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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 of the Sverdlovsk region of a group 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.
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.
Radio amateur Valentin Degterev found a new version of the death of the Dyatlov group. In his opinion, one of the tourists, Semyon Zolotarev, was a German agent and was mistakenly killed by the KGB. One of the convicted servicemen, who was part of the fascist troops, admitted that on January 25, 1959, that is, a few days before the death of the Dyatlovites, he saw his former comrade in Ivdel. It was Semyon Zolotarev.
After the convict's story, the KGB special unit began to conduct reconnaissance in search of a German saboteur. Having received documents about the Dyatlov tourist group, experts identified the traitor in the person of Zolotarev and began hunting for him.
After the death of all the tourists in the apartment, searches were carried out and a photograph was found in which Semyon is standing in the form of the Wehrmacht. At the same time, it is recorded in the biography that Zolotarev served from October 1941 in the battalion 1570 as part of the 24th sapper brigade, however, according to the documents, he was formed only in April 1942. Within a few months, the battalion was almost completely destroyed by the Germans.
It turned out that Semyon was sent as an agent of the USSR to the Nazis in 1941, and only after 3 years he returned to his homeland.
"The Dyatlov group was simply beaten with rifle butts on the slope of a snow-covered mountain. All other actions were taken in order to remove suspicion from themselves. Apparently, then the Chekists realized that there was no saboteur there. So a legend appeared about a certain group of illegal intelligence agents that killed the tourists," - says Degterev.
Realizing their mistake, the KGB destroyed important documents of this case and fabricated new ones.
Thus, the tourists, according to the radio amateur, became victims of an accidental mistake by the special forces, who did not understand the situation and recorded Zolotarev as traitors to the country.
The pass is named after Igor Dyatlov, the leader of an expedition of tourists who planned to climb to a height of 1,79 m in the Subpolar Urals. On the night of February 2, Dyatlov and eight other members of his group died under unclear circumstances.
Experienced young people who climbed the mountain not for the first time, for some reason turned out to be half-dressed, some without shoes and almost all without outerwear. It is also strange that the tent was cut up - the guys got out of it hastily, also for an unknown reason. The injuries of the victims also raise many questions: traces of nosebleeds as in barotrauma, damage to internal organs, numerous bone fractures, and all this in the absence of traces of external influence.
The authors express their sincere gratitude for the cooperation and information provided to the Dyatlov Group Public Memory Foundation and personally to Yuri Kuntsevich, as well as to Vladimir Askinadzi, Vladimir Borzenkov, Natalya Varsegova, Anna Kiryanova and Yekaterinburg photo processing specialists.
INTRODUCTION .
In the early morning of February 2, 1959, on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl in the vicinity of Mount Otorten in the Northern Urals, dramatic events took place that led to the death of a group of tourists from Sverdlovsk led by a student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov.
Many circumstances of this tragedy have not yet received a satisfactory explanation, giving rise to many rumors, conjectures, which gradually developed into legends and myths, based on which several books have been written and a number of feature films have been shot. We think we succeededrestore the true development of these events, which puts an end to this protracted history. Our version is based on strictly documentary sources, namely on the materials of the Criminal Case of the history of the death and search for Dyatlovites, as well as on some everyday and tourist experience. This is the version we bring to the attention of all interested persons and organizations, insisting on its authenticity, but not claiming a new coincidence in details.
HISTORY
On the night of February 1-2, 1959, a number of events occurred with the Dyatlov group before arriving at the place of a cold overnight stay on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl.
So, the very idea of this hike III, the highest category of difficulty, Igor Dyatlov arose long ago and took shape in December 1958, as told by Igor's senior comrades in tourism. *
The composition of the participants in the planned hike changed in the process of its preparation, reaching up to 13 people, but the backbone of the group, consisting of students and graduates of the UPI with experience in hiking, including joint ones, remained unchanged. It included - Igor Dyatlov - 23-year-old leader of the campaign, 20-year-old Lyudmila Dubinina - supply manager, Yuri Doroshenko - 21 years old, 22-year-old Alexander Kolevatov, Zinaida Kolmogorova - 22 years old, 23-year-old Georgy Krivonischenko , 22-year-old Rustem Slobodin, Nikolai Thibault - 23 years old, 22-year-old Yuri Yudin. Two days before the trip, the group was joined by 37-year-old Semyon Zolotarev, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a front-line soldier who graduated from the Institute of Physical Education, and a professional tourism instructor.
At the beginning, the campaign went according to plan, with the exception of one circumstance: on January 28, Yuri Yudin left the route due to illness. The group traveled the rest of the way with nine of them. Until January 31, the campaign, according to the general diary of the campaign, the diaries of individual participants, the photo given in the Case, went well: difficulties were overcome, and new places gave young people new impressions. On January 31, the Dyatlov group made an attempt to overcome the pass separating the valleys of the Auspiya and Lozva rivers, however, having met with a strong wind at a low temperature (about -18), they were forced to retreat to spend the night in the forested part of the Auspiya river valley. On the morning of February 1, the group got up late, left part of the food and things in a specially equipped storage shed (it took a long time), had lunch, and at about 3 pm on February 1, they set out on the route. The materials on the termination of the Criminal Case, apparently expressing the collective opinion of the investigation and the interviewed specialists, say that such a late start to the route was first Igor Dyatlov's mistake. At the beginning, the group most likely followed its old trail, and then continued to move in the direction of Mount Otorten and at about 17:00 stopped for a cold overnight stay, on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl.
To facilitate the perception of information, we present a wonderfully drawn up diagram of the place of events, given by Vadim Chernobrov (Fig. 1).
ill. 1. Scheme of the place of events.
The materials of the criminal Case say that Dyatlov “came to the wrong place, where he wanted to”, making a mistake in the direction and taking much more to the left than was required to pass to the pass between heights 1096 and 663. This, according to the compilers of the Case, was the second mistake of Igor Dyatlov.
We do not agree with the version of the investigation and believe that Igor Dyatlov stopped the group not by mistake, by accident, but SPECIALLY at the place previously planned in the previous transition.
Our opinion is not alone - this was also stated during the investigation by an experienced tourist student - Sogrin, who was part of one of the search and rescue teams that found Igor Dyatlov's tent. The modern researcher Borzenkov also speaks about the planned stop in the book “Dyatlov Pass. Research and materials”, Yekaterinburg 2016, p. 138. What prompted Igor Dyatlov to do this?
COLD OVERNIGHT.
Arriving as we feel , to the point predetermined by Dyatlov, the group proceeded to set up a tent, according to all "tourist and climbing rules." The question of a cold overnight baffles the most experienced specialists and is one of the main mysteries of the tragic campaign. Many different versions are put forward, up to the absurd, they say it was done for "training".
Only we managed to find a convincing version.
The question arises whether the participants in the campaign knew that Dyatlov plans cold overnight. We think that they didn’t know *, but they didn’t argue, knowing about the difficult temper of their leader from previous campaigns and stories about them and forgiving him in advance.
*This is indicated by the fact that the bonfire accessories (axe, saw and stove) were not left at the site of the storage shed, moreover, a dry log for kindling was even prepared.
Taking part in the general work on arranging an overnight stay, only one person expressed his protest, namely, a professional tourism instructor, 37-year-old Semyon Zolotarev, who went through the war. This protest was expressed in a very peculiar way, testifying to the high intellectual abilities of his applicant. Semyon Zolotarev created a very remarkable document, namely Combat sheet number 1 " Evening Otorten.
We consider Battle Sheet No. 1 "Evening Otorten" to be the key to unraveling the tragedy.
About the authorship of Zolotarev, says the title itself " Combat leaf." Semyon Zolotarev was the only veteran of the Great Patriotic War among the participants in the campaign, and a very well-deserved one, who had four military awards, including the medal "For Courage". In addition, according to the tourist Axelrod, reflected in the Case, the handwriting of the handwritten "Evening Otorten" coincides with the handwriting of Zolotarev. So here it is at the beginning"Battle leaflet", it is said that "according to the latest data of science Bigfoot live in the vicinity of Mount Otorten.
It must be said that at that time the whole world was engulfed in a fever of searching for Bigfoot, which has not died down to this day. Such searches were also carried out in the Soviet Union. We think that Igor Dyatlov was aware of this "problem" and dreamed of meeting Bigfoot and for the first time in the world and take a picture of it. It is known from the materials of the Case that Igor Dyatlov met with old hunters in Vizhay, consulted with them on the forthcoming campaign, perhaps it was also about Bigfoot. Of course, experienced hunters * told the "young" the whole "truth" about Bigfoot, where he lives, what his behavior is, what he loves.
* So the evidence of Chargin, 85 years old, is given in the case, that in Vizhay, a group of tourists from Dyatlovtsy addressed him as a hunter.
Of course, everything that was said was in the spirit of traditional hunting tales, but Igor Dyatlov believed what was said and decided that the surroundings of Otorten were just the perfect place for Bigfoot to live, and it was only a matter of small things - to get up for a cold overnight, cold, since Bigfoot loves the cold and out of curiosity, he himself will come to the tent. The place for a possible overnight stay was chosen by Igor in the previous transition on January 31, 1959, when the group actually reached the pass separating the basins of the Auspiya and Lozva rivers.
A photo of this moment has been preserved, which allowed Borzenkov to accurately determine this point on the map. The picture shows that, obviously, Igor Dyatlov and Semyon Zolotarev are arguing very hard about the further route. It is obvious that Zolotarev expresses against logically difficult to explain Dyatlov’s decision to return back to Auspiya and offers to “take the pass”, which was a matter of about 30 minutes and go down to spend the night in the Lozva river basin. Note that in this case the group would have stopped for the night just approximately in the area of the same ill-fated cedar.
Everything becomes logically explainable, if we assume that already at that moment Dyatlov was planning a cold overnight stay, just on the slope of mountain 1096 *, which, in the event of an overnight stay in the Lozva basin, would be on the sidelines.
* This mountain, called in Mansiysk Mount Kholatchakhl, in translation is called " Mountain of the 9 Dead". Mansi consider this place "unclean" and bypass it. So from the Case, according to the testimony of student Slabtsov, who found the tent, the Mansi guide who accompanied them flatly refused to go to that mountain. We think that Dyatlov decided if it’s impossible, then it’s necessary to prove to everyone that it’s possible and he’s not afraid of anything, and he also thought that if they say it’s impossible, then it means exactlyhere inhabited by the notorious Bigfoot.
So, at about 17 pm on February 1, Igor Dyatlov gives unexpected a team that had a rest in the half-day group to get up for a cold overnight, explaining the reasons for this decision by the scientific problem of finding Bigfoot. The group, with the exception of Semyon Zolotarev, took this decision calmly. For the time remaining before sleep, Semyon Zolotarev made his famous “Evening Otorten”, which is actually a satirical work, sharply critical, the established order in the group.
There is, in our opinion, a reasonable point of view on the further tactics of Igor Dyatlov. According to the experienced tourist Axelrod, who knew Igor Dyatlov well from joint trips, Dyatlov planned to raise the group at dusk, at about 6 o'clock in the morning, then go on the assault on Mount Otorten. Most likely that is what happened. The group was preparing to get dressed (more precisely, to put on shoes, because people slept in clothes), while having breakfast with breadcrumbs and lard. According to numerous testimonies of participants in the rescue work, crackers were scattered all over the tent; they fell out of crumpled blankets along with pieces of lard. The situation was calm, no one, except Dyatlov, was seriously upset that the Bigfoot did not come and that, in fact, the group suffered such significant inconvenience in vain.
Only Semyon Zolotarev, who was located at the very entrance to the tent, was seriously indignant at what had happened. His dissatisfaction was fueled by the following circumstance. The fact is that Semyon had a birthday on February 2. And, it seems that since the night he began to “mark” him with alcohol intake, and it seems one, because according to Dr. Vozrozhdenny, no alcohol was found in the body of the first 5 tourists found. This is reflected in the official documents (in the Acts) given in the Case.
About a feast with chopped lard and empty flask with an apaha of vodka or alcohol at the entrance to the tent where Semyon Zolotarev was located is directly indicated in the Case by the prosecutor of the city of Indel Tempalov. A large flask of alcohol was confiscated in a discovered tent by student Boris Slobtsov. This alcohol, according to the testimony of student Brusnitsyn, a participant in the events, was immediately drunk by the members of the search group who found the tent. That is, in addition to the flask with alcohol in the tent there was a flask with the same drink. We think that we are talking about alcohol, and not about vodka.
Warmed up by alcohol, Zolotarev, dissatisfied with a cold and hungry overnight stay, left the tent for the toilet (a trace of urine remained at the tent) and outside demanded an analysis of Dyatlov's mistakes. Most likely, the amount of alcohol consumed was so significant that Zolotarev was very drunk and began to behave aggressively. Someone had to come out of the tent at this noise. At first glance, this should have been the leader of the campaign, Igor Dyatlov, but we think that he was not the one who came out to talk. Dyatlov was located at the farthest end of the tent, it was inconvenient for him to climb through everyone and, most importantly, Dyatlov was significantly inferior in his physical data to Semyon Zolotarev. We believe that tall (180 cm) and physically strong Yuri Doroshenko came out to Semyon's demand. This is also supported by the fact that ice ax, found near the tent, belonged to Yuri Doroshenko. So, in the materials of the Case there was an entry made by his hand “go to the trade union committee, take mine ice ax". Thus, Yuri Doroshenko, atthe only one in the group as it turned out later, it was time to put on the boots. The footprint of a single man in boots was documented in the Act by the prosecutor Tempalov.
There are no data on the presence or absence of alcohol in the body of 4 people found later (in May), and, specifically, in Semyon Zolotarev, in the Acts of Dr. bodies at the time of the study had already begun to decompose. That is, the answer to the question: “Was Semyon Zolotarev drunk or not?” There are no materials in the Case.
So, Yuri Doroshenko, shod in ski boots, armed with an ice ax and taking with him a Dyatlov flashlight for illumination, because. it was still dark (it was getting light at 8-9 in the morning, and the action took place around 7 in the morning), gets out of the tent. A short, sharp and unpleasant conversation took place between Zolotarev and Doroshenko. Obviously, Zolotarev expressed his opinion about Dyatlov and Dyatlovtsy.
From the point of view of Zolotarev, Dyatlov makes gross mistakes. The first of them was the passage by Dyatlov of the mouth of the Auspiya River. As a result, the group had to make a detour. It was incomprehensible for Zolotarev and the departure of the group on January 31 to the bed of the Auspiya river instead of going down to the bed of the Lozva and, finally, absurd, and, most importantly, fruitless cold overnight. The dissatisfaction hiddenly expressed by Zolotarev in the Evening Otorten newspaper spilled out.
We think that Zolotarev offered to remove Dyatlov from the post of leader of the campaign, replacing him with someone else, meaning himself first of all. It is difficult to say in what form Zolotarev proposed this to us now. It is clear that after drinking alcohol, the form should be sharp, but the degree of sharpness depends on the specific reaction of a person to alcohol. Zolotarev, who knew the war in all its manifestations, of course, was mentally disturbed, and could simply be aroused to alcoholic psychosis, bordering on delirium. Judging by the fact that Doroshenko left an ice ax and a flashlight and preferred to hide in a tent, Zolotarev was very excited. The guys even blocked his way to the tent, throwing the stove, backpacks, food at the entrance. This circumstance, up to the term “barricade”, is repeatedly emphasized in the testimonies of the participants in the rescue operation. Moreover, at the entrance to the tent stood an ax, absolutely superfluous in this place.
Obviously, the students decided to actively defend themselves.
Perhaps this circumstance enraged the drunken Zolotarev even more (so in the tent in the tent at the entrance the curtain of the sheet was literally torn). Most likely, all these obstacles only infuriated Zolotarev, who was rushing into the tent to continue the showdown. And then Zolotarev remembered the gap in the tent from the "mountain" side, which was repaired all together at the previous parking lot. And he decided to get inside the tent through this gap, using "psychological weapons" so that he would not be hindered, as was done at the front.
He probably shouted something like "I throw a grenade".
The fact is that in 1959 the country was still overflowing with weapons, despite all the Government Decrees on its surrender. Getting a grenade at that time was not a problem, especially in Sverdlovsk, where weapons were brought for remelting. So the threat was very real. And in general, it is very likely that it was not only an imitation of a threat.
MAYBE THERE WAS A REAL BATTLE GRENADE.
Apparently, investigator Ivanov had this in mind when speaking about a certain "piece of iron" that he underinvestigated. A grenade could really come in handy on a campaign, in particular, for killing fish under ice, as was done during the war, since part of the route passed along rivers. And, quite possibly, the front-line soldier Zolotarev decided to take such a “necessary” object on a campaign.
Zolotarev did not calculate the effect of his "weapon". The students took the threat seriously and left the tent in a panic, making two cuts in the canvas. This happened around 7 am, as it was still dark, as evidenced by a flashlight. on fire condition, dropped by students and subsequently found by searchers 100 meters from the tent down the slope.
Zolotarev walked around the tent and, continuing to imitate the threat, decided to drunkenly teach the "young". He formed the people in a line (as witnessed by all the people who observed the footprints) and commanded "Down", setting the direction. He gave one blanket with him, they say, keep yourself warm with one blanket, as in that Armenian riddle from Evening Otorten. This is how the cold overnight stay of the Dyatlovites ended.
TRAGEDY IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS.
People went down, and Zolotarev climbed into the tent and apparently continued to drink, celebrating his birthday. The fact that someone remained in the tent is evidenced by a subtle observer, a student, Sorgin, whose testimony is given in the File.
Zolotarev, settled down on two blankets. All the blankets in the tent were crumpled, with the exception of two, on which they found skins from the loin, which Zolotarev ate. It was already dawn, the wind had risen, which passed through the gap in one place of the tent and cutouts in another. Zolotarev closed the breakthrough with Dyatlov’s fur jacket, and had to deal with the cutouts in a different way, since the initial attempt to plug the cutouts with things, following the example of the hole, failed (for example, according to Astenaki, several blankets and a padded jacket stuck out of the cutouts of the tent). Then Zolotarev decided to lower the far edge of the tent, cutting the rack - a ski pole.
The weight of the snow that fell (the fact that there was snow at night is evidenced by the fact that the Dyatlov lantern lay on the tent on a layer of snow about 10 cm thick) the stick was rigidly fixed and it was not possible to immediately pull it out. The stick had to be cut with the long knife used to cut the fat. The cut stick was pulled out, its parts were found cut from the top of the backpacks. The far edge of the tent sank and closed the cutouts, and Zolotarev settled down at the front post of the tent and, obviously, fell asleep for a while, having finished drinking alcohol from a flask.
The group, meanwhile, continued to move down, in the direction indicated by Zolotarev. It is testified that the tracks were divided into two groups - to the left of 6 people, and to the right - two. Then the tracks converged. These groups apparently corresponded to the two cutouts through which the people crawled out. The two on the right are Thibault and Dubinina, who were located closer to the exit. On the left is everyone else.
One man walked in boots(Yuri Doroshenko, we believe). Let us recall that this is documented in the Case file by Prokur Tempalov. It also says that there were traces eight, what documented confirms our version that one person remained in the tent.
It was dawning, it was difficult to walk because of the snow that had fallen and, of course, it was desperately cold, because. The temperature was around -20 C with wind. At about 9 o'clock in the morning, a group of 8 tourists, already half-frostbitten, found themselves next to a tall cedar. Cedar as a point around which they decided to build a fire was not chosen by chance. In addition to the dry lower branches for the fire, which we managed to “get” with the help of cuts, it was with great difficulty that an “observation post” was equipped on it to monitor the tent. For this, several large branches obstructing the view were cut out by the Finnish Krivonischenko. Below, under the cedar, with great difficulty, a small fire was lit, which, according to the concurring estimates of various observers, burned for 1.5-2 hours. If we ended up at the cedar at 9 am, it took an hour to make a fire, and plus two hours, it turns out that the fire went out at about 12 o'clock in the afternoon.
Still taking Zolotarev's threat seriously, the group decided not to return to the tent for the time being, but to try to "hold on" by building some kind of shelter, at least from the wind, for example, in the form of a cave. It turned out to be possible to do this in a ravine, near a stream that flowed towards the Lozva River. For this shelter, 10-12 poles were cut. What exactly the poles were supposed to serve for is not clear, maybe they planned to build a “floor” from them by throwing spruce branches on top.
Zolotarev, meanwhile, "rested" in the tent, forgetting himself in an anxious drunken dream. Having woken up and sobered up a little, at about 10-11 o'clock he saw that the situation was serious, the students had not returned, which means that they were "in trouble" somewhere and realized that he "went too far". He followed the footprints down, realizing his guilt and already without a weapon (the ice ax remained at the tent, the knife in the tent). True, it remains unclear where the grenade was located, if it really was. At about 12 o'clock he approached the cedar. He walked dressed and in felt boots. The trace of one person in felt boots was recorded by the observer Akselrod 10-15 meters from the tent. He went down to Lozva.
The question arises: “Why is there no or not seen ninth track? The issue here is most likely the following. The students descended at 7 o'clock in the morning, and Zolotarev at about 11. By this time, at dawn, a strong wind had risen, a drifting snow, which partly blew away the snow that had fallen at night, and partly compacted it, pressed it to the ground. It turned out thinner, and most importantly, denser layer of snow. In addition, felt boots are larger in area than boots, and even more so legs without shoes. The pressure from the boots on the snow, per unit area, is several times less, so the traces of the descending Zolotarev were hardly noticeable and were not recorded by observers.
The people at the cedar, meanwhile, met him in a critical situation. Half-frozen, unsuccessfully trying in turn to keep warm by the fire, bringing freezing hands, legs and faces close to the fire. Apparently from this combination of frostbite and mild burns, an unusual skin coloration of red tones of exposed parts of the body was observed in five tourists found in the first phase of the search.
People put all the blame for what happened on Zolotarev, so his appearance did not bring relief, but served to further escalate the situation. Moreover, the psyche of hungry and freezing people worked, of course, inadequately. Possible apologies from Zolotarev, or vice versa, his command orders, obviously, were not accepted. The lynching has begun. We think that at first Thibaut demanded to take off his felt boots as an initial measure of "retaliation" and then demanded to give the Pobeda watch, which reminded Zolotarev of his participation in the war, which, obviously, was the subject of his pride. This struck Zolotarev as extremely offensive. In response, he hit Thibaut with a camera, which he may have demanded to give. And again, "didn't calculate", obviously the alcohol was still in the blood. used the camera as sling* he punched Thibault in the head, actually killed him.
* This is evidenced by the fact that the camera strap was wound around Zolotarev's arm.
In the conclusion of Dr. Vozrozhdenny, it is said that Thibaut's skull is deformed in a rectangular area measuring 7x9 cm, which approximately corresponds to the size of the camera, and a torn hole in the center of the rectangle is 3x3.5x2 cm. This approximately corresponds to the size of the protruding lens. The camera, according to numerous witnesses, was found on the corpse of Zolotarev. Photo saved.
After that, of course, everyone present attacked Zolotarev. Someone was holding hands, and Doroshenko, the only one with boots kicked him in the chest in the ribs. Zolotarev desperately defended himself, hit Slobodin so that his skull cracked, and when Zolotarev was immobilized by collective efforts, he began to fight with his teeth, biting off Krivonischenko's nose. So, apparently, they were taught in front-line intelligence, where, according to some information, Zolotarev served.
During this fight, Lyudmila Dubinina for some reason, was ranked among the "supporters" of Zolotarev. Perhaps at the beginning of the fight she sharply objected to lynching, and when Zolotarev actually killed Thibaut, she fell into disgrace. But, most likely, the fury of those present turned to Dubinina for this reason. Everyone understood that the beginning of the tragedy, its trigger point, was Zolotarev's intake of alcohol. The case contains the testimony of Yuri Yudin that, in his opinion, one of the main shortcomings in the organization of the Dyatlov campaign was lack of alcohol, which, it was he, Yudin, who could not get it in Sverdlovsk, but, as we already know, there was still alcohol in the group. This means that alcohol was bought on the way to Vizhay, in Indel, or, most likely, at the last moment before going on the route from lumberjacks in the 41st forest area. Since Yudin did not know about the presence of alcohol, it was obviously kept secret. Dyatlov decided to use alcohol under some emergency circumstances - such as the assault on Mount Otorten, when his strength was running out, or to mark the successful end of the campaign. But the supply manager and accountant Dubinina could not help but know about the presence of alcohol in the group, since it was she who allocated public money to Dyatlov to buy alcohol on the road. People or Dyatlov personally decided that she was talking about it blabbed Zolotarev, who slept nearby and with whom she willingly communicated (photos have been preserved). In general, in reality, Dubinina received the same, even more severe injuries than Zolotarev (10 ribs were broken in Dubinina, 5 in Zolotarev). In addition, she had her "talkative" tongue torn out..
Considering that the “opponents” were dead, one of the Dyatlovites, fearing responsibility, squeezed out their eyes, because. there was and still is a belief that the image of the murderer remains in the pupil of the victim of a violent death. This version is supported by the fact that Thibaut, who was mortally wounded by Zolotarev, had his eyes intact.
Let's not forget that people acted on the verge of life and death, in a state of extreme excitement of passion, when animal instincts completely turn off acquired human qualities. Yuri Doroshenko was found with frozen foam at the mouth, which confirms our version of his extreme degree of arousal, which reached rabies.
It is very similar to the fact that Lyudmila Dubinina suffered without guilt. The fact is that with almost 100 percent probability Semyon Zolotarev was an alcoholic, like many of the direct participants in the hostilities in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A fatal role here was played by the “People's Commissar's” 100 grams of vodka, which were issued at the front every day during the hostilities. Any narcologist will say that if this continues for more than six months, then dependence of varying severity inevitably arises, depending on the physiology of a particular person. The only way to avoid the disease was to abandon the "People's Commissar", which, of course, a rare Russian person can do. So it is unlikely that Semyon Zolotarev was such an exception. An indirect confirmation of this is the episode on the train on the way from Sverdlovsk, described in the diary of one of the participants in the campaign, which is given in the File. A "young alcoholic" turned to the tourists, demanding the return of a bottle of vodka, stolen, in his opinion, by one of them. The incident was hushed up, but most likely Dyatlov “figured out” Zolotarev and, when buying alcohol, strictly forbade Lyudmila Dubinina to tell Zolotarev about this. Since Zolotarev nevertheless took possession of the Dyatlov alcohol, and then everyone else decided that the supply manager Dubinina, who let it out, was to blame, blabbed. Most likely it was not so. Students in their youth did not know that alcoholics develop a supernatural “sixth” sense for alcohol and they successfully and accurately find it in any conditions. Just by intuition. So Dubinina here, most likely, had nothing to do with it.
The described bloody tragedy occurred at about 12 noon on February 2, 1959, near the ravine where the shelter was being prepared.
This time of 12 noon is determined as follows. As we already wrote, the tourists in a panic left the tent through the cutouts at about 7 am on February 2, 1959. The distance to the cedar is 1.5-2 km. Taking into account the "nudity" and "barefoot" and the difficulties of orientation, the difficulties of orientation in the dark and at dawn, the group reached the cedar in an hour and a half or two. It turns out 8.5-9 o'clock in the morning. It's dawn. Another hour to prepare firewood, cut branches for an observation post, prepare poles for decking. It turns out that the fire was kindled at about 10 o'clock in the morning. According to numerous testimonies of search engines, the fire burned for 1.5-2 hours. It turns out that the fire went out when the group went to sort things out with Zolotarev to the ravine, i.e. at 11.30 - 12 noon. It comes out around 12 noon. After the fight, having lowered the bodies of the dead into the cave (dropping them), a group of 6 people returned to the cedar.
And the fact that the fight took place at the ravine is proved by the fact that, according to the expert opinion of Dr. Thibault himself could not move after the impact. It could only be carried. And to carry even 70 meters from the cedar to the ravine to dying, half-frozen people was clearly unable to.
Those who saved the forces of Dyatlov, Slobodin, and Kolmogorov rushed to the tent, the path to which was now free. Exhausted in the fight, Doroshenko, the fragile Krivonischenko and Kolevatov remained at the cedar and tried to rekindle the fire near the cedar, which had gone out during the fight in the ravine. So, Doroshenko was found fallen on dry branches, which he obviously carried to the fire. But they didn't seem to be able to rekindle the fire. After some time, perhaps a very short time, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko froze to death. Kolevatov lived longer than them, and finding that his comrades were dead, and the fire could not be re-lit, he decided to meet his fate in the cave, thinking that one of those who were in it might still be alive. He cut off some of the warm clothes of his dead comrades with a Finn and carried them to the "hole in the ravine" where the rest were. He also took off Yuri Doroshenko's shoes, but apparently decided that they were hardly useful and threw them into the ravine. The boots were never found, as well as a number of other things of the Dyatlovites, which is reflected in the File. In the Kolevatov cave, Thibault,
Dubinina and Zolotarev met their death.
Igor Dyatlov, Rustem Slobodin and Zinaida Kolmogorova met their death on the difficult path to the tent, fighting to the last for their lives. It happened around 13 hours of the day on February 2, 1959.
The time of the death of the group, according to our version, is 12-13 pm, coincides with the assessment of the remarkable forensic expert Dr. Vozrozhdenny, according to which the death of all the victims occurred 6-8 hours after the last meal. And this reception was breakfast after a cold night at about 6 in the morning. 6-8 hours later gives 12-14 noon, which almost exactly coincides with the time indicated by us.
THERE IS A TRAGIC END.
CONCLUSION .
It is difficult to find right and wrong in this story. Pity everyone. The greatest fault, as it sounded in the materials of the Case, lies with the head of the UPI Gordo sports club, it was he who had to check the psychological stability of the group and only after that give the go-ahead to the exit. It’s a pity for the provocative Zina Kolmogorova, who loved life so much, the romantic, dreaming of love Luda Dubinina, the foppish handsome Kolya Thibaut, the fragile Georgy Krivonischenko with the soul of a musician, the faithful comrade Sasha Kolevatov, the mischievous home boy Rustem Slobodin, sharp, strong, Yuri with his own concepts of justice Doroshenko. It is a pity for a talented radio engineer, but a naive and narrow-minded person and useless leader of the campaign, the ambitious Igor Dyatlov. It is a pity for the honored front-line soldier, scout Semyon Zolotarev, who did not find the right ways to make the campaign go as he probably wanted, as best as possible.
In principle, we agree with the conclusions of the investigation that “the group encountered natural forces that they were unable to overcome.” Only we believe that these natural forces were not external, but internal. Some could not cope with their ambitions, Zolotarev did not make a psychological allowance for the young age of the participants in the campaign and its leader. And of course, a huge role was played by the violation of the "dry law" during the campaign, which, obviously, officially acted among the students of the UPI.
We believe that the investigation eventually came to a version close to that voiced by us. This is indicated by the fact that Semyon Zolotarev was buried separately from the main group of Dyatlovites. But, publicly voicing this version in 1959, the authorities considered it undesirable for political reasons. So, according to the memoirs of investigator Ivanov, “In the Urals, probably, there will not be a person who did not talk about this tragedy in those days” (see the book “Dyatlov Pass”, p. 247). Therefore, the investigation limited itself to the abstract formulation of the cause of the death of the group given above. Moreover, we believe that the materials of the Case contain indirect confirmation of the version of the presence of a combat grenade or grenades from one of the participants in the campaign. So in the Acts of Doctor Vozrozhdenny it is said that multiple fractures of the ribs in Zolotarev and Dubinina could result from the action air shock wave, which just generates a grenade explosion. In addition, the forensic prosecutor, Ivanov, who conducted the investigation, as we already wrote about this, spoke about the “under-investigation” of some piece of iron found. Most likely we are talking about Zolotarev's grenade, which could be anywhere from a tent to a ravine. It is obvious that the people who conducted the investigation exchanged information and, perhaps, the “grenade” version also reached Dr. Vozrozhdenny.
We also found direct evidence that already in early March, that is, in the initial phase of the search, the version of the explosion was considered. So investigator Ivanov writes in his memoirs: “There were no traces of an explosion wave. This was carefully considered by Maslennikov and I” (see the article “Memoirs from the family archive” in the book “Dyatlov Pass” by Ivanov L.N. “Memories from the family archive” p. 255).
This means that there were grounds for searching for traces of the explosion, that is, it is possible that the grenade was nevertheless found by sappers. Since the memoirs are about Maslennikov, this determines the time - the beginning of March, so later Maslennikov departed for Sverdlovsk.
This is evidence very significant, especially if you remember that at that time the “Mansi version” was the main one, that is, that the local residents of the Mansi were involved in the tragedy. The Mansi version completely collapsed by the end of March 1959.
The fact that by the time the bodies of the last four tourists were discovered in early May, the investigation had come to certain conclusions, is evidenced by the complete indifference of prosecutor Ivanov, who was present when the bodies were dug up. The head of the last group of search engines Askinadzi speaks about this in his memoirs. So, most likely, the grenade was found not near the cave, but somewhere on the segment from the tent to the cedar in February-March, when a group of sappers with mine detectors worked there. That is, by May, by the time the bodies of the last four dead were discovered, everything was already more or less clear to the forensic prosecutor Ivanov, who was conducting the investigation.
Obviously, that this tragic incident should serve as a lesson for tourists of all generations.
And for this, the activities of the Dyatlov Foundation should be, as we believe, continued.
ADDITION. ABOUT FIRE BALLS.
The monster is oblo, mischievous, huge, staring and barking
It is not by chance that we cited this epigraph from the wonderful story of the educator A.N. Radishchev Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. This epigraph is about the state. So how "evil" was the Soviet state of 1959 and how did it "bark" at tourists?
That's how. Organized a tourist section at the institute, where everyone studied for free and received a scholarship. Then such an "evil" one allocated money in the amount of 1,300 rubles for the trip of his students, gave them the most expensive equipment - a tent, skis, boots, windbreakers, sweaters - for the duration of the trip. Helped with the planning of the trip, the development of the route. And, even issued a paid business trip to the leader of the campaign, Igor Dyatlov. The height of cynicism in our opinion. This is how our country, in which we all grew up, “barked” at tourists.
When it became clear that something unforeseen had happened to the students, they immediately organized an expensive and well-organized rescue and search operation involving aviation, military personnel, athletes, other tourists, as well as the local Mansi population, who showed their best side.
But what about the famous FIRE BALLS? Which tourists were allegedly so afraid of that they barricaded the entrance to the tent, and then cut it open in order to urgently get out of it?
We also found the answer to this question.
Finding this answer helped us a lot with the images that a group of researchers from Yekaterinburg obtained by processing film from a camera by Semyon Zolotarev with the help of a unique technique. Recognizing the significant importance of this work, we wish to draw attention to the following easily verifiable and obvious data.
It is enough just to rotate the resulting images to see that they do not depict at all mythical"fireballs" and real and understandable stories.
So if you rotate one of the images from the book “Dyatlov Pass” and called “Mushroom” by the authors by 180 degrees, then we can easily see the dead face of one of the Dyatlovites found last, namely Alexander Kolevatov. It was he who, according to eyewitnesses, was found with his tongue hanging out, which is easily "read" in the photo. From this fact it is obvious that Zolotarev's film, after the frames he shot on the campaign, shot by a group of search engines Askinadzi.
ill. 3. "Mysterious" photo No. 7 *. Kolevatov's face.
This is the "Mushroom" object in Yakimenko's terminology.
*Photos 6,7 are given in the article by Valentin Yakimenko “Tapes of the Dyatlovites”: Searches, finds and new mysteries” in the book “Dyatlov Pass” p.424. from there the numbering of the pictures. This position is further proved by this frame named by the authors "Lynx".
Let's rotate it 90 degrees clockwise. In the center of the frame, the face of a man from the Askinaji search group is clearly visible. Here is a photo from his archive.
Fig. 4 Asktinadzi group. By this time people already knew where the bodies are located and made a special dam - a trap "in the photo" to detain them in the event of a flash flood. A snapshot of late April - early May 1959.
ill. 5 "Mysterious" photo No. 6 (Lynx object) according to Yakimenko's terminology and an enlarged image of a search engine.
We see that, in the center of the frame, a man from the Askinadzi group is from Zolotarev's film.
We think that this person did not accidentally turn out to be in the center frame. Perhaps it was he who played the key, main, central role in the search - figured out where the bodies of the last Dyatlovites were. This is also evidenced by the fact that he feels like a winner in the group picture of the search engines and is located above all.
We believe that and all other pictures given in Yakimenko's article have a similar, purely earthly origin.
So, thanks to the joint efforts of specialists from Yekaterinburg, first of all, Valentin Yakimenko and ours, the mystery of the "fireballs" was resolved by itself.
She just never existed.
As in other matters, the "fireballs" themselves in the vicinity of Mount Otorten on the night of February 1-2, 1959.
We respectfully present our work to all interested persons and organizations.
Sergey Goldin, analyst, independent expert.
Yuri Ransmi, research engineer, specialist in image analysis.
The actor, who starred in the films and TV series "Battle for Sevastopol", "Method", "Demons", posted on Instagram a photo from the filming of the television series "Dyatlov Pass"
Pictured Oleg Vasilkov captured with partners in the picture Petr Fedorov(the role of a KGB major investigating) and Andrey Dobrovolsky, who also played a representative of the authorities.
Vasilkov himself got the role Boris Slobtsov- the head of the search group, which was the first to stumble upon a tent abandoned by skiers. We got through to the actor: how does he work there, in the harsh Ural Mountains?
And we were not in the Urals - in Altai. And this photo was taken two months ago. So, I decided to remember, - Oleg Maratovich orientated us. - The atmosphere in the Urals is too mystical. Therefore, apparently, the directors decided to move away. In addition, in October there was already a two-meter layer of snow here.
- In the film, what version of the death of the Dyatlovites is being worked out? It is still unclear what happened to them.
The most probable reason is that an avalanche came down from the mountain. In the Urals, there is such a specificity: avalanches are a crust half a meter thick, which rushes along the slope at great speed, literally ironing everything under it. This is exactly what happened to the Dyatlov group. And all other versions, including aliens, are fiction. Another thing is what brought people to those places - this is not clear.
- Was it scary?
The story we filmed - I don’t want to tell it ahead of time - has a distant relation to the Dyatlov Pass. There were difficulties. For example, it took 15 km to get to the set by tractor or snowmobile. And out of stupidity, I literally came to those parts in shorts. I looked on the Internet - plus three to five, it seems not cold, but I did not think that the filming location would be so far away and there would be no conditions. Once again I was convinced: selfless people work in the cinema. Launch them to Mars - they will pitch tents and begin to build a frame.
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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 after the group commander the Dyatlov Pass, 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 tracks, three of the group decided to return to the tent, but froze to death 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.”
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 melts, 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:
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.
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).
According to some versions, the Dyatlov group was hit by some 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 a 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 on the territory 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.
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:
Athlete Rustem Slobodin.
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.
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, they began to translate it 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."
Yuri YudinDubinina 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?
