the fact of the death of tourists, I was summoned and leave for Sverdlovsk for 2-3 days" ...

And they found the dead tourists in the region of Mount Otorten, and not in some other place, this is also clear from the title of the case. Then the usual investigation begins, during which it turns out that the tourists died strangely and the damage to the bodies does not confirm freezing. They decide to classify the death of tourists, and drag out the case. Ivdel prosecutor Vasily Tempalov and investigator Vladimir Korotaev hid information about the death of the group.
And they dragged it out in every possible way until May 26, 1959. This is how the case begins, which is being investigated until 2019, and so far there is no end in sight. First, the group's route map was seized and it had to be restored (thanks to Rimma Kolevatova). It is foolish to think that Dyatlov did not provide the group's route to the UPI sports club.

Where would you go to look for the missing tourists of the Dyatlov group? Of course, on Otorten - this was the main peak that tourists were going to conquer. How long could traces of the group stay there? Yes, not at all. There, in general, no traces could be preserved until February 26 (the crust, wind and snowstorm hid all traces). There could only be a bookmark left by the Dyatlovites.
To remove traces of the group's presence on Mount Otorten, it was necessary to remove the bookmark. One can only assume that the bookmark was and it was "Evening Otorten" - a combat leaflet written on February 1, 1959. Otherwise, why call that a message written on a notebook sheet, the original or a copy of which for some reason has not been preserved?

I note that to this day, few people are looking for artifacts on Mount Otorten, because it is said clearly and definitely - the tent and corpses of tourists were found in the area of ​​​​the Dyatlov Pass (modern name). The tent was found by Slobtsov and Sharavin, they immediately realized that this was the tent of the Dyatlov group and that the tourists left it in a panic and ran down the slope. It was dark and the tourists left the tent, making cuts in the slope of the tent. They ran away, leaving warm clothes and shoes in the tent, they were so scared that they lost their minds. Where do such inferences come from?
It is because of this stamp that many absurd versions were born.

We look at the map and see that there are several ways to go to Mount Otorten. One is to go along the Lozva, from it turn to the Auspiya tributary and go through the mountains, the other is to walk along the Auspiya to Mount Holatchakhl, cross the pass (Dyatlova) to the 4th tributary of the Lozva and go along the tributary of the Lozva to Lake Lunthusaptur. Another interesting thing is that from the second North you can go straight along Lozva to Otorten without turning onto Auspiya. Why is it necessary to walk along rivers (near rivers)? Because there is water and firewood for the stove and less wind, and warmer. The river is the road. And from the testimony of Anyamov, it turns out that in February they saw traces of the group in the upper reaches of the Lozva River.
But along Lozva it was not an easy way. It was badly frozen and it was possible to fail.

Some Dyatlov experts believe that the Dyatlovites slipped past the turn to Auspiya and walked along Lozva for another two kilometers, then returned and went along Auspiya (made a detour).
Dyatlov’s diary for January 31 says that on this day they made an attempt to climb Mount Holatchakhl (We are moving away from Auspiya, a gentle ascent began, we went beyond the border of the forest, the wind speed is similar to the air speed when the plane was lifting, we were very tired, went down to Auspiya and stopped at overnight). At the same time (most likely), the Dyatlovites realized that it was impossible to walk along the top of the mountains, and then they had to make the only right decision - to return to Lozva and walk along it, as the locals advised. Instead of trying to cross the pass and look for the Lozva tributary on the other side in deep snow, or, although it blows away, go through the mountains.

And, most likely, they returned on February 1 to Lozva, and on February 2, a local resident brought their things and everyone was still alive. And then there is an explanation for the ski trails of tourists along Lozva.
However, both the footprints in the upper reaches of the Lozva and the guide's story may not belong to the Dyatlov group, but to the second group of tourists.
They write that I.D. Rempel persuaded Dyatlov not to go along this route, Gennady Patrushev persuaded him not to go along the ridge and called it "stubborn", because Dyatlov did not change the chosen route, and also, judging by the diary entry, persuaded them not to go Ognev. I think he told the tourists various horror stories about the place they were going to, maybe that's why the girls were in a bad mood. It was not just that they were dissuaded from going along this route. Strong cold and gale-force wind in the mountains and the badly frozen river Lozva.
Let's try to get to that time for a minute. Auspiya ended and a gentle ascent to the slope of Mount Holatchakhl began. The slope is pure ice, the wind knocks you down. The tourists could not get up and went down to Auspiya. During the day, they worked out, as Dyatlov writes in his diary, a new method of walking (two steps forward, one back). We were very tired in the evening.
Now imagine the state of mind of tourists at this moment. It turned out that the ascent is impossible and it is impossible to go this route. That the second option - to cross the pass and go along the tributary of the Lozva, is also almost impossible. This tributary is a ditch, and the snow is 2 meters deep and does not hold crust there. Dyatlov wrote that they covered 1-2 km in an hour. It also became clear that the weight of luggage exceeds the capabilities of people. And yet, on the top of the mountains, it turned out that the group was dressed poorly for frost and wind, and the tent was torn and blown in the wind. (From the general diary: “We agreed and we are going to the 41st section by car. We left only at 13-10, and in the 41st we were about 16-30. there is no heavy wind and frost in the mountains yet).
Judging by the diary entries, the morale in the group was tense.
I think that the reason for this was the appearance of Zolotarev in the group. He was an adult, self-confident man, an instructor of a camp site, he was sociable, he knew many new songs. Of course, the two girls of Dubinin and Kolmogorov drew attention to him. Naturally, the young men from the Dyatlov group were jealous when Zina Kolmogorova was interested in someone. Igor Dyatlov liked Zina, Zina had not yet finally decided on the choice and was open to any new impressions (judging by the entries from her diary). There were few women where tourists went, and any free woman was the object of passion and desire of men. And Zina was so pretty, so cheerful and sociable that everyone who saw her fell in love with her.
Imagine how Dyatlov felt when it turned out that he had chosen and insisted on a route that turned out to be impassable. And next to him was Zolotarev, who most likely realized faster than Dyatlov that the route was not passable and told him about it. Imagine how ashamed Dyatlov was at that moment in front of Zina, whom he loved, and how low he fell in her eyes as an experienced leader of campaigns, how ashamed it was to return home to his comrades without going through the route. "Officially" the campaign of the Dyatlov group was timed to coincide with the XXI Congress of the CPSU. The Dyatlovites could not refuse to continue the campaign even when they realized that the route was not passable. What will they say to their fellow Komsomol members and communists? How will the parties look in the face?
Imagine how Zolotarev felt, who went with Dyatlov only because he wanted to spend fewer days on the trip. And they were already delayed, trying to climb the ridge and lost a day, then they also lost a day to set up a storehouse. I think that Zolotarev should have been very unhappy with Igor Dyatlov because he did not go along Lozva (along the river) to Otorten.
It was the moment of the highest moral tension in the group. It was necessary to make a decision to return and go along Lozva, or maybe not go at all.
This option could not suit Dyatlov. Then his authority was completely annulled.
Perhaps he insisted on walking along the ridge of the mountains, although, most likely, he realized that he was mistaken.
At this moment, any incident can become a mechanism that will start a chain of ridiculous deaths.
If everything was not staged and the tent really stood where it was found, then the wind was so strong that it tore and ruffled the old slope and it cracked. The tent immediately became unbearably cold. Someone (Thibault or Slobodin) went out to fasten the canvas of the slope of the tent, fell off the slope, hit his head on a stone and died almost immediately. The girls went into hysterics. Tourists, who until then had barely restrained their dissatisfaction with Dyatlov, began to shout at him that he was to blame for everything. Dyatlov jumped out of the tent and walked away (very soon his heart stopped). One of the tourists went to look for Dyatlov and froze.
Tent marks are often mentioned. You know, there is a short road from my house to the bus stop, in winter there are footprints in the snow. Just looking at these footprints, no one will think that people jumped out of the house at the same time for some unknown reason.
I read about other bands. The difficult morale of people, severe frost, gale-force squally wind, which increased the frost and the body's perception of frost, the absence of one leader, a tattered tent, all this is quite sufficient reason to die at such a distance from people and help.
Why did it get so loud?
I think there are other circumstances involved.
I think that if Zolotarev had not gone with them, then Dyatlov, perhaps, would have admitted his mistake, returned to Lozva and successfully completed the route.
In other cases of the death of tourists, when it became known, no one was in a hurry to immediately go to the place of the tragedy, collect the bodies, and find out the reasons for the death of the group. In the case of the Korovina group, the bodies lay there for a month. Shoes were also missing and bodies were gnawed by wild animals.
And they took off their shoes, the shoes are expensive. There were cases of missing shoes when other groups died. They removed it, and then returned it, because the case became very loud. The eyes and tongue were eaten by small rodents, which became more active by May. There is no mysticism, if you think sensibly.
I think that Dyatlov did not change his mind about going to Otorten along the top of the mountains, which is why he decided to arrange a storehouse at such a distance from Otorten. Otherwise, this storehouse cannot be explained at all. From Otorten, Dyatlov wanted to go along another slope of the mountains and was not going to return to the upper reaches of the Auspiya.
Also, some of you probably didn't feel well. I think Luda. Everyone forgets that women have periods even then: a headache, you can’t lift weights, and in general the condition is bad. How women felt among men on such days, I have no idea. No place to wash, no pads.
When I understand that the tourists could have quarreled corny (without any booze), then other versions pale against the background of this fact.
Read the diary entries! Where do you see a similar group? Diary entries from the Internet:
“Then the discussion resumes again and again, and all our discussions that have been during this time are mainly about love.” (Kolya Thibault).
The initiator of these discussions is Zina Kolmogorova. They write that love passions were unknown to tourists of that time and they went on a hike without distinguishing the sexes, like comrades. And they slept in the same tent, not feeling passion, they, they write, did not know at all what sex was.
“Today is especially difficult to walk. The trail is not visible, we often stray from it or grope. Thus we pass 1.5 - 2 km. at one o'clock.
We develop new methods of more productive walking. The first one drops the backpack and walks for 5 minutes, then returns, rests for 10-15 minutes, then catches up with the rest of the group. This is how the non-stop way of laying tracks was born. It is especially difficult for the second one, who goes along the ski track, the first one, with a backpack. .. Tired, exhausted, they set about arranging an overnight stay. Firewood is scarce. Sickly raw spruces. (Dyatlov).
Raw spruces do not burn in the stove, which means there is no firewood, there is nothing to warm the tent with, and there is no way to dry clothes. All tired and exhausted. The day was wasted.
"Does he think I'm some kind of fool? Yes, and I generally like to add fuel to the fire, damn it to me ... They saw off the Blinovites with tears. The mood is spoiled ... The mood is bad and probably will be for another two days. Evil as hell." (Luda) It is assumed that Luda was in love with one of the Blinov Group (In Zhenya?).
“As always, I found some fellow countryman again ... Somehow we will go? Music has such a terrible effect on me. recent times, guitar, mandolin and more. The boys made stupid jokes last night. In my opinion, they do not need to pay attention, maybe they will be less rude. And so far, nothing. It's already time to go out, but they are still digging and digging. I don't understand how it can take so long to get together. Here are the first 30 minutes. Of course, the backpack is nothing, heavy. But you can go ... The first day is always difficult. Sashka Kolevatov tested his device and abandoned it. After lunch, we made only one transition and stood up for a halt. I sewed up the tent. Went to sleep. Igor was rude all evening, I just didn’t recognize him. I had to sleep on the wood by the stove "... (Zina)
The girl should go on the route, and sleeps on the wood, Igor, who must make sure that she gets enough sleep, is rude to her.
And Kolmogorova again found a fellow countryman. Any man dreams of being Zina's fellow countryman and causes jealousy among the entire group of tourists, everyone likes Zina.
Kolevatov tried to carry weights on a sled, but the sled fell through, got stuck in the snow, and Kolevatov abandoned them. They gather for a long time, walk slowly, sew up the tent.
“Lyuda worked quickly, sat down by the fire. Kolya Thibaut changed his clothes. I started writing a diary. The law is this: until all the work is over, do not approach the fire. And so they argued for a long time, to whom to sew up the tent. Finally, K. Thibaut could not stand it, he took a needle. Luda remained seated. And we sewed holes (and there were so many of them that there was enough work for everyone, with the exception of two on duty and Lyuda. The guys are terribly indignant).
Today is Sasha Kolevatov's birthday. Congratulations, we give a tangerine, which he immediately divides into 8 parts (Lyuda went into the tent and did not come out again until the end of dinner). "(Unknown).
It can be seen from what was written that Dubinina was very offended by everyone, sat all evening in a tent, she did not get a tangerine. Or maybe she felt bad. This is before the hike of the third group of difficulty, when you need to mobilize all the forces of the body.
Why do they always sew up holes in the tent? So, bad clothes. Dubinina forgot her sweater, the jersey was accidentally burned. There are holes in the tent. In the battle sheet "Evening Otorten" there is a note about one blanket that cannot warm 9 tourists. It is strange why there is only one blanket left and it is clear that it is very cold in the tent.
Once again, for a minute, we will try to look into the tent of the Dyatlovites. Outside -20, hurricane wind, snow, blizzard. It is impossible to hang the stove (a strange device of the stove, suitable only for calm weather), there is no firewood, it is impossible to kindle a fire. The tent at this moment should "walk shaking", "clatter" in the wind. It must be terribly cold inside the tent. On such a cold night it is difficult to stand, survive, not lose strength for the further path.
Is it possible at this moment to undress for sleep, take off boots, jerseys and fall asleep sweetly?
Yes, this is nonsense in delirium that the Dyatlovites put up a tent and undressed for the night, took off their shoes! They began to write a combat leaflet, cut the loin! After setting up a tent in such a squally wind, their clothes should have frosted over, they should have been very cold and it was impossible to keep warm in the tent. It was as cold as outside, only there was less wind.
If at such a moment a rocket fell on the Dyatlovites, a yeti appeared, or convicts went "on the light", then this is not just a blow of fate - this is a double blow. And so everything turned out quite fatally, and then there was also a rocket, like the killer's final chord - a shot in the head. Achieve - for sure.
I think that the decision to go to Otorten along the ridge of the mountains was made reluctantly, but by a majority of votes. Otherwise, they would have split up before the construction of the storehouse.
Interestingly, there are supporters of this version, but no one wants to hear this version. Because the intrigue disappears and a poorly planned tourist trip with gross miscalculations appears. The ideal tourist group disappears, and ordinary tourists (a little slobs) appear with a not very experienced leader.
You see, there were enough circumstances to die. It is in this confluence of circumstances that one can see some kind of otherworldly interference in the fate of people. It was this case that became the most mysterious story, and over time, interest in the case is only growing.

I am re-reading the case file for the thousandth time. Everyone writes that the group is ideal, the tourists are experienced, and the place where the group died is not dangerous - the slope is gentle, you can hold on in any wind, no avalanches were recorded during the group's accident.

So - they could reach Otorten and died on the way back when they went to the storehouse. What does it change? It changes the morale of the people. From the losers who did not cope with the route, they turn into winners. It was difficult and there were some troubles with discipline, love passions, clashes of characters, ailments, bad equipment not suitable for great frost and wind, but they were able to go exactly as Igor Dyatlov planned - along the ridge, and all the people who they tried to stop, they proved that tourists are a force.

My old versions
I. Don't go there.
1. They searched for the missing group carefully, extensively and for a long time.
To start getting acquainted with the case of the Dyatlov group, I think, it is necessary to organize a search operation. Four groups of students were gathered for the search, who were transferred to Ivdel. They were joined by the military - "a group of Captain A. A. Chernyshev and a group of operational workers with dogs under the command of senior lieutenant Moiseev, cadets of the school of sergeants under the command of senior lieutenant Potapov and a group of sappers with mine detectors under the command of lieutenant colonel Shestopalov. The Mansi searchers were helped by the Kurikov family" .
And now, I will tell you a secret. At that time and at a later time, both tourists and groups of tourists died. And no one was looking for them! Moreover, no one has searched so extensively and for so long. Just think about how much technology was used for search operations, how much money was invested in the search.
Question: why were they looking for these tourists? Searched and found, although the search continued from February to May? Do you naively think that they would be searched for with airplanes, helicopters, with the military, if just an avalanche came down, a UFO flew by, a yeti passed by? The case was connected with the possible declassification of state secrets, which is why the search operation was so long and thorough.

My friends' daughter went on hikes of medium difficulty. The group did not come from one trip. The parents went to look for their daughter. They were told that there were several avalanches along the route at that time. If the tourists do not come out, then the parents will be given a certificate that their daughter is missing and that's it. No one went to look for tourists (didn’t fly on planes, didn’t attract search dogs and sappers with mine detectors).
How long can you, sitting at home, talk about the fact that a person goes to bed, warming a flask of coffee with his temple? Go on a hike and soon you will realize that survival on a hike is up to you. And if you die, then your body will remain where you died and no one cares about you! Go on at least one hike, and only then begin to draw conclusions.

Below is the original story. As I explore the case, a lot of things change in my mind, but for now I've left it.
2. As I was told about the Dyatlov group.
Five Jewish families lived in the five-story building in which I lived as a child. At that time, I did not know anything about the fact that they were Jews, and no special attitude to this fact was formed in my mind. The fact that my friend is Jewish, I learned at the time when I studied at the institute. We were friends because we lived in the same house, went to the same class and the same school. She was an extraordinarily smart girl. And life in these families was different from life and way of life in Russian families. I was very interested and curious about everything that I heard from my girlfriend, now I think that all the topics that my girlfriend brought to me were simply discussed in this family over evening tea.
I was born in 1967. Somewhere at the age of ten, I heard from a friend about nine tourists who died in the mountains. The main information that I heard then is that a group of young people died from an incredible fright. This is what a friend told me: “All night long, someone terrible walked around the tent in which young people were sitting. They heard footsteps and saw light shining through the tent flap. In horror, the tourists cut open the tent and jumped out of it. And after a while, all the tourists were found dead in different places not far from the tent. Their faces were contorted with fear, their bodies were frozen, lying in unnatural positions, and the skin on their faces was orange in color.
My friend's story shocked me to the core. I was an impressionable girl whose family traveled a lot and spent the night in an ordinary four-seater canvas tent. In my family, no such events have ever been discussed. My parents were atheists. The life of my family was prosaic and all relationships within the family were purely worldly. I had to wash the floors and dishes, carefully prepare my lessons, weed the grass in the potato field in the summer and looked after the animals. There was no question of any dead tourists in my family.
It becomes clear why I still remember this story, told to me in childhood by a friend.

3. To understand what happened is possible only by knowing and understanding that time.
Now, when many versions have appeared, when many people have carefully studied the material about the cause of the death of the group, and the main thing is that these materials have become publicly available, it makes it possible to consider this story from the point of view known facts, and from the point of view of his everyday experience, with the view of a person who lived in that Soviet post-war period.
I am sure that modern youth, no matter how hard they try, will not be able to fully understand the whole story, will not be able to appreciate everything, getting used to the course of events and trying them on themselves, because the youth is now completely different, they have different values ​​and completely different outlook on life.
Looking at the photos taken by the Dyatlov group on this trip, I see and feel the lively cheerful faces of tourists more. I also had a FED camera, many children then took photographs. And I have a lot of black and white shots with different groups of people in them. This has happened in many families. So at that time they tried to capture many events of their lives. Sometimes I sort through these pictures, look at them. Many of the people in these photographs are no longer alive. What can you do, such is life. The only thing that pulsates in the mind is that these people from the Dyatlov group were still very young, now, from the height of their age, I would say they are just children. But again, I will make an amendment to the fact that the time was completely different. And at the age of 24, a young man, a guy or a girl, were already adults, completely formed personalities. Now, these are children. And then, already adults. People with inner qualities, which are so few in today's youth. These were young people with a deep love for their Motherland, with patriotism, with clear political views and convictions. They were characterized by heroism and self-sacrifice for the sake of saving other people. They were united by a feeling of friendship, strong and indestructible. It's so hard for young people to understand these days. There is no feeling for the motherland, no patriotism. Heroism, for the sake of saving others, has become an exceptional rarity. Friendship has completely disappeared. There is no friendship now in the concept in which it was then.
And we were atheists. And they did not believe in other worlds and phenomena at all. And yes, these things happen very rarely. To a greater extent, these were horror stories, similar to fairy tales, than real facts. Here wolves, bears and wild boars were found in the forests, and there were a lot of stories about them, and they often approached the houses in the villages, and were much more terrible than flying balls.
My grandparents (Kingdom of Heaven to them) told a lot about the war, and we, the children, lived as if this war had not bypassed us. We played war and clearly knew how to defend the border of our Motherland and that the enemies are not asleep and you must always be on the alert. These stories instilled in us a certain suspicion of possible enemies of the motherland and communism. Young people from the Dyatlov group were much closer in time to the war. All these feelings were intensified in them. They firmly knew who was friend and who was foe. These were very weighty concepts, absorbed with the war that took place in the country, with a clear political ideology in the country. It is now that they will begin to inspire you that it is common for young people to rebel and go against the policies of the whole country. Yes, there were few such rebels then. “The party said: it is necessary! The Komsomol answered: yes!” And this political slogan is not a joke or a hoax, but a clear guide to action, from early childhood, absorbed into the blood, with mother's milk.
It is absolutely impossible to understand the whole story without taking these facts into account. People have changed a lot, their worldview has changed.

4. Best detective story.
I looked through a lot of information, what I found about the Dyatlov group, those documents that are known to the entire Internet community, reconstructions of the death of the group, as well as comments on them. Now I can't name you the best author and the best version. My opinion on this subject changes as I delve deeper into the information on the case.

5. What evil force was chasing the Dyatlovites?
It is very easy and simple to explain everything by the fact that, as they say: "A brick fell on its head." Or in another way it can be explained, say, by a combination of circumstances. But the brick, you see, falls precisely on the head of a person, creating one single bond. The brick fell on his head and the man died. Everything, and no walking of a person after this event is not provided. Fell - died. One connection.
In many explanations of the situation with the death of the Dyatlov group, some kind of multi-move is obtained. The brick fell, and fell, fell, fell, and everything hit exactly on the head. But the fall of a brick is just a coincidence. Even a shell does not fall twice into the same funnel, so they say. And then the blast wave beat, beat and finished off the whole group. Well, how can one believe in such versions?
So the story with the dead group suggests that although something terrible happened, people put up decent resistance, showed that, although they were frightened, they did not surrender to the circumstances, but took quite sufficient actions to survive in the situation. Not completely lost, not dispersed into different sides, did not freeze one by one, but grouped up and began to survive: they broke branches, built a flooring, warmed themselves with clothes that they could get, made a fire. They had a knife, matches and firewood. It was only necessary to wait out the dark time of the day and go to your storehouse, where there were food and things and spare skis. And, after all, if you think deeply, then they had a chance to survive, not for the whole group, but for some. They had to survive in that situation without fail. But this would be the case if the matter concerned the forces of otherworldly, or individual natural phenomena. It's only in horror movies that an evil force chases after heroes until it kills everyone. In life, the case is single, that's why it is a case. And everything else is already a pattern and you can’t attribute it to horror stories about the Mountain of the Dead, Mansi warnings: “Don’t go there,” and the mysterious number 9. All this is just a warning that it’s dangerous to go there, that they already died there when - something people. Dangerous does not mean necessarily fatal. After all, as pilgrims go there now, tourists and, laughing at the warning of the Mansi, go in a group of 9 people.
Then, the Mansi have holy places there. They needed to invent all sorts of horror stories so that tourists would not go and spoil their way of life and well-established life with their clumsy actions. If faith in sacred things were as deep among the people of that time as the feeling of patriotism, then no one would have died. Why do they tell us: "Don't go there"! Are we climbing hard? Where it's dangerous. They warned that it was dangerous, why go? Why, in passing, brush aside the traditions and beliefs of other peoples, from a different culture and other views on life, believing that your views and beliefs are the only correct and true ones: “And the sea is knee-deep to us. But we do not believe and do not believe, but we will go anyway. We want to pull death by the mustache!”
Everything is clear in the case when a group of tourists falls asleep in an avalanche. This is comparable to the fall of a brick. action and result. And that's it, no further rassusolivaniya occurs. I am writing this for those who offer versions akin to a fallen brick and then hush up all the other facts. And people from the Dyatlov group still walked, and lived, and acted. All the same, they would freeze, so they explain what is important where, and in what order.
What kind of EVIL FORCE do you have? So he chases the Dyatlovites. And things never happen like that in nature.

7. Why did the tourists leave the tent?
Here we would have competed in inventing horror stories, if there were no chains of traces left, indicating that the Dyatlovites did not run away from fear in different directions, but went out in a group with a full complement or one less, we will say that it was completely complete. We left the tent, went out into the cold, leaving warm clothes in the tent.
For example, there appeared fireball, UFO, rocket flying. Why cut the ramp if the ball lightning quickly reaches the ramp? Or did the snow cover the entrance so that it was necessary to cut the tent?
I dismiss the avalanche versions and the possibility that a snow slab fell on the tent, because if the injuries of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibeaux-Brignolles were received at the beginning of the incident, then who fought for their lives if the rest were without shoes?
For example, an animal came, jumped onto the tent, and fell. Tourists began to hit him with an ice ax and cut the slope like that, the animal ran away. They got out through the cut. The animal returned, wounded and angry (left no traces, no blood on the tent and around).
Fear made them cut the tent, but they did not run, but went away from the tent, leaving there the most necessary things for survival (shoes, warm clothes, food).
Such actions can only be explained by general insanity, but subsequently the work necessary for survival was done, logical actions were taken.
But the cuts on the tent, this fact, in itself, can be put as a point on a straight line, literally anywhere. The fact itself does not say that it happened exactly at the moment in which we want to see it. The cuts could also appear during the event that forced the Dyatlovites to leave the tent, as well as after it.
I found that the searchers who discovered the tent were raking the snow and cut the slope with an ice pick in two places, even, they said, a piece of the tent came off.

8. When did the tourists get injuries incompatible with life?
The second conclusion refers to those final injuries with which the tourists were found. This fact, it seems, can also be put in any place throughout the duration of the events, while the last of the Dyatlovites remained alive. But here it is quite obvious that with such injuries no one will walk a kilometer and a half in the snow, no one will fight hard for his life: go, collect brushwood and branches, climb a cedar for branches for flooring, make a fire. Having such injuries, a person needs help and someone who will fight for himself, and make selfless efforts to save him.
And this is a very big job, given that a group of Dyatlovites at a time when it was necessary to fight not only for their lives, but also for someone else, even for life best friend, was at that moment half-dressed in bad weather and severe frost. So, the amount of work that would have gone to those who did not receive serious injuries incompatible with life exceeded the capabilities of these people. They would have to carry the wounded, take care of them, not themselves. Dubinina, Zolotarev, and Thibaut-Brignoles had injuries incompatible with life and, meanwhile, turned out to be the best dressed of all, were for some time in best conditions life. They had a flooring of branches in a ravine protected from the wind. Even if they were dragged, laid down, dressed, dying groaning, on the verge between life and death. This is easy to write, and you carry the wounded on your feet, having only socks on your feet! Put Zolotarev on your back, and make efforts to save yourself and him. And yet you dragged him to the cedar, and then what? Some more time will pass until a place for flooring is found, while this place is prepared, branches are broken and trained, laid in the flooring. And where were the wounded all this time? They lay side by side in the snow and waited for the time until everything settles down and they are not seated on the floor? But they have no signs of frostbite.
The versions that Zolotarev, Dubinina and Thibaut-Brignoles were injured at the very beginning of the unfolding tragedy seem meaningless to everyone who has dealt with snow, frost and understands what a person can and cannot do while on the snow only in socks.
Pay attention to the fact that Doroshenko, Krivonischenko, Kolmogorova and Dyatlov, who, as it were, had the main blow of work in the snow under the cedar, were found in socks and only Slobodin had one felt boot, and Zolotarev and Thibault, who, in the course of such versions, should were only rescued were in shoes, Zolotarev in cloaks, and Thibaut in felt boots.

9. Sasha Zolotarev - why do we single him out?
And Zolotarev in this story is a very extraordinary person. “Zolotarev Semyon (Alexander) Alekseevich, born in 1921, was one of the conscripts of 1921-22. He went through almost the entire war, was a Komsomol organizer of the battalion, after the war he joined the party. He had 4 military awards, after the war he worked as a tourism instructor at the Artybash camp site (Altai), then moved to the Sverdlovsk region, where he got a job as a senior tourism instructor at the Kourovskaya camp site.
War does not leave a random person alive. Only a person who is very adapted to life, who has a direct animal instinct and global intuition, who has intelligence and common sense, who knows how to soberly assess the situation and finds the only right way out, who knows how to use the human resources surrounding him, will remain alive. This is not just a lucky man who “is afraid of a bullet and does not take a bayonet”, this is a person who knows how to survive in any situation, having the main task - survival, and not unjustified heroism inspired by time.
And if you ask me who was bound to survive, then I will answer that it was Zolotarev. In order to survive, he had to be ready for any difficult situation that happens on campaigns. In the tent, he undoubtedly had to occupy the best place in order to quickly leave it in case of danger. Zolotarev, of course, should have been the best dressed. And he had to take the most reliable measures for his own salvation and the salvation of the people with whom he found himself in a group. In general, being next to Zolotarev at the time of a tragic situation meant surviving or holding out as long as possible. Being able to survive, Zolotarev saved others as best he could.
And if you tell me that contrary to the laws of nature, in a difficult situation that takes a long time to overcome, some lucky Vasya will survive, and Zolotarev will die, because he was simply unlucky, then I will never believe it. Zolotarev was not just the oldest of the guys. He was much wiser and more experienced, went through military school from the very beginning and received an award for unsinkability - his own life. And if he did not die immediately and was not initially significantly injured, then it was he who had to rally a group of tourists around him, who finally had to survive. And that is exactly what most likely happened. It was these four people who held out the longest, it was they who turned out to be better dressed than others and had a shelter to hold out until daylight and go to the storehouse where there were things and food. Zolotarev and Thibaut also had no signs of frostbite, and this was another plus for further survival. In general, there was absolutely no reason for them to die, and they had to continue to fight the natural phenomenon and overcome it. And I can’t blame everything on the fact that Zolotarev could succumb to emotions, feelings of guilt for the dead comrades, it was Zolotarev who should not have been inclined to sentimentality and disgust about the clothes taken off from his dead friends. They're dead anyway, and they don't need clothes. And the living need. What kind of sentimentality is there? It was Zolotarev, like no one else, who was ready for death, he saw death, he got used to death as much as possible, he did not feel those emotions about death that anyone who had such close dealings with death experiences.
Here you are, if you were in that situation, it would take time, say, a week of a very difficult existence, to part with your some moral principles. For example, would you dare to go to dead bodies at night to take off their clothes?
Doroshenko and Krivonischenko were found under the cedar almost naked, in shirts and underpants. They could not have been undressed by chance or undressed themselves, parts of their clothes were found not far from the cedar or on the deck in different places.
It is also obvious that at the moment of deciding what to do and how to proceed, the group of tourists split up: two tourists, led by Dyatlov, went towards the tent (walked away from the tent), two remained at the cedar, and three remained with Zolotarev on flooring.
If the situation is difficult, then the leader should be alone and decisions should be made by one person, like a captain on a ship.
What could be done in a situation where most of from the group standing in the snow in the same socks? The most important thing is to keep your feet warm! First, insulate the legs, and then everything else: drag, chop, kindle. What is the fastest way to insulate everyone's feet? You can only make flooring from branches, laying these branches for flooring in a calm place.
It is not surprising that Dubinina, a girl who proved her ability to endure and wait when she was shot in the leg on another hike, turned out to be with Zolotarev. With
this group turned out to be Kolevatov - executive and pedantic. All the men in this group were older than the rest of the tourists in age.
And the fact that Krivonischenko and Zolotarev were buried separately from the whole group, in another cemetery, nearby in closed coffins, also remains a fact not entirely clear: one was found with the first group of dead tourists, the second with the second group. For the first one, the parents asked, they wanted him to be buried at the Ivanovo cemetery, and Zolotarev, why was he separated from the second group of bodies found?
To give the whole story a modern focus, I want to believe that Zolotarev did not die then. That another person was buried instead of him. After all, he was identified twice, confusing him with Doroshenko. And then buried in a closed coffin. I want to believe that Zolotarev completed the task that he was instructed to complete. That he, as befits such a person, could not die so easily and surrender even to a superior enemy.

10. Other people.
It is obvious to me that some other people were present in this tragedy. Because a trace of a boot was found that did not belong to the members of the group, a scabbard and a piece of overcoat cloth and a soldier's winding. Yes, these strangers had to be only because Zolotarev, Dubinina, Kolevatov, Thibault-Brignolles had to survive, they had to overcome the elements. What was the point of hiding the flooring if the threat could not come down to them and harm them?
Only other people could finish off and finished off, which any natural phenomenon will never do to you. The story about when the evil force returned is not from an anomalous (parallel) world, it only concerns relationships between people.
Surely these strangers had weapons that they could threaten. Most likely this weapon was not a firearm. Because it is impossible to hold a group of nine people if you never use your firearms. Those you hold down will realize very quickly that they haven't been shot at and will simply stop being afraid.
But I don’t really imagine a very large group of other people under those conditions, because the traces of their presence would have been more numerous. And this is someone else's ski track, and the Mansi hunters would probably know about the presence of some other people in the territory where the tragedy broke out.
But this, of course, is speculation. I don't think it's possible to clean up a place without leaving traces. Didn't these people appear out of thin air? They had to pass the villages, they had to be noticed by the local population before they got to this place. If they flew in by helicopter, then there should have been a trace of the helicopter landing.
The flooring, too, could not be hidden, but simply choose a windward place. After all, there was nothing to dig a lair in the snow, there was no shovel. They write that even a place for a tent was dug with skis. (We, when traveling in winter, we always took a shovel, or even two. It is necessary to clear the place of snow, level the site, clear the snow around the tent, if it snows all night, then the duty officer must monitor and clean the snow near the entrance, sweep the snow from the tent. This is a lot of work.If there is only one shovel, then one digs, and the rest freeze in the cold).
From the point of view of the appearance of strangers, everything is clear. They drove the Dyatlovites out into the cold almost naked, drove them away from the tent and decided to wait until they freeze. Then they saw that the tourists did not freeze, but even lit a fire and, perhaps, warmed up and were ready for a retaliatory attack, went to look for them, found those who did not die from freezing, killed them, then, covered their tracks and left.
For example, prisoners who escaped from the colony. Around the scene are corrective labor colonies. They refuse this version because, presumably, no one from the colony escaped at that time, and they don’t run, they say in winter. There is nothing to eat in the forest, it is cold, you can find it in the footsteps.
An interesting version of the meeting of the group with poachers.
I don't think it was a planned murder. Perhaps the Dyatlov group met another group of people who could not be there at that moment. And the Dyatlovites not only suspected them, but also openly expressed their doubts. True, I am not so smart as to put forward versions of a more complex plan. Involving criminals, the KGB, and spy groups in their reasoning. I do not really believe that there could be a planned delivery, because the creators of this version themselves understand how difficult it was for two groups not to disperse in time and such a complex space, in the event that part of the group in the whole story is not dedicated and not understands why it takes time. It would be a very complex operation, completely uncontrollable, where any miscalculation would lead to a fatal result.

11. Consequence.
The investigation was conducted as is always conducted in our country - under pressure from above, and from this, it seems: negligent, chaotic, stupid, strange.
The first version of the investigation was an attack on a group of tourists by Mansi hunters. After all, it was their interests that were affected, their shrines disturbed. The Mansi had a very good reason to scare the tourists, drive them out of the sacred territory. But the Mansi had no reason to destroy and finish off a group of tourists. And it was the Mansi, from whom nothing escapes in their forest, who saw someone else's ski track. It is very strange that they were released, it was so convenient to write off the whole tragedy on them.
In the version about the death of a group of tourists at the hands of people, many see that the tent was not robbed, food, alcohol, valuables and many other things did not disappear. (Some notepads, diaries, photographic films were missing, six out of ten were missing, no one knew exactly how many things there were and what things were, the belonging of the things was determined approximately).
Firearms, if any, were never fired at any of the group members. But this only proves that these strangers did not need the valuables and alcohol found in the tent. The tragedy most likely happened by accident.
Of course, investigator Ivanov was forced to present everything as he was ordered. And also, the case could not disappear completely, dissolve into oblivion, the fathers of Slobodin and Dubinina could demand an objective investigation into the death of children. Especially Dubinina's father, because her body was found in a very terrible form. Looking at the body of his daughter, the father could not help but understand that she was not just cold. He could not be satisfied with this result of the course of the investigation.
Here it is obvious that the investigation had a directive to present everything as an accident, and the one who ordered this was aware of the events that took place at the pass or about what reasons could have led to such tragic consequences. I think that the investigation would not hide the meeting of the Dyatlovites with the spy group, if everything boiled down to this. Why hide the fact that tourists were vigilant in that difficult post-war period for the country? It was necessary and necessary to hide in the event that their own destroyed their own. After all, this fact could not be clearly explained to the people. It was necessary to hide if our people were engaged in some secret developments or tests in this deserted place, which no one needed to know about.

12. Orange skin of the dead.
There was also a very big resonance among the people. There were many searchers who probably shared information, Yudin survived, who was also not satisfied with the course of the investigation, and there were a large number of people at the funeral. For whom the color of the skin of the dead was a fact that stirred the imagination. So much so that many years later, I learned from a friend that the skin color of the faces of the dead tourists was orange! Many people unsuccessfully try to explain this orange skin color and often simply dismiss it (the name of the color can be the perception of each individual person, one thing is clear from here that the skin color of tourists was not ordinary for a frozen deceased person, I think, among people who were present at the funeral there were people who had seen the frozen dead before this case, had experience, and like many others, the skin color was strange to them, this color did not succumb to logic and experience). And the first thing that can come to mind is radiation or poisoning. chemicals. And a radiation test was carried out. Otherwise, why would it be carried out? No one checks frozen bodies for the presence of radiation. And radiation was found on the clothes of the dead.

13. A strange act.
Krivonischenko's act at the station also seems strange. An entry from the diary of Lyudmila Dubinina: "January 24. (...) There was one small incident - Yurka K. was taken to the police, accusing him of deceit. Our Yura decided to walk around the station with a hat, and with the performance of some song. Yurka had to bail out (....)". A strange incident, because this trick threatened to disrupt the entire campaign, or the participation of Krivonischenko himself in it. Now it is more common for young people to fool around, knowing that this will not entail any consequences. At that time they were fooling around with caution, and illegal songs were sung and texts were copied, but everything was in the strictest confidence, and not at the station, not in front of strangers. More developed self-discipline and self-control. And here is such an unjustified tomfoolery - holding out his hat, he asked for alms. He sang a song at the station, where the patrol went and it was forbidden to sing. All this can be understood only if Krivonischenko, under some pretext, had to get to the police station, so that the group would not suspect anything. The merry fellow would certainly have been taken on a campaign, but the fool would not. This is an insignificant fact, which, in general, does not prove anything, but is very strange in light of the fact that the entire group of tourists died.

14. Where did the language disappear to?
Another fact that worries the minds of people investigating the death of the Dyatlovites is the absence of eyeballs in Zolotarev and Dubinina and the language of Dubinina. That is the most understandable phenomenon. And I wonder why anyone thinks people did that. Killed, and then mocked at the bodies. What for? Or interrogated by squeezing out eyeballs? What for? And what was there to ask? The whole group was already dead by this time. But if a person's tongue is torn out, or eyeballs are squeezed out, then he will definitely never tell anything. I think that in this case everything is more prosaic. After death, Dubinina's mouth was open, and her face was turned to the side where animals or birds could get, which always eat out the eyes and tongue first. The bodies of Dubinina and Zolotarev were not found longer than others and were subjected to greater decomposition and greater change. If they lay there for another month, there would be no trace left of them.

II. Logic chains.

1. Let's return to Zolotarev.
I will start with the personality of Sasha Zolotarev. From the conclusion of the forensic medical examination: “On the back of the right hand, at the base of the thumb, there is a tattoo of “Gene”. On the back of the right forearm in the middle third is a tattoo with the image of a beetroot and the letter C, on the back of the left forearm there is a tattoo with the image of "G + S", "DAERMMUAZUAYA", a five-pointed star and the letter C, the letters "G + S + P \u003d D" and " 1921". You can find many forums and websites where people try to unravel the meaning of these tattoos. Basically, all the arguments boil down to the fact that the body that was buried was not the body of Semyon Zolotarev, that, most likely, it was Gena (Gennady), a prisoner from the colony, of which there were many in the place where the tragedy occurred. "DAERMMUAZUAYA" - the words that were filled with a new tattoo in order to hide the meaning of the old one. For example, the letter M is difficult to score with a new letter, and the letter G may well turn out to be the letter E, you just need to add two lower sticks to it, you can make the letter A from the letter L by adding a crossbar. There are no real witnesses to that story left, and it is impossible to know for sure whether there was an identification of the body and whether Zolotarev's mother really came to the funeral.
But there was another story known to me, which I know for sure, when the mother did not identify the body of her dead son. It is impossible to find out in a situation where the body, and especially the face, has undergone significant changes. You can only reliably identify things if you have information about things. But many parents, if the children do not live permanently with them, are little aware of the things of their child. It is possible to identify teeth and crowns if such information is available, but many parents do not know for sure about this either. And Zolotarev lived separately for a long time and, as you know, only occasionally visited his mother. In this case, a DNA examination would help, only this could clarify and finally certify whether Zolotarev was really found and buried, with whose personality there are so many questions, inconsistencies and inconsistencies. Let's look at the monument erected in memory of a group of tourists at the Mikhailovsky cemetery (Yekaterinburg) and find that Zolatarev A.I. we also read a tablet on a personal monument at the Ivanovo cemetery. We also learn that Zolotarev asked to call himself Alexander.
Here is such a version. Eight people were immediately found, all except Zolotarev. Let's just say it went missing. But you can't open it to the public. There will be endless questions and suspicions. In this case, it is much easier to stage a scene, hide the bodies, disfigure faces beyond recognition, drag out the investigation, wait for the moment when everyone gets tired of waiting for the denouement. The first bodies of tourists were buried with a large crowd of people, and Zolotarev was only 12 people. He was buried in a closed zinc coffin in another cemetery.

2. Versions of the division of power and conflict over the rights of women.
Let's assume that the incident that caused the death of the tourists was the most mundane: they didn't share power, they didn't share the girls.
Looking at the photographs of the campaign of the Dyatlov group, I see that in some pictures Zolotarev is talking with Kolmogorova, it is noticeable that he is paying attention to a beautiful girl. Zina Kolmogorova has a difficult relationship with the men in the group. Igor Dyatlov likes her, they find a photo of Zina with him. Here are the lines from the diary of Zina Kolmogorova: “After dinner, we made only one transition and stood up for a halt. I sewed up the tent. We went to bed. Igor was rude all evening, I just didn’t recognize him. There are many other entries from the girl's diary, which directly indicate that there was no ideal relationship in the group of young tourists. What does the phrase say that Igor is rude?
And the fact that there was no sex between them does not affect the relationship at all. Rather, it inflames passions even more.
Before the campaign, Zina had a relationship with Yura Doroshenko, you can find information that they were going to get married, but something went wrong with them, in a letter to a friend, on the train, the girl writes: "He walks with some of the girls by the hand .Jealous." "We are together and not together." Here immediately there is a whole love tangle, an explosion of passions.
How can one dismiss all these facts when talking about UFOs, rocket launches, test delivery? The relationship of tourists on a hike can spoil any ideal situation.
Both women could become a detonator, a trigger, provoke the situation and consequences with any of their inadequate actions.
You will say that these were disciplined marching women who did not know the passions of rebellion and inappropriate behavior?
Reading the wall newspaper, which the tourists allegedly made on the day of their death, one cannot fail to notice that there are hints of love affairs in the group. “Let's meet the 21st Congress with an increase in the number of tourists!”
I also noticed how the attitudes and understanding of events in the brain differ in men and women. The men will notice the note about the sled and about the bigfoot and ignore the tourist birth rate recorded in the first paragraph.
A quarrel over girls could occur both within the group and with someone whom the group might meet on a hike, any group of men (In such remote places, women are always fewer and can always be a cause of interest and a cause of disputes between men).
Even in the group there was a possible conflict of leaders. Researchers write that only leaders went on this campaign. And Dyatlov was not an ideal group leader. In a difficult situation, no single decision was made, it is clear that the group was divided.
It can definitely be said as a group, about three tourists, and, possibly, Luda Dubinina, who were found nearby, with a certain interaction with each other (they lay side by side, one hugged the other).
All other tourists did not make up a group, divided, found them in different places. Krivonischenko and Doroshenko did not die in the positions in which they found the bodies under the cedar (the body is stretched out, the arm is thrown behind the head). They (or one of them) could be found and brought under the cedar, undressed and left to lie there.
3. Before or after climbing Otorten?
I still often think that the tragedy occurred after climbing Mount Otorten, there are several clues about this. So the newspaper is called "Evening Otorten", why call the wall newspaper like that, if the job has not yet been done? Why was there only one log when the ascent was coming? Why did you get to the parking lot so quickly, when only 2 km to the storehouse? Step back a bit and get up right away? Or maybe we didn't make it a bit on the way back? And the last photo, where they put up a tent on the side of the mountain and the place where they found it, the researchers notice that the slopes are different, the photo has a larger slope. Although, here you can be wrong. I often take pictures while hiking. Photos of the slopes do not convey the steepness of the slope. The tent in the photo was photographed from different points: from the bottom and from the top. The steepness of the slope in the photo always seems less.

4. Anomalous versions.
I'll be honest, I don't consider anomalous versions of events. On two overnight stays, Sergei and I saw a UFO in the sky, so what? The UFO was flying high in the sky, it did not touch us. Not a terrible thing.
I was afraid of wild animals, and Sergey was afraid of people. Very often he chose places to spend the night remote from people and housing.
Many times we ended up at the cemetery late in the evening, after nine o'clock in the evening, once we spent the night near the cemetery. Nothing out of the ordinary has ever happened!

5. From the experience of winter overnight stays.
I'll tell you a little about winter camping. I was very surprised by the fact that experienced tourists do not share the experience of their overnight stays. So, we spent the night at minus 20 degrees in a triple nylon tent with a double layer of the thinnest material. Such two-layer tents, of course, keep heat better, save well from the wind, and get wet a little. We had a small Pathfinder gas stove. Last night the snow was 30cm high. In the tent from the operation of the gas stove it immediately becomes warm, after 15 minutes you can sit in the tent in your shorts, so it's warm there. Last night we slept without the gas stove turned on. Warm things up and off. We did not experiment with cold and survival, it was just warm. At night, if they wanted to pee, they went out wearing rubber boots, but hardly dressed, it was lazy, although it was cold outside. Only one night Sergei jumped out of the tent naked, not shod. In that cold autumn night it seemed to him that mermaids were swimming in the lake near which we set up our camp.
Looking at the photographs where the Dyatlovites are standing in thin hats, with open windbreakers, without scarves, it is hard to believe that the temperature is minus 20 degrees. At minus 20 degrees, frost freezes on parts of clothing close to the face from walking. Frost freezes from breathing when walking. Hat, collar near the face, everything becomes white, needle-like.
True, on campaigns, it was often when the weather changed rapidly, and the wind, on open areas was of such strength that it knocked down and it was not possible to walk, only to crawl on all fours.
Also, Sergei noticed that such traces, as found near the tent, could only form if the snow was wet. Only in this case the snow is compressed and then, after melting, the traces protrude like columns. There was a very strong wind in such an open place where the Dyatlovites tent stood, and the wind causes much more inconvenience than frost. For people who found themselves without clothes, it was important to quickly hide from the wind. At the same time, to be on the snow without shoes meant to die quickly. I find versions that one tourist was blown away by the wind when he went out to pee, while others rushed to the rescue, and they were also blown away by the wind. It may well be, but why cut the tent?
Once we bathed in a spring at minus 20 degrees. On that trip, I put on nylon tights, thin socks. Swimming in the cold was not cold. It was cold to stand on the frozen floor and pull on nylon tights. While I was trying to put on shoes as soon as possible, I almost got frostbite on my feet, I dressed poorly, one sock got lost inside the boot. Wept from the cold. What saved me was that they came to the monastery, it was warm there. I took off my shoes and for about half an hour tried to warm my legs and howled from the pain when my legs began to move away a little. While I put on pantyhose, I stood completely naked, in the cold, after bathing my body did not freeze at all, only my legs froze. Since then, I am sure that being left without shoes is certain death, and if you had to stay in the cold without shoes, you need to take off your clothes and warm your feet.
Secondly, you need to walk or collect firewood while a person is moving, even if he is little dressed, but with insulated legs, he is less likely to freeze. Third, you need to seek shelter as soon as possible.
The conclusion is simple. Any person who has little experience of surviving in cold conditions will not walk in the snow in socks alone, he will very quickly begin to redistribute clothes, tear off the sleeves from the jacket (cut off with a knife) and wrap his legs. If experienced people did not do this, it means that they did not go down to the cedar, did not drag the bodies of the injured comrades there, did not collect brushwood for the fire, which means that they died on the way from the tent down, and not when climbing up to it.
The fire near the cedar could well have been a signal (if the tourists did not go to the tent, but got lost on the way from it and was intended to gather everyone in one place), but most likely it was intended for heating. It is very logical to go down and make a signal fire, but how, having left the fire in the darkness of the night, find a tent if you have moved a distance of one and a half kilometers? This is completely impossible, that's what I know for sure, if the same signal fire does not burn near the tent (They write that there was a large signal lamp on the tent, that's why it was visible).
There were cases when, during winter fishing, we went into the lake on ice for one and a half to two kilometers, and then we had to return to the car to take something. The car was always visible from the fishing place and it seemed that it would be easy to go back later and find your fishermen. But on the shore it turned out that it was very difficult to find the way back. All fishermen were the same from afar. Everyone was sitting on boxes wearing chemical protective raincoats. From afar, everyone was the same. The trajectory of the path was quickly forgotten, it was impossible to find the way back if one of his own did not give a signal noticeable from the shore (Usually he got up and waved his arms, with a clear day and good visibility).
Even during the day, I do not believe that finding a tent if walking from the cedar was easy. At night, it was completely unrealistic. Therefore, Kolmogorova, Dyatlov and Slobodin were most likely the first to die when they descended from the tent. They didn't insulate the legs. Left behind the group, lost in the confusion. I find versions that they were blinded, so they crawled towards the tent. You see, even if there was good visibility, it was difficult to find a tent and find a direction to it. It was easy to get away from it, but it was very difficult to return, up the slope in strong wind and frost, poor visibility (unrealistic for a healthy person). If it were necessary to find a tent, then it would be necessary to follow its tracks to it, but these three did not follow the tracks.
I'll add about the equipment. In 10-15 degree frost, they dressed like this: cotton undershirt, sweater, quilted jacket (wadded, quilted), on the head a cotton scarf, over a hat with earflaps (rabbit, beaver), the ears of the hat were tied, on the legs there were cotton pantyhose and wadded quilted trousers, simple and woolen socks and felt boots with chemical protective stockings. Over the padded jacket, I put on a raincoat with a hood, and on top of a chemical protection raincoat. Coated fur mittens on hands. It was always much colder on the lake, a strong piercing wind was blowing. We went into the lake for 5 km while walking, but it was hard to go, it was hot. They came, drilled holes, sat down. It got cold very quickly. Feet in felt boots, hands froze. To protect from the wind, the fishermen sew a bag from a transparent film, which is worn on top.
Yesterday, just, there was such an air temperature, minus 20 degrees. I was dressed warmly, I immediately froze in the wind. I thought about those who talk, sitting in warm apartments, about what could and could not have happened: about hurricanes and the difficulties of the route, about sub-zero temperatures, about wet sleeping bags, about a wet tent.
The fire that was kindled near the cedar, if it was not a signal one, most likely was built in the place where it was easier to collect firewood for kindling. As winter overnight stays showed, green spruce burns best, flares up and burns like gunpowder, but dry trees that have been under the snow burn poorly, so diesel fuel would be required to kindle such firewood, they stubbornly did not want to flare up. At first, while there were a lot of branches, there is enthusiasm, because the fire, even in severe frost, quickly becomes warm. It is worth warming up a little and you don’t want to leave the fire. It quickly becomes clear that such fuel will not be enough for a long time, because it burns out instantly, and for new branches you had to climb higher and break them off with the weight of your body.
People who find themselves in such a situation should set themselves a specific goal, do this and that, then all actions will make sense. If you understand that you will certainly die when the available branches of the cedar run out, then very soon you will not want to do anything, realizing the futility of actions.

6. Sequence of deaths.
I come to almost the same conclusion as in the first part. Three tourists died almost immediately, six people went down. Two more died under the cedar, and four on the deck lived longer than the others, because they had everything for survival: they had a good organization and one leader, were shod and dressed, sheltered from the cold and wind, could wait for the morning and go to the tent or storehouse for skis and clothes. Everyone who could break the unity of the group and decision-making, namely: Kolmogorova, Dyatlov and Doroshenko, was no longer alive. But for some reason they didn’t go, but were found with broken ribs and faces changed beyond recognition, with radiation on their clothes. Although it’s complete nonsense, the conclusion suggests itself that at the moment when a group of four tourists took refuge in a ravine, that ill-fated snow slab descended on them (there was an explosion with a release of radiation), which killed the survivors.
If the sequence is this: three were lost and died, two kindled a fire and waited for those three, hoping that they were alive, and four hid on the deck. Here there is a division of the group into smaller groups of people: Kolmogorova and Dyatlov, separately from them Doroshenko, separately from them Zolotarev and the people who joined them. This is how they should have parted if it was a matter of love and the sharing of power. Dyatlov could not be next to Zolotarev, Doroshenko could not be next to Dyatlov. Here you have a close-knit, similar, carefully selected group of people.
Four from the floor, really could live, and maybe they lived, longer. Zolotarev could even leave for help. I realized how hopeless everything was and left. And the criminal case on the death of tourists was opened on February 6. So someone said the tourists were dead. Although, this person could not be Zolotarev, but Sasha Kolevatov. There is almost no debate about it on the sites. And Sasha was also the leader of hiking trips, he had the qualities of a leader.

7. Put forward versions, do not discard the facts.
But no matter what versions we consider, we must not forget about the main fact that stirred up and intrigued the public. And, ultimately, I was not left indifferent to that old story. The faces of the dead were unnaturally orange. On the Internet you will find disputes and forums about the name of the color. The color of the skin of the dead was named to me in childhood and it was orange, not brown and not burgundy red. Most likely, everyone had this skin color, but it was the first five tourists found and buried that attracted the attention of the public (a large number of people).
On the Internet you will find many different judgments about the skin color of the dead, they say the search engines and people who came to the funeral could not correctly describe the color of the skin, because they did not deal with frozen people, had no experience and the skin color of a frozen person might seem unnatural to them, but in fact it is natural and normal, and the point here is not poisoning, not radiation. But I think that, on the contrary, there were such people among those who came to the funeral who were well acquainted with how frozen people look, it was they who were surprised by the unnatural skin color, and so much surprised that after 17 years, in the story told to me, this was the most important and frightening fact.

There are several stories similar to this one. The story of the tourist group Korovina (tragedy at Khamar-Daban), where 6 people died and only one girl escaped. A group of the Moscow city club of tourists "Spartak" in March 1963 passed the Chivruai-Lada pass in the opposite direction - from Umbozero to Seydozero (everyone survived). Sergey Sogrin's group - also got into a "cold" critical situation in the Subpolar Urals. As a result of the nighttime ignition of the stove, part of their tent burned down - the group lost their homes at night (everyone remained alive).

8. New finds.
I am constantly interested in new ideas on the topic. I see how people explore and find new ways to develop the investigation, how new facts arise, inconsistencies are found, new questions are born.
We found a document that says that during the search operations there were not one tent, but several. The document says - tents. It is also possible that some kind of extra people were found. They said that Dyatlov dragged his wife on him, and her arms and legs were broken. Kolmogorov and Dyatlov were found in different places. Another student Nikitin is buried next to the Dyatlovites.
Researchers find oddities in photographs attached to the case. I can attribute the strangeness to the poor quality of the photographs, but in some cases I agree with the researchers.

9. Non-standard versions.
Why do seemingly delusional versions arise? Because there is nothing to explain the injuries of three tourists (multiple fractures).
While watching films, I came across non-standard ideas that talked about experiments on humans. This topic concerns an American film about the Dyatlov group. Everyone who has seen the movie is talking about stupidity storyline. I do not think so. I was a reader and the first fantastic works do not seem so fantastic to me: "Professor Dowell's Head" (1925), "Amphibian Man" (1927), "Heart of a Dog" (1925). Do you know what these pieces were about? They were about human experiments. The main part of the storyline was built on the fact that human-animal hybrids escaped from the experimenter and lived their lives as they themselves wanted.
Not a single fantasy is born from scratch, a person is not able to invent anything himself, I know this for sure. Experiments on people were carried out in concentration camps, during the years of the Second World War, and then were carried out in the USSR, but were classified. If you are interested in this topic, you will find articles about experiments on people in the Gulag camps (do not watch for the faint of heart, I watched the video, I was shocked by what I saw). It is about such experiments that the American film speaks. This film says that the Dyatlovites stumbled upon a secret base where such experiments were carried out. Nonsense? Don't tell. The Americans put forward a very bold version (and, perhaps, they knew more than ours). This is not an anomalous version, not parallel worlds, not fabulous elves and giants. These were experiments on connecting a person and an animal (monkeys), the cut off head of a dog lived, connected to devices with blood circulation, one dog was sewn to another, the corpses of dead people were revived. I don’t want to believe in such versions, it’s better if they were blown away by the wind, and then they were thrown and thrown over the mountain until everyone died.
Where is the base on which the tourists made their way? In Mount Otorten. And not on the Dyatlov Pass. That's where no one is looking, that's where you need to go looking.

10. Staged.
And the latest version - everything related to the Dyatlov case - is a staging. In a country where people were imprisoned for harvested spikelets from the field, people could be killed for a little done, or because of the suspicion that they had done something that threatened to reveal state secrets. And then, when popular unrest began, they decided to fake freezing. Back then, the people who were doing it didn't really try. Therefore, there are so many inconsistencies in the case: confused clothes, the strange position of the corpses, the absence of wounds on the feet, although they ran almost barefoot along the kurumniks, it is not clear how they made the flooring when there was only one knife, how they dug the snow to make a windy place, complete leapfrog with dates . The series of inconsistencies is reinforced by the Dyatlovologists, fueling interest in the case.
This business is an endless source of income. Thousands of articles, TV shows, videos.

I think that the search for the missing tourists was carried out on such a large scale and was classified because Georgy Krivonischenko was an engineer of a sensitive facility in Chelyabinsk region, where they worked with plutonium, a substance intended for the creation of nuclear weapons. Rustem Slobodin also worked there. It was assumed that the young people wanted to fly abroad and sell the secrets of the enterprise.
The more I read, the more mysterious this story becomes. The more questions. After all, they deliberately confuse us, and all important documents were seized from the case. And although these may be coincidences, there are too many of them in such a strange complicated case. And the existence of radioactive things is an irrefutable fact, things that, for unknown reasons, got on that campaign, it’s only clear that if they were being prepared for transfer, they were never transferred.
In my reasoning, I do not want to hurt their memory, somehow humiliate or elevate one of them.
Blessed memory of all those who died on that fateful day, rest in peace to them. Blessed memory to all tourists who died from avalanches and other natural phenomena.

Reviews

Too many emotions and few comparisons of facts into a single picture. Also, it doesn’t pull on “prose” at all - ordinary emotional statements without observing the literary style.
As for the Dyatlov case, there are more imaginary mysteries than real ones. Folk researchers themselves simply have some kind of mania to look for riddles from scratch and make noise out of them all over the country. What riddles just did not come up with ...
Investigator Ivanov called Mount Otorten? Yes, when, thirty years later, a journalist found him to ask about this case, he did not remember a single name of the Dyatlovites, let alone the names of the mountains ...
Do Dyatlovites have orange skin? Forensic expert E. Tumanov has long answered this question: this is the usual "post-mortem tan" of frozen people ...
Was radiation found? It was found only on the clothes of Krivonischenko, who was the liquidator of the Kyshtym accident - the very first man-made disaster in the USSR with a release of radiation that occurred in September 1957. The Dyatlovites removed part of the clothes from the dead Krivonischenko - radiation was found on it ...
The list of imaginary riddles could be continued, but it is simply huge in this article ... There is no desire to waste time on this.
Of all the real mysteries of this case, only one stands apart: the injuries of Zolotarev and Dubinina. E. Tumanov consulted with other forensic experts on this matter, and everyone comes to the same conclusion: something has moved Zolotarev and Dubinin. Something rolling along the chest from right to left, about 30 cm wide. At the same time, in order to crush the chest, the weight must be at least 300 kg. There were no cars there. But what it was is a mystery. Everything else is self explanatory...

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"Death came from paralysis of the respiratory center"

A military medic told his version of the death of the Dyatlov group

A picture taken by the Dyatlov group on their last trip

The story of the mysterious death on the night of February 1-2, 1959 in the north Sverdlovsk region groups of nine tourists led by a fifth-year student of UPI (joined UrFU) Igor Dyatlov is one of those in which no one will ever be able to put an end to it. There are a million versions: an avalanche, a bigfoot, a rocket explosion, a sabotage group, runaway prisoners, Mansi, dissatisfied with the invasion of sacred places for them. Recently, the site's correspondent met a former military medic, 66-year-old Vladimir Senchenko. Now he lives in Kamensk-Uralsky, but he comes from the north of the region, he served in missile units for many years ..

- What do you know about this whole story with the death of tourists?

- Let's start with the map .. A military paramedic, he served in the missile forces and I know about this case. Tired of listening: either the aliens flew in, or the bear came out and kicked everyone.

- In fact, there are more versions, and for the most part they are not so fantastic.

- In those years, military tests were carried out in the Ivdel region, missiles were tested. All the locals were well aware of this. They were often called fire snakes. I myself, when I was still living in Maslovo, saw 5-6 launches every winter. In the summer, by the way, they were not. Only held in winter. They went from the Serov region to the north, approximately along the Serov-Ivdel railway. Once, by the way, I saw that two rockets were flying at the same time. What does it say? The fact that these were not tests of only ballistic missiles. According to the instructions, they cannot test two ballistic missiles at the same time. Yes, everything was classified, but even the last losers in our country knew that weapons, including atomic weapons, were being tested in the north. We were strongly advised not to walk in the rain, not to walk in the snow. And why? Because the fallout was radioactive.

- You want to say that the entire north of the Sverdlovsk region is infected?

- It's less now. Listen further. When I graduated from medical school, I was sent to Vizhay for distribution. But I did not get to Vizhay, I worked in the village of Pervoi Severny. I was settled there with geophysicists, at least that's how they were introduced to me at first. Allegedly, they make up some kind of cards and all that stuff. On weekdays, these people disappeared in the taiga, and on weekends they rested in the village. One fine day, it was Monday and I had a day off, one of them, the youngest, stayed at the base. He must have been 25 years old. He offered me a drink, I didn't refuse, sat down. I asked him why he didn't go with everyone. And then he started talking. I won’t go, he says, no more, how do you live here, they say? He says you can't live here, there's radiation all around. It turned out that they are not geophysicists. They walk through the taiga and collect all sorts of junk left over from the launches. I say I want to live. The next day, he planned to go to their office, get paid and leave the village. Only when the next day I came home after work, I could not get into the apartment. Turns out it was a shot. He locked himself in a room and shot himself. This is instead of going home. Two uncles came and took away the body. me for interrogation. I pretended to be, as we then said, "rags."

- How is this connected with the Dyatlov Pass?

“The problem is that people have absolutely no idea what an explosion is. It is believed that these are, relatively speaking, fragments, a bunch of holes and all that. Specifically, what is a blast wave, hydrodynamic shock, absolutely no one knows. Even I, who worked as a doctor for seven years and served in missile units from the Caucasus to the Urals, until some point studied it only as an elective. I want to say that the four wounded from the Dyatlov group (Rustem Slobodin, Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexei Zolotarev, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolle - site) are not a bear or aliens at all, this is a shock wave.

- In fact, this is one of the most popular versions, why are you so sure of this?

- All these combinations of injuries suggest such an idea: broken ribs, head injuries. This is what happens in a blast. He fell, say, on a backpack, on a stone or on another person during the explosion - he broke his ribs, injured his head. True, if you paint these injuries separately, and this is exactly what was done in the conclusion of the pathologist, then nothing is clear. It is not ruled out that the pathologist could have known about everything, but he was simply forbidden to write as he was. (The forensic medical examination of all the dead was carried out by the forensic expert of the regional bureau of forensic medical examination Boris Vozrozhdenny. At the same time, the forensic expert of the city of Severouralsk Ivan Laptev also participated in the study of the first four bodies on March 4, 1959, and an expert took part in the study of the last four bodies on May 9, 1959 -criminalist Henrietta Churkina - site).

- Do you want to say that near Mount Holatchakhl, on the slope of which on February 1, 1959 the group of Igor Dyatlov got up for the night, there was a rocket explosion?

- Let me remind you that the launches were carried out mainly in the evening. At least, it was at this time of day that they were most often observed in those years by local residents, including myself. At this time, the Dyatlov group was just getting up for the night. The second important point: all missiles during testing are equipped with a self-explosion system. The most secret part at that time was rocket fuel, for better ignition, an oxidizing agent based on nitric acid was added to it. Therefore, the electronics blew up the fuel tank. The rockets then went at a low altitude, and the Dyatlov group stood on the mountain. There is every reason to believe that we are dealing with a self-explosion of a rocket that occurred close to them.

- The minus of the rocket version is that the Ministry of Defense assures that there were no launches that day.

- We read carefully what they wrote: there were no training launches of ballistic missiles. Question: were any others produced? Nobody asked this question. We could talk about tactical missiles with a range of 300-400 km.

- In favor of the rocket version speaks a strange reddish-orange skin tone, which was seen on the bodies of dead tourists. Allegedly, these are traces of the impact of rocket fuel.

- When the tank with this fuel was opened, smoke or orange-colored vapor instantly appeared from there. Vapors bubbled up like a fountain, from orange to brown depending on the lighting. They are quite heavy. On the one hand, they are slowly deposited, on the other hand, they are slowly blown away by the wind. In general, it turned out that the group, after the explosion of the rocket, fell under a cloud of vapors of this fuel.

- Where did the rocket itself or its fragments go in this case?

- It is a mistake to believe that a rocket falls apart during self-explosion. The rocket body itself went a little further. According to the instructions, at the first opportunity, but no later than three days later, helicopter pilots took him away. They usually follow. Large parts were collected at the earliest opportunity, and small ones were collected before the 70s.

Could they see the tent and the bodies on the slope?

— We could see the tent. But these comrades have strict orders to follow their own course and not interfere in anything else. Especially by that time everyone was already dead. A cloud of vapors went down from the place of detonation, and there is no need to explain what acid vapors are.

- Stop, just right.

- To imagine what it is, you can pour nitric acid in the room. There is a strong irritant effect on the respiratory tract, effects on the eyes. A strong cough, runny nose, tears begin. I believe they were in the tent by the time the cloud reached them. I had to run. By this time, they began to choke, hence the cuts on the tent. Where to run? Just down, away from the cloud. In addition, try to drag a wounded person uphill in winter, and they had a ratio of four wounded to five survivors.

- I believe that they went down to the river (a tributary of the Lozva - site). We found this niche near the river: a cliff, there they simply hid from the wind.

In the case of the death of the Dyatlov group - new evidence

Relax a little, look around. It's cold, not enough clothes. We must return. But there is a strong irritation in the eyes, they do not really see. Plus cough, runny nose. Here you need to understand one more thing, the susceptibility of each person is different. For example, I tolerate acid more easily than alkali. Then they decide to leave part of the group by the river, the rest climbed a little higher up the slope to the edge of the forest, where they break branches and burn a fire ..

Why didn't anyone come back? There was not much to go to the tent.

“The oxidizing agent I told you about does not cause burns as such. It is quickly absorbed into the body and causes poisoning, accompanied by a red-orange color of the skin. Within half an hour, a person dies from paralysis of the respiratory center. That's why they didn't reach the tent either.

- When they found the bodies, they lay on the slope one after another. Closest to the tent was Zinaida Kolmogorova. Why?

- There may be several versions. They received the same poisoning, but everyone's tolerance is different. The resistance of the woman's body, as a rule, is higher, so she climbed the farthest.

- The rocket version, however, does not explain why some of the dead had no eyes, and Dubinina had no tongue and part of her lower lip.

- Everyone paid attention to this and went in cycles in it. In fact, the bodies were not immediately covered with snow. Eyes, lips, tongue - all these are the softest tissues, birds could really peck them out or gnaw them out by mice. There is an explanation why, for example, there was no tongue - they were suffocating, and this girl simply died on inspiration. The mouth remained open, and the animals could well take advantage of this.

- Good. Do you have an understanding of which missile test could lead to the death of the Dyatlov group?

- The launch of the S-75 complex flies one to one like those fiery snakes that we saw in my native village. This is a rocket, by the way, which on May 1, 1960, Powers was shot down in the sky over Sverdlovsk (pilot of the American U-2 spy plane - website). It is not ruled out that in 1959 it was tested. Around the same years, by the way, the S-125 complexes were tested. I think this question could be addressed to the Ministry of Defense.

Recall that in the winter of 1959, nine tourists disappeared in the mountains of the Northern Urals, who went hiking under the leadership of Igor Dyatlov. A month later, rescuers found their cut tent. And within a radius of one and a half kilometers from it - five frozen bodies. The bodies of the rest were found only in May. Almost all the tourists were shoddy and half-dressed. Some have fatal injuries. Until now, it has not been figured out why the guys ran away into the bitter cold and to their death.

According to the former investigator for especially important cases and the head of investigative units at various levels, Sergei Shkryabach, the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was that, due to a snowstorm, tourists chose an unsuitable place to stay for the night and set up a camp, digging into deep snow on the mountainside. As a result, an avalanche descended in the form of a landslide covered their tent. In a hurry to leave her with a storm wind and severe frost, all members of the group died.

Sergei Shkryabach came to our radio studio "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (97.2) to talk in more detail about this tragedy.

THIS WAS A FIRST CLIMB

Sergey Yakovlevich, we have been dealing with the history of the Dyatlov Pass for three years now. And during this time we have not formed any specific version of what happened. We read your conclusion, and I wanted to discuss this story with you, as an expert and climber. In the case of an avalanche, it is not entirely clear why they ran so far from the tent (1.5 km, - Ed.)? They could have stayed in place and dug up a tent.

They ran to the forest because that was their only way out. We probably would have done the same thing to survive in this storm. It was necessary to create some conditions. At least a fire. On a blown slope, they would not have bred it. They did not know exactly how far the forest was, since they actually did not have a map. I have studied this issue. The exact maps of the General Staff at that time were classified. They had some kind of forestry maps. But this is not serious.

This, by the way, completely breaks the spy version. If the KGB sent tourists to the mountains, they would have a decent map.

It was a first pass. They followed a route that was not known. Therefore, when they jumped out of the tent, they intuitively went down, not knowing that there were three stone ridges and icing. Their movement was very heavy. Many had minor injuries. They did not even reach the forest, stopping at a lone cedar. Severe frost, wind, they are half-dressed ... No one could last more than two hours under such conditions.

- Three of them were very well dressed. That's the question.

No, they then dressed themselves, taking off the clothes from the dead Doroshenko and Krivonischenko.

THERE WAS NO CONDITIONS FOR SALVATION

- And why did they climb the cedar?

For branches.

- You and I know very well that in life we ​​will not climb any cedar for branches when there is a lot of dead wood around.

Nothing like this. There was nothing there. The cedar stood alone. You can even see it in the photos. And they needed a fire.

- There was dry wood, dead wood, Christmas trees. They did the whole flooring.

It's not them. This is the last four that went further into the ravine.

It is known that there were quite thick branches in the fire. One even burned out. Why didn't they keep the fire going?

How it actually happened, I don't know. By itself, the fire will not save from the cold, if you do not create the conditions.

- Dig a hole?

At least.

We assume that there was a blizzard. But the corpses in relation to the tent lay in a straight line. As if they saw a tent.

No. They just walked down the slope. And in approximately the same direction they tried to return back.

- In your footsteps? Why was the end of the tent open? The horse was visible.

Protruding footprints went down from the tent. These columns were formed due to the fact that the wind blew a layer of snow about 40 cm thick around the pressed footprints. This means that the tent initially had about the same amount of snow, which was also swept away by the wind.

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THE MILITARY IS NOT HERE

Some of your colleagues are surprised that the case was closed at the end of May, when even the snow had not melted in those places. Why so fussily curtailed the investigation?

As a practitioner, as an investigator, I explain to you that there are situations when the prosecutor sees that you will not find anything in this case, but a stir begins to arise around him. And he stops it. Although at that time it was impossible to do this. Yes, Ivanov was a competent investigator, but he did not involve in the investigation people who understand something in extreme situations, in avalanches. He did not even collect information about weather conditions.

You say that Ivanov did not involve any specialists. But Sverdlovsk athletes Maslennikov and Axelrod, as well as representatives of the Moscow Federation of Tourism, worked on the spot.

Specialists arrived at the site when the tent had already been dug out. Everything, starting with Maslennikov. Therefore, they did not understand the situation. There, the entire slope was trampled down by this time.

- Why did Moscow tourists have to be brought?

Because the consent to conduct this trip was issued by the regional federation for tourism. So they figured out how guilty she was.

- Why did they submit their report to the Central Committee of the CPSU?

Sorry, nine people died! Nobody is responsible for this. In the Central Committee, most likely, complaints rained down. So the Committee demanded information.

Many soldiers were involved in the search. There is a version that they were attracted because the death of tourists is the fault of some military department.

No, it's not. Where else can you get so many people to search? Just build the military. So they combed this whole huge slope.

THE INVESTIGATORS WERE AMATEURS

- There is an opinion that the existing criminal case is a fake, and the real one lies somewhere else.

- That is, then the unprofessionalism of the investigation played a significant role?

It's just that the investigation approached the assessment of the situation in an amateurish manner. The prosecutors saw the tent, which had already been excavated, and began to draw conclusions based on what they found. (The snow on the tent, indeed, was raked, the search engines Slobtsov and Sharavin cut down with an ice ax - Ed.). But you can't do that.

Sergey Yakovlevich, weren't you surprised that there are not many procedural documents in the case? For example, protocols on the resolution of a forensic medical examination.

There were documents, they just came at the wrong time. Sometimes they were not hemmed, but they were there.

What do you think about the opening date of the case - February 6, 1959? (This date is indicated on the cover, and the protocol of initiating a criminal case of February 26, 1959, - Ed.).

Sometimes investigators are wrong. I had a situation when I myself interrogated the organizer of a hired murder, it was Sunday. And I spent it on Saturday. The case went to court, only there they saw the confusion with the dates.

INJURIES - FROM SNOW, AND RADIATION - FROM PRODUCTION

- Many forensic experts are surprised by the quality of the injuries that tourists have received.

Are we talking about those who were found in the stream? I, as a specialist in murders, will say that a bilateral fracture occurs from compression. According to the forensic medical report, there are no point marks of blows and hemorrhages on the bodies. This suggests that there was a wide application area. Such damage occurs from squeezing with great force.

Where did they get these injuries?

They were found at the source of the Lozva tributary. In a place that does not freeze completely. It is covered with snow at first, then the snow thaws and freezes, and the water below remains under it. As in any river. And here a grotto was formed, over which a lot of snow and ice accumulated. Tourists decided to hide from the frost in this place (not knowing that there was a grotto under them). They made a flooring, brought some clothes there, the arch of the grotto collapsed and the four of them collapsed down. They were covered with almost 5 meters of snow and ice. Hence the injuries.

- Why were radiation studies carried out?

They tried to find out, maybe some data. They thought that something else had happened, and not an avalanche. Investigator Ivanov had a poor understanding of the mechanism of this investigation. He was not at the pass at the time of the extraction of the tent, and the Ivdel prosecutor was not there either. He arrived only two days later.

- But the radiation was found!

It was found on the clothes of tourists who worked in closed factories. That is, perhaps they brought it to the pass from the factories.

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Dyatlov Pass: End of story? Series 2 Correspondents of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" came close to unraveling the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass

CAN BE EVALUATED ON THE SITE

- Tourists, unfortunately, died and die often. But why is there such interest in this particular story?

The whole problem lies in the fact that the investigator issued an indistinct decision in the case with wording about elemental force. Intuitively, he was right, because it is an uncontrollable natural force, but he did not attach proof. Didn't do the analysis. So many versions have appeared from here and people are still racking their brains over different versions. And the only most understandable scenario is the way I outlined it. Everything else is mystic. There were no traces of unauthorized persons at the scene, traces of a fire, an explosion - there was nothing there.

- In your opinion, is it necessary to resume the investigation?

Not necessary. The investigation is being resumed due to newly discovered specific circumstances. And we don't have them.

- And if to carry out exhumation?

In this case, we can only see the nature of the fractures. And that's all. More this procedure will not give anything.

- All the same, we have a feeling that there is some kind of secret.

I worked as an investigator for many years and investigated so many different situations, criminal cases, that I clearly know that very often everything is much simpler than we initially think, and everything, in the end, lends itself to logical evaluation. There is no mystery in this case. Of course, it is possible to conduct an investigative experiment - to assess the territory based on the materials of the case, roughly outline where the tent was located, look at the structure of this place, the nature of the rocks, snow covers, the intensity and direction of the winds, and also simulate the mechanism and sequence of movement of each member of the group. And in the end, analyze the situation together with specialists who can be attracted from various structures, including from the Central Spas of the Ministry of Emergencies.

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Sergey Yakovlevich Shkryabach State Counselor of Justice 3rd class, honorary worker of the prosecutor's office and honorary worker of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Before retiring due to age, he held the position of Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Criminalistics of the TFR. He has 30 years of experience in investigating murders and other particularly serious crimes. He also went in for mountaineering for many years, took part in more than 20 expeditions in the mountains of the Caucasus, Pamir, Tien Shan, Sayan and Altai, as well as in the Arctic and Kamchatka.

PERSONAL OPINION

There are many questions that defy logic

Nikolay VARSEGOV

I am sure that not all readers will agree with the conclusions of the respected veteran investigator Sergei Shkryabach. I also have doubts. Let's say a so-called snowboard has come down on the back of the tent. In the photo, indeed, the rear part has collapsed, although it has not been shifted at all along the alleged “avalanche”. But the front part is intact - and this indicates a slight amount of snow, if any. Let's say that this snowfall in the night caused a panic among tourists, and they jumped out into the cold. But how much could mentally stable guys panic? 1-1.5 minutes. But then they see that there is no danger. Therefore, they must return to the tent and dig out clothes and shoes there. It is not difficult to do this, since there was an ice ax and skis next to the tent. No! They run away from the avalanche, and not to the side, but straight down its course. That is, at the risk of being overtaken by an avalanche. What for?!

Another question: why did the fire go out under the cedar? Look at the photos of the dead under the cedar and in the ravine. You will see that the guys were in the forest, and there was no shortage of dry firewood here. But for some reason the guys climbed high on the cedar, breaking branches for the fire? And the fire was initially good, judging by the burnt thick branches. But for some reason, two strong guys died by a blazing fire? And finally, why did Dyatlov and Kolmogorova go to the tent without shoes? And Rustem walked in one felt boots. And at the same time, Zolotarev and Thibaut, who remained in the ravine, were in felt boots and cloaks. Even if the shoes were wounded, it would still be worth borrowing their shoes to go to the tent. And wrap the legs of the wounded with rags. I made experiments on myself: in winter in the village in socks in the snow. This is crazy. And his wife Natasha in the winter on the pass was able to run only 50 meters in three pairs of socks. Why didn’t one of the guys go to the tent instead of the girl Zina?

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Relatives of those who died at the Dyatlov Pass could not get a new investigation from Putin

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The appeal to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin did not help the relatives of the members of the tourist group Igor Dyatlov, who died in 1959 in the Northern Urals under mysterious circumstances, to force the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to initiate a new criminal case into the incident. Yuri Kuntsevich, a representative of the Dyatlov Group Memory Fund, told the site about this. “From the administration of the President of Russia, our appeal was handed over to [head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander] Bastrykin, Bastrykin handed it over to [Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yury] Chaika. From there, he was sent to the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region, where an investigation is underway anyway. That's it - the circle is closed! - said Kuntsevich.

According to him, on December 20, members of the foundation intend to hold a round table at the Museum of the History of UrFU and develop a memorandum on the current situation. This memorandum will again be sent to the Kremlin, the TFR and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.

About why the relatives of the members of the Dyatlov group and friends of the dead tourists demand to resume the investigation again, the lawyer Yevgeny Chernousov, who is involved in this case, explained in detail to the correspondent of our publication. According to him, the facts show that the criminal case, which was initiated in 1959 and was closed after three months of investigation, was a fiction.

“Prosecutor [Ivdel Vasily] Tempalov, who initiated this case, in the resolution on initiation, in violation of all norms and instructions, did not properly indicate the results of the preliminary investigation that prompted him to initiate the case. This criminal case was not registered, that is, in fact, both the case and the crime itself were hidden from registration. All the persons involved, including the prosecutor of the RSFSR, pretended that everything was fine, and as a result, the case was closed due to the lack of composition, while it would be correct to stop it due to the failure to identify the persons involved in the murder of two or more persons. It is clear that such a concealment could only be done in one case - in the case of a man-made disaster that could not be disclosed. All versions of escaped prisoners or Mansi are complete nonsense. In this case, the case would have been solved in three weeks and the perpetrators would not have been hidden, ”Chernousov noted.

In October, the relatives of the dead Dyatlovites wrote a letter to Putin asking him to encourage the Russian Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal investigation into what happened 60 years ago and conduct a normal investigation.

Photo of Pyotr Bartolomey, taken on a campaign with the participation of Igor Dyatlov in 1958 and allowed by the author for public use

The last campaign of the group of Igor Dyatlov was dedicated to the XXI Congress of the CPSU. For 15 days, the participants of the trip had to cross 300 kilometers on skis in the mountainous taiga part of the north of the Sverdlovsk region and climb two peaks: Mount Otorten and Oika-Chakur.

Initially, there were ten participants in the campaign: a fifth-year student of the UPI radio faculty Igor Dyatlov (the leader of the campaign), his classmate Zinaida Kolmogorova, a UPI graduate and at that time an employee of the closed SverdNIIKhimmash Rustem Slobodin, a fourth-year student of the radio faculty of the UPI Yuri Doroshenko, an engineer at the Mayak plant Georgy Krivonischenko, a graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the UPI Nikolai Thibaut-Brignoles, a fourth-year student of the same faculty Lyudmila Dubinina, a war veteran, an instructor at the Kourovskaya camp site Semyon Zolotarev, a fourth-year student of the UPI Physicotechnical Institute Alexander Kolevatov, a fourth-year student of the Faculty of Engineering and Economics of the UPI Yuri Yudin.

On January 23, 1959, the group left Sverdlovsk by train for Serov, then by another train to Ivdel. On January 26, the Dyatlovites left on a hitch ride to the 41st quarter of the lumber camp, which previously existed behind the taiga village of Vizhay, which was once the center of colonies scattered around. On January 27, the tourists, together with a fellow traveler, came from the village of the 41st quarter to the abandoned village of gold miners, the 2nd Severny. We spent the night in one of the houses. On January 28, the escort and feeling unwell, Yuri Yudin, returned back (they walked separately). And the group of Igor Dyatlov moved further on the route. No one else saw them alive.

According to the materials of the investigation, they died on the night of February 2 in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl, or the Mountain of the Dead, in the Northern Urals. However, due to the remoteness of the territory where the incident occurred, they learned about it much later. Only towards the end of February, when it became clear that the group had not returned from the campaign, searches began with the use of aviation and the deployment of several search groups to different points of the alleged route of the missing. At the same time, until recently, there were versions according to which in Ivdel they knew about the death of tourists already a few days after the tragedy.

The sister of the deceased Igor Dyatlov - about the versions of the death of a tourist group in the Ural mountains

The tent of the Dyatlov group was found on February 26 in a place that is now called the Dyatlov Pass. A few hours later, the bodies of the group members began to be found. Their search dragged on until May. Attention was immediately drawn to the fact that the tent of the "Dyatlovites" was cut from the inside, and the dead had rather strange injuries. So, Dubinina was diagnosed with an extensive fracture of the ribs, a hemorrhage in the right ventricle of the heart, the absence of a tongue in oral cavity, empty eye sockets. Zolotarev also had a severe rib fracture with internal bleeding and no eyes. Slobodin and Thibaut-Brignolles have serious fractures of their skulls. Krivonischenko has II-III degree burns, up to charring of the skin. It feels like a person is on fire. Some also had their cheeks and lips peeled (or eaten). In addition, many people who saw the dead noted the strange brick red color of their skin and caked foam near the mouth.

No less unusual was the conclusion reached by the investigation. According to him, nine travelers were victims of "force majeure circumstances." All this later gave rise to a lot of versions about the reasons for their death, including very improbable ones: from an avalanche to a ritual murder by local Mansi.

Among others, the so-called “rocket version” sounded - the Dyatlov group died when they got into the area where they tested missile weapons. The exact answer to the question of what happened at the pass then is still unknown.

On February 1 this year, 60 years after the tragedy, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation announced the resumption of the investigation into the circumstances of the death of tourists in 1959. Andrey Kuryakov, head of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Federal Legislation of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region, then noted that the relatives of the victims have the right to learn about the cause of the tragedy, even if 60 years have passed since then. In addition, it was said that the check would help prevent a recurrence of this.

The oversight agency now has three versions of what happened as a priority: an avalanche, a snow board (an avalanche of a smaller scale), and a hurricane. The prosecutor's office does not consider the criminal version.

In mid-March, prosecutors visited the Dyatlov Pass, where they conducted a series of examinations. First of all, they took photographs of the area and, with the help of surveyors, recorded the exact coordinates of the required points. Then, in the area of ​​the Belaya Mountain ski complex, not far from Nizhny Tagil, prosecutors conducted a natural experiment, during which nine young people tried to recreate last hours life of members of the Dyatlov group. The Supervisory Authority initially expected to announce its findings in August of this year. The deadline has now been pushed back to February 2020.