Dyatlov Pass: No myths. Sensational evidence surfaced in the case of the Dyatlov Pass New versions of the death of the Dyatlovites

The nameless pass near Mount Otorten took nine lives and the name of the group leader. Since that night it has been the Dyatlov Pass. Their close-knit group was scattered for a kilometer. What horror could make them run away from the stove half-dressed, without shoes in severe frost? .

There have been 75 versions over the years. An unexpected avalanche, an attack by runaway convicts or foreign spies, a bloody ritual of the Ural aborigines, and even a UFO.

Yevgeny Buyanov master of sports in mountain tourism, author of the book "The Mystery of the Death of the Dyatlov Group" and the main defender of the conclusions of the investigation about the avalanche. He is sure that there is no secret.

Evgeny Buyanov: "Rescuing the wounded, the group went down, but below they died from the cold."

But in the photo, the discovered tent is barely covered with snow. Most of the "dyatlovologists" categorically reject the avalanche version, and they dislike Buyanov for it.

And here is a sensational note from the prosecutor Tempalov, who opened a criminal case on the death of tourists, to investigator Korotaev. The most important thing at the bottom is the date February 15, 59. And this is a sensation, because the tent was discovered only on the 26th, and the first bodies on February 27th. It turns out that the investigation knew about the death of the group even before the start of the search.

Oleg Arkhipov, researcher of the mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group, writer: “Handwriting examination showed the authenticity of the handwriting. There are no changes, manipulations of a later period.”

And here is how this text from the personal archive of the investigator falls on the stories of eyewitnesses.

Mikhail Sharavin, a participant in the operation to search for the Dyatlov group: “There was only one evidence. Sindendalov Mansi, who was camped, later claimed that he saw when the "Dyatlovites" "passed by him, but after" the Dyatlovites, a few days later, the military passed along the same ski track.

Did the investigation and the military try to cover up the tracks? However, just this can explain a gross mistake, which, perhaps, experienced tourists did not make when setting up a tent.

Dmitry Aleshkin, survival expert, traveler: “Where they stood, this is the windiest place of all possible options. If there is an opportunity to go into the forest, be sure to get up in the forest. Because there is no wind and in case of emergency you can always make a fire, always.

Yuri Kuntsevich, head of the Dyatlov group's memory fund: “A flooring made of branches was found below in the forest zone. So that's where the tent was. Why else flooring something?

The last four bodies were found on it. Was the tent really moved upstairs later in order to blame everything on the elements and the oversight of the tourists? But what exactly did you want to hide?

Against mysticism, a fragment of the skin, which was found a kilometer from the site of the tragedy, testifies. It could be missile testing.

Yuri Kuntsevich: “She could hardly have hit them, but there was fuel left: maybe a ton, maybe two. This fuel could give a bright flash. heptyl could have poisoned them on its own as a chemical.”

And this can explain the traces of poisoning, and why they suddenly decided to check those who died from the cold for radiation, but they found it, and why some of the fractures are not mentioned in the examination, and why there are so many gaps in the already published case.

Leonid Proshkin, former investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, lawyer: “Examinations of corpses are carried out there is no decision to appoint an examination. But they were there, and they went somewhere from there.”

Is it the second case, which is still classified? Tempalov's note seems to suggest that this is not a myth. Additionally, the lightning-fast refutation by the Prosecutor General's Office is intriguing.

Alexander Kurennoy, an official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation: "With the involvement of expert psychologists, it was established that the prosecutor simply made a mistake with the date, with the number in the month."

And immediately another sensation: although the prosecutors do not believe in conspiracy theories, they again begin to investigate the case of the Dyatlov group.

Many people in Russia, the USSR and far abroad heard about the tragic death on February 2, 1959 of nine students-tourists of the Ural Polytechnic Institute (UPI) in the northern Urals. In the media over the past time, many articles have been published on this topic, there have been many reports and discussions on television. In the USA, a feature film was shot in Hollywood. The uncertainty of the conclusion of the investigation about the "elemental force" gave rise to a lot of fiction, mysticism and fears. Many different versions have been put forward from a UFO attack, Bigfoot to American spies.

Writer, publicist, journalist, expert, engineer, researcher Vladimir Garmatyuk (author of the book "Discoveries and Hypotheses of the 21st Century" published in Germany in 2018 based on his research) compiled the most reliable version of events - based on additional information about the incident of a 60-year-old statute of limitations, which was not previously included in the criminal case. And brings it to the attention of the readers of the "Golden Ring".

In the picture, the students of the deceased group of tourists (from left to right) bottom row: Slobodin R.S. , Kolmogorova Z.A., I.A. Dyatlov I.A., Dubinina L.A. Doroshenko Yu.A. Top row: Thibaut-Brignolles N.V., Kolevatov A.S., Krivonischenko G.A., Zolotarev A.I.

The event attracted wide public attention due to the fact that the investigation conducted in 1959 by the Sverdlovsk prosecutor's office did not give a clear answer about the causes of death of young people. In the decision to terminate the criminal case by the prosecutor L.N. Ivanov literally said the following: “Given the absence of external bodily injuries and signs of a struggle on the corpses, the presence of all the values ​​​​of the group, and also taking into account the conclusion of the forensic medical examination on the causes of death of tourists, it should be considered what causes the death of tourists there was an elemental force, to overcome which the tourists were not able to.

Over time, additional information appeared in various sources, which was not attached to the criminal case, and therefore the real reasons were not named.

It remains only to complete the missing "links in the chain" of interconnected events in order to tell about the tragedy that has occurred...

Let's leave the details that have already been told and highlight the main thing that was missed.

Start.

So, a group of UPI students in the amount of ten people (one fell ill on the way and returned back) on January 26, 1959 left the city of Ivdel, Sverdlovsk region. Passing the villages of Vizhay and Severny, then they set off on their own on skis for a two-week transition to Mount Otorten (1234 m) in the northern Urals. The tourists laid their route along the sledge-deer trail of the hunters of the local northern Mansi people.

Map of the hike of a group of students Dyatlov

Along the way, some students kept their diaries. Their observations are interesting.

An entry from the diary of the group leader, fifth-year student Igor Dyatlov:

01/28/59… After talking, we crawl into the tent together. Hanging stove blazes with heat and divides the tent into two compartments.

01/30/59 “Today is the third cold night on the banks of the river. Auspii. We start to get involved. The oven is a big deal. Some (Thibault and Krivonischenko) they are thinking of constructing a steam heating system in a tent. Canopy - hanging sheets are quite justified. Weather: temperature in the morning - 17 ° C, in the afternoon - 13 ° C, in the evening - 26 ° C.

The deer path ended, the thorny path began, then it ended. It was very difficult to cross the virgin soil, the snow was up to 120 cm deep. The forest is gradually thinning, the height is felt, the birches and pines are dwarfed and ugly. It’s impossible to walk along the river - it didn’t freeze, but under the snow there is water and ice, right there on the ski track, we go along the bank again. The day is drawing to a close, and we must look for a place to camp. Here is an overnight stay. The wind is strong from the west, knocking snow off the cedar and pine trees, giving the impression of a snowfall.”

During the hike, the guys took pictures of themselves and their pictures have been preserved. In the photo, the students of the deceased ski group on the way of their route.

01/31/59 “We have reached the edge of the forest. The wind is from the west, warm and piercing, the wind speed is similar to the air speed when the plane rises. Nast, bare places. You don’t even have to think about the device of the lobaza. About 4 hours. You have to choose accommodation. We go down to the south - in the valley of the river. Auspii. This is probably the snowiest place. Light wind on snow 1.2-2 m thick. Tired, exhausted, they set about arranging an overnight stay. Firewood is scarce. Sickly raw spruce. The fire was built on logs, reluctance to dig a hole. We dine right in the tent. Warm. It is hard to imagine such comfort somewhere on the ridge, with a piercing howl of the wind, a hundred kilometers from settlements.

Today was a surprisingly good overnight stay, warm and dry, despite the low temperature (-18° -24°). Walking today is especially difficult. The trace is not visible, we often stray from it or go gropingly. Thus, we pass 1.5-2 km per hour.

I am at a wonderful age: the dope has already weathered, and insanity is still far away ... Dyatlov.

On February 1, 1959, at about 17:00 in the evening, the students set up their tent for the last time on the gentle slope of Mount Kholatchakhl (1079 m) below 300 meters from its top.

The guys took pictures of the place where and how they pitched the tent. The evening was cold and windy. The picture shows how skiers on the slope dig deep snow to the ground, being in hoods, and how a strong wind blows snow into the hole.

1.02.59 Combat sheet No. 1 "Evening Otorten" - written by students before going to bed: “Is it possible to heat nine tourists with one stove and one blanket? A team of radio engineers composed of Comrade. Doroshenko and Kolmogorova set a new world record in the competition oven assembly– 1 hour 02 min. 27.4 sec.

Setting up a tent on a mountainside

The slope of Mount Holatchakhl is 25-30 degrees. Setting up the tent, the guys did not expect the avalanche to come down from the top. The hill was not so steep, and by the beginning of February the crust was strong, which kept a person without skis.

In the diary entries, it is highlighted that they had a collapsible stove, and they stoked it in a tent. The oven was very hot!

When the tent was dug deep into the snow on the mountainside under the “cornice of crust” and the stove was heated, the snow around them melted. In the cold, the melted snow froze, turning into a hard edge of ice, which later played its role.

After supper in the warmth, they put the heated stove in the corner of the tent, leaving one log to dry in it the next day for kindling (on a torch), taking off their shoes and warm outerwear, the guys went to bed.

But in a matter of hours, something happened that soon determined their fate...

Let's go a little off topic.

In 1957, in the Arkhangelsk region, just at the latitude of the northern Urals, the (at that time secret) Plesetsk cosmodrome was opened. In February 1959, he (according to his tasks) was renamed the 3rd Training Artillery Range.

From 1957 to 1993, 1372 ballistic missile launches were carried out from here. (This information is from Wikipedia).

Spent stages of ballistic missiles with the remnants of liquid fuel fell, burning over the deserted regions of the northern Urals. Approximately, just in the area where the students went on their last hike. Therefore, many residents of the surrounding areas often noticed burning fires (balls) in the night sky.

The falling, burning stage of the rocket over the mountainside, where the students spent the night, was photographed (with a diaphragm delay) by the instructor of the group Alexander Zolotarev. Being in the tent, he saw a bright light outside through the fabric walls. He quickly took the camera and, without getting dressed, jumped out to take a picture of what was happening. This was his last picture.

On the left of the picture, traces from the falling rocket stage are visible, and in the center of the frame there is a light spot from the camera's diaphragm.

Shot from Zolotarev's camera

The event was witnessed by many other people who were at that time far from this place, who spoke about it during the investigation.

Here's what people said. Late on the evening of Sunday, February 1, some were walking home from the cinema. In rural areas, on a day off in the USSR, cinema in clubs began for everyone at the same time, at 20-00 - 21-00. So, according to time, what happened was between 22 and 24 hours.

It is also necessary to pay attention to the fact that February 2, 1959 was a Monday- the beginning of the working week (for the military too).

Late in the evening (at the beginning of the night) on February 1, a flash occurred in the air near Mount Holatchakhl, and then a powerful explosion. People heard a burning, falling "star" in the sky and the sound of a powerful explosion, being many kilometers away from them.

Whether it was a rocket stage with incompletely burned fuel remaining in it, or it was a rocket that deviated from the given flight trajectory, which was automatically blown up, or the falling rocket (stage) was shot down by another rocket, as a training target - it no longer matters that specifically was the source of the explosion.

From the blast wave, the snow on the side of the mountain shuddered and moved down in places.

On top of the snow was a heavy layer of snow crust (sometimes called "board"). Nast is thick and hard rather than a board, but an icy, multi-layered heavy “plywood sheet”. So strong that people ran through the snow without shoes without falling through. This can be seen from the footprints going down the mountain from the tent. A photo of footprints from the mountain and an abandoned tent (below) was taken later around February 26, 1959 by members of the search party.

The guys in the tent, taking off their outer clothing and shoes, went to bed with their heads to the top of the mountain. The night before, the heat from the stove had melted the edges of the snow around the tent, turning it into solid ice, which hung over them like an "ice ledge" from the side of the mountain.

During the installation of the tent (seen from the photo) there was a blizzard and therefore over the edge of the tent from the top of the mountain it also blew from "half a ton" of snow.

After the explosion, this ice, pressed down from above by a heavy load of crust and snow and with force from the blast wave, fell on the tent and on the heads of the people sleeping in it.

Subsequently, a forensic medical examination found broken ribs in two and cracks (6 cm long) in the skull in two more.

One of the tent poles (farthest in the picture) was broken. If the rack broke, then the effort was quite enough to ensure that the weight of the snow and the hard edge of the ice - to break the bones of the unexpecting, relaxed lying people.

Students in the complete darkness of the tent, awakened by the sound of a nearby explosion, of course, could not appreciate the real danger that had arisen. They considered the ice and crust with snow that fell on them to be an avalanche. Being in a state of shock after the collapse, under the fear of being buried alive under the snow, in a panic, they instantly cut the tent from the inside and, being without shoes (in just socks), and without warm outerwear, jumped out, rushing to run from the snow avalanche down the mountainside. No other danger would have forced the guys to do this. On the contrary, from any other external threat, they would hide in a tent.

The photo of the tent dated February 26, 1959 shows that the entrance to it is blocked, and there is snow in the middle. On the evening of February 1, there was a blizzard and there was more loose snow. By the time the investigation team arrived, the loose snow had blown off the mountain. This can be seen in the photograph (below) - by the prints of footprints rising above the hard crust.

View of Dyatlov's tent covered with snow

Having gone down a run for 1.5 km down to the forest, the guys only there were able to soberly assess the situation and the real threat of death - from hypothermia. They had 1-3 hours to live without shoes and outerwear in the cold and in the wind.

As established post-mortem examination, death occurred 6-8 hours after the last meal. If their dinner ended at 19-20 hours, then the guys froze between 2-4 am (early morning) on ​​February 2. The air temperature in the early morning of February 2 was about -28°C.

Students in the wind could not make a fire for a long time, there were many extinct matches lying near the fire. And when they lit a fire under the cedar, they tried to warm themselves at first. But they quickly realized that without outerwear and shoes in the wind and in the cold, even being by the fire, you can’t get warm. Having figured out that there was no avalanche coming down and nothing but the cold threatened them, the three ran back up the mountain to the tent for warm clothes and shoes, but they didn’t have enough strength for this. On the way uphill from the icy wind and lethal hypothermia, all three fell and froze there.

Subsequently, two were found frozen under a cedar near an extinct fire. Four more (three of them with fractures received earlier in the tent or post-mortem from freezing) tried to wait for those who had left for clothes, hiding from the cold wind in a ravine. They also froze. This ravine was then covered with snow, and the guys were found later than all the others only on May 4, 1959.

Radiation was also found on the clothes of people covered with snow.

In the USSR, according to the chronology of tests of thermonuclear bombs, in the period from September 30, 1958 to October 25, 1958, 19 explosions were carried out in the atmosphere at the Dry Nose test site of Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Ocean (opposite the Ural Mountains on the map).

This radiation from the upper layers of the atmosphere fell with snow to the ground in the winter of 1958-1959 (including in the territory of the northern Urals).

The location of the discovery of four bodies, swept under deep snow, in a ravine.

Returning to the materials of the criminal case.

Witness Krivonischenko A.K. showed during the investigation : “After the burial of my son on March 9, 1959, students, participants in the search for nine tourists, were at my apartment for dinner. Among them were those tourists who in late January - early February were on a campaign in the north, somewhat south of Mount Otorten. Apparently, there were at least two such groups, at least the participants of two groups said that they observed on February 1, 1959 in the evening a light phenomenon that struck them to the north of the location of these groups: an extremely bright glow of some kind of rocket or projectile.

The glow was constantly strong, so that one of the groups, being already in the tent and preparing to sleep, were alarmed by this glow, went out of the tent and observed this phenomenon. After a while they heard sound effect similar to strong thunder from afar.

Testimony of investigator L.N. Ivanov, who finished the case: "... a similar ball was seen on the night of the death of the guys, that is, from the first to the second of February, students-tourists of the geofaculty of the pedagogical institute."

Here, for example, is what the father of Lyudmila Dubinina, in those years a responsible worker of the Sverdlovsk Economic Council, said during interrogation in March 1959: “... I heard the conversations of students of the Ural Polytechnic University (UPI) that the flight of undressed people from the tent was caused by an explosion and large radiation ... The light of the projectile February 2nd around 7am seen in the city of Serov... I wonder why the tourist routes from the city of Ivdel were not closed...

An excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of Slobodin Vladimir Mikhailovich - the father of Rustem Slobodin: “From him (Chairman of the Ivdel City Council A.I. Delyagin) I first heard that at about the time when a catastrophe happened to the group, some residents (local hunters) observed the appearance of a fireball in the sky. The fact that the fireball was observed by other tourists - students told me E.P. Maslennikov.

Scheme of the location of the tent on the mountainside and the discovered bodies of tourists

The individual features of the damage to the bodies of some of the victims do not change the overall picture of what happened. The damage only served as false conjectures.

For example, the frozen foam from the mouth of one is due to vomiting, which was caused by inhalation of vapors (or carbon monoxide residues from rocket fuel) dispersed in the air above the mountain. Also from this and an unusually red-orange color of the skin, on the surfaces of corpses open to the sun. Damage to an already dead body (nose, eyes and tongue) in others was done by mice or birds of prey.

The investigators did not dare to name the real reason for the death of students on the night of February 2, 1959 - from a test of missiles, from an explosion in the air that served to move the crust and snow on Mount Kholatchakhl.

The investigator of the Sverdlovsk prosecutor's office V. Korotaev, who first began to conduct the case (later during the years of glasnost), said: “... the first secretary of the (Sverdlovsk) city committee of the party, Prodanov, invites me to his place and transparently hints: there is, they say, a proposal - to stop the case. Clearly, not his personal, nothing more than an indication from above. At my request, the secretary then called Andrei Kirillenko (first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional party committee). And I heard the same thing: stop the case!

Literally a day later, investigator Lev Ivanov took it into his own hands, who quickly turned it off ... ". - With the above wording about "irresistible elemental force."

It looks like fantasy, but after 60 (!) years, the veil of secrecy has finally lifted over the death of nine Ural tourists. This happened, no matter how blasphemous it sounds, thanks to the death of the investigator of the Ivdel prosecutor's office, Vladimir Ivanovich Korotaev. It was in his home archive that the researcher Oleg Arkhipov found a note that clarifies a lot about this tragedy.

“Vladimir Ivanovich (underlined). For a report to the Deputy Prosecutor of the RSFSR on a criminal case on the fact of the death of tourists, I was summoned and I am leaving for Sverdlovsk for 2-3 days, so I ask you to look here and that everything is in order. I ask you to be interested in the courts (people's courts. - Auth.), if they send the cases for further investigation or are acquitted, protest the verdict also within 5 days.

All things are true. In addition, on the instructions of the regional prosecutor, interrogate the head of the camp of Khakimov’s department in the village of Vizhay on the question of whether the head of the tourist group Dyatlov (who died) said that they would return to Vizhay not on February 12, 59, but on February 15, 59 d. This needs to be done quickly. I'll call you from the city of Sverdlovsk. 15/II 59 (crossed out) 16/II 59 Reeb should be sentenced, so if acquitted or the case sent for further investigation, then you must write a protest. Regards Prok. Tempalov. 15/II 59".

This note is a turning point, after which the investigation of the tragedy falls into a strictly defined direction. From that moment on, it is no longer just about the mysterious death of nine tourists in the remote Ural taiga, but about The Secret. Everything that has been done by the state since the death of the guys, the entire search operation had one goal: to hide the Secret.

Now we can speak confidently:

1. Investigator Korotaev V.I. is one of the falsifiers of this tragedy. For 50 years he met with relatives and friends of the dead, looked them in the eye and LIED! What reason could have forced this man to prevaricate all his life, carry within himself the Secret that concerns millions of people and not relieve his soul even on his deathbed?

I do not think that Korotaev gave a lifetime non-disclosure agreement. This should be a very serious reason: no less than fear for your life and the lives of your loved ones.

2. The authorities knew about the death of tourists already on February 15, 1959, i.e. at least 11 days before the official discovery of the first corpses on February 26, 1959. And if you believe the date on the criminal case, for which there are already all grounds, then the authorities had information about the incident by February 6th.

3. A certain circle of people directly initiated into the Mystery was involved in the staging with a tent and in manipulations with the corpses of tourists. The fact that these people are still silent, or have already taken her to the grave, cannot but shock. It is already a mystery in itself.

Against this backdrop, the following questions arise: 1. How did the authorities know about the death of the group in such a remote area?

There are two options:

The Dyatlovites were followed.

This explains the short period of time that elapsed between the death of tourists and the establishment of a criminal case. But what interest could UPI students and graduates, as well as Semyon Zolotarev, have for the system?

The place of the tragedy was discovered by random people, who informed the authorities about the incident in the period from February 2 to 5.

In this case, we get witnesses who were not related to the system in the person of the one (those) who discovered the bodies, those who received the message about the tragedy and sent it further upstream, as well as helicopter pilots, since without verification, no investigator will open dealing with such a serious wording. These (some of them) people may still be alive today.

But how then to explain the unlikely coincidence that the bodies of the dead were found almost still warm: after all, just these few days are needed to get from the Dyatlov Pass to the nearest authorities.

2. Who gave the order to open a criminal case?

It is clear to us from prosecutor Tempalov's note that investigator Korotaev was not at the scene of the incident in hot pursuit, before the criminal case was opened. Was Tempalov there?

Maybe. After all, for the report of the deputy. The prosecutor of the RSFSR about the death of tourists needed to know something about their death. Was Tempalov at the scene of the incident before the end of the stagers' work? I don't think. There was no reason for the authorities to produce witnesses initiated into the Mystery. Or Tempalov was not at the scene of the incident before the official discovery of the bodies of tourists, did not know any details and went to a meeting with the Deputy Prosecutor of the RSFSR only to receive instructions.

And if by February 15 the prosecutor of the RSFSR knew about the incident, then we will not be mistaken in assuming that the order to open a criminal case on the fact of the death of tourists dated February 6, 1959 was given from the very top.

3. Were the leaders of the search groups, the leaders of the search operation, representatives of the Armed Forces, the KGB, party bosses, investigators and prosecutors initiated into the Secret?

Hardly. I believe that each of them was content only with a legend corresponding to their rank.

Conclusions:

In the case of falsification and concealment from the public of the facts about the death of the Dyatlov group, many people were involved who are still silent, or took their involvement in this to the grave, like investigator Korotaev. The fact that none of them has yet uttered a word can be interpreted unambiguously: The mystery exists! And our duty to the dead is to reveal it!

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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 evidence, 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. In 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 Nikolay Thibaut-Brignoles, a fourth-year student of the same faculty Lyudmila Dubinina, a war veteran, an instructor of the Kourovka 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 to the 41st quarter of the logging 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 aircraft 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 had an extensive fracture of the ribs, a hemorrhage in the right ventricle of the heart, the absence of a tongue in the oral cavity, and 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 the last hours of the 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.

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The history of the Dyatlov group is one of the most mysterious incidents of the last century. And all because in the events that took place on that cold night of 1959 on the "Dead Mountain", there is absolutely no logic of actions. For many years now, all kinds of researchers, scientists, tourists and even Hollywood screenwriters have been trying to unravel or rather prove that everything that happened is one big fake dramatization.

© From left to right: Igor Dyatlov (23), Zinaida Kolmogorova (22), Rustem Slobodin (23), Yuri Doroshenko (21), Georgy Krivonischenko (23), Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles (23), Lyudmila Dubinina (20), Semyon Zolotarev (38), Alexander Kolevatov (24), Yuri Yudin (survived because he retired at the beginning of the journey due to a leg injury).

On February 2, 1959, in the Northern Urals, near an unnamed pass, later named the Dyatlov Pass after the commander of the group, a group of 9 young tourists, students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, died under inexplicable circumstances.

In the middle of the night, for some reason, the guys cut the tent from the inside and, without even having time to put on their shoes and get dressed, they urgently left it. Further, slowly, they walked 1.5 km down to the forest, where they lit a fire. Judging by the footprints, three of the group decided to return to the tent, but froze on the way. Two died by the fire from burns. And the four remaining were found with severe fractures in a ravine just below the fire.

The investigation of such an unusual case was classified, sealed and handed over to the special unit with a very vague conclusion: “It should be considered that the cause of the death of the tourists was an elemental force, which the tourists were unable to overcome.”

1. Descent of the "snow board"

At the moment, the most plausible version of what happened is the avalanche of the "snowboard" type. It occurs when during the day the top layer of snow heats up and thaws, and at night it freezes and literally turns into an ice blade. This layer is very fragile, sometimes only a slight external impact is enough for it to come off and fall down. What happened at night:

• The guys set up a tent on the side of a mountain, for some reason at a very dangerous meeting place for all winds, and at night, due to a sharp change in temperature, a “snow board” unexpectedly descended on them.
• The 4 people furthest from the entrance to the tent received the most severe injuries. The guys jumped out of the tent (which, apparently, was reinforced concrete, since it survived the avalanche that broke the bones of the tourists) with practically no clothes in fear of a repeated descent of the "snow board".
• They dragged the wounded down the slope to take cover and start a fire. After that, those who could walk (Dyatlov, Kolmogorova and Slobodin) decided to return to the tent for things, but froze on the way.
• It was decided to place the four with the most severe injuries in a lowland shelter (later, when the snow melted, their bodies were washed up to the stream, they received some injuries due to carrion animals).
• The two remaining by the fire in agony literally went into the fire, not noticing the burns due to severe frostbite.

2. Quarrel between tourists

There is a version that the cause of the tragedy could be a domestic quarrel or a fight between the guys because of the girls, which went so far as to lead to tragic consequences.

• This version can be supported by the fact that the group was formed just before going to the distance (besides, for unclear reasons, the 10th student was unexpectedly replaced by a 38-year-old veteran with a strange, supposedly "KGB" biography - Zolotarev). From the photographic films from the cameras found at the scene, it can be seen (photos posted by Aleksey Koskin) that the group was quite friendly. But some of the participants filmed only certain people, probably with whom they were in a more trusting relationship. And as the group progressed, the films of several guys began to fill up with more landscapes than photos with colleagues. In the case of ordinary people (and not people with artistic vision), this indicates an increase in some kind of psychological discomfort.
• Regarding the quarrel over the girls: in no picture the girls were, so to speak, the centering link of the group. Often they were in the background or cut off altogether, which can serve as quite weighty evidence that the guys treated them primarily as athletes and did not show any pronounced sympathy.

Igor Dyatlov is in the center of the frame. To his right is Thibaut-Brignolles in his signature hat. Dubinina did not fit into the frame.

In the foreground is Nicholas Thibault-Brignolles, who, judging by the surviving photographic films, was very fond of being photographed. Dubinin is again only in the background.

The guys have fun at a halt (from left to right: Dubinina, Krivonischenko, Thibaut-Brignolles, Slobodin).

3. Testing weapons at a closed range

According to some versions, the Dyatlov group was hit by some kind of test weapon, most likely a new or banned type of missile. This theory is supported by the testimonies of a group of searchers, as well as Mansi living nearby, who claim to observe some periodically appearing luminous objects in the sky over this territory.

It was the explosion or the impact of some chemical elements that could have caused such a hasty escape of the "Dyatlovites" from the tent (for example, a strategic missile flew over the group and burned oxygen, causing hallucinations and partial loss of vision), and further injuries were inflicted by the group cleaning up the traces of weapons tests. Or the explosion could trigger an avalanche.

In general, in order to preserve state secrets, the death of tourists in extreme natural conditions was staged. And, of course, according to the KGB, there could not be any training grounds or strange moments of the investigation.

You can also add to this version the words from an interview with radio operator Vladimir Lyubimov, who at that time worked in the area near the Dyatlov Pass.

“All of us, radio operators, were ordered to listen to the air and report any suspicious conversations. And in January or February, it's hard to say, I track the air on different waves and hear some very strange conversations in an unintelligible Aesopian language. Clearly, something terrible has happened. I, of course, reported to the authorities. And a day later I receive a command: stop wiretapping on this wave!

Vladimir Lyubimov

The team is leaving.

4. Meeting with foreign intelligence agents

One of the conspiracy theories - Alexei Rakitin's essay "Death on the trail" - oddly enough, is the most elaborate version, according to which at least shoot a film. At first glance, everything looks far-fetched, but after reading it, it begins to seem that nothing else could be. The course of action was as follows:

• Zolotarev and Krivonischenko (people with a suspicious history. The second, for example, worked at a closed nuclear plant) were allegedly suppliers of fake (fake, because they worked under the guise of the KGB) samples of radioactive elements to foreign agents who, under the guise of tourists, were supposed to “accidentally” meet the Dyatlov group is just on the pass. Perhaps they overdid it a bit with the choice of a deserted place for the operation, but we will not talk about it. The meeting was not friendly, which was expected, but strained, as the other guys noticed the accent of the agents. The plan was frustrated, the tension grew.
• The agents realized that the only solution to not declassifying themselves was to get rid of the guys. The easiest way to do this is in the cold, so they attacked the tent, undressed the students and calmly sent them barefoot to all four sides. The guys tried to resist, which is why everyone can see traces of beatings, and the athlete Slobodin (who was distinguished by a particularly bold and risky disposition) generally had purely boxing injuries. This means that he offered the greatest resistance, which is why he died first in half an hour, lagging behind the group and falling on the snow.
• The rest of the group slowly and arguing with each other moved to the nearest shelter - to the cedar.
• Dyatlov discovered that Slobodin was missing and went after him. Didn't return. Kolmogorova followed him. Together they froze in search of Slobodin.
• The rest decided to make a fire in order to give a sign to those who had gone after Slobodin about their whereabouts. The four guys went into the ravine, as they believed that the fire could attract the attention of agents.
• The agents really saw the fire, to their surprise, still alive guys, which threatened to declassify the agents and prompted them to go to the fire for the final reprisal against the "Dyatlovites".
• At the cedar, agents found only two. Their torture to find out where the others were only resulted in the death of the students.
• Later, the remaining four "Dyatlovites" were found, who were also tortured by agents who were already on the verge of a nervous breakdown, so their injuries are the most severe. The bodies were dumped into a ravine to cover their tracks.

Athlete Rustem Slobodin.

5. Attack by escaped prisoners

Despite the fact that the authorities claim (in order to avoid panic after such a massacre of students whose campaign was timed to coincide with the 21st Congress of the CPSU) that there were no escapes from the nearest prison during the incident, Rakitin's scenario described above could well have been played out by the escaped prisoners.

6. Attack of the indigenous population - Mansi

The version about the Mansi attack on Dyatlov and the company was considered one of the very first. Mansi are representatives of the indigenous population of the Northern Urals. Their nearest settlement was about 80 km from the pass. They controlled these territories. Despite the fact that the Mansi are friendly to the Russians, they even provide accommodation for the night, they help the lost, there is a theory that the "Dyatlovites" set foot on some kind of sacred territory, for which they were punished.

True, in winter, the place of the pass for hunting is considered completely unsuitable, and no traces of them were found during the criminal investigation, so this version disappeared as quickly as it appeared.

Many associate this theory with the name of the mountain on which the tragedy occurred - Kholatchakhl, which in translation from Mansi means "Mountain of the Dead" - supposedly all this is not without reason. In fact, it began to be translated this way only in 1959, before that it was interpreted rather as “Dead Peak”, since there is nothing there.

He constantly reassured me. He treated me like a child. I told him that it could be an avalanche. And he denied, they say, she was not there. He even told me: “When we finish the investigation, then I will gather everyone and tell them what happened. But you have to understand that there were frost, a blizzard.” And in the end, he blamed everything on a hurricane. But I exclude this version. These guys were adequate in any situation. They weren't all that easy to confuse."

Dubinina hugs Yudin goodbye. Behind is Igor Dyatlov.

Who knows, perhaps that night on Mount Holatchakhl there was a fierce massacre between the Masons and the Illuminati, and the guys simply found themselves in the crossfire. In any case, the whole truth about the fate of the "Dyatlovites" is only in the state department of secrets among hundreds of other classified cases, and we cannot find out the real version of this fatal puzzle.

What do you think about the versions of what happened?