How 9 Mansi died on the mountain of the dead. Mountain of the Dead (Sverdlovsk region)

1959, February - over the mountains of the Northern Urals, eyewitnesses have been observing unusual fireballs for a week. Luminous objects either approach the ground or suddenly soar upward. And quite often they hang motionless over the hills for a long time. In the first days the sight aroused curiosity, then panic. Local residents are convinced that the gods are angry. Moreover, the sacred mountain - Mount of the Dead - has not given up climbers for several days now who dared to include it in their route.

Rescuers are looking for the missing group of Igor Dyatlov. Hundreds of volunteers make their way through snow-filled passes. Civil and military aviation were involved. Only on the fifth day, three local residents came across a lonely tent. Its walls are torn, and it itself is empty. Backpacks, camping equipment and all supplies are in place, only personal belongings are randomly scattered. An overturned pot with the remains of dinner, woolen socks in different angles tents, a lonely felt boot... One gets the impression that people left the place where they spent the night in a panic.

The chains of footprints from the tent go in mysterious zigzags, converge and diverge again, it seems that people wanted to run away, but an unknown force drove them together again. There were no signs of a struggle or the presence of other people. No signs of any natural disaster. At the border of the forest, the tracks disappear, covered with snow.

“Inspection of the footprints showed that they were left with bare feet or had cotton socks on, some were wearing felt boots, some were wearing boots,” forensic expert Alexander Chernikov told us. “This circumstance is confirmed by the fact that people left the tent in a hurry, without even getting dressed.”

Two hours after the mysterious discovery, a message arrived: pilot Gennady Patrushev, in the area of ​​Mount Otorten, noticed the figures of two people lying in the snow. Patrushev makes a couple of circles above them with the hope that the guys will raise their heads. But there is no answer. An hour and a half later, rescuers reached the area. At the border of the forest they found the remains of a fire, and near it two corpses - Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. The men are stripped down to their underwear.

Three hundred meters from them they found the body of Igor Dyatlov. It’s clear from his pose: Dyatlov was trying to crawl towards the tent. Another corpse was found - Slobodina. And again, as in the first three cases, there were no signs of violence or struggle. A little further on, another terrible discovery is the corpse of Kolmogorova. The snow was stained with blood that flowed from the girl’s throat... But again there was no damage to the body itself. There is only one “but” - the unusual color of the skin of the corpses: purple or bright orange. What happened? What could make people tear down their tent and jump out practically naked into 40-degree frost? And where are the other five people who were part of Dyatlov’s group? There are no answers. In local villages there are legends, one more terrible than the other.

The authorities forbade newspapermen to even casually mention the tragedy, a telephone message was received from Moscow not allowing the removal of the bodies of the dead until the arrival of a special Moscow commission, and local residents performed their rituals day and night. Ancient people I'm sure this is war. And the gods who came from heaven announced it.

The first version of the death of the group: War of the Gods

The name of the gloomy and inaccessible Mount Otorten, on the slope of which 5 corpses were found, is translated from the Mansi language as “don’t go there.” Immediately behind Otorten there is an even more disastrous place. Mountain of the Nine Dead.

By some terrible pattern, groups consisting of exactly nine people die in this area. According to legend: 9 is a cursed number that can open the door to the abode of evil spirits.

Pilot Gennady Patrushev knew local folklore well and considered all this not just the fantasies of the aborigines.
The widow of Gennady Patrushev recalls that Gennady often told her that on Mount Otorten he actually saw silhouettes in shiny clothes more than once.

Pilot Gennady Patrushev was a close friend of Igor Dyatlov. Having learned about Dyatlov’s intention to climb Mount Otorten, Gennady, according to his wife, even persuaded Igor and his comrades to change the route. But Dyatlov only made fun of these horror stories. What kind of gods, spirits and curses are there when it’s the middle of the twentieth century?! Dyatlov's main argument is the number of people. There were not 9 of them in Igor’s group, but 10. Patrushev, oddly enough, also agreed with this argument, for which he later blamed himself.

Only on the sixth day of the group’s search, on the day when five missing people were found dead and five more disappeared into the water, a young man came to the rescue headquarters. After hanging around the threshold for a while, he timidly enters the room. “Guys,” he says, addressing those present, “I’m tenth. I didn’t go...” Everyone present’s faces harden. Yuri Yudin fell ill the night before setting out on the route. And in the morning the group left without him. Nine of us!

Panic among local residents is growing. And the fact that the distant capital became interested in the story of the dead climbers only intensified the fear.

After all, a telegram came from Moscow, signed not by ordinary officials, but by Assistant Prosecutor General Terebilov, with a categorical instruction: “Immediately report the results of the investigation.”

Therefore, everyone who has anything to do with the search for the missing climbers is forced to sign a document on non-disclosure of state secrets. Meanwhile, fireballs continue to appear over the crash site several times a night. Pilots who have flown in this area are already openly talking about being followed by UFOs.

“Most often, spherical luminous UFOs flew by, from which rays emanated,” Vladimir Kuvaev, a former employee of the local police department, told me. – Moreover, the rays, according to the testimony of many interviewees, illuminated military installations: military factories, air defense units located nearby. We can assume that this was alien espionage.”

A curator with special powers arrives from the capital. All pilots who continue to search for the remaining members of the group submit written reports to the officer about their encounters with strange fiery objects. Pilot Gennady Patrushev is at a loss. How to write about something that defies any explanation?

Three days after the terrible discovery on Otorten, two helicopters flew to the site of the tragedy in the strictest secrecy. Forensic experts take final photographs of the dead and the torn tent, measuring the distances at which the bodies are from each other and from the place where they spent the night. Eventually, four large canvas bags are lifted aboard the helicopter. One of the cars takes off and soon disappears into the sky. Half an hour later, the helicopter, for no apparent reason, falls like a stone into the taiga... The first four corpses were taken out by the Mi-4 helicopter; it crashed first. Another 5 people died immediately.

A few days later there was a new disaster. An An-2 plane flies over Mount Otorten. The pilots report seeing a column of smoke rising from the pass. After this, the plane crashed into a mountain.

Despite everything, the search for the four remaining tourists continues. The best rescuers from all over the country were called to the area of ​​the tragedy. People, armed with metal probes, examine the ice-covered snow day after day. Finally, the probe of one of the rescuers stumbles upon something solid. After just 10 minutes, the leader of the group is holding a large tourist backpack in his hands, from which he extracts an invaluable find - the camping journal of the Dyatlov group. One of the last entries, not made by Igor, causes readers first bewilderment and then shock. It says in black and white that the group encountered a mountain monster.

Second version of the group's death: monster

The diary was immediately sent for examination to Moscow. The Northern Urals froze in anxious anticipation. Local residents recall an incident ten years ago. Then Maria Pakhtusova, a resident of a small village located on the shore of Lake Ulagach, first heard some strange noise in the chicken coop, and then a loud guttural cry. When the woman went out into the yard, she said she saw a tall, hairy figure. With burning eyes and arms hanging below the knees.

“The whole face of this monster was covered in blood,” said Igor Kalitin, who was present during the interrogation of Maria Pakhtusova. – The woman screamed in horror. And the creature, with unexpected ease for its mass, jumped over a two-meter fence and disappeared into the forest. When the woman recovered from the shock and looked into the chicken coop, a new shock awaited her: all the chickens’ heads had been torn off.”

This is how a new version appeared. Tourists were killed by an animal unknown to science. Everyone was waiting to see what the capital's experts who studied the diary would say. A week later it was announced: an entry about a monster in the group’s diary - a fantastic story written by one of the climbers. Although none of them had previously been noticed in writing. A few years later, the diary was given to the parents of the victims, but the last pages where the monster was described were torn out.

The rescue operation continued until May 5. On this day, the remaining members of the Dyatlov group were found. This became a new sensation.
“The cause of death of these people is significantly different from the cause of death of people in the first group. Of those found, only one person froze to death, all the rest died from injuries to internal organs incompatible with life.”

The strangeness of the situation became clear only after the autopsy. Experts argued: all injuries were caused not by an external, but by an internal source of damage. It was as if the blow had been struck inside the body. It seemed even more fantastic than the mountain monster version. The investigation reached a dead end, and then a close friend of the victims, pilot Gennady Patrushev, began his own investigation.

A year and a half after the tragedy, Gennady Patrushev, returning from work, told his wife that he had found the answer to Dyatlov’s death. But to all the persuasion to tell the truth, he answered: “Be patient, I’ll tell you everything after tomorrow I once again inspect the place of their death from the air.” But by a strange coincidence, the pilot does not return from this flight...

Objective control materials contain records that before his death the pilot reported that he was attacked by some bright balls and was going to ram him. This was the last message received from him.
Outwardly, it looks like a UFO attack. However, Patrushev’s friends are convinced: aliens are not to blame for the death of Gennady, as well as for the tragedy with the Dyatlov group.

Patrushev, according to local observers, most likely came very close to solving the tragedy. The fact is that after the death of Patrushev, a hunt began for other witnesses.

On a gloomy November morning, a car overturned on the Sverdlovsk-Chelyabinsk road. The brakes burst, as if someone had deliberately cut them before leaving. The driver was seriously injured and ended up. The passenger miraculously remained unharmed, but was in shock. There was no one on the deserted highway who could help them.

It was only by chance that a small “groove” of local mushroom pickers arrived at the wrecked car. While they were loading the driver onto the bus, he kept repeating two words: “fire” and “scary.” The passenger was silent. The strangest thing is that this passenger was Yuri Yarovoy, one of the first rescuers who got to the bodies of the dead climbers, even managed to photograph them and was going to publish a book. The book was published only a few years later. Those photographs were no longer in it.

Some time after this car accident, the doctor who performed the autopsy on the corpses found on Otorten dies. His body was brought home to closed coffin, telling his wife to bury her husband quietly and not find out anything.

Where and how did the doctor die, who, as usual, went to work in the morning? Why does no one, not even his relatives, know anything about the causes of the tragedy that ended his life? After some time, at their dacha, in a bathhouse, a state security officer who oversaw the investigation into the death of the Dyatlov group was found shot in the head. The investigation has no doubt that what happened was... The fact that the deceased allegedly shot with his right hand, which had been paralyzed for several months, did not bother anyone. There are too many oddities in this series of deaths to be considered mere coincidences.

Soon this section of the Northern Urals was closed to tourists, athletes and even aviation flights.

The third version of the death of the group: psychotronic weapons

Researchers of the tragedy on the Mountain of the Dead are convinced that the tourists left the tent in a state of panic. Something frightened the guys to such an extent that they tear the tarpaulin of the tent from the inside and run out. A panic attack drives them down the hill. The guys stop only after they have run one and a half kilometers. Their further actions are devoid of any logic: instead of immediately returning to the tent, where there is food and warm clothes, they try to make a fire. And although there is dead wood underfoot, they climb trees and break the thickest branches that are not suitable for a fire. Only after a while do several people attempt to return to the tent, but for some reason they do it crawling, as if they were still afraid of something. Why does everything happen this way?

In the late 1950s, the development of psychotronic weapons began in the Soviet Union. with the help of special radiation it influences the psyche of people, causing a feeling of fear, and then animal horror.
The first samples of psychotronic weapons were built on the basis of infrasound emitters. And as you know, infrasonic waves have a detrimental effect on the human psyche. There is a feeling of fear of death, disorientation in space, various visions - dead relatives, spirits, ghosts.

Such a weapon could drive the population of a small town crazy or disable an entire army. A powerful emitter can also cause organic damage. It was infrasound that could cause strange deformation of internal organs, from which tourists died.

The infrasound version makes it possible to answer many questions, but how can we explain that within a radius of hundreds of kilometers from the site of the tragedy, people saw various balls, in particular flying balls? To conduct such a session of mass hypnosis, it would be necessary to cover the entire territory of the Northern Urals with a network of infrasound emitters. It is unlikely that anyone in the Soviet Union would dare to undertake such a senseless and unsafe experiment. The development of psychotronic weapons, although important, was not a priority. And yet this version also had a right to exist.

The fourth version of the death of the group: the battle for space

Analyzing the events of that tragedy, researchers drew attention to the fact that it was over this pass that the flight route of rockets launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome towards the test site on Novaya Zemlya lay.

And then a version appeared that if for some reason the rocket deviated from the target, it could actually fall in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bMountain of the Dead, and then during the fall destructive infrasound radiation could arise. The rocket version also explains the appearance of fireballs over the Northern Urals. The fact is that in the late 1950s, massive tests of ballistic missiles took place in the USSR, and in order to trace their trajectory around the missile during flights, they created a so-called sodium cloud. Sodium entered into oxidative reactions with the atmosphere, and the rocket flew in the form of a brightly glowing ball. True, this method of tracking missiles had one serious drawback: sodium is deadly to humans. Those who unwittingly found themselves at the crash site of this rocket had no chance of survival.

Now we can quite accurately reconstruct the picture of what happened.
After a small camp dinner, the guys settle down for the night. Suddenly a strange hum is heard. Group leader Igor Dyatlov takes a flashlight and goes out to see what happened. He sees a giant fireball moving toward the tent from the direction of Dead Man Mountain. Igor shouts for everyone to get out, but the glow becomes so strong that it is visible through the tarpaulin of the tent. Panic ensues, someone drops a backpack, and it blocks the exit. The guys, in horror, cut the tent open and jump out into the snow wearing what. The ball turns into a fiery avalanche - this is sodium vapor, killing all living things in its path. People rush down the slope in panic. But it is useless to run: the caustic fumes cause a burn to the cornea of ​​the eyes, which results in blindness. Those who survived the infrasound wave are trying to make a fire, but for those who are blind, this task is impossible. Blind people in a state of panic are doomed.

For for long years in the investigation of this tragedy, the emphasis was initially placed on the mystical and also alien versions. Someone seemed to be pushing the researchers down this path. Dozens of books and television films on this topic are published. And all this was done, as we have seen, with the sole purpose of hiding real reasons tragedy.

03/06/2018 11/19/2019 by Papar@zzi

Nothing on Earth passes without a trace...N. Dobronravov

INTRODUCTION

On January 23, 1959, a group of 10 tourists under the leadership of Igor Dyatlov went to the mountains of the Northern Urals. This trip was organized with the support of the tourism section of the Ural Polytechnic Institute and was dedicated to the XXI Congress of the CPSU. The group faced a difficult task. total length The distance that the expedition participants had to cover on skis was almost 350 km. The group's path lay through the forests and mountains of the Northern Urals. The final part of the trip was to climb the Otorten and Oiko-Chakur mountains. The route difficulty category is third (highest).
At the initial stage of the hike, one person fell ill and therefore left the group (Yuri Yudin). The tourists continued their journey consisting of nine people: Igor Dyatlov, Yuri Doroshenko, Lyudmila Dubinina, Semyon (Alexander) Zolotarev, Alexander Kolevatov, Zinaida Kolmogorova, Georgy (Yuri) Krivonischenko, Rustem Slobodin, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles.

The group did not appear at the stated final destination of the route at the scheduled time, but the organizers of the trip were not worried at first - delays of tourist groups on routes are common. When all the control periods for waiting for the boys to arrive had passed, it became clear that something had happened to them. A large-scale search was organized, during which the group was found, but all its members were found dead.
The tragedy occurred on the snowy slope of Mount Kholatchakhl (Kholat-Syakhyl). The last entry in the group's hiking diary was made on January 31. In a tent abandoned by tourists, a humorous wall newspaper called “Evening Otorten” was discovered, written by participants in the hike and dating back to the first of February. No records were found after the first of February. Therefore, it is believed that the tragedy occurred on the night from the first to the second of February.

Various versions of their death have been put forward, but, to date, none of them gives a comprehensive answer to the main question - what, after all, really happened there. But the answer must be found, and therefore research into the causes of the death of the Dyatlov group continues. Every year, teams of enthusiasts travel to the area of ​​the tragedy, now officially called Dyatlov Pass. Based on their results search work New versions are put forward, old ones are supplemented and clarified.

Trying to understand the series of events that became fatal for tourists, the author gradually formed his own vision of the development of the tragic situation on Mount Kholatchakhl. This was facilitated by the study of the materials of the criminal case, materials of search and research works of Askinadzi, Buyanov, Ivlev, Koskin, Rakitin, Slobtsov and many other researchers, as well as the study of a large volume of materials presented on the Internet on sites and forums on this topic.
The storyline of the story, in general, does not pretend to be new. The main aspect of the undertaken study of tragic events is the reconstruction of the most likely actions of group members at key moments in the development of this human drama. In addition, the author approximately determined the time of occurrence of two catastrophic events that ultimately killed the entire group of tourists.

The afterword presents the results of an analysis of some mysterious facts associated with the campaign and with the members of the Dyatlov group, and also briefly examines the inconsistency of some versions of the death of the group for other reasons.
The author foresaw the possibility of interest in this topic from a wide range of readers, including those who do not have any information about the tragedy of the Dyatlov group, and therefore he tried to talk about the dramatic events that took place in a way that would be understandable to anyone.

TWO DAYS BEFORE THE DISASTER

On January 31, at about 16:00 Ural time, Dyatlov’s group reached the foot of the small mountain Kholatchakhl, to the top of which they planned to climb. The group members were certainly tired by the time they reached the approaches to the mountain. In addition, in two hours, in the conditions of this area, dusk was expected. And the mountain greeted tourists unfriendly - with a blizzard. Taking the summit straight away was out of the question. The group was forced to retreat under the protection of the forest adjacent to the mountain. A camp was set up there for rest and overnight. Before going to bed, the guys developed a plan for subsequent actions that would maximally provide them with significant savings in physical strength and time for the assault on Mount Kholatchakhl. According to this plan, group members were required to:
- during the first of February:
a) build a storehouse in which the bulk of the group’s camping equipment, unnecessary for the ascent, should be left (discovered by search engines);
b) after constructing the storage shed, rest;
c) after resting before dusk, leave the forest and climb the mountain slope as high as possible, then stop there for the night.
- during the second of February:
a) in the morning, after spending the night on the slope, climb to the top of Mount Kholatchakhl;
b) after conquering the peak, return to the storage shed before dark.

A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE DISASTER

Having built a storage shed and rested, the group left the base camp and headed to Mount Kholatchakhl. The movement of the group along its slope was captured in photographs.

The photographs clearly show that the blizzard on the mountainside continued to reign supreme. Because of this, the tourists did not move very far up the slope. Pretty tired, we decided to settle in for the night. The tent was set up on a slope in difficult weather conditions. This is confirmed by the latest photographs taken by the participants of the hike (their cameras were found, the films were developed). Later, experts from these photographs determined the time when the site for the tent was formed - about 17:00 (Ural time).

The daylight hours were waning very quickly, and the guys had to hurry in order to have time to set up the tent before dark. Because of the strong snow storms, because of the fatigue of the people, and because of the rush, the site for the tent turned out to be cut under the snowy slope. None of the group members noticed this. In order to protect the old tent from gusts of wind that could tear its patched and patched canvas, the guys had to go a little deeper relative to the upper edge of the snow massif of the slope. In the tent placed in this position, Dyatlov’s group settled in for the night.
The tourists had a camp stove to heat the tent, but it was not installed during the last night. Maybe the guys were tired and didn’t want to bother with installing the stove. Perhaps Dyatlov was afraid that the heat from the heated tent could negatively affect the snow slope located close to it. In any case, Dyatlov made a decision about a cold overnight stay, with which everyone agreed. Dyatlov’s group practiced such cold overnight stays (they are mentioned in the camping diary of the tourist group).
The guys were tired and chilled, but they were in a good mood. This is indicated by the marching wall newspaper they wrote with humor called “Evening Otorten. No. 1." Searchers found her - she was attached to the inner side wall of the tent.
The members of the tourist group had dinner in the time interval from 20-00 hours to 22-00 hours (the time was approximately determined based on the results of the pathological examination of the children’s corpses). After dinner, we went to bed. The time for the group to wake up was set by Dyatlov early, most likely at 6-00 (the group was already behind schedule, and the weather conditions and short daylight hours did not allow them to cool down).

SITUATION IN THE TENT ON THE EVE OF THE FIRST DISASTER

Early morning on the second of February. The person on duty at the tent was going to prepare breakfast (the search engines found in the tent: a knife, a piece of loin, a piece of its skin - obviously, the person on duty could not resist and tried it).
The guys were already waking up: someone else was lying and dozing, catching the last minutes of sleep, someone began to get dressed, half asleep. Zolotarev and Thibault-Brignolles managed to almost fully dress and prepare for the ascent - this can be judged by the equipment of their corpses, which were later found, including the presence of a camera on Zolotarev’s remains.
At the time of the disaster, the entire group was inside the tent.

WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT CAUSED IT.

At night, the blizzard was replaced by heavy snowfall, and in the morning the first tragic event occurred - a partial collapse of the snow slope near the tent. It was due for the following reasons:
— when forming a site for a tent, cracks formed in the trimmed part of the snow massif of the slope;
— due to the fallen snow, the load on the snow massif, at the edge of which the tent was located, began to increase;
- this load caused spontaneous growth in the snow mass of cracks that already existed in it in all directions;
— the trimmed part of the snow massif of the slope could not withstand the load, broke along cracks and collapsed.

The collapse was local in nature. The bulk of the snow mass fell next to the tent, close to it, slightly propping up its side canvas. On top part The falling snow almost missed the tents (slopes). Thanks to this, people were not injured with loss of movement, and no one was crushed to death.
The tent was deformed from the accumulated snow, but stood firm and did not collapse completely. The material of the tent held up for the most part. Only in one place, on the side of the collapse, was it slightly torn. Through this gap, snow began to fall inside the tent, and Dyatlov plugged it with the first jacket that came to hand, thereby preventing further snow from entering (this jacket was found by search engines in the tent and it belonged to Dyatlov).

TIME OF THE FIRST TRAGEDY

The approximate time when the collapse of the snow mass in the area of ​​the tent occurred can be determined by Dyatlov’s watch, which was later found on the hand of his corpse. They stopped at 5:31 am.
The reason his watch stopped was due to damage to its mechanism. Damage to the clock mechanism could have occurred: either when Dyatlov, in order to prevent snow from entering through a slight damage to the tent fabric, tried to plug the gust with his jacket; or in the process of inflicting random blows on the tent canvas in order to tear it and get out; or this happened during or after Dyatlov left the tent - from a blow, for example, to a tripwire, to a ski pole, or from hitting something while helping his comrades.
But the clocks of Thibault-Brignolle and Slobodin worked after the first disaster. Their clocks will stop later and for a different reason.

SITUATION IN THE TENT AT THE MOMENT OF THE COLLAPSE

When something unexpectedly fell on the tent, there was turmoil with elements of panic. The sleepy members of the group could not understand anything. It's dark in the tent. Dyatlov gave the command to leave the tent. But it was not possible to do this through its “entrance”: the falling snow caused the tent to warp, its canvas sagged; in the limited space due to this, people inside the tent only interfered with each other. Then the command was given to cut or tear the canvas to exit the tent; who can and with what they can. Someone tried to cut the sagging tent canvas horizontally, someone struck the canvas in a vertical direction. Dyatlov may have used the flatness of his slippers as a chopping tool and struck with them. When he managed to leave the tent, he threw out these slippers not far from it, as unnecessary (these slippers were later found by search engines).
An examination of the tent established that the group exited it through vertical cuts—tears in the tent fabric made on the side opposite the collapse; cuts and tears in the tent fabric were made by people inside it. A photograph of the torn tent and a diagram of its damage are included in the criminal case.

All members of the group left the tent, as indicated by the discovery of the bodies of the dead guys outside it. The people who left the tent were able to move independently; their actions were deliberate. This is confirmed by subsequent findings by search engines.
We can draw an unambiguous conclusion: during the collapse of the snow mass on the tent, none of the guys received fatal or serious injuries.

AFTER LEAVING THE TENT

Subsequently, during an external examination of the found corpses of tourists, it was established: the guys got out of the tent, for the most part, without warm jackets, pants and hats, without shoes and mittens; Each participant in the hike was dressed in what he had managed to put on just before the disaster began.
The guys who left the tent were certainly in a state of passion. As a result of stress, adrenaline released into the blood temporarily blocked the body's reaction to weather conditions. They had not yet felt the wind blowing from the top of the slope. The sub-zero ambient temperature at the first moment of the tragedy was also not much of a concern. But all members of Dyatlov’s group will feel the deadly power of the cold very soon.

After leaving the tent, the guys assessed the situation correctly: the tent was seriously damaged and significantly deformed, especially in the place where warm clothes were located. The members of the group considered it dangerous to try to get them out of there immediately. Will their attempts to get to warm clothes cause a new snowfall and, as a result, the death of people or their serious injuries? The only thing they managed to pull out was a light blanket-type cape. Almost half of the cape stuck out from the cut tent, so it was not dangerous to get it (this cape was later discovered by search engines).

The excited state of the group members began to pass, it was replaced by a feeling of terrible cold, and each tourist in the group realized that further stay near the tent in such an almost defenseless state threatened them all with inevitable death from hypothermia.

The group decided to move away from the tent in the direction of the tall cedar tree visible further down the slope. This cedar still exists, and the distance from it to the location of the Dyatlov detachment’s tent was then 1,500 meters. The guys planned to make a fire near the cedar and warm themselves up; From there it was possible to completely safely monitor the development of the situation in the area of ​​the tent, and then, based on observations, take adequate rescue actions.

DEPARTURE FROM THE TENT

Dyatlov's group began to retreat from the tent down the slope, focusing on a tall cedar tree. In the predawn twilight the position of the cedar was discernible. While the still weak wind from the top of the ill-fated slope blew into the guys’ backs, thereby making it easier for them to move across rough terrain, and the small drifting snow raised by this wind did not prevent them from sticking to the chosen direction. Subsequently, searchers found on the surface of the slope traces of people walking towards the cedar. The tracks were located on the ground almost parallel, quite close to each other, and were left by a retreating group of people numbering nine people.

Based on this, the following conclusions can be drawn:
- the guys walked towards the cedar in a frontal chain; perhaps they held each other’s hands so that no one would get lost during the retreat, and if necessary, timely assistance could be provided to a weakened comrade;
— when retreating from the tent to the cedar, the members of Dyatlov’s group did not support anyone, did not carry anyone, that is, all the guys were able to move independently. Otherwise, the traces of retreating people would in some places have a “staggering from side to side” character, as if they were carrying or supporting an injured member of the group; there would be traces of people falling, inevitable in such cases on snowy and rough terrain. But search engines found no such traces.
To mark the position of the tent on the slope to facilitate observation of it from the side of the cedar, Dyatlov placed a lit flashlight on its upper part (the search engines later found it there, of course, extinguished). However, someone had another flashlight that would be used to illuminate the path as the group departed. The retreat from the tent began and passed largely without incident; But the group still had to abandon the second flashlight at the third ridge (the search engines found it there) - it went out, most likely, the battery in it had failed. But the cedar was no longer far away. In general, we got there.

The obvious solution is to have a fire. Who has matches? Everyone starts looking for them, unbuttoning their pockets. They found matches, but the guys may have tried to zip their clothes pockets back up, but they couldn’t. And to better understand this situation, try in the cold and even in the wind, with frozen or already partially frostbitten fingers, fastening a pocket or other part of clothing with a button, while shaking from the cold so that tooth does not touch tooth. Well, did it work? The guys didn't succeed. Here is the answer to the question “Why were the pockets and items of clothing of the dead unbuttoned, and who did it?” that the searchers had when they discovered and examined the corpses of the guys.
The fire was lit (search engines discovered its location). Judging by the size of the extinguished fire, it was initially large enough to provide heat for the tourist group.

It was determined that cedar branches were used for the fire. Traces of their broken pieces on the cedar trunk were found by searchers at a height of up to 5 meters.

Along with cedar branches, shrubs and small trees growing near the cedar were also used as firewood.

The breaking of branches on the cedar did not happen without the boys receiving various injuries and their clothes being torn. The frozen branches and trunks of bushes and small trees collected for the fire lashed the children’s faces, caused wounds to the skin of their bare hands, and tore their clothes. And the snow cover of the area, both when moving from the tent to the cedar tree and when collecting firewood near it, injured my legs.
This explains the presence of children on the corpses large quantity various injuries - scratches, abrasions, bruises, minor wounds, as well as the deplorable state of the clothes of the victims.
The weather was getting worse. The temperature began to drop, the wind increased significantly, and a snowstorm began. Due to the snowstorm, visibility decreased, and control of the situation in the area of ​​the tent became impossible. Due to the fatigue of the children, the provision of firewood for the fire became irregular, so the fire became unstable, and the heat from it was no longer enough to warm the entire group of people. Everyone felt that they were starting to freeze. Experienced tourist Dyatlov noticed the first signs of depression in several members of the group.
Worsening weather conditions and the apathetic state of some of the guys forced Dyatlov to decide to divide the group into two squads:
- first squad - two people. They stay by the fire. Their tasks: maintain the fire, observe the tent and events around it, and wait for the arrival of comrades from the second detachment. The first squad should have included the most resilient and physically strong guys. Its composition was formed from Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. As additional protection from the cold, they were left with a blanket-like cape (the same one that they managed to pull out of the tent);
- the second detachment, consisting of seven people, must go to search for a place where it will be possible to make a cave-type shelter in the snow (this is a well-known method of salvation from bad weather in winter camping conditions). The second detachment was supposed to include guys dressed reasonably enough to be able to work in the snow. The detachment included: Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, Thibault-Brignolle, Zolotarev, Dubinina, Slobodin and Kolevatov.

FIRST SQUAD

Krivonischenko and Doroshenko carry out the tasks assigned to them by Dyatlov. The guys are doing everything to ensure the life of the fire, and therefore to save their lives. Doroshenko, fanning the dying fire, even singed the hair on his head (found on his corpse). Firewood is constantly needed. They decided among themselves: while one watches the fire and warms itself, the other goes for firewood; the one who brought the firewood replaces his friend at the fire - it is his turn to go for wood fuel.
Exhausted, Krivonischenko and Doroshenko could no longer extract cedar branches. Therefore, branches of bushes and small trees growing in the undergrowth closest to the cedar were used as firewood for the fire. Anything that could burn and provide heat was suitable. But in order to get to the fuel, the guys each time had to move further and further into the forest, overcoming fairly deep snow. During one of these trips for firewood, Doroshenko lost strength and fell. I couldn’t get up or call for help. Tendrils of cold grabbed Doroshenko with a death grip. Trying to somehow protect himself from their deadly embrace, he tried to group himself, pressing his hands to his chest. This did not help much, Doroshenko felt - the cold was slowly but surely overcoming.
At this time, Krivonischenko was at the fire. He used firewood sparingly to maintain it, but its supply was inexorably decreasing. In this regard, he became concerned, and more and more often the question began to arise in his thoughts: “Where is Doroshenko? It’s high time for him to return with firewood.” Gradually, the feeling of concern grew into a premonition of something evil. It forced Krivonischenko to go look for his comrade, and he found him in the forest, lying on his back. There was no time to figure out what happened (the fire was left unattended), and the place was not suitable for this. Grabbing Doroshenko by the legs, Krivonischenko, backing away, dragged his comrade to the fire. Moving in this way, poorly oriented in space, he stepped on a fire (that’s where the burn marks on Krivonischenko’s left foot came from). He didn’t even feel it, because his frostbitten feet no longer felt anything. Leaving Doroshenko by the fire and throwing the last supplies of firewood into the dying fire, Krivonischnko was forced to immediately set off to replenish them.
Extremely tired, frozen to the marrow of his bones, Yura Krivonischenko returns to the cedar tree with firewood. He called out to his motionless comrade, but there was no answer (the thought that his comrade was already dead did not even occur to Yura). Then Krivonischenko’s gaze stops at the fire - uncontrolled by anyone, it has almost gone out.

Clearly realizing that all hope for salvation from the cold lay only in the fire, Yura rushed to him. All the wood brought in, in a desperate attempt to save the fire, was sacrificed to it. And a weak light attacked them and gradually spread over them in numerous fiery streams. The humming and hissing flame of a flaring fire, accompanied by the cheerful crackling of firewood, has a calming effect on Krivonishenko. Fascinated by the reflections of the fire, captivated by its warmth, the freezing Yura, unconsciously, sits down by the fire. And almost immediately sleep began to take over his consciousness.
But the fire did not allow him to fall asleep completely. The unbearable heat of its flame brought Krivonischenko back to reality. Moving away from the fire, he saw with horror that the raging, all-consuming, merciless fire had come close to the feet of the motionless Doroshenko (because of this, the charring of his socks and legs occurred). And quite obviously, Krivonischenko attempted to drag his comrade away from the fire to a safe distance. While dragging him, Krivonischenko fell onto his side. During this fall, Doroshenko involuntarily turned his body onto his stomach. In this position, Doroshenko’s corpse was found by search engines.
Subsequently, after the pathological examination of Doroshenko’s corpse, questions arose that puzzled many researchers and caused them bewilderment: “It is known that by cadaveric spots on the body of a deceased person one can quite reliably determine in what position the person died. Corpse marks on Doroshenko's neck and back clearly indicated that he died lying on his back. However, Doroshenko’s corpse was found lying on his stomach, and accordingly the cadaveric spots were in the upper position. Who and why turned the deceased tourist from his back to his stomach after his death? And where could Doroshenko die?”
The answer is obvious. The overturn of Doroshenko's body took place not without the help of Yura Krivonischenko under circumstances now known to the reader. And Doroshenko really died on his back. And this happened either in the forest, where Doroshenko went to get firewood and where, exhausted, he fell on his back and froze; or he died at the fire, to which Krivonischenko dragged him from the forest (the latter later went to get firewood).

Wherever Doroshenko’s death occurred, Krivonischenko learned about his death only after he pulled his comrade away from the burning fire and examined him. Sitting next to the deceased, Yura was quite clearly aware that if any of the guys from the second detachment did not come in the near future, then this would be the end. Because the fire will very soon begin to fade, and there is no more wood (he threw all the wood he brought into the fire to revive it); to go to the forest for firewood again - he no longer has enough strength for this. Yura Krivonischenko could only wait for either the arrival of the guys or the arrival of death. He did not know who would be the first in this waiting race. Meanwhile, the cold very soon completely paralyzed Krivonischenko’s will, then he entered a state of deep apathy.
Inevitably freezing, Yura uncontrollably fell onto his back. In his fading consciousness the last weak impulses to fight for life arose, but he could no longer rise; They barely had enough strength to somehow cover themselves and the comrade lying next to them with a cape, which became their last protection from the cold - for the living and the dead, and then the funeral shroud they shared. The completely freezing Krivonischenko, his left leg, in agony, stretches out and falls into the dying coals of the fire: the underpants in the lower part of the leg smolder, and the part of the lower leg underneath them receives a burn in this place (discovered by search engines when examining the corpse). Soon Yura Krivonischenko freezes.
That’s how they were found – lying nearby, covered with a cape. Krivonischenko was frozen, lying on his back, his right arm was bent at the elbow and thrown up, almost under his head, like that of a person serenely asleep. Doroshenko's body was found in a position on his stomach, his hands were pressed to his body in the chest area.

SECOND SQUAD

The second detachment decided on the place where the shelter would be located. It was found seventy meters from the cedar, on the snow-covered slope of a ravine, but this place was not visible from the cedar. The guys selflessly dig a cave and make a flooring inside it from trees collected from the nearby undergrowth. Place things in the corners of the flooring to secure it.
Searchers found traces of small trees being dragged and leaves and needles falling from their branches. Using these tracks, searchers found the location of the cave. When excavating the cave, searchers found flooring and things securing it.

Later, not far from the place where the cave was, they found creepy human remains. They were located in a stream flowing along the bottom of a ravine and belonged to Dubinina, Thibault-Brignol, Zolotarev and Kolevatov. The condition of the bodies of the dead boys was terrible.

But this will be discovered later, but for now we will continue our story and return to the then still living guys working on the slope of the ravine.
The work of constructing the shelter was close to completion, and therefore, leaving Zolotarev, Dubinina, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignol to finish the cave, Dyatlov, together with Kolmogorova and Slobodin, went to the cedar for Krivonischenko and Doroshenko.

AGAIN AT CEDAR

At the cedar, a sad picture appeared before the children’s eyes: the fire had gone out, and under the cape lay frozen Krivonischenko and Doroshenko. The situation on the slope in the area of ​​the tent did not cause concern; it inspired hope that it would be possible to return to the tent for clothes, food, and tools (all this was in the tent and was found there by search engines).

The current circumstances forced Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova to make a tough decision: to remove the outer clothing from the dead guys for additional protection from the cold of the surviving members of the group. However, in order to remove the already frozen clothes from the frozen bodies, they had to cut them.
Before leaving, Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova said goodbye to their dead comrades, asked for their forgiveness and, covering the naked corpses of the guys with a cape, headed back to the cave.
On the way back, someone dropped a piece of cut clothing, which was later found by searchers. This find helped them take the right direction in searching for the location of the cave shelter.

Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova returned to the cave and told their comrades the tragic news of the deaths of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko. When distributing clothes, it turned out that Doronina and Kolevatov needed additional insulation more than the others. Therefore, they were given almost all the fragments of the cut-off clothes of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko.
Then the guys discussed the current situation. The group members made a decision: complete the arrangement of the cave shelter, rest, warm up and go to the tent. Take warm clothes, food, tools, skis and ski poles in it. After this, return to the cave again to rest, gain strength, and then get out to the people, to the “mainland”.

NEW TRAGEDY. ITS REASONS

Without a doubt, everyone was busy doing something that ensured their overall survival. There were four people in the shelter: Zolotarev, Kolevatov, Dubinina, Thibault-Brignolle. They completed the interior arrangement of the cave. Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, Slobodin - outside the cave. They went to get firewood so they could make a fire in the shelter. Quite by accident, these three guys ended up above the roof of the cave. And then the cave collapsed.
Most likely, when digging the cave, its upper part was weakened. Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova became the load that the vault could not withstand and from which it collapsed.

CONSEQUENCES OF THE CAVE COLLAPSE

Those in the cave, Zolotarev, Kolevatov, Dubinin, and Thibault-Brignol, were carried away by the collapsed snow mass to a stream flowing in a ravine next to the dug cave, approximately 4–5 meters from the flooring (as determined by search engines). Naturally, the guys were seriously overwhelmed. On the rocky bottom of the Thibault-Brignolles stream he suffers a severe head injury (local depressed fracture of the skull). Zolotarev and Dubinina receive multiple fractures of the ribs of the chest. Kolevatov was not injured on the bottom of the stream; but he found himself pressed against Zolotarev’s body by the snow mass so tightly that he was simply suffocating (this was later clarified during a post-mortem examination).
The examination also showed that after the collapse, all four guys were still alive for some time. However, very soon, they died under the rubble from cold, injuries and pressure from the snow mass.

The flooring, perhaps as a result of its small thickness, and even fixed by things in the corners, remained in place. Or maybe the sliding vector of the collapsed snow mass, randomly, developed in such a way that the flooring remained unaffected by the landslide flow of snow.
Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, Slobodin, being at the top of the snowy slope, collapsed along with the collapsed vault. They were also buried, but relatively shallowly. They survived and were able to get out. As a result of the collapse, abrasions and bruises formed on the boys’ bodies under their clothes, which were discovered during a pathological examination. It was during the collapse of the cave roof that Slobodin received a skull injury (crack) that was compatible with life.
Having difficulty getting out of the snowfall, Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova were physically unable to look for the remaining buried members of the group. And where to look for comrades in this snowy mass? There are no sounds similar to a human groan, no calls for help. All you can hear is the continuous, eerie howl of the wind, reminiscent of the howl of a hungry wolf in winter.

TIME OF THE SECOND TRAGEDY

Judging by the first watch found on the hand of Thibault-Brignolle’s corpse, the time of the collapse was 8 hours 14 minutes. They stopped when the snowy roof of the cave collapsed, at the moment the clock hit the rocky bottom of the ravine stream. His second watch stopped at 8:39 a.m. due to the pressure of the falling snow mass.
Slobodin, under a snow pile due to a crack in his skull, was moaning loudly in pain, perhaps even screaming. Focusing on the sounds it made, Dyatlov and Kolmogorov dug it up and pulled it out. And while the guys were digging to Slobodin, his watch, under the pressure of the collapsed snow mass, also stopped, but at 8 hours 45 minutes.

LATEST SOLUTION

The surviving guys made a decision - before they froze, they needed to get to the tent as quickly as possible. But first they headed to the cedar. It was planned to take a short rest at the cedar before the final rush to the tent, and also to assess the situation on the slope; If you have enough strength, light a fire. Slobodin had matches for lighting a fire. Searchers found a matchbox with 48 unused matches in the jacket pocket of Slobodin’s corpse.
Based on the fact that Slobodin’s watch stopped at 8 hours 45 minutes, adding the time for his release from the rubble and for covering the distance of 70-75 meters from the place of the cave collapse to the cedar, it turns out that Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova were at the cedar about 10 o'clock in the morning. For local conditions at this time it was already light enough, and the location of the tent was visible. The boys were unable to light a fire: firstly, there was no wood near the extinguished fire; secondly, they no longer had the strength or time to collect wood for the fire. Therefore, two guys and a girl had only one option - after resting a little, move towards the tent.
A strong, gusty wind was blowing on the open surface of the slope. The weakened guys could no longer walk against such a headwind; they decided to crawl to the tent. The guys planned to get to her according to the following scheme. The whole group begins the crawling movement. Dyatlov crawls first, followed by Slobodin, bringing up the rear with Kolmogorova. Dyatlov, tired, lets Slobodin and Kolmogorova go ahead, takes a break and catches up. Slobodin should do the same when he gets tired: let Kolmogorov and Dyatlov go ahead, and then, after resting, catch up with his comrades. Then it’s time for Kolmogorova to have a little rest: Dyatlov crawls forward, followed by Slobodin who has caught up with him after resting. Before starting the movement, they agreed among themselves - the agreed signal for “overtaking” the tired one was a wave of his left hand.

FORWARD TO THE TENT

The group began to move. The last round of the fight for life has begun.
After 300 meters, Dyatlov turns over on his back, waves his left hand, signaling to Slobodin to “overtake.” Having given a signal, left hand Dyatlova, descending, caught on a branch of a tree or bush, she remained in this position (clearly visible in the photograph taken by the search engines).

Having let his comrades go ahead, Dyatlov rests; his consciousness gradually sinks into sleep - eventually he freezes. Slobodin and Kolmogorova crawl forward, they do not know that Dyatlov will never catch up with them.
After “overtaking” Dyatlov, after 150 meters, Slobodin’s strength sharply weakens. He is on the verge of losing consciousness (due to a crack in his skull caused by a cave collapse). He still managed to give a signal to Kolmogorova “to overtake” - the position of his left hand is visible in the photograph. And then Slobodin freezes.

Kolmogorova, having overtaken Slobodin, crawls further towards the tent. Her arms are bent and located under the body, like a soldier crawling on his bellies - thereby reducing the resistance to movement and reducing the expenditure of physical energy. However, after 300 meters the girl’s strength leaves her. The arms, bent at the elbows, are stiff from the cold and cannot be straightened (this is clearly visible in the photograph taken in the morgue, where the girl’s corpse was placed to thaw).

Therefore, she failed to give the agreed signal to “overtake”. In this situation, Kolmogorova had only one thing to do - wait for the guys to catch up with her, and she had no doubt that Dyatlov and Slobodin were crawling after her. And she waited for her comrades to approach until she froze. Her expectations were in vain. Zina Kolmogorova never found out that there was no one to advance to the tent after her.
Search engines found the frozen bodies of Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova. Their corpses were located in the listed sequence, almost on the same straight line of movement from the cedar to the tent.
And at this last distance to life, they have covered half the path. There were 750 meters left from the place of Kolmogorova’s death to the tent.

CONCLUSION

This is the scenario in which Dyatlov’s group could have died. The conclusion of the investigative authorities regarding the death of the Dyatlov group is correct: death from an irresistible force of nature, although it requires significant additions. Taking into account the addition, the author formulates the reason for the death of the Dyatlov group as follows: death from the irresistible force of the elements, as a result of two random tragic events that deprived tourists of life support.
No more than five hours passed from the beginning of the tragedy (the collapse of a snow mass on the slope at 5:31 a.m.) to its end (the death of Kolmogorova). Without warm clothing and food, without stable sources of heat and reliable shelter, the Dyatlov group was doomed. Only a miracle could have saved her, but no miracle happened.
And here there is no place for versions of the death of the Dyatlov group from a UFO, Bigfoot or other animals; from special forces, criminals, Mansi hunters, foreign saboteurs; there was no controlled delivery under the cover of state security agencies; the tragedy that occurred is not a consequence of testing the latest, top-secret Soviet weapons.

AFTERWORD

OR COMMENTS ON SOME FACTS AND VERSIONS OF THE DEATH OF THE DYATLOV GROUP

About traces of radiation.

The general radiation background of the area in the area of ​​the tragedy, as it was in 1959 and now, remains within the natural natural level. Specialist researchers found that the bodies of the dead group members and their clothing had no traces of exposure to external radioactive radiation. However, fragments of clothing were discovered, on which places with a local distribution of particles of a radioactive substance, which is a source of “beta” radiation, were identified. These fragments of clothing were found on the corpses of Dubinina and Kolevatov.
It was established that the discovered fragments used to be parts of clothing belonging to Yuri Krivonischenko, and he worked at the secret enterprise PA "MAYAK", Chelyabinsk region. It is quite possible that the appearance of places of radioactive “contamination” on Krivonischenko’s clothes was associated with his production activities.

The origin of radioactive spots on fragments of clothing.

Probably, Krivonischenko was involved in the instrumental support of laboratory and field nuclear research conducted by the Mayak PA. Most likely, he worked on installations for testing beta radiation sources on solid substrates, beta radiometers and other dosimetric and radiometric instruments.
It is possible that he traveled as part of research expeditions to the sites of the “radioactive trace” formed after the accident at the Mayak PA in 1957. To carry out research work in field conditions the calibration equipment was placed in a special vehicle (mobile laboratory).
And then one day, during such an expedition, shortly before Krivonischenko left for a mountain hike in the winter of 1959, due to his violation of safety regulations during calibration work, a substance emitter of “beta” particles (for example, an isotope of calcium - 45).
Perhaps, while performing verification work, Krivonischenko dropped an end-mounted Geiger counter of the MST - 17 brand. The design of the device used the calcium isotope - 45 and was placed in a special capsule. When impacted by the fall of the meter, the capsule and body of the device were damaged. When inspecting the fallen device, the substance spilled out and got on clothes. This or a similar substance could have gotten onto clothing in another way: it fell off from the solid substrate of the “beta” radiation source.
In such situations, the instructions required immediate implementation of appropriate decontamination of clothing. And without a doubt, this would be accompanied by a very meticulous clarification of the circumstances of the “contamination”, both by the leadership of the expedition and by the state security authorities. Knowing the severity of these bodies, the special secrecy status of the research being carried out, and, perhaps, feeling his immediate guilt for violating safety regulations when working with radioactive materials, Krivonischenko was very scared.
For fear of being severely punished, a young guy (23 years old) decided to hide the incident that happened to him, especially since there were no other employees in the laboratory at the time of the incident. And after returning from the expedition to the Mayak PA, Krivonischenko was even more unable to tell anyone anything about what had happened. He understood: for untimely reporting and concealment of the fact of “contamination,” his guilt is further aggravated and, accordingly, the severity of the punishment increases.

“Contaminated” clothes, stored at the workplace in a personal special closet, did not give his soul peace. The constant fear of exposure did not leave Krivonischenko: what if, during his absence for the period of already permitted participation in the tour, the relevant regulatory authorities of the enterprise would carry out some scheduled or unscheduled inspections of the workplaces and clothing of employees admitted to especially secret research. And then, for sure, the fact of “contamination” of the work clothes will be revealed, and for him, Krivonischenko, concealing this fact will end up very, very badly. He decided to hedge his bets in this case.
At home, Krivonischenko had special clothing that had been handed over for the occasion, written off, but was still in good condition, identical to the one in which he was currently working. He decided to replace the “contaminated” overalls with his old overalls. I knew from my own experience: the security at the entrance of the enterprise did not attach much importance or did not pay any attention to who was wearing what when going to work or leaving it after a shift. The main thing for security is that the photo on the pass must match the face of the pass holder. And the conceived plan to replace special clothing was successfully implemented. After this, Krivonischenko, wearing his clothes, left for Sverdlovsk, where the Dyatlov group was formed at the Ural Polytechnic Institute. Krivonischenko, as a specialist, reasonably believed that during the campaign, as a result of the natural decay of the radioactive substance, the “beta” radiation emitted by it should disappear. After completing the campaign, Krivonischenko was going to return the protective clothing, no longer radioactively contaminated, to his workplace. With that I calmed down.
In the tourism section at the Ural Polytechnic Institute there was always great tension with the equipment of participants in any tourist groups. Each participant in the hike basically took care of his own camping equipment. Therefore, the clothes taken out from the enterprise, quite suitable for a winter hike in the mountains, came in handy. In it he went to storm Otorten. Subsequently, radioactive fragments of Krivonischenko’s clothing were found on the corpses of Dubinina and Kolevatov.
It was these fragments of clothing that contributed to the emergence of a version about the supply of radiation data from the Mayak software to foreign intelligence services under the control of state security agencies. The authors and supporters of this version usually call it briefly - “controlled delivery”.

Version "controlled delivery"

According to this version, it is assumed that the direct executor of the supply operation was Krivonischenko, and the operation itself took place under the control of state security agencies. His camp clothes, for transfer to enemy agents, were previously subjected to planned radioactive contamination. After handing over the “contaminated” clothes to the spies, they would find themselves under the “cap” of our counterintelligence.
But the American spies didn’t need such bulky radioactive things (pants, jacket): they had to drag them from the mountains, from the center of Russia to their homeland, and even across the border. Surely the US intelligence services understood that the delivery of saboteurs for radioactive things into the mountains of the Northern Urals, especially in winter, had a high risk of failure due to the complexity of its organization and implementation, due to the large number of unpredictable accidents. That is why, instead of a primitive trek of spies through the mountains, US intelligence planned in 1959 and carried out on May 1, 1960 the flight of a U-2 spy plane to the area where the MAYAK PA facilities were located. Air defense missiles Soviet Union, as officially stated by the leadership of the country of the Soviets, the plane was shot down near Sverdlovsk.
If we assume that the Soviet security authorities would still decide on such a “controlled delivery” and would involve Krivonischenko in participating in it, then it would be more logical and easier to “contaminate” with radiation not clothes, but, for example, a handkerchief or a piece of cloth, and then transfer this contaminated material under control to foreign emissaries. And it would be much easier and more unnoticeable to convey it to others in Sverdlovsk, for example, at the train station. And then, there, track and, if necessary, destroy enemy agents.
By the way, Krivonischenko could also hand over his radioactive clothing to foreign agents in Sverdlovsk, and not go to the mountains for this. And mountains are not the place where spies are caught.

Further, the state security leadership would not risk involving young tourists from the Dyatlov group without appropriate training in the special operation. Due to the inexperience of the guys, there would be a high probability of failure of the operation, and the consequences of failure for the leaders of the operation are easily predictable - an enemy of the people, an accomplice of American intelligence, a German-English spy, a Turkish terrorist; as a result - a firing squad.
Now about Zolotarev. He is the oldest in Dyatlov’s group in age, and also a front-line soldier, he had military awards. At the front, as some researchers suggest, Zolotarev could have been connected with representatives of the NKVD, being their informant about the mood in the ranks of the Red Army soldiers and their commanders.
During the war, there were probably such informant fighters in various active units of the Red Army. But after the end of the war, the need for them decreased quantitatively due to the reduction in numbers armed forces. Most of these informant fighters were demobilized, and the NKVD authorities were not interested in their future fate - these people completely lacked promising intelligence abilities, including Zolotarev. Otherwise, for Zolotarev, as a budding agent, the possibility of continuing his military career would not have been closed: even if the two military schools where he studied were abolished, but the security authorities would have found for him a third, and a fourth, and a fifth, and even a tenth military school. But that did not happen.

So, after the war, Zolotarev was not in the field of view of the state security authorities, he was not their “canned” agent. He could not be involved in the “controlled delivery” operation due to lack of preparation and due to the specificity of the special operation being carried out (the informant’s skills were clearly not enough here).
And there was no “controlled delivery” itself, because there was nothing to supply. There were no traces of uranium or plutonium isotopes on Krivonischenko’s clothing, the main components of nuclear weapons of that time; clothing could not provide information about the technologies for their production or information about technologies for processing radioactive waste; It was impossible to get an idea of ​​the production capacity and industrial potential of PA "MAYAK" based on clothing. It was this kind of information that was primarily of interest to foreign intelligence centers.
America and the West could have received some information about the activities of the Mayak PA, of interest to foreign intelligence services, even before the Dyatlov group’s campaign and in a completely different way. For example, Colonel O.V. Penkovsky, a high-ranking, well-informed official, recruited by British and American intelligence services, served and worked in the Main Intelligence Directorate and worked for them for a long time. He was exposed and arrested in 1962. By the nature of his official activity, being the deputy head of a department in the Department of External Relations of the State Committee for Scientific Research, Penkovsky, of course, owned state secrets, which he sold. Along with Penkovsky, there could be other traitors.
Therefore, the imperialists were, in part, aware of the activities of the Mayak PA and had some idea of ​​the research being carried out there. In this regard, the supply of “contaminated” clothes to Krivonischenko with the aim of misinforming enemy intelligence would not have been successful. And “contaminating” clothes just for the sake of catching foreign spies in the mountains is absurd. The Soviet intelligence services had a large and rich arsenal of more effective methods and means of combating spies than Krivonischenko’s pants and jacket.

Dyatlov's business trip allowances or a hike as a business trip.

There is information about Igor Dyatlov receiving travel money for the expedition, although any tourist trips of that time were carried out on “naked” enthusiasm. The question arises: “Who and for what purpose were the travel money issued?”
The campaign was timed to coincide with the next congress of the CPSU. The group even planned to report to the first leaders of the party and the country almost from the top of Otorten. The party organization of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, in order not to be left out of such an important event dedicated to the native and beloved Communist Party, invited the institute leadership to support the youth initiative and provide financial assistance to the Dyatlov group, registering it under the guise of travel expenses in the name of the group leader. The party committee did not even mention the allocation of money from the party treasury to support the event.
But the leadership of the Ural Polytechnic had its own plans for the upcoming hike of tourists, not related to strengthening the prestige of the Communist Party, but called upon to solve scientific problems in the interests of the country. Perhaps the military department of the Soviet state, during the period of the nuclear confrontation that had already begun, urgently demanded that Ural scientists urgently provide updated information on the topography of the Ural Mountains (for use for strategic military purposes). In order to quickly fulfill this requirement, the management of the institute decided to use the campaign of the Dyatlov group to obtain some preliminary data that would lay the foundation for further thorough topographic research in this area.
During the campaign, Dyatlov had to complete the assigned work along the way. It is possible that in order to somehow interest Dyatlov, the work was linked to the topic of his diploma or to his subsequent work at the institute (the latter was offered to him). And although, due to the tragedy that occurred, it was not possible to do the planned work on that campaign, the institute still fulfilled the order of the Motherland.
According to newly obtained data, the height of Mount Kholatchakhl was 1096 meters, but in 1959 its height was considered equal to 1076 meters. On the snowy slope of this mountain, in a littered tourist tent, a camera tripod was found among the group’s belongings. The thing is quite large and weighty; it cannot be called a necessary accessory on a hike. But if Dyatlov planned to take geolocation photography of the area along the group’s route, then the presence of a tripod becomes completely understandable. You can't do without it. This means that Dyatlov’s side work consisted of such photography, and for its financial support, the institute’s management allocated him money, with which he bought a tripod and a camera for it.
Dyatlov instructed Zolotarev, as the most experienced tourist, to take photographs. A camera was found on Zolotarev’s corpse in the stream that did not belong to him, and which became Zolotarev’s mysterious second camera for search engines and researchers of the tragedy.

However, there is no mystery here. This is the same camera for the tripod, bought by Dyatlov, like the tripod itself, with institute money.

Zolotarev's second camera.

The former military man, a front-line soldier, who was entrusted with the responsibility for carrying out photographic work by the head of the group, naturally never used this second camera in everyday life. There are mentions of this in the personal hiking diaries of some group members. To take souvenir photographs of scenes of camping life, Zolotarev used his personal camera (the search engines found this first, Zolotarev’s personal camera and a cassette with camping photographs in the tent). Since the Dyatlovs were assigned a specific time for the start of the ascent to the top of Kholatchakhl, and therefore the planned photography there, the second camera that tragic morning was on Zolotarev - no doubt, securely and conveniently fixed in the right place, so as not to interfere with the assault on the mountain.
But suddenly a tragedy occurred. Despite this - and this never happened in the war - former front-line soldier Zolotarev hoped that everything would work out, the peak would be conquered and important photographs would be taken. That's why I didn't drop the camera; he remained at Zolotarev until the end of his life. After Zolotarev’s corpse was discovered in the creek of the ravine, the camera was removed from his remains and sent for technical examination. Most likely, the seizure and sending for examination of the camera along with radioactive fragments of clothing from the corpses of Dubinina and Kolevatov were documented in secret acts. For this reason, these acts of seizure are not included in the criminal case.
Based on the results of the examination, the camera was recognized as uninformative investigative material, since it was not used at all throughout the entire trip; there were no pictures in it. In addition, it is possible that by the time the corpses were discovered in the stream, “beta” radiation from fragments of clothing on the remains of Kolevatov’s body could have exposed the film in the camera: after all, the corpses of Zolotarev and Kolevatov were located very close to each other, literally on top of each other (this clearly visible in the photograph).

And if Zolotarev’s first personal camera, found in a littered tent, was handed over to his relatives after the investigation was completed, then the second camera, given the secrecy of the examination, was simply destroyed and the corresponding report was drawn up. However, in the criminal case there is no act on the destruction of the camera, and there are no acts on the destruction of radioactive fragments of clothing either. But somewhere these secret acts of destruction must be now, unless they, too, were destroyed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

The secret of Zolotarev's tattoos.

"Gene" tattoo.
In those distant pre- and post-war years, a man often got a tattoo of either his name or the name of his beloved girl or woman. Zolotarev had a tattoo of the name Gen. However, at birth they named him Semyon, and when he met Dyatlov and the guys from the tourist group, for some reason he called himself Alexander. Then who is Gena? The question is, of course, interesting.

"G + S" tattoo.
For most men, a tattoo from the initial letter of the name of their beloved girl or woman + the initial letter of their name (or, conversely, the sequence is not significant) thus perpetuated their mutual love and fidelity to the relationship between them. Then, based on the “Gena” tattoo, the “G + S” tattoo can be deciphered as Gena + Semyon. Perhaps Zolotarev had special feelings for a person who clearly female name Gena?

Tattoo “G + S+ P = D”
It can be deciphered as Gena + Semyon + some other “P” (Paul, Peter, Prokhor?..) = FRIENDSHIP. Apparently, it perpetuated the commonality of their interests, the peculiarity and non-standard nature of their relationship, the so-called FRIENDSHIP.

Tattoo "DAERMMUAZUAYA"
Similar in meaning to the tattoos “G+S”, “G+S+P=D”. Perhaps the mysterious tattoo is a sequence of the initial letters of the names of people to whom Zolotarev had a special, personal attachment at different periods of his life. Obviously, the tattoo was not formed immediately, but sequentially over time, as a memory of meetings. In this case, it is quite possible to have one of the options for deciphering the tattoo “DAERMMUAZUAYA” in the following form: “Dmitry, Andrey, Evgeny, Roman, Mikhail, Mikael, Umar, Alexander, Zakhar, Ulyan, Alexey, Yakov.” But there may be other names.
Considering the above, we can assume that the presented transcripts of Zolotarev’s tattoos recreate for us his image as a person with an unconventional attitude towards a certain half of the human race. Perhaps, somewhere, under some circumstances, rumors about Zolotarev’s unusual behavior became known to some people around him. This, of course, should have somehow affected Zolotarev’s fate.

The fate of Zolotarev from Minsk to Otorten. The answer to his middle name.

Minsk. Zolotarev studies at one of his pedagogical universities. First practice. Brilliant characterization once completed.
Second practice. Some kind of scandal. The characterization of trainee Zolotarev is very restrained, almost at the level of an unsatisfactory assessment. After the second practice, Zolotarev withdraws and loses interest in his future profession as a physical education teacher.
Perhaps, during the second practice, Zolotarev showed signs of non-standard behavior towards someone, and this became the cause of the scandal. Society rejected this behavior and punished people for it. However, there was, of course, no clear evidence. Therefore, the management of the organization where Zolotarev completed his second internship, caring about his reputation, “hushed up” the incident. However, the management of the higher educational institution where Zolotarev studied “whispered” about him.
Perhaps this is why, after graduating from university, Zolotarev did not receive the mandatory assignment at that time to work in Educational establishment. Having a higher education, Zolotarev first goes to the Krasnodar region, then to the Caucasus and gets a job there as a simple tourism instructor. In the mid-fifties he left for Altai and worked there for almost two years, in the same capacity, at the Artybash tourist center.
Why did Zolotarev leave the warm, fertile region almost to the other end of the country, 3,500 km away, into the harsh climate of Altai? Most likely, in the Caucasus, at his place of work, there were vague, difficult to prove rumors about Zolotarev’s inappropriate behavior during some Caucasian tourist trips. Rumors reached employees and management at the place of work. They made it clear to Zolotarev that it would be advisable to resign and leave.
Zolotarev went to Altai and settled at the Artybash camp site. However, tourists and climbers are a special, restless people (“better than mountains can only be mountains that you have never been to before” - V. Vysotsky). Some of these restless people, who previously “walked” around the Caucasus, have now ended up in Altai. I found out by chance that Semyon Zolotarev, who came from the Caucasus, works as an instructor at the Artybash tourist center. This fidget has most likely heard a lot about his Caucasian misdeeds. And they went “for a walk” through the tourist centers of Altai, retelling, gossiping, gossiping. They also reached the management of the Artybash tourist center. Zolotarev, for obvious reasons, was forced to leave.

Semyon settled in the Ural Mountains, and it was there that the “transformation” of Semyon Zolotarev into Alexander Zolotarev took place. He celebrated the New Year, 1959, at the Kourovka tourist center, his place of work. Perhaps purely by chance, or perhaps traditionally, several tourists from the Ural Polytechnic Institute gathered at this camp site to celebrate the New Year. Igor Dyatlov was also there. Of course, we met, however, Zolotarev introduced himself to Dyatlov under the name Alexander. Of course, we talked. Zolotarev liked this young man, and, it seems, very much. Almost immediately after New Year's holiday Zolotarev left the Kourovo camp site, came to Sverdlovsk and achieved enrollment in Dyatlov’s group going to conquer Otorten.
What about Dyatlov? From communication at the Kaurovskaya camp site I understood: Zolotarev is not a newbie, he has great experience hikes of varying difficulty levels. In addition, the original size of the group has decreased: 12 people were supposed to go, but 9 remained. “He’ll go tenth,” perhaps that’s what Igor decided. And Zolotarev ended up in the group. When meeting members of the Dyatlov group, Zolotarev also introduced himself as Alexander.
Why did Zolotarev hide his true name from both Dyatlov and other members of the tourist group? Because he reasoned this way: if, suddenly, some rumors about Semyon Zolotarev reach the Urals, then Zolotarev, who called himself Alexander, can always tell his comrades on the campaign that these rumors refer to his namesake.

Georgy Krivonischenko, aka Yura Krivonischenko.

Another double name mystery? No. Krivonischenko did not hide his name, given to him at birth. Not in front of his fellow students at the institute, not in front of the participants in the campaign against Otorten, and especially not in front of the team working at the secret enterprise PA “MAYAK”.
Everyone knew that his real name was George. Perhaps he stopped liking it given by parents name during puberty. Georgy is somehow pompous for his youth. But simply Zhora sounded, as it seemed to him, childish, and even frivolous for someone growing up young man. Therefore, he asked his close friends and comrades to call him Yura.
The history of mankind knows many examples of changing names while maintaining the surname. Russian composer Georgy Sviridov - his real name is Yuri Sviridov, American writer Jack London - in fact it is John London, Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov - Viktor Khlebnikov, modern writer, publicist Zakhar Prilepin - his real name is Evgeniy Prilepin. There are enough examples.
Each of these people had their own, purely personal reason for changing their name, as did Krivonischenko too.

Kolevatov's notebook.

During the hike, a general hiking diary of the group was kept, which was found in the tent after the tragedy. The diary contains a mention of Kolevatov's notebook. There are also entries about this in the personal diaries of some group members. Kolevatov never parted with his notebook and wrote something in it every day. Nobody knew about the contents of the recordings.
What notes did the notebook contain? The authors of the “controlled delivery” version consider Kolevatov to be Krivonischenko’s assistant, and in his notebook Kolevatov made secret notes related to the ongoing special operation. But there is no evidence of this.
Was this notebook ever found? Some researchers refer to a photograph where they think they can discern its vague outlines. In the photograph, Colonel Ortyukov, who was part of the search group, actually holds something in his right hand while extracting Kolevatov’s remains from the stream.

But what exactly he is holding is completely unclear. In the materials of the criminal case into the death of the Dyatlov group, there is no mention of the discovery of Kolevatov’s notebook.
If we assume that Kolevatov’s notebook was nevertheless found, then, most likely, like the radioactive fragments of clothing and Zolotarev’s second camera, it was seized for examination with the registration of classified acts of seizure. It can be assumed, with a very high degree of certainty, that there were no secret entries in the notebook. Most likely, the entries were related to one of the girls on the hike; Kolevatov could have feelings for her. Naturally, he hid these feelings from everyone and confided them only to paper. In this case, for the investigation, the contents of the notebook were of no interest. After the examination was completed and the case on the death of Dyatlov’s group was closed, the notebook, along with radioactive fragments of clothing and Zolotarev’s second camera, was destroyed with the preparation of corresponding classified acts of destruction.

Infra impact version sound wave.

It has been established and proven that exposure to a sound wave in the frequency range from 6 Hz to 9 Hz can lead a person into a state of panic, mental confusion, even suicide, or death from cardiac arrest. Signs of a person’s death from exposure to infrasound of this frequency range are externally manifested in the form of the appearance and fixation of convulsive grimaces on the face of the deceased, called in the scientific world the “mask of fear” or “mask of death.” Such a deadly sound wave can be generated at sea, in deserts, in mountains.
There is no posthumous “mask of fear” on the faces of the dead tourists. There was no panic in the behavior of the group; the actions of the group members were of a conscious nature throughout the entire time period of the tragedy. This is indicated by traces of an organized retreat from the tent to the cedar tree, traces of a fire and the collection of firewood for it, the division of the tourist group into two groups, the construction of a cave, as well as the location of the corpses of Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova, which clearly suggests that the guys were trying to get to the tent .
Infrasound is not the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group.

UFO version.

There was no reason for extraterrestrials to destroy a group of tourists. It would be preferable for them to take all the guys on board their intergalactic spacecraft and, in order to study human species, fly to where they come from.
Like highly developed civilizations from other galaxies, aliens certainly have high technology. For them it was not possible a lot of work, firstly, to timely detect earthlings (Dyatlov’s group) on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl, where the aliens themselves may have wanted to explore something. Secondly, so that people do not get in the way, erase their memory and teleport all members of the group to a place where they would soon be found, although they did not remember anything, but alive.
It should be noted that during the investigation into the circumstances of the death of the Dyatlov group, information was received about the appearance of mysterious fireballs in the sky of the Northern Urals and even eyewitnesses who observed them were identified. It was established that the flights of these fireballs were observed on February 17 and 25, 1959. It is quite obvious that these celestial phenomena are in no way connected with the death of tourists that occurred on the night of February 1 to February 2. On that fateful night, no one observed any fireballs throughout the visible space of the Ural Mountains.
UFOs were not involved in the death of the Dyatlov group.

Versions about the attack.

Some researchers of the tragedy suggest that Dyatlov’s group died as a result of an unexpected attack on them during a night stop. The following are being considered for the role of attackers: animals (bear, wolverine and even Bigfoot), Mansi hunters (due to religious beliefs, this place is sacred for the Mansi people, there should be no strangers here) and, finally, a group of prisoners who escaped from a correctional facility. labor camp (there were a sufficient number of such camps in the Urals at that time).
The search engines found that there were no traces of the presence of prisoners who had escaped from the camp or traces of animals, and there were also no traces of the skis of the Mansi hunters (a hunter would not go into the taiga in winter without them). The tent was damaged, but not looted.

If an animal had attacked, then everything that was in the tent and she herself would have been chaotically scattered and torn. A hungry beast would thoroughly manage it. And for sure, the piece of loin found in the tent by the searchers would not have survived. It is quite obvious that this piece of loin would represent a large nutritional value and for equally hungry escaped prisoners. By the way, the search engine’s dog, which discovered a piece of loin, was subsequently rewarded with it and quickly found an appropriate use for it (the search engines themselves said this). In addition, tools, knives, a flashlight, warm clothes, alcohol, skis and ski poles were found in the tent. Money and documents of the dead boys were found. For escaped prisoners, and for the Mansi hunter too, this is the Klondike, Eldorado. But nothing has been touched.
Because there were no escaped prisoners at all, and this is confirmed by researchers who studied lists of reports on escapes from camps in that region in the period before and during the campaign of the Dyatlov group; and the Mansi people living in those places did not feel hostility towards anyone. They are timid, quiet people; Soviet power and her laws were very respected, because they were very much afraid of them. And, as it later turned out, there was no place sacred to the Mansi where Dyatlov’s group died; in fact, it is located in a completely different area, significantly removed from the site of the tragedy.
Versions about an attack on tourists are untenable for one simple reason - at the scene of the tragedy, search engines found traces and things that belonged only to members of the Dyatlov group.

Version about the stripping operation.

The version is based on the fact that members of the Dyatlov group became unwitting witnesses to secret tests of military equipment and, in connection with this, were destroyed during a clean-up operation.
Various authors of this version suggest that tourists witnessed a fleeting flight of either a new secret plane, or a crashed rocket (the authors themselves don’t really know what was flying there). They believe that state security agencies make decisions on physical destruction members of the Dyatlov group as undesirable witnesses to tests in the area. It’s just not clear: when, how and from whom did the USSR state security agencies receive information that tourists actually saw something forbidden at night; who reported the exact coordinates of the last location of the Dyatlov group.
According to the cleanup version, a specialized group of military personnel was sent to the place where they spent the night on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl in order to eliminate the tourist group. And how many traces of the members of the special forces group should have remained while they were chasing the guys of the tourist group at night, through snowy and rough terrain: from the tent to the cedar, from the cedar to the ravine and back. And where are these traces? There are none, just as there are no traces indicating where the specialized military group came from and where it went after the special operation.
This does not bother the authors of the stripping version. They refer to one single photograph taken by search engines, where it allegedly shows a vague outline of a single incomplete mark from the heel of an army shoe next to the footprint of one of the members of the Dyatlov group. However, the picture does not provide a clear understanding. But a plausible explanation for the appearance of a bizarre fragment can be given.

By the time it was discovered and photographed, the fragment had acquired a shape resembling the heel of a special forces soldier’s shoe as a result of simple wind erosion. In addition, the photograph was taken by a search engine from an arbitrarily chosen angle, and, quite possibly, in the picture, due to the “play” of reflected light and shadow, the captured fragment was even more distorted. The rest was completed by the imagination of the authors of the cleanup version. But most importantly, the photographer who was photographing the tracks at that moment did not arouse any associations or suspicions. And in general, if there had been traces of army shoes there, then there would have been much more of them, and they would not have gone unnoticed by search engines. Accordingly, there would be clear photographs.
Some researchers of the purge version suggest that they got rid of the guys by shooting them with top-secret, special bullets that left no traces of damage. Other researchers suggest that secret poisonous gases were used to kill these guys. There are other fantasies. To justify each of the proposed methods of killing members of the Dyatlov group, the most important thing is missing - factual confirmation, irrefutable material evidence.

To justify the presence of the punitive detachment that dealt with the members of the Dyatlov group, some authors of the purge version cite the following arguments: the presence of bruises, bruises, and abrasions on the bodies of the victims are traces of beatings, and the burns on the legs of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko are traces of their torture by fire. But why, for what purpose, should they beat and torture the guys, when it is easier, “without bazaars,” in strict accordance with the clearly assigned task for the punishers, to immediately destroy them.
Torture, beatings, and bullying are used to obtain some information. But it is absolutely obvious that observations of the flight of even a secret aircraft or a rocket collapsing in flight, and, finally, even a UFO, in themselves do not carry any significant information. These visual observations cannot reveal any technical secrets or secret characteristics of the observed object.
Search engines and subsequent researchers of the causes of death of tourists did not find any traces of a man-made disaster dating back to January - February 1959 in this area. No debris from the crashed rocket, no traces of its rocket fuel components on the ground, no broken or fallen trees and bushes from the shock wave allegedly initiated by a flying secret supersonic aircraft and which also hit tourists (there is also such a version of the death of the group).
In the found travel diary there are no entries about extraordinary events and phenomena along the entire route of the tourist group. It was established that on that fateful night the tourists were in a tent, sleeping. Even if we assume that the guys were woken up in the middle of the night by the light phenomena and sounds that accompanied the flight of the aircraft, it would have taken them some time to finally wake up and gain clarity of mind, then at least put on some clothes and get out from the tent. By this time, the events associated with the fleeting flight of an unknown object would have ended long ago, and before the gaze of tourists there would only be an empty, dark, cloudy sky and snow falling from it.
From the above it follows that there was no stripping operation due to the lack of an incentive.

About traces of blood on the faces of some of the dead.

On the faces of Kolmogorova, Dyatlov, and Slobodin, searchers found frozen traces of bleeding in the area of ​​the mouth and nose. To the chagrin of the authors of the “cleansing” version, these signs of bleeding are not the result of beatings of the guys by the executors of the punitive operation. Their appearance on the faces of two guys and one girl became possible due to severe physical overstrain of the guys’ bodies, struggling with the elements in conditions of severe stress situations and difficult weather conditions.
Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova crawled to the tent at the limits of their last physical capabilities. They bit their lips so as not to lose consciousness and not let their comrades down. They crawled, damaging their faces on a fairly hard surface layer of snow. We crawled, periodically raising our heads so as not to miss the agreed signal to overtake, to make sure that the direction to the tent was maintained. They crawled to survive. And the scorching wind, as if protecting a torn tent, threw charges of snow dust at the brave tourists, which blinded the guys and stung their faces with thousands of snow needles. The injured and frostbitten capillaries of the circulatory system of the face, unable to withstand the cold and physical exertion, burst. The blood oozing from the lips and nose, already extremely cooled in the bodies of the freezing guys, froze on their faces almost instantly.

About the color of the skin of the dead.

Some search engines actually noted the unusual color of the skin of the victims’ faces and hands. Subsequently, various versions of the explanation for this phenomenon appeared, for example, contact with the skin of vaporous or droplet-like dispersed components of the fuel of a ballistic missile flying and suffering a catastrophe; the use of toxic substances against the Dyatlov group during the cleanup operation; the impact on the corpses of microorganisms and protozoa algae living on the slope where the tragedy occurred.
An examination of the corpses showed that no traces of alcohol were found in their bodies. No residual traces of the influence of any substances used in the manufacture of rocket fuel or poisonous gases were found on the skin of the bodies of the victims, on their clothing, or on the territory of the unfolding tragedy.
Anyone who has experienced frostbite in winter knows that frostbitten skin on areas of the face, such as the tip of the nose, areas of the cheeks of the face, earlobes or areas of the ears, darken over time. Depending on the duration of exposure to cold air, the magnitude of its temperature, frostbitten areas of the skin may subsequently acquire a wide color color range: from a faint brown tint to dark brown, and even black inclusive. And we must assume that the guys from Dyatlov’s group received very severe frostbite. This explains the lifetime change in skin color of their faces and hands.
And after the death of tourists, the uneven distribution and different contrast of color shades of the skin of the face and hands is the result of the decomposition of organic tissue, which occurs at different speeds. The rate of tissue decomposition depends on the ambient temperature, the type of skin, and the condition of its surface. On the faces and hands of the victims there were abrasions, scratches, and minor wounds received during their lifetime in the fight against the elements. The decomposition process in areas of damaged skin proceeds faster than in an undamaged area of ​​skin.
After the dead were discovered, their corpses were sent for a pathological examination. The corpses were placed in the village hospital to thaw until they were in a state suitable for forensic examination; the process of decomposition of cadaveric tissue accelerated. After the examination was completed, when sending the bodies to their burial place, the conditions for storing and transporting the corpses may not have been observed - and who will comply with these conditions, who needs it. It is not surprising that after such an attitude towards the dead, some of those present at the funeral in the city of Sverdlovsk also noted the unusual color of the skin on the face and hands of the deceased children.
There is nothing strange or mysterious about the change in the color of the skin of the dead.

On forensic medical examination of corpses.

The results of the examination were approved by higher supervisory authorities; there were no complaints regarding the actions of the pathologists and the results they obtained. This means that the qualifications of pathologists were not in doubt and corresponded to the current procedural norms and requirements of that time.
But some modern researchers This tragedy resulted in dissatisfaction with the results of the examination; There were even accusations of professional unsuitability of the experts who carried out the pathological examination. Such researchers began to involve modern medical specialists and criminologists in the analysis of the materials of the criminal case regarding the death of the Dyatlov group.
These involved specialists, no doubt professionals in their field of activity, tried to analyze the results of the pathological examination on the yellowed sheets of that criminal case. However, their conclusions, unfortunately, do not clarify the reasons for the death of the members of the Dyatlov group, and sometimes cast even more fog on the circumstances of this difficult case.

How it really happened, perhaps no one will ever know. Much has been lost in time. The first search engines, the first researchers of that tragedy, are gradually passing away. Time blurs the memory of the details of those events among the first surviving participants in the search and research work. But the most important and most important thing remains - the memory of the Dyatlov group, attempts to get to the bottom of the truth. The older generation of researchers of the Dyatlov group tragedy is being replaced by a new, young addition. And maybe these new, full of energy young researchers will still establish the real reason for the death of the group. And God help them in this righteous deed.

Mountain of the Dead

The mountain ranges of the Northern Urals are shrouded in mysticism and secrets; among the local Mansi peoples they were considered sacred territory; entry to many peaks was prohibited for mere mortals - it was the abode of spirits and the site of ancient rituals. Some peaks were not worth visiting for other reasons: according to local beliefs, they were considered cursed places that should not be climbed under any circumstances, and it was better to fly around them by air. One of these mountains is the peak of Kholatchakhl, also called Kholat-Syakhyl, which translated from Mansi means “Mountain of the Dead”.

The peak itself does not stand out in any way among the other mountains of the Belt Stone, which stretches in the north of the Sverdlovsk region, its height is only 1079 m, the path to the peak is quite easy, so the route belongs to the lowest category of difficulty. What was the reason for such a terrible name for the mountain?

According to existing legend, in ancient times there was a local sanctuary on this mountain dedicated to the goddess of death; each time shamans performed a sacrifice ritual on it, killing exactly 9 animals. It could be deer, ducks, or any other living creatures. But one day, for unknown reasons, the shamans sacrificed 9 young Mansi hunters to the goddess, and the goddess of death liked this sacrifice so much that she began to prefer people to all other victims.

Since then, according to local legend, if you go to the mountain in a group of 9 people, it will definitely die. The Mansi themselves remember very well the warnings of their ancestors and try to avoid bad places. Moreover, they strongly advise their Russian friends not to go to the damned peaks, especially since the peak adjacent to the Mountain of the Dead is called Otorten, or “Don’t go there.”

Mansi was also warned by a group of student tourists led by I. Dyatlov, who arrived to conquer the beautiful and proud peak of Otorten in the winter of 1959. However, students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, brought up in the spirit of Soviet atheism, only laughed at Mansi’s warnings. Not heeding the warnings not to walk in a group of at least 9 people, they joked that there were 10 of them in the group, which means they had nothing to fear from the curse of Mount Kholat Syakhyl, through which their path passed.

On February 1, the students set off along the route. By a strange coincidence, one of them fell ill, and the students went to the mountain in a group of the fatal nine.

Before dark they moved quite easily, but did not have time to completely overcome the path, so they decided to wait out the night before the last ascent on a mountain pass. According to all the rules, in the evening they set up tents and went to bed, but at night something happened on the mountain, which forced the strong and resilient students to run from the tent as fast as they could towards the forest, but none of them managed to survive. Some were badly beaten, others had no signs of beatings, but were without clothes, so they were frozen from the cold. There were many speculations about what made the students run down the mountain - from an atomic explosion to a UFO seen in the sky.

They searched for the Dyatlov group that disappeared during the ascent for more than one week; they were found only on February 26, 25 days after the mysterious death of the entire group. To the surprise of the search group, all traces, like the bodies of the victims, were intact, as if they had died several hours ago.

Despite a thorough and repeated investigation, the exact cause of death has not yet been established. It is possible that it was the banal northern lights, which in mountainous conditions leads to confusion and panic, but perhaps death was caused by an avalanche or some other natural phenomenon, perhaps some other natural anomaly.

It is only known that one of the students came out of the tent at about 2 o’clock in the morning, saw something in the sky that amazed and frightened him to the core, after which he woke up the others, who cut the tent on the other side and left it on both sides at once , after which they ran down to the forest. Later they tried to return to the tents, where they had warm clothes and gasoline for the fire, but they froze in the harsh conditions of the northern mountains.

Since then, the pass where Dyatlov’s group died has been named after him. However, the group was not the only victim of these mountains; over the 20th century, 27 corpses were discovered on the mountain, and local legends attribute other victims to the mountain, for example, a group of Leningrad researchers who allegedly went to the Dyatlov Pass and died there in a similar way. If you believe the local rumor, this time all 9 people were lying around the tent, and everyone had indescribable horror on their faces, but unlike the Dyatlov group, there is no documentary evidence or clear testimony about the death of this group.

However, it is reliably known that in 1961, 3 aircraft with geologists crashed over the mountain in succession, the total number of victims of scientists and crews was the same fatal number 9. In addition, all those people who were searching for the Dyatlov group. Then the victims of the mountain were a geologist, the son of a high-ranking official, who went to the mountain with a group of his colleagues and disappeared almost before their eyes. Shortly thereafter, a married couple disappeared under mysterious circumstances and were also not found despite a thorough search; tourists and scientists disappeared, pilots crashed, the mountain fully justified its terrible name. Finally, one of the last incidents happened in 2003, when a helicopter crashed over it. True, this time there were no casualties, all 9 passengers and crew members remained alive, but they were saved literally by a miracle, thanks to the unsurpassed skill of the pilot, who landed the aircraft in extreme conditions.

However, it still remains unclear what causes aircraft crashes over the mountain and why people die during a fairly simple ascent. But the mountain is in no hurry to reveal its secrets, still harvesting human lives.

Mountain of the Dead - this is how "Kholat Syakhyl" is translated from the Mansi language - the name of height 1079 in the Northern Urals. On its slope, under mysterious circumstances, 2 groups of tourists died in a row: clearly in panic, the fleeing people were found dead near the camp. The victims had a strange reddish skin tone and many internal injuries and internal bleeding. Forensic experts were unable to find the cause of death. In superstitious fear, locals attribute similar deaths to ancient spirits, mystical rituals, and UFOs that often appear here. What actually happened is a mystery.

The most famous tragic and mysterious incident that occurred here dates back to 1959. Then a group of climbers led by Igor Dyatlov died on the mountain under strange circumstances. At night, in the camp that the group set up, something that is still unexplained happened. Something forced people to cut the inside of the tent in order to get out and run away. They did not use the exit and did not have time to get dressed. The bodies of all nine people were found nearby. Almost everyone had injuries, some had no tongue, everyone had an unusual skin tone and many other oddities.

There are dozens of versions of what happened there, but none explains the entire set of facts.

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Mansi bobbleheads (Weathering Pillars) is a geological monument on the Manpupuner ridge (which in the Mansi language means “Small Mountain of Idols”), in the interfluve of the Ilych and Pechora rivers.

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Metro 2 - symbol a network of secret transport lines located directly under the Moscow metro. The existence of Metro 2 has not been officially confirmed.

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The Molebki triangle is a well-known geoanomalous zone, which is located on the left bank of the Sylva, on the border of the Sverdlovsk and Perm regions, opposite the village of Molebki.

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Nikandrovsky Monastery is an anomalous zone located on the site of a destroyed monastery. Local residents say that they see ghost monks in the ruins.

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A strange incident that occurred in the forests of the Novgorod region became the basis for a local horror story about a forest stealing souls. In the summer of 1999, the body of a man was found in the forest.

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The gloom and depressing feeling that visit almost everyone who happens to visit the Obvodny Canal are associated with times much more ancient than those in which St. Petersburg appeared.

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Rumors that a local brother of the Loch Ness monster lives in the reservoir have existed for a long time, but only an expedition group decided to check them.

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Lake Labynkyr is a reservoir in the east of Yakutia, which became famous thanks to a creature unknown to science that lives in its waters. The Yakuts believe that a huge animal lives in the lake.

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Petroglyphs are scattered in scattered groups on the rocks of the Besov Nos Peninsula. There are mysterious figures of a mystical nature.

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In the Urals there is Mount Otorten, which is considered to be a zone of anomalies. IN different time Tragic events took place in these places, the most famous of which was the disappearance of the Dyatlov group.

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The drunken forest is a rectangle of crooked, intertwined coniferous trees. Coniferous trees curved towards the north, while the deciduous trees around this place grow evenly.

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Ukok Plateau - Altai Tibet - one of the most beautiful and mystical places in the Altai Mountains - “Place of Power”. The name Ukok sounds like “Listen to heaven.” This ancient land is of fantastic beauty.

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The Saburov pyramid is some kind of secret Masonic instrument, because... no one really knows why it was built, because no one has built anything like it in Russia.

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Blue stone- a sacred stone near Lake Pleshcheevo. This is one of the few authentic ritual objects preserved from the times of pagan Rus'.

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The gloomy Sinyavinsky swamps that lie in the forests Leningrad region, still maintain silent silence. It was in these parts that many Soviet soldiers died in 1942.