Composition of the group

Initially, the group consisted of ten people:

Yuri Yudin dropped out of the group due to an illness that caused severe pain in his leg before entering the active part of the route, due to which he was the only one from the whole group to survive. He was the first to identify the personal belongings of the dead, he also identified the bodies of Slobodin and Dyatlov. In the future, he did not take an active part in the investigation of the tragedy. In the 1990s, he was deputy head of Solikamsk for economics and forecasting, chairman of the Polyus city tourist club. He died on April 27, 2013, and, according to his last will, was buried on May 4 in Yekaterinburg at the Mikhailovsky cemetery, along with seven other participants in the campaign.

hike

There is an opinion that the last campaign of the group was timed to coincide with the 21st Congress of the CPSU (the materials of the criminal case do not confirm this). For 16 or 18 days, the participants of the trip had to ski at least 300 km in the north of the Sverdlovsk region and climb two peaks of the Northern Urals: Otorten and Oika-Chakur. The hike belonged to the 3rd (highest) category of difficulty according to the classification of sports hikes used in the late fifties.

Transportation

ski trip

Waiting for the group to return

Looking for a group

February

The search work began with the clarification of the route along which the Dyatlov group set off. It turned out that Dyatlov did not hand over the route book to the UPI sports club, and no one knows for sure which route the tourists chose. Thanks to Rimma Kolevatova, the sister of the missing Alexander Kolevatov, the route was restored and handed over to rescuers on February 19. On the same day, the use of aviation to search for the missing group was agreed, and on the morning of February 20, the chairman of the UPI sports club, Lev Gordo, flew to Ivdel with an experienced tourist, a member of the UPI tourist section bureau, Yuri Blinov. The next day they conducted aerial reconnaissance of the search area.

On February 22, the tourist section of the UPI formed 3 groups of searchers from students and employees of the UPI who had tourist and mountaineering experience - the groups of Boris Slobtsov, Moses Axelrod and Oleg Grebennik, who were transferred to Ivdel the next day. Another group, led by Vladislav Karelin, was decided to be transferred to the search area directly from the campaign. On the spot, the military joined the search - a group of captain A. A. Chernyshev and a group of operational workers with search dogs led by senior lieutenant Moiseev, cadets of the SevUralLag sergeant school led by senior lieutenant Potapov and a group of sappers with mine detectors led by lieutenant colonel Shestopalov. Also, local residents joined the search engines - representatives of the Mansi family Kurikovs (Stepan and Nikolai) and Anyamovs from the village of Suevatpaul (“Mansi Suevata”), hunters the Bakhtiyarov brothers, hunters from the Komi ASSR, radio operators with walkie-talkies for communication (Egor Nevolin from the exploration party, B . Yaburov). The head of the search at this stage was the master of sports of the USSR for tourism Evgeny Polikarpovich Maslennikov (secretary of the VIZ party committee, was the “issuer” of the route commission for the Dyatlov group) - he was responsible for the operational management of the search teams on the spot. The head of the military department of the UPI, Colonel Georgy Semenovich Ortyukov, became the chief of staff, whose functions included coordinating the actions of civil and military search teams, managing aviation flights in the search area, interacting with regional and local authorities, and the leadership of the UPI.

The area from Mount Otorten to Oika-Chakur (70 km in a straight line between them) was identified as the most promising for searches, as the most remote, difficult and potentially more dangerous for tourists. The search groups decided to land in the region of Mount Otorten (the northern groups of Slobtsov and Axelrod), in the region of Oika-Chakura (the southern group of Grebennik) and at two intermediate points between these mountains. At one of the points, on the watershed in the upper reaches of the Vishera and Purma rivers (about halfway from Otorten to Oika-Chakur), Chernyshev's group landed. It was decided to send the Karelin group to the Sampalchakhl mountain region - to the headwaters of the Niols River, 50 km south of Otorten, between the groups of Chernyshev and Grebennik. All search teams were tasked to find the traces of the missing group - ski tracks and traces of parking lots - go along them to the accident site and help the Dyatlov group. The group of Slobtsov was abandoned first (February 23), then Grebennik (February 24), Axelrod (February 25), Chernyshev (February 25-26). Another group, which included Mansi and radio geologist Yegor Nevolin, began moving from the lower reaches of the Auspiya to its upper reaches.

The place of lodging for the night is located on the North-Eastern slope of height 1079 at the headwaters of the Auspiya River. The lodging place is located 300 m from the top of mountain 1079 under a mountain slope of 30°. The overnight place is a platform leveled from snow, at the bottom of which 8 pairs of skis are laid. The tent was stretched out on ski poles, fixed with ropes, 9 backpacks with various personal belongings of the group members were spread out at the bottom of the tent, quilted jackets, windbreakers were laid on top, 9 pairs of boots in the heads, men's trousers were also found, also three pairs of felt boots, warm fur jackets were also found, socks, a hat, ski caps, dishes, buckets, a stove, axes, a saw, blankets, products: crackers in two bags, condensed milk, sugar, concentrates, notebooks, a route plan and many other small things and documents, and a camera and accessories for camera.

This protocol was drawn up after the tent was excavated from the snow, and things were partially dismantled. A more accurate idea of ​​the state of the tent at the time of discovery can be obtained from the protocols of interrogation of members of the Slobtsov search group.

Subsequently, with the participation of experienced tourists, it was found that the tent was set up in accordance with all tourist and mountaineering rules.

In the evening of the same day, a group of Mansi hunters joined Slobtsov's group, moving on deer upstream of the Auspiya together with radio operator E. Nevolin, who transmitted a radiogram to the headquarters about the discovery of the tent. From that moment on, all groups that were involved in rescue work began to gather in the search area. In addition, the prosecutor of the Ivdelsky district, Vasily Ivanovich Tempalov, and a young correspondent for the Sverdlovsk newspaper “Na Smena!” joined the search engines. Yuri Yarovoy.

The next day, February 26 or 27, search engines from the Slobtsov group, whose task was to choose a place for the camp, discovered the bodies of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko (the latter was first mistakenly identified as Zolotarev). The place of discovery was on the right side of the channel of the fourth tributary of the Lozva, about 1.5 km to the northeast of the tent, under a large cedar near the edge of the forest. The bodies lay next to each other near the remains of a small fire, which had sunk into the snow. Rescuers were struck by the fact that both bodies were stripped down to their underwear. Doroshenko was lying on his stomach. Under his body, 3-4 knots of cedar of the same thickness were found. Krivonischenko was lying on his back. Around the bodies were scattered small items and scraps of clothing, some of which were burned. On the cedar itself, at a height of up to 4-5 meters, branches were broken off, some of them lay around the bodies. According to the observations of the search engine S.N. Sogrin, in the area of ​​the cedar “there were not two people, but more, since a titanic work was done on the preparation of firewood, spruce branches. This is evidenced by a large number of cuts on tree trunks, broken branches and Christmas trees.

Almost simultaneously with this, 300 meters from the cedar up the slope in the direction of the tent, Mansi hunters found the body of Igor Dyatlov. He was slightly covered with snow, reclining on his back, with his head towards the tent, his arm around the trunk of a birch. Dyatlov was wearing ski trousers, underpants, a sweater, a cowboy shirt, and a fur sleeveless jacket. Woolen sock on the right leg, cotton sock on the left. On the face of Dyatlov there was an icy growth, which meant that before his death he breathed into the snow.

In the evening of the same day, about 330 meters up the slope from Dyatlov, under a layer of dense snow of 10 cm, with the help of a search dog, the body of Zinaida Kolmogorova was discovered. She was warmly dressed, but without shoes. There were signs of a nosebleed on his face.

March

A few days later, on March 5, 180 meters from the place where Dyatlov's body was found and 150 meters from the location of Kolmogorova's body, the body of Rustem Slobodin was found under a layer of snow of 15-20 cm using iron probes. He was also quite warmly dressed, he had 4 pairs of socks on his feet, on his right leg there was a felt boot on top of them (the second felt boot was found in the tent). There was an icy growth on Slobodin's face and signs of nosebleeds.

The location of the three bodies found on the slope and their postures indicated that they died on the way back from the cedar to the tent.

On February 28, an emergency commission of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU was created, headed by the deputy chairman of the regional executive committee, V.A. Pavlov, and the head of the department of the regional committee of the CPSU, F.T. Yermash. In early March, members of the commission arrived in Ivdel to officially lead the search. On March 8, the head of the search at the pass, E.P. Maslennikov, made a report to the commission on the progress and results of the search. He expressed the unanimous opinion of the search party that the search should be stopped until April in order to wait for the snow to shrink. Despite this, the commission decided to continue the search until all the tourists were found, organizing a change in the composition of the search party.

April

The search for the rest of the tourists were carried out on a vast territory. First of all, they searched for bodies on the slope from the tent to the cedar with the help of probes. The pass between peaks 1079 and 880, the ridge towards Lozva, the spur of peak 1079, the continuation of the valley of the fourth tributary of Lozva and the valley of Lozva at 4-5 km from the mouth of the tributary were also explored. During this time, the composition of the search groups changed several times, but the searches were inconclusive. By the end of April, the search engines concentrated their efforts on exploring the vicinity of the cedar, where the thickness of the snow cover in the hollows reached 3 meters or more.

May

In the first days of May, the snow began to melt intensively and made it possible to find objects that indicated the rescuers in the right direction to search. So, plucked coniferous branches and scraps of clothing were exposed, which clearly led into the hollow of the stream. An excavation carried out in a hollow made it possible to find at a depth of more than 2.5 m a flooring with an area of ​​about 3 m² of 14 peaks of small firs and one birch. Several pieces of clothing lay on the floor. According to the position of these objects on the flooring, four spots were exposed, made as "seats" for four people.

With further search in a hollow, about six meters from the flooring downstream of the stream, under a layer of snow from two to two and a half meters, the bodies of the remaining tourists were found. First they found Lyudmila Dubinina, in a kneeling position with her chest resting on a ledge that forms a waterfall of a stream, with her head against the current. Almost immediately after that, the bodies of three men were found next to her head. Thibaut-Brignolles lay separately, and Kolevatov and Zolotarev - as if hugging "chest to back". At the time of the discovery protocol, all the corpses were in the water and were characterized as decomposed. The text of the protocol noted the need to remove them from the stream, since the bodies may further decompose even more and may be carried away by the fast current of the stream.

Concerning a place of these finds in materials of criminal case there are divergences. The protocol drawn up on the spot indicates the location "from the famous cedar, 50 meters in the first stream." And the previously sent radiogram indicates the southwestern position of the excavation site relative to the cedar, that is, close to the direction of the abandoned tent. However, the decision to dismiss the case indicates the place “75 meters from the fire, towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva, that is, perpendicular to the path of tourists from the tent.”

On the corpses, as well as a few meters from them, clothes of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko were found - trousers, sweaters. All clothes had traces of even cuts, tk. filmed already from the corpses of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. The dead Thibault-Brignolles and Zolotarev were found well-dressed, Dubinina was dressed worse - her jacket was made of faux fur and the cap turned out to be on Zolotarev, Dubinina's unbooted leg was wrapped in Krivonischenko's woolen trousers. Krivonischenko's knife was found near the corpses, with which young firs were cut at the fire.

The bodies found were sent to Ivdel for a forensic examination, and the search was curtailed.

Funeral organization

According to the testimony of Alexander Kolevatov's sister, Rimma, party workers of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU and employees of the UPI offered to bury the dead in Ivdel, in a mass grave with the establishment of a monument. At the same time, conversations were held with each parent separately; requests to resolve the issue in a coordinated manner were refused. The persistent position of the parents and the support of the secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU Kuroyedov made it possible to organize a funeral in Sverdlovsk.

The first funeral took place on March 9, 1959 with a large crowd of people - on that day they buried Kolmogorova, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. Dyatlov and Slobodin were buried on March 10. The bodies of four tourists (Kolmogorov, Doroshenko, Dyatlov, Slobodin) were buried in Sverdlovsk at the Mikhailovsky cemetery. Krivonischenko was buried by his parents at the Ivanovsky cemetery in Sverdlovsk.

The funeral of tourists found in early May took place on May 12, 1959. Three of them - Dubinina, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles - were buried next to the graves of their group mates at the Mikhailovsky cemetery. Zolotarev was buried at the Ivanovo cemetery, next to the grave of Krivonischenko. All four were buried in closed zinc coffins.

official investigation

The official investigation was launched after the initiation of a criminal case by the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel, Vasily Ivanovich Tempalov, upon the discovery of corpses on February 26, 1959, and was conducted for three months. Tempalov, on the other hand, began an investigation into the causes of the death of tourists - he inspected the tent, the places where the bodies of 5 tourists were found, and also interrogated a number of witnesses. Since March 1959, the investigation was entrusted to the forensic prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk prosecutor's office, Lev Nikitich Ivanov.

The investigation initially considered the version of the attack and murder of tourists by representatives of the indigenous people of the northern Urals Mansi. Mansi from the Anyamov, Bakhtiyarov and Kurikov families fell under suspicion. During interrogations, they showed that there were no students from Tur Dyatlov group they did not see, and the prayer mountain, sacred to them, is located in another place. It soon became clear that the cuts found on one of the slopes of the tent were made not from the outside, but from the inside.

The nature and form of all these injuries indicate that they were formed from the contact of the fabric of the inner side of the tent with the blade of some kind of weapon (knife).

The examination found that on the slope of the tent, facing down the slope, there were three significant incisions - approximately 89, 31 and 42 cm long. Two large pieces of fabric were torn out and were missing. The cuts were made with a knife from the inside, and the blade did not immediately cut through the fabric - the one who cut the tarpaulin had to repeat his attempts over and over again.

At the same time, the results of the autopsy of the bodies discovered in February-March 1959 did not reveal fatal injuries in them and determined the cause of death as freezing. Therefore, suspicions with Mansi were removed.

According to V. I. Korotaev, who worked in the Ivdel prosecutor’s office in 1959, the Mansi, in turn, said that they had seen a strange “fireball” at night. They not only described this phenomenon, but also drew it. Along with this, "fireballs" were seen on February 17 and March 31 by many residents of the Middle and Northern Urals, including tourists and search engines near the Dyatlov Pass.

Meanwhile, the government commission demanded certain results, which were not there - the search for the remaining 4 tourists was seriously delayed, and no main version was formed. Under these conditions, the investigator Lev Ivanov, having multiple testimonies of disinterested persons, began to develop in detail the "technogenic" version of the death of people associated with some kind of test. In May 1959, being at the site of the discovery of the remaining bodies, he, together with E.P. Maslennikov, once again examined the forest near the scene. They “found that some of the young fir trees at the edge of the forest had a burned mark, but these marks were not concentric or otherwise. There was also no epicenter.” At the same time, the snow was not melted, the trees were not damaged.

Having in his hands the acts of a forensic medical examination of the bodies of tourists found in the stream, according to which the presence of bone fractures caused by “impact of great force” was stated, Ivanov suggested that they had undergone some kind of energy impact and sent their clothes and samples of internal organs to the Sverdlovsk City SES for physical and technical (radiological) expertise. According to its results, the chief radiologist of the city of Sverdlovsk Levashov came to the following conclusions:

1. The studied solid biosubstrates contain radioactive substances within the limits of the natural content determined by Potassium-40.
2. The individual clothing samples examined contain slightly overestimated amounts of radioactive substances or radioactive substance, which is a beta emitter.
3. Detected radioactive substances or a radioactive substance when washing clothing samples tend to be washed away, that is, they are not caused by a neutron flux and induced radioactivity, but by radioactive contamination with beta particles.

“In one of the cameras, a photo frame (taken last) was preserved, which depicts the moment of excavation of snow to set up a tent. Given that this shot was taken with a shutter speed of 1/25 sec. with an aperture of 5.6, with a film sensitivity of 65 GOST units, and also taking into account the frame density, we can assume that the installation of the tent began at about 5 pm on February 1, 1959. A similar picture was taken by another device.

After that time, not a single record and not a single photograph was found.”

The investigation established that the tent was abandoned suddenly and simultaneously by all the tourists, but at the same time, the retreat from the tent took place in an organized, dense group, there was no disorderly and “panic” flight from the tent:

“The location and presence of items in the tent (almost all shoes, all outerwear, personal belongings and diaries) testified that the tent was left suddenly at the same time by all tourists, and, as established in the subsequent forensic examination, the lee side of the tent, where the tourists settled down heads, turned out to be cut from the inside in two places, in areas that ensure the free exit of a person through these cuts.

Below the tent, for up to 500 meters, traces of people walking from the tent into the valley and into the forest were preserved in the snow. The tracks are well preserved and there were 8-9 pairs. An examination of the tracks showed that some of them were left almost barefoot (for example, in one cotton sock), others had a typical display of a felt boot, a foot shod in a soft sock, etc. The tracks of the tracks were located close to one another, converged and again diverged not far from each other. Closer to the border of the forest, the tracks disappeared - they turned out to be covered with snow.

Neither in the tent nor near it were found signs of a struggle or the presence of other people.

This is confirmed by the testimony of investigator V.I. Tempalov, who worked at the site of the tragedy in the early days:

“Below the tent 50-60 [m] away on the slope, I found 8 pairs of footprints of people, which I carefully examined, but they were deformed due to winds and temperature fluctuations. I failed to establish the ninth trace, and it was not. I photographed the tracks. They walked down from the tent. The tracks showed me that the people were walking at a normal pace down the mountain. The footprints were visible only on the 50-meter section, there were none further, since the lower from the mountain, the more snow.

The reason for the abandonment of the tent could not be determined by the head of the search, E.P. Maslennikov. In a radiogram dated March 2, 1959, he stated:

“... the main mystery of the tragedy remains the exit of the entire group from the tent. The only thing other than an ice ax found outside the tent, a Chinese lantern on its roof, confirms the likelihood of one clothed person walking outside, which gave some reason to everyone else to hastily abandon the tent.

The ruling notes that the tourists made a number of fatal mistakes:

“... knowing about the difficult conditions of the relief of height 1079, where the ascent was supposed to be, Dyatlov, as the leader of the group, made a gross mistake, expressed in the fact that the group began the ascent on 02/01/59 only at 15:00.

Subsequently, on the ski trail of tourists, preserved by the time of the search, it was possible to establish that, moving towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva, the tourists took 500-600 m to the left and instead of the pass formed by the peaks "1079" and "880", they went to the eastern slope peaks „1079“. This was Dyatlov's second mistake.

Having used the rest of the daylight hours to climb to the peak "1079" in conditions of strong wind, which is common in this area, and a low temperature of about 25-30 ° C, Dyatlov found himself in unfavorable overnight conditions and decided to pitch a tent on the slope of peak "1079" so that in the morning of the next day, without losing height, go to Mount Otorten, to which there were about 10 km in a straight line.

Based on the facts set forth in the decision, it was concluded:

“Given the absence of external bodily injuries and signs of a struggle on the corpses, the presence of all the values ​​​​of the group, and also taking into account the conclusion of the forensic medical examination on the causes of death of tourists, it should be considered that the cause of the death of tourists was an elemental force, which the tourists were unable to overcome ".

Thus, there were no perpetrators of the tragedy. Meanwhile, the bureau of the Sverdlovsk city committee of the CPSU, in the party order, for shortcomings in the organization of tourist work and weak control, punished: director of the UPI N. S. Siunov, secretary of the party bureau F. P. Zaostrovsky, chairman of the trade union committee of the UPI V. E. Union of Voluntary Sports Societies V. F. Kurochkin and Inspector of the Union V. M. Ufimtsev. The chairman of the board of the UPI sports club, L. S. Gordo, was dismissed from work.

Ivanov reported on the results of the investigation to the second secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU A.F. Eshtokin. According to Ivanov, Eshtokin gave a categorical instruction: “to classify absolutely everything, seal it up, hand it over to the special unit and forget about it.” Even earlier, the first secretary of the regional committee, A.P. Kirilenko, insisted on maintaining secrecy during the investigation. The case was sent to Moscow for verification by the Prosecutor's Office of the RSFSR and returned to Sverdlovsk on July 11, 1959. Deputy Prosecutor of the RSFSR Urakov no new information did not report and did not give a written instruction to classify the case. The case was not officially classified, but by order of the prosecutor Sverdlovsk region N. Klinova, the file was kept in a secret archive for some time (case sheets 370-377, containing the results of a radiological examination, were handed over to a special sector). Later, the case was transferred to the state archive of the Sverdlovsk region, where it is currently located.

The widespread opinion that a non-disclosure subscription was taken from all participants in the search for the Dyatlov group for 25 years has not been documented. The materials of the criminal case contain only two signatures (Yu.E. Yarovoy and E.P. Maslennikov) on non-disclosure of the materials of the preliminary investigation in accordance with Article 96 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1926, the validity of which ceased with the termination of the criminal case.

Autopsy results

The forensic medical examination of all the dead was carried out by the forensic expert of the regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination Boris Alekseevich Vozrozhdenny. In the study first four bodies on March 4, 1959, the forensic expert of the city of Severouralsk Ivan Ivanovich Laptev also participated, and on May 9, 1959, forensic expert Genrietta Eliseevna Churkina took part in the study of the last four bodies. The research results are summarized in the following table:

Name	Opening date	Cause of death	Factors Contributing to Death	Other
Doroshenko Yu. N.	4.03.1959		-
Dyatlov I. A.	4.03.1959	Cold exposure (freezing)	-	Deposition, abrasions, skin wounds (obtained both in vivo and in an agonal state and posthumously)
Kolmogorova Z. A.	4.03.1959	Cold exposure (freezing)	-	Deposition, abrasions, skin wounds (obtained both in vivo and in an agonal state and posthumously)
Krivonischenko G. A.	4.03.1959	Cold exposure (freezing)	-	Burns II-III degree from a fire; deposition, abrasions, skin wounds (obtained both in vivo and in an agonal state and posthumously)
Slobodin R.V.	8.03.1959	Cold exposure (freezing)	Closed craniocerebral injury (frontal bone fracture on the left side)	Divergence of the sutures of the skull (postmortem); deposition, abrasions, skin wounds (obtained both in vivo and in an agonal state and posthumously)
Dubinina L. A.	9.05.1959	Extensive bleeding into the right ventricle of the heart, multiple bilateral fracture of the ribs, profuse internal bleeding into the chest cavity (caused by exposure to great force)	-
Zolotarev A. A.	9.05.1959	Multiple rib fracture on the right with internal bleeding into the pleural cavity (caused by high force)		Bodily injuries of soft tissues of the head area and "bath skin" of the extremities (postmortem)
Kolevatov A.S.	9.05.1959	Cold exposure (freezing)	-	Bodily injuries of soft tissues of the head area and "bath skin" of the extremities (postmortem)
Thibaut-Brignolles N.V.	9.05.1959	Closed multi-fragmented depressed fracture in the region of the vault and base of the skull with profuse hemorrhage under the meninges and into the substance of the brain (caused by exposure to great force)	Cold exposure	Bodily injuries of soft tissues of the head area and "bath skin" of the extremities (postmortem)

For the first five bodies examined, the forensic medical reports indicated the time of death within 6-8 hours from the last meal and the absence of signs of alcohol consumption.

In addition, on May 28, 1959, forensic expert B. A. Vozrozhdenny was interrogated, during which he answered questions about the possible circumstances of serious injuries found on three of the bodies found in the stream, and about the possible life expectancy after receiving such injuries. From the transcript of the interrogation follows:

• All injuries are characterized by the Renaissance as life-time and are caused by the impact of a great force, obviously exceeding that which occurs when falling from a height of one's own height. As examples of such a force, Vozrozhdenny cites the impact of a car moving at high speed with a blow and throwing of the body and the impact of an air blast wave.
• Thibaut-Brignolles' craniocerebral injury could not have been obtained as a result of a blow to the head with a stone, since there was no damage to the soft tissues.
• After being injured, Thibaut-Brignoles was unconscious and unable to move independently, but could live up to 2-3 hours.
• Dubinina could live 10-20 minutes after being injured, while remaining conscious. Zolotarev could live longer.

It should be noted that during the interrogation, B. A. Vozrozhdenny did not have the data of histological studies, which were completed only on May 29, 1959 and could give him additional data to answer the questions posed by the investigation.

Publication of the case

25 years after the termination of the case on the death of the Dyatlov group, it could be destroyed "in the usual manner" according to the terms of storage of documents. But the prosecutor of the region, Vladislav Ivanovich Tuikov, instructed the case not to be destroyed as “socially significant”.

Currently, the case is stored in the archives of the Sverdlovsk Region, and it is possible to get acquainted with it in the "limited access" mode only with the permission of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region. The full case file has never been published. However, copies of the case materials can be found on a number of Internet resources. A small number of researchers got acquainted with the original materials, including the tenth participant in the campaign, Yuri Yudin.

Criticism of the criminal case and the work of the investigation

After the appearance of the case materials in public sources, the quality of the work of the investigation was repeatedly criticized. So, the investigator Valery Kudryavtsev criticizes the insufficient attention of the investigation to the details of the state of the tent and things of the Dyatlov group (under the conditions of the intervention of the search engines) and to the traces of the group on the slope, and the conspiracy theorist A. I. Rakitin considers the examination of the sections of the slope of the tent and the study of the site under the cedar inadequate .

Forensic expert V. I. Lysy, a candidate of medical sciences and an expert in the field of research on corpses subjected to freezing, considers B. A. Vozrozhdenny’s conclusions about the lifetime of the craniocerebral injuries of Slobodin and Thibaut-Brignolles to be erroneous. In his opinion, the injuries of the skulls discovered by the Renaissance are posthumous, and the tourists "died from hypothermia and did not receive any fatal intravital injuries." He also believes that such diagnostic errors in Soviet forensic practice before 1972 were systematic.

The case itself, stored in the archive, is also criticized. Many amateur researchers express doubts about the completeness and reliability of the documents contained in it. The inconsistency of the date on the cover with the date of the decision to open a criminal case and the absence of a criminal case number are often mentioned. The extreme expression of this point of view is the opinion that there is (or previously existed) another case about the death of the Dyatlov group, which supposedly contains true information about the circumstances of the incident. Although at the moment there is no objective evidence of this, the “other case” hypothesis is supported by some experienced lawyers.

Versions of the death of the group

There are about twenty versions of the death of the group, which can be divided into three main categories:

natural

Strong wind

This version was expressed during the investigation by local residents, it was also considered by search engine tourists. It was assumed that one of the Dyatlovites left the tent and was blown away by the wind, the rest rushed to his aid, cutting the tent for a speedy exit, and were also carried away by the wind down the slope. Soon the version was rejected, since the search engines themselves experienced the effects of strong winds in the vicinity of the scene and made sure that with any wind it was possible to stay on the slope and return to the tent.

Avalanche

The version first put forward in 1991 by M. A. Axelrod, a participant in the search and supported by geologists I. B. Popov and N. N. Nazarov, and later by masters of sports in tourism E. V. Buyanov and B. E. Slobtsov (also a participant in the search ). The essence of the version is that an avalanche descended on the tent, crushing it with a significant load of snow, which caused the urgent evacuation of tourists from the tent. It was also suggested that the serious injuries received by some of the tourists were caused by the avalanche.

Following his predecessors, E. V. Buyanov believes that one of the reasons for the avalanche was cutting the slope at the place where the tent was set up. Buyanov notes that the site of the accident of the Dyatlov group belongs to the "continental hinterland with avalanches from recrystallized snow." Referring to the opinions of several experts, he claims that in the area of ​​​​the tent of the Dyatlov group, a relatively small but dangerous collapse of a layer of compacted snow, the so-called "snow board", could have taken place. The injuries of some tourists in his version are explained by squeezing the victims between the dense snow mass of the collapse and the hard bottom of the tent.

Opponents of the avalanche version point out that the traces of the avalanche were not found by the participants in the search, which included experienced climbers. They note that the ski poles buried in the snow to fasten the tent remained in place and question the possibility of making the cuts discovered by the investigation from the inside of the fallen tent. The "avalanche" origin of severe injuries of three people is rejected in the absence of traces of the impact of the avalanche on other members of the group and fragile objects in the tent, as well as the possibility of independent descent of the injured or transportation by their surviving comrades from the tent to the place where the bodies were found. Finally, the departure of the group from the avalanche danger zone straight down, and not across the slope, seems to be a gross mistake that experienced tourists could not make.

Other versions

There are also a number of versions explaining what happened by a collision with wild animals (for example, a connecting rod bear, elk, wolves [ ]), poisoning tourists with sulfur-containing volcanic gases, exposure to rare and little-studied natural phenomena (winter thunderstorms, ball lightning, infrasound). There is a tendency to consider some of these versions as "anomalous" and put them in the same category as .

Criminal and technogenic-criminal

Common to this category of versions is the presence of human malicious intent, which is expressed in the murder of the Dyatlov tourist group and / or concealment of information about the impact of some technogenic factor on it.

Criminal versions

In addition to extremely dubious assumptions about the accidental poisoning of a tourist group (poor-quality alcohol or some kind of psychotropic drug), the subcategory of criminal versions includes:

Attack by escaped prisoners

This possibility was not mentioned in the decision to terminate the criminal case. The former investigator of the Ivdel prosecutor's office, V.I. Korotaev, claims that there were no escapes during the incident.

Death at the hands of Mansi

Experienced tourists reject this version both in Yarovoy's book and in reality. Versus Version internal conflict the expert on survival in extreme conditions, V. G. Volovich, also spoke out.

Attack of poachers - employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

According to this version, the Dyatlovites encountered law enforcement officers engaged in poaching. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (most likely, Ivdellag), out of hooligan motives, attacked the tourist group, which led to the death of tourists from injuries and hypothermia. The fact of the attack was subsequently successfully covered up.

Opponents of this version point out that the surroundings of Mount Kholatchakhl are difficult to access, unsuitable for winter hunting, and therefore not of interest to poachers. In addition, the possibility of successfully concealing a skirmish with tourists in the context of the ongoing investigation into their deaths is called into question.

"Controlled Delivery"

There is a conspiracy version of Alexei Rakitin, according to which several members of the Dyatlov group were undercover KGB officers. At the meeting, they were supposed to convey important disinformation regarding Soviet nuclear technology to foreign agents disguised as another tourist group. But they revealed this plan or accidentally unmasked themselves and killed all members of the Dyatlov group.

Former employee Soviet intelligence Mikhail Lyubimov was skeptical about this version, calling it a "detective novel". He noted that Western intelligence services in the fifties were really interested in the secrets of the Ural industry and carried out agents, but called the methods of work of the special services described by Rakitin implausible.

Technogenic criminal

According to some versions, the Dyatlov group was hit by some kind of weapon being tested: ammunition or a new type of rocket. It is believed that this provoked the hasty abandonment of the tent, and possibly directly contributed to the death of people. The following are mentioned as possible damaging factors: components of rocket fuel, a sodium cloud from a specially equipped rocket, the impact of a nuclear or volumetric explosion.

Yekaterinburg journalist A.I. Gushchin published a version that the group was the victim of a bomb test, most likely a neutron one, after which, in order to preserve state secrets, the death of tourists was staged in extreme natural conditions.

There are versions explaining the incident as an avalanche provoked by a man-made factor (for example, an explosion). It was in this direction that the “avalanche” version was developed by its founder M. A. Axelrod.

A common drawback of all such versions is that it is pointless to test new weapons systems outside a specially equipped test site, which allows evaluating their effectiveness in comparison with analogues, identifying advantages and disadvantages. During the incident, the USSR maintained a moratorium on nuclear tests, violations of which were not recorded by Western observers. According to E. V. Buyanov, referring to the data received from A. B. Zheleznyakov, an accidental hit of a rocket in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl is excluded. All types of missiles of the corresponding period, including those that were tested, either do not fit in terms of range, taking into account possible launch points, or were not launched in the period February 1-2, 1959.

Mystical and fantastic

This category includes versions that use factors to explain the incident, the existence of which is not recognized by the scientific community: paranormal phenomena, alien contacts, curses, attack by Bigfoot, evil spirits, etc.

The death of the Dyatlov group, for all its drama, is not a unique event both for that time and for sports tourism in general.

The death of the Dyatlovites occurred in the last period of the existence of the old system of supporting amateur tourism, which had the organizational form of commissions under the Sports Committees and the Unions of Sports Societies and Organizations (SSSOO) territorial entities. There were tourist sections at enterprises and universities, but these were disparate organizations that interacted poorly with each other. With the growing popularity of tourism, it became obvious that the existing system could not cope with the preparation, provision and support of tourist groups and could not provide a sufficient level of tourism security. In 1959, when the Dyatlov group died, the number of dead tourists did not exceed 50 people per year in the country. The very next year, 1960, the number of dead tourists almost doubled. The first reaction of the authorities was an attempt to ban amateur tourism, which was done by a resolution of the Secretariat of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of March 17, 1961, which abolished the Federation and the tourism sections under the voluntary councils of the Union of Sports Societies and Organizations. But it is impossible to forbid people to voluntarily go on a hike in quite accessible terrain - tourism turned into a “wild” state, when no one controlled the training or equipment of groups, the routes were not coordinated, only friends and relatives followed the deadlines. The effect followed immediately: in 1961, the number of dead tourists exceeded 200 people. Since the groups did not document the composition and route, sometimes there was no information either about the number of missing persons or about where to look for them.

By the Decree of the Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of July 20, 1962 "On further development Tourism, sports tourism again received official recognition, its structures were transferred to the jurisdiction of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (trade unions), tourism councils were created, commissions under the SSSOO were abolished, organizational work to support tourism was largely revised and reformed. The creation of tourist clubs on a territorial basis began, but work in organizations did not weaken, but intensified due to the wide information support that appeared due to the exchange of experience of amateur organizations. This made it possible to overcome the crisis and ensure the functioning of the sports tourism system for several decades.

Two different person based on the same

facts will write two stories of completely different merit

DI. Pisarev.

Preface.

Currently, absolutely all authors writing on the topic of the death of the Dyatlov group support the version of the investigation that the death of students occurred on the night of February 1-2, 1959. Until a certain point, I also adhered to this version. After all, three of the four stopped clocks found in the hands of the dead students showed the time interval between 8 and 9 o'clock.

Therefore, with light hand investigators, in the materials of the investigation, official documents, fiction, and later on the Internet, the opinion was established for a long time that the death of the group occurred between 20 and 21 hours on February 1, 1959, at night. However, after careful analysis of all information available to me, I did not find a single fact that could unequivocally testify that the Dyatlov group died on the evening of February 1, or on the night of February 1-2, 1959, as the investigation suggested. It was especially annoying that the analysis of student behavior showed absolutely clearly that all their actions were conscious and sighted, that is, tragic events could not have happened at night. And this led to the assumption that the students' clocks stopped from 8 to 9 am on February 2.

But until a certain time, I did not have absolute evidence that the death of students occurred precisely on the morning of February 2, during daylight hours, and therefore, like everyone else, I was forced to adhere to the official point of view. However, later, having made a request to the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and after analyzing and decoding seismograms, we received absolute and irrefutable evidence that the death of the Dyatlov tourist group occurred at 8:41 am, February 2, 1959. Moreover, it was possible to discover new facts that clearly testified in favor of the space version of the death of students, and even almost minute by minute to reconstruct the events that took place in the area Mount Kholat Syahyl. In this regard, I was forced to edit the text for the new book, which I propose to the reader.

Chapter 1. What caused the death of the Dyatlov group?

"It is not necessary to multiply entities unnecessarily."

Okama's law.

The reason for this tragedy, which resulted in the complete death of a student tourist group led by Igor Dyatlov, is still a mystery that neither the investigators who had this criminal case in hand, nor numerous subsequent researchers, could uncover. repeatedly covering the events of this incident over the fifty years that have passed since the tragedy. Meanwhile, a retrospective study of the events that took place in the mountains of the Northern Urals on February 1, 1959, allows us to confidently assert that the mysterious death of the members of the Dyatlov group was associated with airborne electric discharge explosions of fragments of a small comet.

All this deserves to be told about this case in more detail, and only on the basis of the materials of the investigation and documented facts.

The most complete information about this incident was collected and summarized by M.B. Gershtein in his book "Secrets of UFOs and Aliens" (M-SPb 2006, ed. "Owl"), although he, as well as other researchers, could not understand the reason for the death of the Dyatlov group.

In fairness, it should be said that numerous versions of the mysterious death of a group of tourists led by Igor Dyatlov in the mountains of the Northern Urals have been repeatedly published in the periodical press before. with many conflicting details. About this case, with the most fantastic additions, I was also told in the city of Serov, Sverdlovsk Region.

Unfortunately, all modern versions created by semi-literate researchers, for the most part, do not agree with the facts at all, and are mediocre fantasies of the authors who created them.

Let me remind you that as a result of the investigation, based on the revealed facts and numerous eyewitness accounts, prosecutor Ivanov came to an unequivocal and completely fair conclusion about the involvement of mysterious luminous fireballs in the death of students.

But, failing to understand the true nature of these mysterious space objects, prosecutor Ivanov, who was in charge of this criminal case, thought they were mysterious UFOs. This point of view, which the investigator Ivanov reported to the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional party committee, and which he defended with sincere conviction many years after the tragedy, gave the death of students a mystical coloring. As a result of this circumstance, the criminal case was ordered to be closed, all the testimonies of witnesses about the "glowing balls" were withdrawn from the case, and the case itself was classified as "secret" and archived. All this was immediately implemented, but later, this decision caused a lot of questions and comments from modern researchers, who considered that they still "Fool in full."

Meanwhile, in this extraordinary story there is nothing mysterious and mysterious at all, because the “glowing balls” that caused the death of the Dyatlov group were not mystical UFOs, but a chain of fragments of a small comet that invaded the Earth’s atmosphere in February - March 1959.

And now let's restore the facts and the chronology of events morning February 2 1959, the tragic date of the death of the Dyatlov group, and for this we use all the information available to us. And in the course of the story, we will accompany the story of the events that took place with our own small commentary.

Start of the hike.

This organized group of tourists included ten young people: the head of the group Igor Dyatlov, 23 years old, the youngest member of the group Lyudmila Dubinina, 20 years old, Alexander Kolevatov, Zinaida Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, Yuri Krivonischenko, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles, Yuri Doroshenko, as well as the oldest member of the tourist group Alexander Zolotarev - 37 years old, and Yuri Yudin , the only surviving member of this group.

The purpose of the journey of the Dyatlov group was to climb the mountain Otorten(lit. with Mansi - "do not go there" ), located at the intersection of the northern edge of the Sverdlovsk region with the borders of the Komi Republic and the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug.

And the death of students occurred at the foot of the mountain Holotsakhl, (Kholat Syahyl)(lit. "mountain of the dead" ). According to the Vogul legend, the name of the mountain was given long before the death of the Dyatlov group, because of the Mansi group that died here, which also included 9 people.

The Dyatlov group left by train from Sverdlovsk to Serov, from there to Ivdel, then to Vizhay, from which the group reached the 2nd Northern settlement on foot. In this village, due to an attack of sciatica, Yuri Yudin lagged behind the group, and this, in the end, saved his life. However, he was not a participant in the tragic events and therefore could not help solve the mystery of the death of the rest of the guys from the Dyatlov group.

The last entry in the diary of the tourist group, made by Dyatlov on January 31: “We are developing new methods of more productive walking. ... We are gradually separating from Auspiya, the ascent is continuous, but rather smooth. And now the spruces ran out, we went to the border of the forest. West wind, warm, piercing... Nast, bare places. You don’t even have to think about the device of the storehouse. About 4 hours. You have to choose accommodation. We descend to the south - to the valley of Auspiya. This is apparently the snowiest place. The wind is light, the snow is 1.2 - 2 meters thick. Tired, exhausted, they set about arranging an overnight stay. Firewood is scarce. Weak, raw spruce. The fire was lit on logs, reluctance to dig a hole. We dine right in the tent. Warm. It is hard to imagine such comfort somewhere on a ridge, with a piercing howl of the wind, a hundred kilometers from settlements.

We can draw a preliminary conclusion, and highlight the most important information for us, based on this record. The Dyatlov group is literate. This is evidenced by the fact that the members of the Dyatlov group, as experienced taiga people, in deep snow conditions, made a fire on logs. (Otherwise, having flared up, it will simply drown in deep snow and go out.) Already at 4 o'clock, without waiting for the end of daylight hours, the Dyatlov group began to choose a place to spend the night. This also testifies to the maturity of the group leader Igor Dyatlov. Note the maximum thickness of snow in the forest is 1.2 - 2 meters, and on the slope of the mountain - crust. The next day, February 1, 1959, the group built a storehouse, and, leaving some of their things and food in it, went light to Mount Otorten.

Last night.

On their last night, the Dyatlov group settled down approximately three hundred meters from the top of Mount Holat Syahyl, digging a hole and pitching a tent on an open mountain slope. Here is what the decision to dismiss the criminal case says about this: “In one of the cameras, a photo frame (taken last) was preserved, which shows the moment of excavation of snow to set up a tent . Considering that this shot was taken with a shutter speed of 1/25 second at aperture 5.6, with a film sensitivity of 65 units. GOST, and also taking into account the density of the frame, we can assume that the installation of the tent has begun around 5 p.m. on February 1, 1959. A similar picture was taken with another camera. After that time, not a single record and not a single photograph was found.”

We can specify the time of setting up the tent. Given that people's behavior always standard, and there was no reason to break the usual daily routine, the group, like the day before started setting up the tent about 16 hours evenings.

Setting up a tent.

The tent was set up soundly and was believed to be in an absolutely safe place. A little later, the search engine S. Sorgin will confirm - the tent was set up according to all the rules of mountaineering art: “On March 4, I, Axelrod, Korolev and three Muscovites went up to the place where Dyatlov’s tent was. All of us here came to a unanimous opinion, the tent was set up in accordance with all tourist and mountaineering rules. The slope on which the tent stood does not pose any danger ... ". And here is the testimony of Evgeny Polikarpovich Maslennikov, one of the leaders of the search: The tent was stretched out on skis and poles crammed into the snow , its entrance was facing the south side, and on this side the stretch marks were intact, and the stretch marks on the north side (from the side of the mountain) ripped off therefore, the entire second half of the tent was littered with snow. There was little snow, what is poured by snowstorms during the February period.

Why did the stretch marks of the tent break?

I emphasize streamers torn from the side of the mountain. And we note one inaccuracy. Throughout February, according to weather reports, snow and blizzards were not observed. And looking ahead, we will immediately reveal the secret. The stretching of the tent was torn off by an explosive wave of a fragment of a comet that exploded over the mountain, as a result of which a little snow blew into the torn tent. Here is the weather report for the Ivdel region on the day of the death of the group: “Precipitation was less than 0.5 mm. Wind north-northwest, 1-3 meters per second. Snowstorms, hurricanes, snowstorms were not observed. That is, a weak wind, the maximum speed of which was less than 11 kilometers per hour, could not damage the stretching of the tent, which, moreover, was in a conscientiously dug snow hole, and had practically no windage. But some kind, and, moreover, a considerable force, nevertheless tore the stretch marks of the tent. Anyone who has seen such tents knows that the hemp stretching ropes on them, in terms of strength, can replace the tow rope. passenger car. And the energy of the electric discharge cosmic explosion had to have considerable force, to cut off all the stretch marks at once.

The beginning of the search.

The search for the Dyatlov group began February 21, and the tent abandoned by tourists was found only on the fifth day of the search, February 26 1959. Here is what the head of one of the search groups, Boris Efimovich, a third-year student at the Ural Polytechnic Institute, writes about this: Among the search engines, our group was the youngest. ... I remember that we were the first to arrive in Ivdel. Then we were thrown by helicopter into the mountains, but not to Otorten, as planned, but south. We had a radio operator and a hunter with us. Local people, older than us. They assumed that nothing good was expected at the end of this epic. We young people were completely convinced that nothing terrible had happened. Well, someone broke his leg - they built a shelter, they sit, they wait. There were three of us that day: the local forester Ivan, me and Misha Sharavin. … We went from the pass obliquely to the north-west, until we saw ... The tent stands, the middle of it is failed, but it stands. Imagine the state of 19-year-old boys. It's scary to look into the tent. And yet we begin to stir with a stick - a lot of snow has accumulated into the tent through the open entrance and the cut. There was a windbreaker at the entrance to the tent. As it turned out, Dyatlovskaya. There is a metal box in his pocket ... There is money, tickets in it. We were pumped up: Ivdellag, bandits all around. And the money is in place. So it's not so scary anymore. They dug a deep trench in the snow near the tent, but found no one there. Terribly happy. We took a few items with us so that we wouldn’t get hit by the guys for “fantasies” ... We reported the discovery by radio. We were told that all groups would be transferred here…”

As a comment, it should be said that concentration camps for prisoners of the famous Ivdellag were densely located in these places. Therefore, before the discovery of the missing group, it was assumed that the Dyatlov group could become a victim of fleeing prisoners.

Versions about the murder of students are false.

“The location and presence of items in the tent (almost all shoes, all outer clothing, personal items and diaries) indicated that the tent was left suddenly and at the same time by all the tourists, and, as established in the subsequent forensic examination, lee side of the tent, where the tourists had their heads, turned out to be cut from the inside in two places, in areas that ensure the free exit of a person through these cuts.

Below the tent throughout up to 500 meters traces of people walking from the tent to the valley and into the forest were preserved in the snow ... Examination of the traces showed that some of them were left with an almost bare foot (for example, in one cotton sock), others had a typical display of felt boots, feet shod in a soft sock, and so on. The paths of the tracks were located close to one another, converged and again diverged not far from one another. Closer to the border of the forest, the tracks ... turned out to be covered with snow. Neither in the tent nor near it were found signs of a struggle or the presence of other people.

And this extract from the criminal case is absolute documentary evidence that the Dyatlov group left the tent almost instantly, due to some real threat to life. But Pay special attention to the fact that ".. Neither in the tent nor near it were found signs of a struggle or the presence of other people. That is, all versions about the murder of students by outsiders are false.. And the authors of all the criminal versions just sucked them out of their fingers. After all, none of these authors relied on facts, but colorfully, with breathtaking details, expounded only their own fantasies.

The location of the bodies of the dead and a description of the injuries.

Later, the rescuers who were walking down to the northeast traces, found the bodies of the dead. IN 850 meters from the tent they found the body of Kolmogorova, sprinkled with ten centimeters layer of snow, Slobodin's body lay behind 1000 meters, Dyatlova for 1180 meters, and in 1.5 km from the tent, they found the bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko stripped to their underwear, which were lying slightly powdered with snow by the fire, bred under the cedar. Witnesses noticed a small puddle of blood near Kolmogorova's head, which was running down her throat.

The rest of the bodies were discovered much later, in a hollow near a stream. All the bodies of the dead students were practically on the same straight line, and this is very important for our reconstruction of the events that took place. And according to the position of the bodies of Slobodin, Dyatlov and Kolmogorova, it could be assumed that they died trying to return to the tent. Later, an autopsy will show Slobodin has a six-centimeter crack in the skull, 0.1 cm wide. Dyatlov lay on his back, head towards the tent, grabbing a birch trunk with his hand.

The remaining four: Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolles and Kolevatov were found after the hardest persistent search, May 4 only. They lay 75 meters from the fire, by the stream, perpendicular to the path from the tent, under 4.5 meters of snow.

From the materials of the criminal case: “A forensic medical examination established that Dyatlov, Doroshenko, Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova died from the effects of low temperature (frozen), none of them had any injuries, apart from minor scratches and abrasions. Slobodin had a skull fracture, 6 cm long, which spread to 0.1 cm, but Slobodin died of hypothermia.

May 4th 1959, 75 meters from the fire, towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the river. Lozva, that is, perpendicular to the path of movement of tourists from the tent, under a layer of snow of 4 - 4.5 meters, the bodies of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolles and Kolevatov were found. Krivonischenko and Doroshenko's clothes - trousers, sweaters - were found on the corpses, as well as a few meters from them. All clothes have traces of even cuts, as they were already removed from the corpses of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko. The dead Thibault-Brignolles and Zolotarev were found well-dressed, Dubinina was worse dressed - her faux fur jacket and cap ended up on Zolotarev, Dubinina's unbowed leg was wrapped in Krivonischenko's woolen trousers. Krivonischenko's knife was found near the corpses, with which young firs were cut near the fires.

Two watches were found on Thibaut's hand - one of them shows 8 hours 14 minutes, the second - 8 hours 39 minutes. A forensic autopsy established that Kolevatov's death was caused by low temperature (frost). Kolevatov has no injuries. Dubinina has a symmetrical rib fracture: 2,3,4,5 on the right and 2,3,4,5,6,7 on the left. In addition, extensive hemorrhage in the heart. Thibaut-Brignoles has an extensive hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle, corresponding to him - a depressed fracture of the skull bones measuring 3-7 cm ... Zolotarev has a fracture of the ribs on the right 2,3,4,5 and 6 ..., which led to his death.

The strange color of the skin of the dead.

All search engines and forensic experts note strange skin color dead members of the Dyatlov group. Here is what the search engine Boris Slobtsov said about this: “When we climbed through the pass to the others, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko had already been found. We now confidently call names. And then Yura Doroshenko was mistaken for Zolotarev. I knew Yura, but I didn't recognize him here. Even his mother didn't recognize him. And they also wondered about the fifth corpse - is it Slobodin or Kolevatov. They were completely unrecognizable.,skin of some strange color ... "

Search engine Ivan Pashin told his nephew, V.V. Plotnikov that the color of the exposed areas of the head and hands of the dead was orange red. But at that time, few people paid attention to this, believing that this was the result of a monthly exposure to the sun and snow. In the documents of the forensic medical examination, the color of the skin of the dead is recorded as reddish purple.

As another commentary, it should be said that the changed color of the open skin areas, members of the Dyatlov group, unequivocally testified to a burn with light-thermal radiation from an electric discharge explosion of a meteorite and the investigators were obliged to pay attention to it. However, the strange skin color of the students was thought to be the result of too long a search, and during this time the corpses were allegedly exposed to prolonged exposure to sun and frost. In addition, autopsies were performed on thawed bodies than was possible at the time and explained the strange discoloration of the skin.

The students left the tent without any injuries.

And here is how prosecutor Lev Nikitovich Ivanov covers the events: “As a forensic prosecutor, I had to be involved in the investigation or lead the investigation in the most difficult cases. … So I ended up in the impenetrable Ural taiga in a canvas tent ... Inspection of the tent showed that the outer clothing of tourists was preserved intact in it - jackets, trousers, backpacks with all their contents. It is known that tourists even in winter, settling down for the night in a tent, take off their outer clothing ..... . From the tent from the mountain to the valley there were sometimes 8, sometimes 9 paths of tracks. In conditions of mountains with supercooled snow, the tracks are not swept up, but on the contrary, they look like columns, since the snow under the tracks is compacted and blown around the track.

Let's break the quote for another comment. I would like to draw the reader's attention to the fact that L.N. Ivanov directly writes that "... There was not a single drop of blood in the tent and near it, which indicated that all tourists left the tent without injuries... .»

That is, the authors of the versions, who claim that the students were injured in the tent as a result of an avalanche or a murder, did not read the materials of the criminal case well, and in their versions they state their own fantasies. In addition, L.N. Ivanov considered it necessary to point out that « The presence of nine paths of footprints confirmed that all the tourists walked on their own, no one was carrying anyone. However, there are a lot of authors on the Internet who continue, contrary to the facts, to claim that one of the students was carrying the victim. And this lie still continues to be actively replicated in numerous forums.

Autopsy results: fatal injuries received from exposure to an air blast wave.

But let’s continue Ivanov’s quote: “ And then there was a mystery. 1.5 km from the tent, in the river valley, near the old cedar, after escaping from the tent, the tourists lit a fire and began to die here, one by one ... When investigating cases, there are no minor details - investigators have a motto: attention to detail! Near the tent, a natural trace was found that one man went out for small needs. He went out barefoot, wearing only woolen socks (“for a moment”). Then this trace of unshod feet is traced down into the valley. There was every reason to build a version that it was this person who gave the alarm, and he didn't have time to put on his shoes.

So, there was some kind of terrible force that frightened not only him, but also all the others, forcing them to leave the tent in an emergency and seek shelter below, in the taiga. Finding this force, or at least approaching it, was the task of the investigation. February 26, 1959 below, at the edge of the taiga, we found the remains of a small fire and here we found the bodies of the tourists Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, stripped to their underwear. Then a body was found in the direction of the tent Igor Dyatlov, not far from him two more - Slobodin and Kolmogorova. Without detailing, I will say that the last three were the most strong and strong-willed personalities, they crawled from the fire to the tent for clothes - this is quite obvious from their postures. Subsequent autopsy showed that these three courageous people died from hypothermia - they froze, although they were better dressed than others. Already in May, near the fire, under five meters of snow we found dead Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolles and Kolevatov. Externally, there are no injuries on their bodies. The sensation came when, in the conditions of the Sverdlovsk morgue, we performed an autopsy of these corpses. Dubinina, Thibaut-Brignolles and Zolotarev had extensive, completely incompatible with life bodily internal injuries. Luda Dubinina, for example, has 2,3,4,5 broken ribs on the right and 2,3,4,5,6,7 on the left. One piece of a rib even penetrated the heart. Zolotarev has 2,3,4,5,6 broken ribs. Note that this is without visible bodily harm.

Such damage, as I have described, usually occurs when a large directed force acts on a person, for example, a car at high speed. But such damage cannot be received from falling from a height of one's own height. In the vicinity of the mountain ... there were boulders and stones of various configurations covered with snow, but they were not in the way of tourists (remember the footprints), and, of course, no one threw these stones ... There are no external bruises. Therefore, there was a directional force that selectively acted on individuals ... "

Let's pause for another explanation.

Here is the response of the forensic expert Dr. Vozrozhdenny to the investigator's request about the cause of the injuries: “I believe that the nature of the injuries in Dubinina and Zolotarev is a multiple fracture of the ribs: in Dubinina it is bilateral and symmetrical, in Zolotarev it is unilateral, as well as hemorrhage into the heart muscle in both Dubinina and Zolotarev with hemorrhage into the pleural cavities indicate their survival and are the result of a great force, approximately the same as that which was applied to Thibault. These injuries ... are very similar to the injury caused by an air blast wave..

Indeed, the nature of the injuries of all members of the Dyatlov group suggests that these injuries were obtained from exposure extremely powerful air blast wave. And here is what is typical. At the moment of exposure to force, which caused death and injury, all the dead members of the Dyatlov group were not only in different places, but also at a fairly significant distance from each other. That is, it really was the impact of a powerful blast wave.

On the selectivity of the thermal effect of a cosmic explosion.

We continue the quotation of L.N. Ivanova: “When already in May E.P. Maslennikov examined the scene, they found that some young fir trees on the border of the forest have a burnt mark, but these traces were not concentric or otherwise systemic. There is no epicenter. This once again confirmed the directionality of a kind of thermal ray or a strong, but completely unknown, in any case, to us, energy acting selectively, - the snow was not melted, the trees were not damaged.

Let's break the quote again for one more little comment.

A radiant explosion and the selectivity of its action is a characteristic feature of electric-discharge cosmic explosions. This phenomenon has not been observed in any other explosions.

I repeat, the selectivity of a powerful light effect is a typical and natural characteristic of the propagation of thermal energy only for a cosmic electric discharge explosion.

This was not understood not only by the investigation team that studied the consequences of a cosmic explosion in the vicinity of Mount Kholat Syakhyl, but also by numerous researchers who also drew attention to a similar mysterious phenomenon of the electric discharge explosion of the Tunguska meteorite.

Here is a short quote from Radika Mann's book "The Punishment of Heaven, or the Truth About Tunguska disaster": "Another incomprehensible feature of the effects of radiation ( Tunguska explosion ) on the vegetation the selectivity of this effect. Trees almost unaffected by the heat could be located almost next to badly burned ones. And such an incomprehensible alternation was observed over the entire area of ​​the burn. Researchers could not understand the regularity of this phenomenon and despaired. How should a flash shine if one tree is burned, and the rest nearby are not touched?

This question is answered in detail in my article on Tunguska disaster, but for now let's try to determine the power of the explosion that killed the students of the Dyatlov group.

Estimated power of space electric discharge explosion.

As you know, air atomic explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the power of which was 12 and 20 kilotons of TNT, ignited wood from a distance of up to 1.5 kilometers and charred her at a distance of 3 kilometers. And it can be assumed that power air electric discharge space explosion in the area of ​​Mount Kholat Syahyl, was comparable to a small nuclear explosion.

It must be said that academic scientists try to determine the power of cosmic electric discharge explosions in different ways, which is why their estimates of the power of such explosions differ by thousands of times (!!!). Some scientists estimate the power of a cosmic explosion by the volume of the funnel left at the site of the explosion (the volume of the funnel is considered approximately equal to the amount of explosive in TNT equivalent). Others estimate the power of an air blast by the amount of damage that remains around the epicenter of the explosion. Therefore, the power of the Tunguska explosion, some academic scientists have determined only ten kilotons of TNT, while others, focusing on the area of ​​forest fall at the site of the Tunguska disaster, estimate the power of the Tunguska explosion at hundreds of megatons of TNT.

The distance from the epicenter of the cosmic explosion to the tent.

It should also be recalled that the amount of light radiation is directly proportional power explosion And back proportional square distances to the epicenter explosion. There are no traces of thermal exposure on the tent, but all students received burns - sunburn of exposed skin. According to the Ivdel prosecutor Tempalova, flying around the area of ​​the death of students in a helicopter, he saw numerous craters on the back slope of Mount Kholat Syahyl, that is relatively close to the tent.

Why were the materials of the investigation classified?

And now we will again give the floor to the prosecutor L.N. Ivanov, who quite clearly explains by whom and why the criminal case was classified: “It seemed that when the tourists on their feet passed 500 meters down the mountain then someone dealt with some of them in a directed way ... When, together with the regional prosecutor, I reported the initial data to the first secretary of the regional party committee, L.P. Kirilenko, he gave a clear command - to classify all work, and not a single word of information should leak out. Kirilenko ordered to bury the tourists in closed coffins and tell their relatives that the tourists died from hypothermia... When the investigation was underway, a tiny note appeared in the Tagil Rabochiy newspaper: "... This luminous object moved silently towards the northern peaks of the Ural Mountains." The author of the note asked what it could be? For the publication of such a note, the editor of the newspaper was fined, and in the regional committee they suggested that I not develop this topic. A.F. Eshtokin, the second secretary of the regional party committee, took over the leadership of the investigation in my case. At that time, we still knew very little about unidentified flying objects, we did not know about radiation either. The ban on these topics was caused by the possibility of even accidentally deciphering information about rocket and nuclear technology, the development of which at that time was really just beginning, and there was a period in the world that was called the period of the Cold War.

The investigation ruled out all versions of the death of the Dyatlov group, except for fireballs.

We continue to quote the revelations of L.N. Ivanova: " And the investigation must be carried out, I'm a professional forensic specialist and must find a clue. I nevertheless decided, despite the ban, with the preservation the highest degree secrecy to work on this topic, since other versions, including the attack of people, animals, falling during a hurricane, etc., were excluded by the materials obtained. It was clear to me who died and in what sequence - all this was given by a thorough examination of the corpses, their clothes and other data. Only the sky and its filling remained - an energy unknown to us, which turned out to be higher than human strength.

From the foregoing, it clearly follows that the investigation, having consistently considered all the versions, rejected them and came to the unequivocal conclusion that “fireballs” were to blame for the deaths of students.

To our deep regret, the conclusion suggests itself that modern researchers either did not read the materials of the investigation, or deliberately lie. For, without burdening themselves with facts, they composed dozens of their own versions that contradicted the reasonable conclusions of the investigation, replacing them with their own fantasies.

Is a UFO to blame for the deaths of students?

L.N. Ivanov tried to sincerely understand the cause of the death of the students, and based on the materials of the investigation put forward his own hypothesis of the death of the students of the Dyatlov group: “ … As a prosecutor, who at that time already had to deal with some secret defense matters, I discarded the trial version atomic weapons in this zone. It was then that I began to closely engage in "fireballs". I interrogated many eyewitnesses of the flight, hovering and, simply speaking, visiting by unidentified flying objects of the Subpolar Urals. By the way, when aliens are necessarily associated with UFOs, that is, unidentified flying objects, I do not agree with this. UFOs must be deciphered as unidentified flying objects, and only in this way. Many data suggest that these may be bundles of energy that are not understood by modern people and are not explained by modern data of science and technology, affecting living and inanimate nature encountered on their way. Apparently, we met with one of them ... It was already a matter of technology - to find other people who, at night and in the evenings in January-February 1959, did not sleep on duty, but were on duty in the open. Now it's no secret to anyone that the Ivdel zone at that time was a continuous "archipelago" of camp points that formed Ivdellag, which was guarded around the clock. ... The study of the case is now completely convincing, and even then I adhered to the version of the death of student tourists from the impact of an unknown flying object. Based on the collected evidence, the role of UFOs in this tragedy was quite obvious ...

If I used to think that the ball exploded, releasing unknown to us, but radioactive energy, now I believe that the action of energy from the ball was electoral, it was directed at only three people. When I reported to A.F. Eshtokin about his findings - fireballs, radioactivity, he gave a completely categorical instruction: to classify absolutely everything, seal it up, hand it over to the special unit and forget about it. Is it necessary to say that all this was exactly done? … And one more time about fireballs. They were and are. It is only necessary not to hush up their appearance, but to deeply understand their nature. The vast majority of informants who met with them speak of the peaceful nature of their behavior, but as you can see, there are also tragic cases. Someone had to intimidate, or punish people, or show their strength, and they did this by killing three people. I know all the details of this incident and I can say that only those who were in these balls know more about these circumstances (!?). But were there "people" and whether they are always there - no one knows yet ... "

Unfortunately, these words indicate that prosecutor Ivanov did not quite correctly understand the essence of what happened and inadequately assessed the events that had taken place. On the whole, however, his reasoning was not far from the truth. At the same time, one should not forget that it was 1959, and L.N. Ivanov simply did not have enough knowledge to understand that what he took for a UFO, in fact, was "string of pearls" of a small comet.

Suspecting that fireballs were the cause of the tourists' deaths, investigators, including prosecutor L.N. Ivanov, for whom the exact time of the death of the Dyatlov group was important, were obliged to send a request to the archive of the seismic station of the city of Yekaterinburg, which in 1959 was located on the territory of the Sverdlovsk weather station, because an explosion of such power should have been recorded by seismographs. And in this case, with the help of seismograms, even then it was possible to absolutely accurately determine the time, and the power, and the location of the air explosion. (By the way, they should have done the same and specialists who investigated the explosion in Sasovo(see the article "The mystery of the explosion in Sasovo" on the site), which, using a seismogram from the nearest weather station, could reliably determine the power of the Sasovo explosion.

The reason for the death of the Dyatlov group was a comet.

Thus, the materials of the criminal case unequivocally testified that the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was the “fireballs” that L.N. Ivanov identified with UFOs. Modern scientific knowledge allow us to confidently assert that these were not UFOs, but fragments of a small comet. And all other versions of the death of students were excluded by investigators at the stage of investigation, as completely untenable. And the strained attempts of modern authors to give birth to something original are simply meaningless. And now we can absolutely reliably and scientifically tell about this extraordinary incident that occurred in the mountains of the Subpolar Urals.

Numerous witnesses observed fireballs in the sky of the subpolar Urals for approximately two months, and the flash of a cosmic explosion was seen in Serov on the morning of February 2, on the day of the death of the Dyatlov group.

Therefore, it is necessary to say a few words about the written testimonies of people who personally observed these fireballs.

Chapter 2

Investigator Karataev's version.

First, let's give the floor to Vladimir Ivanovich Karataev, a former investigator of the Ivdel prosecutor's office, who began an investigation into the death of the Dyatlov group: “I was one of the first at the crash site. Quite quickly identified about a dozen witnesses who said that on the day of the murder of students, a balloon flew by. Witnesses: Mansi Anyamov, Sanbindalov, Kurikov- not only described it, but also drew it (these drawings were later withdrawn from the file). All these materials were soon demanded by Moscow... I handed them over to the prosecutor Ivdel Tempalov, he took to Sverdlovsk. Then the first secretary of the city party committee, Prodanov, invites me to his place, and transparently hints: there is, they say, an offer - stop the case. Clearly, not his personal, nothing more than an instruction "from above" ... Literally a day or two later, I found out that Ivanov had taken it into his own hands, who quickly turned it off. … Of course, it's not his fault. They also put pressure on him. After all Everything was done in the utmost secrecy.. Some generals, colonels came and sternly warned us not to loosen our tongues in vain. Journalists were generally not allowed to take a cannon shot ...» Later, Karataev supplemented his testimony: “... I said so to the first secretary: there is a murder here! Because he himself dug up the corpses and laid out the insides of the guys in boxes. Two died under a cedar, three froze to death on a slope, and four more near a stream. They were killed by something that fell from the sky, I have no doubt. Apparently, there were two blast waves. One covered Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault. They died first. (???)"

But here again an explanation is needed.

In this case, a professional investigator Karataev incorrectly assesses the available information. Doroshenko and Krivonischenko were the first from the Dyatlov group to die. After all, warm clothes cut off from them were later found on Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatovo and Thibaut-Brignole, found under a 4.5-meter layer of snow.)

Let's continue the quote. “The second wave caught up with the rest . Apparently, she turned out to be weaker, or the guys, running away, were able to hide. At least they remained conscious."

And again a small comment.

WITH Investigator Karataev, as well as prosecutor Ivanov, was absolutely convinced that there were two blast waves. And it really was a cosmic tandem explosion. Explosions occurred at intervals of approximately half an hour. The first explosion caught the guys on the slope, 500 meters from the tent, when they were descending from the mountain. AND the victims of this blast wave were Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. Watch Krivonischenko stopped at 8 hours 14 minutes , And the second explosion, which killed the remaining seven members of the Dyatlov group, according to the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, occurred at 8 hours 41 minutes, after 27 minutes (plus or minus the error of Krivonischenko's clock).

So how did events develop at the cedar, according to Karataev?

Again, let's give the floor to Karataev himself : “The first thing they began to make a fire. They broke such thick branches of cedar that we, healthy peasants, could not even bend. Apparently, not only the instinct of self-preservation worked, but a deep emotional shock. The most dressed, went to the tent. But no one got there: may have been blinded by the flash. Zina Kolmogorova got closest to the camp. She was found 400 meters away. (??? This is an inaccuracy, because the materials of the investigation indicate at 850 meters). Below Igor Dyatlov and Rustem Slobodin ... I refused to write off the death of tourists for hypothermia. And that's exactly how reported to Khrushchev. I was removed for intractability, and after 20 days the case was closed. When I found it in the archive, there was no longer any forensic medical examination data, nor eyewitness accounts who repeatedly observed the appearance of strange, flying, luminous objects in the sky ... "

N.S. Khrushchev was indeed informed about the strange incident, and he was interested in the progress of the investigation. And this led to additional nervousness and secrecy in the investigation of this case.

However, information about an unknown celestial body that flew by February 1, 1959 preserved. Here is a radiogram from E.P. Maslennikov dated March 2, 1959: “... The main mystery of the tragedy remains the exit of the entire group from the tent. The only thing other than an ice ax found outside the tent, a Chinese lantern on its roof, confirms the possibility of one person going outside, which gave some reason for everyone else to hastily abandon the tent. The reason could be some extraordinary natural phenomenon, meteorological rocket flight (!?) seen on 1.02. in Ivdel, and saw a group of Karelin. We will continue our search tomorrow. …

However P no missiles were fired at the indicated time. Here is the answer from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the request of the search engine V. Lebedev, who knew all the guys from the Dyatlov group well: “In the period you are interested in (from January 25 to February 5, 1959), no ballistic missiles and space rockets were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ... We unequivocally affirm that the fall of a rocket or its fragments into the area indicated by you is impossible.

As you can see, the official answer is categorical: “… the fall of a rocket or its fragments into the specified area is impossible.”

And this should be known to supporters of the rocket version, who unsubstantiatedly claim that the rocket was the cause of the students' deaths. And depending on their own hallucinations, they declare this missile to be chemical, meteorological, ballistic, etc. , depending on the strength of your imagination.

Testimony of Rimma Kolevatova about the "fireball".

But unknown luminous objects were indeed observed on the day of the death of the Dyatlov group. Here is what Rimma Kolevatova, the sister of Alexander Kolevatov, told the investigation at a time when the four missing had not yet been found : “I had to bury each of the dead, found tourists. Why are they so brown dark shade hands and faces? How to explain the fact that four of those who were at the fire and remained, according to all assumptions, alive, made no attempt to return to the tent? If they were much warmer dressed (according to those things that are missing among those found in the tent), if this disaster , of course, having stayed by the fire, the guys would certainly crawl to the tent. The entire group could not have been killed by the blizzard.

Why did they run out of the tent in such a panic? A group of tourists from the Pedagogical Institute, the Faculty of Geography (according to them), which was on Mount Chistop (southeast), I saw some kind of fireball these days, in the first days of February, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bMount Otorten. The same fireballs were recorded later. What is their origin? Could they have caused the death of the guys? After all, experienced and hardy people gathered in the group. Dyatlov was in these places for the third time. Luda Dubinina herself led a group to the town of Chistop in the winter of 1958, many of the guys (Kolevatov, Dubinina, Doroshenko) were on campaigns in the Sayans. They could not die only from a raging storm"

Unfortunately, the investigation did not give an answer to these natural questions of Rimma Kolevatova.

Testimony of Luda Dubinina's father about the explosion.

An excerpt from the interrogation of Alexander Dubinin, the father of Luda Dubinina, is also curious: “I heard conversations of UPI students that the flight of undressed people from the tent was caused by an explosion and large radiation ... The statement of the head The administrative department of the regional committee of the CPSU comrade Yermash, made to the sister of the deceased comrade Kolevatova, that the rest not found now 4 people could live after the death of those found no more than 1.5 - 2 hours, makes you think that forced, sudden flight from the tent due to the explosion of a shell (?!) and radiation... "stuffing" which forced ... to run away from it further and, presumably, affected the life of people, in particular, vision".

That is the investigation was reliably aware of two outbreaks and explosions that killed the Dyatlov group.

In addition, the investigation knew for sure that the analyzes carried out on some of the clothing samples taken by the forensic expert Dr. showed excessive amounts of radioactive substances. And to the question of the investigator: Is it possible to consider that this clothing is contaminated with radioactive dust?”, expert replied: “Yes, the clothes are contaminated or radioactive dust has fallen from the atmosphere, or clothing has been contaminated by handling radioactive materials... this pollution exceeds ... the norm for persons working with radioactive substances.

Based on this, believing that the incident could somehow be accidentally connected with ballistic missile crash and, being afraid to accidentally light up top-secret information, as well as believing that this It is no coincidence that Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is interested in the case, the Sverdlovsk regional party committee decided to play it safe and destroy the materials of the investigation.

As a result, just in case, all evidence regarding "fireballs", a blinding flash and a mysterious radioactive contamination of the area were destroyed. Accordingly, the results of the forensic medical examination were also classified.

The verbose justification of prosecutor Ivanov about his unseemly role in the illegal destruction of investigation materials becomes clear. : “So that the current generation does not judge us very strictly for our work, I will say that even today about old cases, when eyewitnesses are still alive, they do not tell the whole truth. … Over 40 years of work in the prosecutor's office, and most of this time I was admitted to super-secret information, I still can not understand why it was necessary to lie to the people? I don't want to justify my actions on classifying events with fireballs and the death of a large group of people. I asked the correspondent to publish my apologies to the relatives of the victims for distorting the truth, hiding the truth from them, and since there was no space for this in four issues of the newspaper, I offer this publication to the families of the victims, especially Dubinina, Thibault-Brignolles, Zolotarev, my apologies. At one time, I tried to do everything I could, but at that time there was, as lawyers say, an “irresistible force” in the country, it became possible to defeat it only now. Unfortunately, this is a belated but honest confession of the prosecutor L.N. Ivanov about the situation in which the country and all of us lived at that time.

Testimony of M.A. Axelrod about fireballs.

The testimony of the search engine Moses Abramovich Axelrod about fireballs has also been preserved: « Many have watched unnatural glow some celestial objects in the Middle and Northern Urals early 1959. Bright balls flying in those days across the sky , seen, among others, famous tourists G. Karelin, R. Sedov. A pulsating circle moving horizontally, I myself saw ... ".

Thus, without fear of making a mistake, we can assert that at the beginning of February 1959, the Earth collided with a chain of fireballs, which were fragments of the nucleus of a small comet, torn apart by the forces of gravity of our planet.

(Later, after the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, astronomers who observed this phenomenon would call it a “string of pearls.”) This chain of “fireballs” burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere was observed by numerous eyewitnesses in February-March 1959. ( Detailed description This phenomenon, which occurs when comets collide with planets, is described by me in an article devoted to the Tunguska catastrophe. And the knowledge of the mechanism of cosmic catastrophes of comets allowed me to logically explain many other historical secrets of the past.)

In the drop zone two fragments comets that run out flashes of air electric discharge explosions, accidentally turned out to be a group of Dyatlov, unsuccessfully located for the night not far from the top mountains Holat Syakhil.

At the same time, it should also be recalled the place of an electric discharge explosion always has an increased radioactivity of the soil, about which I have repeatedly spoken in my previous works devoted to cosmic explosions.

Other evidence of fireballs in the sky over Otorten.

1st of February.

Several written documents have been preserved, with testimonies of witnesses who observed the flight of "fireballs" in the region of the Otorten and Kholat Syahyl mountains.

From the interrogation of witness Krivonischenko Alexei Konstaninovich (father of the deceased Yuri Krivonischenko) by the prosecutor of the investigative department of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region Romanov, it follows that at the memorial dinner, students, participants in the search for the missing group, told him that they had observed a strange glow in the sky on the first of February in the evening.

Here is the testimony of father Krivonischenko during interrogation: "After the burial of my son, I had students at dinner, participants in the search for nine students. And those that were south of Mount Otorten in January-February. Participants in two groups said that they observed 1st of February in the evening, a light phenomenon that struck (them) north of these groups. Extremely bright glow of some kind of rocket or projectile. The glow was constantly strong…, one of the groups, having already prepared for bed, left the tent and observed this phenomenon. After a while, they heard a sound effect like strong thunder from afar. ... Students said that they observed a similar phenomenon twice: the first and seventh of February 1959."

And here is an excerpt from the protocol of interrogation of Slobodin Vladimir Mikhailovich - the father of Rustem Slobodin: "From him(Chairman of the Ivdel City Council A. I. Delyagin) I first heard that around the time the group had a disaster some residents (local hunters) observed the appearance of a fireball in the sky. That the fireball was observed by other tourists- the students told me E.P. Maslennikov)

Testimony of investigator Ivanov: "... a similar ball was seen on the night of the death of the guys, that is from the first to the second of February students-tourists of the Faculty of Geology of the Pedagogical Institute."

According to the students, R.S. Kolevatova also spoke about the fact that a group of tourists from the Faculty of Geography saw a fireball in the area of ​​Mount Otorten in early February.

Mikhail Vladimirov reports that "that night" (?!) on Chistop they saw "strong light" So what "a flare would hardly have illuminated the area like that".

Fireballs were seen later.

February 17.

In a note by A. Kissel, Deputy. Head of communications Vysokogorsky mine "Unusual celestial phenomenon", dated February 18, 1959, in the newspaper "Tagil worker", it is written:

“At 6:55 local time yesterday in the east-southeast at an altitude of 20 degrees from the horizon, a luminous ball the size of the apparent diameter of the moon appeared. The ball was moving towards the northeast. About seven o'clock there was an outbreak near him., and the very bright core of the ball became visible. He himself began to glow more intensely, a luminous cloud appeared near him, rejected towards the south. The cloud spread over the entire eastern part of the sky. Shortly thereafter, a second outbreak occurred., she looked like a crescent of the moon. Gradually, the cloud increased, a luminous point remained in the center (the glow was variable in magnitude). The ball was advancing in an east-northeast direction. The highest altitude above the horizon - 30 degrees - was reached at about 7:05. Continuing to move, this unusual phenomenon weakened and blurred. Thinking that it was somehow connected with the satellite, they turned on the receiver, but there was no signal reception.

In the first half of April 1959, prosecutor Tempalov sought out and interrogated servicemen of the internal troops, who also observed the flight of "fireballs", at six forty in the morning February 17, 1959 described in the newspaper "Tagil worker". According to the soldiers on guard, the luminous object was clearly visible for eight to fifteen minutes. Surrounded by a cloud of fog, it had a variable brightness, and moved slowly at a very high altitude in a northerly direction, like the object that the searchers observed on March 31.

Here is the testimony of the technician - meteorologist Tokareva given on March 16, 1959 to the head of the Ivdel police department:

"February 17, 1959 6:50 a.m. local time, an unusual phenomenon appeared in the sky. Movement of a star with a tail. The tail looked like dense cirrus clouds. Then this star freed itself from its tail, became brighter than the stars and flew away. It began to gradually, as if to swell, a large ball was formed, shrouded in haze. Then a star lit up inside this ball, from which at first a crescent moon was formed, then a small ball was formed, not so bright. The big ball gradually began to fade, became like a blurry spot. At 7:05 a.m. he completely disappeared. The star was moving from south to northeast .

An excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of a serviceman Alexander Dmitrievich Savkin, conducted by the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel, junior justice adviser Tempalov.
The witness testified: "February 17 1959, at 6 hours 40 minutes in the morning ... a ball of bright white light appeared from the south side, which was periodically shrouded in white thick fog inside this cloud there was a brightly luminous dot the size of an asterisk.
Moving towards the northern direction, the ball was visible for 8-10 minutes.
The protocol of interrogation was filled in with his own hand on April 7, 1959 by Savkin
An excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of a serviceman of military unit 6602 "V" Malik Igor Nikolaevich, the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel, junior counselor of justice Tempalov.
The witness testified: “On February 17, at 6:40 am, while on duty, I noticed a moving ball of bright white color, which appeared south side. The ball was bright white, in a thick fog of white. The misty cloud grew thicker and lighter, and in the white cloud a bright white ball was shining, which moved north. The ball was visible for 10-15 minutes, after which the ball was not visible in the northern part.
The protocol of interrogation was filled in by hand. April 7, 1959 goal. Malik (signature)

An excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of the witness Skorykh Georgy Ivanovich, born in 1925, head of the Karaul section of the subsidiary farm of the Bumkombinat, living in the village. Guard of the Novo-Lyalinsky District of the Sverdlovsk Region by the Prosecutor of the Novo-Lyalinsky District, Junior Counselor of Justice Pershin.
" … approximately mid-February 1959 I was in my apartment in the village of Karaul, Novo-Lyalinsky District.
Around 6-7 o'clock in the morning, my wife went outside and immediately knocked on the window and called out to me through the window: “Look. A ball flies and turns. At this cry, I jumped out onto the porch and from the second floor of the house in which I live, from the porch, I saw how a large luminous ball was moving north, the alternation of red and green light was carried out periodically. The ball was removed very quickly, and I only watched it for a few seconds. Then he disappeared over the horizon.
I did not hear any noise from the flight of this balloon. and I believe that the ball flew from us at a very large distance.
This ball, I imagine walked along the Ural ridge from south to north, however, I cannot indicate the exact direction of the flight, it was the size of the Sun or the Moon. I can describe the picture of what I saw, ... this luminous ball was like a bright sun in a fog. The ball moved in a straight line far from us, but I noticed that the light of this ball was constantly changing in a certain alternation of red and green light, around which at the same time a white halo in the form of a ball was constantly preserved.

Hence, the impression was created that the moving ball, changing color, was in a white shell. All this happened instantly within a few seconds, and at what distance this ball was from us, I could not even orient myself, ... "Skorykh (Signed)

Testimony of George Atmanaki from the Karelin group:

"…February 17 Vladimir Shavkunov and I got up at 6:00 am to prepare breakfast for the group. Having lit the fire and having done everything necessary, they began to wait for the food to be ready. The sky was overcast, there were no clouds and clouds, but there was a slight haze, which usually dissipates with the sunrise. Sitting facing north and accidentally turning his head to the east, he saw that in the sky at a height of 30 ° a milky-white blurred spot of about 5-6 lunar diameters and consisting of a series of concentric circles. The shape resembled a halo around the moon in clear frosty weather. I made a remark to my partner that, they say, how the moon was painted. He thought and said that, firstly, there is no moon, and besides, it should be in the other direction. 1-2 minutes have passed since we noticed this phenomenon. I don’t know how long it lasted before and how it looked initially. At that moment, an asterisk flashed in the very center of this spot, which remained the same size for several seconds, and then began to increase sharply in size and move rapidly in a westerly direction. Within a few seconds it grew to the size of the moon, and then, tearing apart the smoke screen, or clouds, appeared as a huge fiery disk of milky color, 2-2.5 lunar diameters in size, surrounded by the same rings of pale color. Then, remaining the same size, the ball began to fade until it merged with the halo surrounding it, which in turn spread across the sky and went out. Dawn began. The clock was 6.57, the phenomenon lasted no more than a minute and a half and made a very unpleasant impression ... ". “... It seemed that some celestial body was falling in our direction. When it grew to enormous proportions, the thought flashed that another planet was coming into contact with the earth, that a collision would now follow.
“... I then had to talk a lot with eyewitnesses, and most describe ... that the light from it was so strong that people in the houses woke up ".

Karelin's testimonial:

« ... I jumped out of the sleeping bag and out of the tent without shoes in only woolen socks and, standing on the branches, I saw a large bright spot. It grew. A small star appeared in the center of it, which also began to increase. All this stain moved from northeast to southwest and fell to the ground. Then it disappeared behind a ridge and forest, leaving a bright streak in the sky. This phenomenon produced different impressions on different people: Atmanaki claimed that it seemed to him that now the earth would explode from a collision with some planet; This phenomenon seemed to Shavkunov “not so terrible”, it did not make a special impression on me, - the fall of a large meteorite and nothing more. The whole thing happened in a little over a minute." Fireballs were also seen on March 31st.

March 31.

Memories of Valya Yakimenko:
Camp... A vast clearing in the forest. Army platoon tent 6x6 m. There is a table in the middle of the tent. Near it is an iron stove. A pleasant warmth comes from it and spreads throughout the volume. Backpacks are strewn along the walls. Sleeping bags. Closer to the oven felt boots. Storm coats, quilted jackets, underwear and other wet clothes hang on a rope. And people are everywhere. All frozen, dirty, with red weather-beaten faces.
On the left - we, students of UPI. Right from the entrance, a group of 6 people in black sheepskin coats, black padded jackets. Many have pistols. They are from the group of state security troops. On the right are 9 people in white short fur coats and green quilted jackets. Brushed hair, young faces. These are the guys of military service of the railway troops. They are here instead of sappers. command the military lieutenants Potapov and Avenburg.
Here is one of the typical days: "...Today, like yesterday, and all the previous days, we worked on the slope. We lined up, pierced the snow with long two-meter rods to the stop every 40-50 cm. In some places, snow was knee-deep, in places waist-deep "We move slowly. And so - for several hours. Then we return to the camp". And here is the diary entry of the atypical day: "...Today the same work. Hard, tedious. Suddenly the probe does not go to the end, as always in this work, but only to the middle. And next to it, and does not go further, but pushes even further to the end.
Full impression - found the body. Feverishly we dig snow. I put the tool. Roam with hands. The snow falls back into the hole. The rest, huddled around, help widen the hole. Here they rested, raked. Ah, damn! Big log. Let's take a breath and move on."In the evening, radio operator Gosha Nevolin taps out in Morse code: "There is nothing new, we continue the search."
March 31. It was still dark early in the morning. Orderly Viktor Meshcheryakov came out of the tent and saw a luminous ball moving across the sky. Woke everyone up. For 20 minutes we watched the movement of the ball (or disk) until it disappeared behind the mountainside. We saw him in the southeast of the tent. He moved in a northerly direction.
This phenomenon shocked everyone. We were sure that the death of the Dyatlovites had something to do with him. A detailed telegram was sent to Ivdel.

Here is the telegram: “Prodanov, Vishnevsky, 03/31/59, 9.30 local time.
31.3.1959 at 04.00 in the southeast direction orderly Meshcheryakov noticed a large fiery ring, which moved towards us for 20 minutes, then disappearing behind a height of 880.
Before disappearing beyond the horizon from the center of the ring a star appeared, which gradually increased to the size of the moon, began to fall down, separating from the ring.
An unusual phenomenon was observed by the entire personnel, alerted.
Please explain this phenomenon and its safety, as in our conditions it produces an alarming impression.
(lieutenants) Avenburg Potapov Sogrin"

Certificate of a full member of the Geographical Society of the USSR O. Strauch:
"03/31/59. At 04:10, the following phenomenon was observed: from the southwest to the northeast, a spherical luminous body passed quite quickly over the village. A luminous disk, almost the size of a full moon, of a bluish-white color was surrounded by a large bluish halo. At times this halo flared brightly, resembling flashes of distant lightning.When the body disappeared beyond the horizon , the sky in this place was illuminated with light for several more minutes".

Reconstruction of tragic events.

The investigation, focusing on the exposure of the last pictures in the cameras of the Dyatlov group, determined that at about 17:00 on February 1, 1959, the Dyatlov group began to dig a snow hole under the tent. Given the lack of entrenching tools, the pit was dug for a long time, and it can be assumed that, together with the installation of a rather large tent for ten people, it took 1.5 - 2 hours. (The exact time is not yet of any fundamental importance and serves only to indicate the chronological sequence of events.)

With the onset of darkness, everyone slowly began to settle in the tent, taking off their outer clothing and shoes. Evening and night passed quietly. The tragedy occurred on the morning of February 2, after the group woke up and prepared for breakfast.

And the further events of February 2, 1959, up to the moment of the death of students, we can reproduce almost every minute.

Space explosion.

A fireball appeared in the sky above Mount Holat Syakhil at about half past eight in the morning on February 2, 1959. At that time, there was only one person from the group on the street, who came out "for a minute" from the tent in woolen socks and with flashlight, (according to the investigation, presumably, Thibaut-Brignolles), because it was dark in the tent, which had no windows. He probably managed to see how a fireball was rapidly approaching the top of the mountain from the southwest, the flight of which ended in a bright flash.

Powerful the blast wave covered the mountain, and, raising clouds of snow dust, rushed down. Instantly assessing the situation, he shouted a terrible word for any climber: "Avalanche!!!". But here I must make a very important remark. On the side of the mountain loose there was no snow, there was. And the fine snow dust raised by the explosion, swirling and spreading in a continuous veil from the place of the explosion, only created the illusion of an avalanche. In reality, these were only clouds of snow dust raised by the blast wave. And therefore, none of the search engines and investigators found traces of an avalanche on the slope.

There was no panic.

But there was no particular confusion and panic. Because almost instantly, the side of the tent was ripped open with knives in two places at once to the full height, and everyone quickly jumped out. Everyone instinctively looked in the direction from which came this blinding light, burning the skin and blinding the eyes, the brightness of which far exceeded the brightness of the sun. In principle, a few moments would be enough for one of them to get a retinal burn. But in any case, they still had a margin of time, because in order for retinal edema to develop, and complete or partial blindness to occur, it usually takes at least 30-40 minutes. (Similar phenomena are observed when working with electric welding without protective glasses).

The cut tent testifies to the ability of students to make the right decision in extreme situation.

About the cause of skin burns.

According to Alexander Nevsky's theory of an electric discharge explosion, at the moment of formation of a column of an electric discharge explosion powerful ultraviolet, infrared, x-ray and neutron radiation. Therefore, on open areas of the skin of the face, neck and hands of the children from the Dyatlov group, an "sunburn-tanning", which so puzzled numerous researchers, and heated clothes burned the body.

To illustrate what has been said, we again cannot do without an explanation based on yet another analogy with the Tunguska explosion. Here is the testimony of a resident of the Vanavara trading post, located 65 kilometers from the epicenter of the Tunguska explosion P.P. Kosolapov, which he told in 1963: “In June 1908, at 8 o’clock in the morning, I was going to hay, and I needed a nail. I went out into the yard and began to pull the nail out of the window casing with tongs, suddenly something severely burned ears.

Grabbing them and thinking that the roof was on fire, I raised my head and immediately ran to the hut. It is useful to cite one more eyewitness account. E.L. Krinov in the book "Messengers of the Universe", published in 1963, cites the testimony of a resident of the Vanavara trading post, S.B. Semenov, who suffered from the Tunguska explosion, located 65 kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion: “I don’t remember the exact time, but it was summer, during the plowing of fallows, at breakfast, I was sitting on the porch of the house, facing north ... a fire appeared that covered the entire northern part of the sky. I felt as hot as if my shirt was on fire. I wanted to break it and throw it off me, but at that moment the sky slammed shut, and a strong blow was heard. I was thrown from the porch three fathoms. (That is, approximately six and a half meters!)

Let's make the necessary comparison.

In the case of the Dyatlov group, the electric discharge explosion was, of course, much less powerful than the similar Tunguska one. But the tent of the Dyatlov group turned out to be very close to the epicenter of the explosion, as a result of which people were subjected to a stronger effect of the cosmic explosion, as evidenced by burns to the face, neck and hands, as well as severe injuries received from the impact of the blast wave by members of the Dyatlov group. Fleeing from the rising cloud of snow dust of the blast wave, which the guys mistook for an avalanche, the whole group of Dyatlov rushed down the slope to the seemingly saving forest, while a blinding light hit them in the back. Footprints in the snow showed the direction to the northeast therefore, the flash of the electric discharge explosion was southwest of the tent. And a little later, about 500 meters from the tent, blast wave caught up and knocked over the fleeing group of Dyatlov to the ground.

Losses and injuries from the first blast wave.

Doroshenko and Krivonischenko died from the impact of this blast wave (the autopsy did not establish the exact cause of their death). It is possible that Rustem Slobodin also received a six-centimeter crack in the skull from the same blast wave. The rest escaped with scratches and abrasions.

The stopped watch of Yuri Krivonischenko recorded the time of his fall and death: 8 hours 14 minutes. The survivors did not yet know that they all have to live about half an hour. Having risen after the fall, they continued to move towards the forest, reaching which, some began to make a fire and prepare firewood, while others carried the dead Doroshenko and Krivonischenko to the fire. Here they cut off their clothes, sweaters and trousers, which were divided among themselves by Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibaut-Brignolles, in order to put them on themselves, to try to keep the remnants of their body heat. Then Thibaut-Brignoles took and stopped clock Yuri Krivonischenko to give them to the relatives of the deceased.

The members of the Dyatlov group were well aware that in conditions of severe frost and wind they had an extremely limited time for salvation. They were half-dressed, and in order to escape, they urgently needed to bring clothes, equipment and food from the tent. After all, according to the weather report, on that day the temperature was 25-28 degrees below zero. At this temperature, a poorly dressed person is doomed freezing within 1.5-2 hours or even earlier.

Harvest spruce branches, make flooring out of it, dig a snow hole and keep the fire going remained Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles.

Leaving for the spruce branch, the guys filled the fire with firewood, which, as the search engines will later testify, continued burn from one to two hours. Physically stronger ones went to the tent, Zinaida Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, and Igor Dyatlov. Kolmogorova was the first to go to the tent from the fire lit under the cedar, followed by Slobodin a couple of minutes later, and a minute later, after giving the last orders to the remaining ones, Igor Dyatlov.

Second explosion.

And after a while, close to Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolle, there was an electric discharge explosion of another fragment of the comet's nucleus, which killed everyone. It was the so-called tandem explosion, a phenomenon absolutely typical for cosmic catastrophes of comets.

This time, the blast wave, dragging an avalanche of snow with it, literally threw the stream into the rocky, tree-covered valley, which had moved away from the fire behind the spruce branches, and were on edge of a cliff Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles, whose stopped clock recorded for us the time of the death of the entire group: 8 hours 39 minutes. Let me remind you that the astronomical time of the explosion according to the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station is 8 hours 41 minutes. (A slight discrepancy in time is due to the error of the Krivonischenko clock)

At the same time, three of them, during a random fall, hit the trees or stones that were at the bottom of the ravine, after which the entire ravine was covered with a four-five-meter layer of snow.

And Kolmogorov, Slobodin and Dyatlov, lightly dressed and located farther from the epicenter of the explosion, were literally frozen by the second explosive wave of the meteorite, which clogged the lungs and pierced through with icy cold, after passing through which the guys did not find the strength to rise. Let me remind you that the air temperature that day dropped to minus twenty-eight degrees, and the gale-force icy cosmic wind of the blast wave deprived them of their last chance to survive. An hour and a half after the death of the guys from the Dyatlov group, the fire went out.

The fire was the last to go out.

During the investigation, the father of Yuri Krivonischenko, according to the search engines, said: “The guys claim that the fire near the cedar went out not from a lack of fuel, but from the fact that the people who were at the fire did not see what to do, or were blinded. According to the students, there was a dry tree a few meters from the fire, and under it deadwood, which was not used. In the presence of a fire, not using ready-made fuel - it seems to me more than strange ... "

The stored fuel really remained intact. But there was no one to put it on. By this time, the entire Dyatlov group had died. The fire was the last to go out. Investigators noted the presence of traces of burns on single-standing trees. In order for tree trunks to receive thermal burns, the short-term effect of temperature on their surface had to be about 500 degrees. And the temperature of the electric discharge explosion column is at least 1500-2000 degrees. Even if some of the members of the Dyatlov group received light burns of their eyes from the bright flash of the explosion, then blindness did not have time to develop. For until the last minute, all the actions of the members of the Dyatlov group were meaningfully sighted and logical. Only death in youth is always absurd and illogical.

About broken cedar branches.

Not knowing about the electric discharge explosion that killed the guys, the search engines and investigators misinterpreted the most well-known facts.

Here, for example, is what the search engine G. Atamanka writes about the cause of broken thick branches on a cedar: « The side of the cedar facing the slope on which the tent was was cleared of branches at a height of 4-5 meters. But these raw branches were not used and partly rolled on the ground, partly hung on the lower branches of the cedar.

As a comment, it should be noted that the thick branches of cedar, which, according to investigator Karataev, “It was not even under the power to bend healthy men,” broke the air blast wave, from which all the guys died, and therefore there was no one to use them(i.e. put in a fire).

But, not knowing about it, Atamanka's search engine interprets this fact differently: “It looked like people made something like a window so that they could see from a height the direction from which they came and where their tent was.

Later version of G. Atamanka. “About a window for observation” was picked up by all the authors of inadequate criminal versions.

However, G. Atamanka’s further reasoning is already more logical: “ The volume of work done near the cedar, as well as the presence of many things that obviously could not belong to the two comrades found, indicate that most, if not the entire group, gathered around the fire, who, having made a fire, left some of the people with him. Some decided to go back to find a tent and bring warm clothes and equipment., and the remaining comrades were engaged in the manufacture of something like a hole, where the prepared spruce branches were used to wait out the bad weather and wait for the dawn... (?!)"

Here G. Atamanki made another mistake, which was repeated by absolutely all researchers of the death of the Dyatlov group, because, the death of the students did not occur at night, but at 8:41 am on February 2, during daylight hours.

The situation with the death of the Dyatlov group was completely clear to me, and having posted the article on the Internet, I did not plan to return to this topic anymore. For it was an ordinary article, one of many on my site, devoted to extraordinary cosmic electric discharge explosions. However, quite unexpectedly, the article aroused great interest among the general reader and came out on top in the Yandex search engine. The readers had many questions, and they insisted for more detailed coverage of the topic. The result of a deeper immersion in the topic was the writing by me of several new articles devoted to individual episodes of this criminal case.

Chapter 3

Therefore, this, and all subsequent articles, are a logical addition to previous work. Not being a criminologist, I did not plan to give a detailed analysis of the tragic events that took place on Mount Kholat Syahyl, on the morning of February 2, 1959. And initially, my first article was designed for a Soviet-style reader who is used to thinking about the text and meticulously delving into its content. I regret to state that the modern Internet user differs sharply from the image of the Soviet reader, kind and wise. Indeed, for a smart reader, it was enough just to state the basic scheme of the tragic incident that occurred and the essence of the phenomenon that destroyed the group.

And I expected that, based on the facts presented in the article, any internet user can easily understand the meaning of what is written, and INDEPENDENTLY check the accuracy of the information presented. After all, all the initial data for this are present in the article, and it is not the author’s fault that modern Internet users are too lazy and do not know how to strain their own brains. Alas, as one of the authors rightly noted, “The development of the Internet has far outpaced the development of its users.”

As in all articles published earlier on my website, the author considers it only right, when describing the circumstances of the death of students from the Dyatlov group, to rely only on documented facts and materials of the investigation, without taking any liberties in describing the events that took place.

This article compares favorably with other versions posted on other sites, in which the authors, despite the facts, express the most exotic versions of what happened, although they do not at all agree with the facts of the officially conducted investigation. And I’ll immediately make a reservation that the investigation conducted by professional Soviet investigators was, on the whole, sound and of high quality, despite some incorrect conclusions that were made as a result of force majeure circumstances of this case. In particular, due to the fact that the investigators were faced with a physical phenomenon incomprehensible to them and active opposition to the investigation from the leading party apparatus.

Let's once again, in more detail, examine the events, which occurred on February 2 in the morning, before breakfast, because up to this point, all the events of the camping trip took place, as they say, “normally”. To do this, let's try together, as closely as possible to reconstruct the last half hour of the life of the guys from the Dyatlov group.

The extraordinary power of the air electric discharge explosion that occurred in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl, which I indirectly considered to be approximately comparable to the Sasov explosion, made me think, contact the archive of the Sverdlovsk weather station. According to my guess, on the seismograms of this station for 1959, there should have been a record of a cosmic explosion that killed the Dyatlov group. The guess turned out to be correct, and this allowed us to establish the exact astronomical time of the death of the Dyatlov group. The seismogram dispassionately recorded that the cosmic explosion that killed the students of the Dyatlov group in the area of ​​Mount Kholat Syahyl occurred at 8:41 am, February 2, 1959. by local time.

I repeat not on the night from the first to the second of February, as the investigators assumed, and, as absolutely all authors who investigated the circumstances of the death of the Dyatlov group write about it, but on the morning of the second of February. In accordance with these additional data, we can now absolutely reliably restore the sequence of tragic events that occurred in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl.

In the morning, before breakfast, one of the participants in the campaign (according to the investigators, it was Thibaut-Brignolles), who was too lazy to put on outer shoes, wearing only woolen socks, grabbed a Chinese lantern, with which he illuminated himself, getting out of the tightness of the dark tent, leaves small tents. Let's fix this moment as a conditional starting point for further events. Leaving the tent, he sees a flying luminous object in the morning sky, and decides to take a picture of it. Thibaut-Brignoles informs the group about this, asks to give him a camera, after which he puts a flashlight in the fold of the slope of the tent, photographs the object, closes the camera case, passes the camera back, and he himself begins to relieve his small need, continuing to observe the approaching luminous object. And after a short period of time, in the sky, not far from the top of Mount Holat Syahyl, an explosion occurs, similar to the explosion in Sasovo. He must have sounded the alarm after all, even though it was useless.

The fact is that at the time of the electric discharge explosion, the temperature of which reached 1500 degrees, the sides of the tent instantly heated up, and the temperature inside the tent rose to the temperature of the coolest Finnish sauna or higher. The hot air inside the tent mercilessly burned the bodies, and it immediately became difficult to breathe. The photo of the tent shows how many stupid knife blows were inflicted on the sides of the tent and what convulsive cuts-ruptures were made.

That is, when someone managed to cut through the side of the tent, others, grabbing the edges of the cut, helped to break the cut tarp. But any fabric is torn more easily in the longitudinal than in the transverse direction. That is why one of the cuts - gaps has an overturned U-shape. These are not clean cuts, but cuts-ruptures.

In addition, it should be said that it was from the high flash point of the explosion that the trees located at the edge of the forest received selective thermal burns.

And now let's pause to comment on the last thirty-third frame taken by Thibaut-Brignolle, preserved on the film loaded into the camera.

Thirty-third frame.

In my first article, I did not cover the issue of the thirty-third frame, due to the fact that now most users are practically unfamiliar with film cameras such as "Zorkiy" or "FED", but use digital photo and movie cameras. It is easy to understand that this photograph captures a fast-flying, brightly glowing "fireball", which was taken at an exposure of 25\5.6 or 30\5.6, because in the center of the image there is a flare from the petal aperture window, and the luminous ball is blurred due to the high speed of movement. This object is located in the left corner of the frame, and flies from top to bottom, towards the photographer. It would be clearer if the shutter speed was 60, 125, 250, etc. If the subject were less bright and moved very slowly, then there would be no lens flare in the frame, and the subject itself would not look blurry. If we assume that it was a rocket, then a dark spot would have been visible in the center of the luminous object, since the rocket nozzle in this case would have been at the back. It is characteristic that slow speed of the camera shutter, showed the position of the object in the form of five positions. In addition, given its distance from the photographer, and the relative size in the frame, as well as the fact that it was shot with a standard Industar-50 or Industar-50U lens, the luminous ball was quite large, and comparable to the size of the full moon, or exceeded it. It is important to note that similar balls in this area were observed for at least two months, as numerous written eyewitness accounts have been preserved, which indicates that it really was a "string of pearls" of a medium-sized comet.

Running away from the blast wave ...

In order to restore the further events of that tragic day as closely as possible, we must consistently answer a number of fundamental questions.

1. Why did the guys leave the tent so hastily?

Let's try to restore the events in the tent, after a meteorite flash and its electric discharge explosion occurred in the sky. A. Nevsky's calculations show that the temperature of the cosmic explosion reaches 1500 - 2000 degrees, which led to almost instantaneous heating of the air inside the tent to 120-160 degrees, or even higher. Due to the unbearable heat, the tourists did not immediately manage to rip open the sides of the tent, as evidenced by numerous stab blows with knives on the sides of the tent. At the same time, it should be noted that most of the blows with knives were made on the side of the tent, facing the foot of the mountain. And the cut made on the side of the tent, facing the top of the mountain, apparently for observing a celestial object, due to the unbearable heat, was immediately stuffed with a fur jacket. For the same reason, the group got out through cuts made in the opposite side of the tent.

2. Did they run or walk from the tent?

There are no trampled tracks near the tent, so it is logical to assume that after getting out of the tent, the guys did not linger at the tent, but only for a moment, looking around, rushed down with all their might, running away from the resulting blast wave and blinding burning light.

The investigation found that the snow remained only traces of students, No traces of outsiders were found at the scene.

The footprints of students leaving the tent showed the direction to the northeast therefore, we can confidently assume that the electric discharge pillar of the cosmic explosion was located behind the students, that is, on the southwestern slope of Mount Kholat Syahyl. Downhill running limits stride length, because you have to run, slightly leaning back, "from the heel." This is slightly different from the usual "toe" running, but does not limit the speed of running. In addition, the sense of danger and additional adrenaline in the blood, forced the group to run with all their might. It was precisely the fact that the students running downhill took shortened steps that allowed some inadequate authors to assert that the group leisurely (?!) moved away from the tent. This primitive misconception is due to the fact that the authors of Internet publications themselves have been sitting at the computer all their conscious lives and have never run from the mountains, and therefore have no idea about it. In addition, for half-dressed members of the group, "slow walking" in twenty-eight degrees of frost was simply impossible, because it threatened with serious frostbite of the legs, already in the very first minutes after leaving the tent.

3. What was the speed of the air blast wave?

Let's determine the speed of the air blast wave of a space explosion by comparing it with the speed of the wind on the Beaufort scale. According to the Beaufort scale, at a speed of 70 km per hour, the wind breaks thick branches of trees, and at speeds over 90 km per hour, the wind already knocks down, turns upside down, or breaks trees. Considering that only thick boughs of cedar, and the tree itself was not affected, it is most logical to assume that the speed of the air blast wave in the cedar area was close to 70 km per hour (20 m/sec)..

4. What was the running speed and how long did it take the students to reach the cedar?

Now let's determine the time during which the guys from the Dyatlov group could theoretically run a distance of 1500 meters, from a tent to a cedar, in conditions of increased danger and stress. Given that it was a mountain run and the guys were running as hard as they could to escape the blast, I guess they were running no more than six minutes (360 sec). This is the standard for teenage football players aged 13 (see http://kofla.ru/html/norm.html). The time, of course, is far from champion, given that the guys from the Dyatlov group had an excellent physical training. But this is a rather modest and correct time, which will not cause any complaints from the reader. Let's add here another 20-30 seconds that the guys could spend in order to get out of the tent through two cuts. Based on these conditional assumptions, we can calculate that the entire journey from the tent to the cedar took approximately six and a half minutes.

Comparison with Sasovsky explosion.

In order to make our story about the events that took place in the vicinity of Mount Holatchakhl more objective and clear, we will try to find a more or less intelligible analogy for the explosion that killed the Dyatlov group, and very conditionally compare it with the Sasovsky explosion, about which quite a lot of witness testimony has been preserved.

Space explosion in Sasovo.

To do this, we will have to recall the main parameters of the cosmic explosion on the outskirts of Sasovo, which occurred on April 12, 1991 at 1:34 am. This is how the chronology of Sasov events looks like.

First there was a growing rumble, then the ground shook. High-rise buildings swayed, furniture fell, doors and frames were knocked out, people were thrown from their beds. Sewer manhole covers were torn off in the streets, water pipes were torn underground. Before the disaster, numerous witnesses observed a bright white ball, and half an hour before the explosion, some residents living on the outskirts of the city saw two fireballs in the sky.

Luminous balls were also seen in the village of Chuchkovo, located 30 kilometers from Sasovo. Unusual balloons in the sky were seen by policemen, locomotive drivers, train passengers, school cadets civil aviation, railroad workers, fishermen and bystanders. Residents of the city heard the explosion and saw a pillar of fire, five kilometers high, on the site of which a funnel with a diameter of 28 meters was formed.

Scheme of the explosion in Sasovo.

The shock wave broke windows and opened doors even in the village of Igoshino, located 50 kilometers from Sasov. Luckily, only four people were injured in the explosion. For a long time, until the article by A.P. Nevsky about the explosion in Sasovo, (see the article on the site), no one could understand what exploded in Sasovo. Indeed, some destruction created the impression that the blast wave was directed not only from the funnel, but also towards the funnel. For example, 30 tons of fertilizers lay 70 meters from the epicenter of the explosion, paper bags with which were transferred by an unknown force to the very edge of the funnel

Glass and window frames flew out not only inside the houses, but also outside, and electric poles that stood on the field leaned in the direction of the explosion. Alexander Platonovich Nevsky explains these oddities by the phenomenon of levitation.

Two nights after the explosion, the crater glowed, as if it was artificially illuminated from the inside, and in the area of ​​​​the crater, elevated level beta radiation.

On the night of June 28, 1992, residents of the village of Frolovskoye, located near Sasovo, heard the roar of another space explosion but no damage was recorded. And only a week later, a funnel from a space alien, 4 meters deep and about 12 meters in diameter, was discovered in the corn field of the Novy Put state farm. Uprooted clods of earth scattered for half a kilometer, but the oak trees that grew a dozen and a half meters away were not affected at all.

Let's note the coincidences of the Sasovo space explosion and the space explosion in the vicinity of Mount Kholtsakhl.

It's powerful blast wave spread over many kilometers electric discharge pillar, several kilometers high and radioactive beta radiation found at the site of the explosion. Well, besides , fireballs, which numerous witnesses observed before the explosion.

Well, now let's go back to the events on Mount Holatchakhl.

Footprints in the snow.

Witnesses of the explosion in Sasovo report that the height of the column of the electric discharge explosion over five kilometers and the power of the explosion was estimated by experts from twenty to three hundred tons of TNT. (See the article "The mystery of the explosion in Sasovo"). We will conditionally assume that in our case, the parameters of the explosion were about the same.

Traces of all members of the group are clearly visible throughout five hundred meters and investigators note that there were no falls in this entire stretch, and no one was carrying anyone. Further, the tracks disappear under the snow, which was swept by the blast wave. And this suggests that the first blast overtook the fleeing students only when they ran five hundred meters from the tent.

5. What were the consequences of the impact of the first blast wave on the fleeing group?

If we assume that the blast wave that caught up with the fleeing group of students had a speed of 72 km/h, and the group's running speed was 15-18 km/h, then the total speed of the students falling down the mountain slope was 90 km/h. Is it a lot or a little?

To understand this, let's compare the collision of an object moving at a speed of 90 km / h with a fixed obstacle, or with a free fall from a certain height. It is easy to calculate that hitting an obstacle at a speed of 90 km / h is equivalent to falling from a height of 31 meters, that is, it is like jumping from the roof of a nine-story building. The chances of surviving a collision with an obstacle at this speed are minimal. And for comparison, let's say that the braking distance of a car at a speed of 90 km / h on a dry section of a horizontal road is 60 meters. On a slippery damp road, it increases to 150 meters or more. On this basis, it can be assumed that the blast wave could drag students along the mountainside. at least 150 meters.
Let me remind you that the fall of the students took place on the side of the mountain with a slope of 15-20 degrees and a speed of 90 kilometers per hour, but in the absence of visible obstacles. As a result of this fall, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko died, and Slobodin was diagnosed with a skull fracture. The remaining members of the group escaped with multiple longitudinal abrasions and scratches, as well as bruises of the body of various localization.

But at that moment, none of the members of the group knew that Krivonischenko and Doroshenko had died, and their death was diagnosed not at the place of the fall, but later, by the cedar, by the kindled fire.

At the cedar.

Footprints left in the snow show that the members of the group ran close enough to each other, and this indicates that everyone felt mortal danger, and the instinct of self-preservation forced them to stick together. At the time of the fall, they were already near the forest, and located on the edge of the ravine and towering over the area of ​​​​the cedar, to which the whole group headed, taking both victims with them.

Reconstruction of further events, it seems to me simple. While four men from the group carried the unconscious Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, the other three went ahead, to build a fire in the forest and prepare deadwood and fallen wood for firewood, after all, a quickly made fire was their only chance for salvation. The fire was lit on the leeward side of the cedar, and when the men brought Krivonischenko and Doroshenko to the fire, it had already flared up. Gathering around the fire, they declared the death of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, and decided to take off the clothes from the dead, and partially use them to warm the rest of the guys, and the rest of the clothes were later found by the search engines on the floor, where they spread them out as seats. Krivonischenko's watch was also removed from the cedar to give it to the relatives of the deceased.

They worked dexterously and quickly, for everyone understood the seriousness of the situation in which they found themselves. After all, a real danger hung over them to freeze stupidly just one and a half kilometers from the saving tent, in which their food and warm clothes remained. Trying to warm their severely frozen hands and feet as quickly as possible, they thrust them directly into the open flame of a fire, as evidenced by the burnt sleeves of sweaters and trousers. Let's take a break.

In order for a fire from dead wood to flare up well, you need only 10 minutes, I know from my own experience. And it was the time that the guys spent by the fire. Apparently, pieces of film helped them quickly kindle a fire, the torn remnants of a roll of which were found by search engines near the tent. For young Internet users, I will inform you that in 1959, photographic and film film was produced flammable, which allowed us in childhood to use it to kindle fires, and various unsafe pyrotechnic entertainments.

Meeting by the fire next to the cedar.

The students were well aware that, barefoot and half-dressed, they would not be able to hold out for a long time in a twenty-eight degree frost, in a cold wind, even by a fire.

They had only a ghostly chance half-dressed, half-shod and hungry , wait out the time by the fire, bred in a snow pit while others, the more enduring, try to reach the tent to fetch as much food, clothes, and shoes as hastily left there. An ax and at least one metal bucket were also desirable to heat water from the snow. And for a more tolerable and almost "comfortable" overnight stay, it would be nice to have a piece of fabric from the tent to arrange a "chipper" for the fire.

But a place for a snow pit still had to be found, and the pit itself had to be equipped, i.e. cover with spruce branches, on top of which lay the clothes of the dead. In addition, everyone understood that dehydration quickly sets in in the cold, and by nighttime the frost can intensify, and everyone will be tormented by hunger and thirst. So the group split in two. At this point, there were approximately 15 minutes. But none of them knew about it and everyone, until the very last moment, fought for their salvation.

The last fifteen minutes of the life of Kolmogorova, Slobodin and Dyatlov.

Zolotarev, Dubinina, Kolevatov and Thibaut-Brignolles, led by Dyatlov, taking the clothes of the dead with them, went to look for a place for a snow pit and prepare spruce branches. Why with Dyatlov? Because it was he, as the commander of the group, who was obliged to determine and approve a safe place for the snow pit. Kolmogorova remained by the fire, and Slobodin, who received a head injury. A little later, Dyatlov was supposed to catch up with them. But why the choice fell on them? I guess it's because they were all shattered. And the guys assumed that having managed to quickly run to the tent, they would be able to immediately put on shoes, and thereby reduce the time spent in socks on the snow, and avoid serious frostbite. After all, if others were sent to the tent, then the time until the shoes were brought would be doubled for them.

Kolmogorova and Slobodin, gaining warmth from the fire, before throwing themselves into the icy cold, did not stay near him for long. Kolmogorova was the first to leave, having stayed by the fire for about five minutes, then, after a couple of minutes, Slobodin, who had a head injury, left the fire. Calculating the time of their departure, with a known error, is quite simple. Kolmogorova's body was found 850 meters from the tent, that is, 650 meters from the cedar and the fire. It is impossible to run uphill through the snow drift left after the blast wave, you can only go quickly, that is, its speed could presumably be about 3.9 km per hour, and it could overcome 650 meters uphill in ten minutes. Slobodin's body was found 1000 meters from the tent, and 150 meters from Kolmogorova, that is, 2-2.5 minutes from Kolmogorova, provided that they were moving at the same speed. And what was Dyatlov doing at that time? Having determined a place for a snow pit, which was located in a ravine 75 meters northeast of the cedar, and ordered to prepare spruce branches before his return and light a fire near the pit, he left to catch up with Kolmogorov and Slobodin who had gone to the tent. At the same time, he also lingered a little by the fire in order to warm himself and put more firewood into the blazing fire. Dyatlov's body was found 180 meters from Slobodin, that is, he left the fire about three minutes after Slobodin. And he managed to go only 320 meters when the blast wave from the second explosion covered everyone.

And now we have to talk about the last fifteen minutes of life Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles.

The last fifteen minutes of the life of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles.

After the departure of Dyatlov, Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibaut-Brignolles, they split into two groups, one of which began to trample the snow pit, cook firewood and kindle a fire, and the second, prepare spruce branches and carry it to the pit. Lapnik was harvested along the edge of the ravine, not far from the snow pit, and immediately laid in the form of the first layer of flooring. Having laid 15 cut trees (14 fir trees and one birch), parallel to each other in the form of a flooring, and covering the trees with spruce branches on top, they put the things taken from Krivonischenko and Doroshenko at the corners of the flooring, thus designating places to sit. And then, having warmed their hands over the burning fire, they, all together, got out of the ravine and went along its edge to prepare dead wood for the fire, and cut new portions of spruce branches. But they didn't get far. The powerful blast wave of the second explosion threw everyone off the cliff to the very bottom of the ravine. And the whirlwind of snow raised by the blast wave, along the very edges, covered the ravine and their bodies with snow.

And the terrible injuries that the tourists received were due to the fact that the blast wave, which had a speed of at least seventy kilometers per hour, threw them onto the rocky bottom of the ravine. At the same time, each of them flew the distance at least 10-12 meters, and moreover, fell from the edge of the ravine, which had a depth of five meters.

But, allegedly Dubinina's "torn tongue", about which numerous bloggers are still "breaking spears", as I have repeatedly reported, is clearly posthumous in origin. After all, such intravital injuries are accompanied by massive heavy bleeding, including arterial. And in this case, all the clothes and snow around the crash site would be literally covered and soaked in blood, which Internet users stubbornly do not want to pay attention to, defending the right to their fantasies.

However, this is not all the information about the death of the Dyatlov group.

The fact that the flight of the "fireballs" that make up the "pearl string" of the comet, over the course of a month, passed over the same place, forced us to assume that the trajectory of the flying comet almost completely coincided with the axis of rotation of the Earth. And the slow speed of the “fireballs” in the sky indicates that the fragments of the comet were catching up with the Earth in its orbit, and did not fly towards it. My assumptions are also consistent with the conclusion of the investigation that the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was the elemental force emanating from the fireballs, which the students were not able to overcome.

The absolute certainty that the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was a cosmic explosion made me turn to for help to the archive of the Yekaterinburg seismic station. Such archives have no restrictions on the storage period, and that is why the seismograms of the Tunguska explosion have come down to us. And I was convinced that the answer from the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station would allow us to accurately determine the time of the space catastrophe and the death of the students of the Dyatlov group and clarify the circumstances of the death of the students. After a long search for the location of the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, we sent our request there, and soon received a response. And in order to show that it was the explosion in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl that was recorded on these seismograms, we publish this information along with a seismogram and an explanatory note.

Chapter 4

Response and seismogram from the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station

Through extremely long searches on the Internet, the administrator of our site still managed to find traces of the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and on March 19, 2013, we sent a request there, in which the archive staff was asked a single question: Were any explosions recorded on the seismograms of the Sverdlovsk seismic station on February 1 and 2, 1959?

Here is the verbatim answer we received:

Dear Mikhail Dmitrievich!

In response to your request dated March 19, 2013, I inform you that the specialists of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences analyzed the seismograms of the Sverdlovsk seismic station (SVE) for February 1 and 2, 1959. At that time, 2 types of seismometers were installed at the station: Golitsyn (SG, long-period) and Kharin (SH, short-period). Seismograms for analysis were selected taking into account the difference between local time and Greenwich Mean Time, which is used in seismology (for Sverdlovsk, the difference was +5 hours).

No records of seismic events were found on the seismograms of the SG device from 00:00 on February 1 to 24:00 on February 2, 1959 (Greenwich Mean Time). .

When analyzing the seismograms of the CX (EW) device on February 2, 1959 in 04 o'clock 07 min. 54 sec. GMT (09:07:54 local time) a record of a seismic event was noted, expressed in a train of oscillations with a period of the maximum phase T = 1.8 sec.

According to our interpretation these fluctuations are the beginning of the recording of a remote deep earthquake that occurred February 2, 1959 in the Banda Sea region (Indonesia). The seismological bulletin of the USGS (National Earthquake Information Center, U.S.A) published a solution for this earthquake. The epicentral distance from the Sverdlovsk station is =82° (more than 9100 km), and the focal depth is 150 km. On the seismogram, three distinct phases from the indicated earthquake are distinguished - longitudinal wave P at 04:07:54, deep phase sP at 04:08:54, double reflected from the core PP at 04:11:14.

Time of occurrence (hour, min, sec), focus depth	Coordinates epicenter
0=03:56:12 h=150 km	6.5°S 126°E	Tp= 04:08:16

Records of other seismic events were not found on the seismograms of the SH for February 1–2, 1959.

An electronic copy of the scanned seismogram of the SH instrument for February 1-2, 1959 is attached.

It should be noted that the Sverdlovsk station is 550 km away from the Kholat-Syakhyl mountain.

Director of the GS RAS

Corresponding Member of the RAS A.A. Malovichko

Use L.S. Chepkunas

This answer was accompanied by a seismogram of the explosion itself:

click on the seismogram to enlarge the image

That is, this answer provides objective evidence of the fact of an explosion of unknown etiology and a subjective human interpretation of this explosion.

Meanwhile, the received answer, in my opinion, is objective and impeccable proof of the fact of a cosmic explosion on Mount Holat Syakhil. But this requires a little further explanation.

On the time of the cosmic explosion on the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station.

Focusing on the astronomical time of the explosion recorded on the seismogram, we can confidently assert that this seismogram shows air space explosion over Mount Holat Syahyl.

Here is the necessary calculation.

Air shock waves propagate over long distances from average speed slightly above the speed of sound (approximately 340 m/s). The distance from the seismic station "Sverdlovsk" to Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, reported to us by corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.A. Malovichko in the sent answer is 550 km.

An explosion was recorded on the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station at 9 o'clock. 07 min. 54 sec. by local time. That is, the explosion over Mount Holat Syahyl occurred 27 minutes earlier, at approximately 8:41 a.m., February 2, 1959, by local time(9 hours 07 minutes 54 seconds - 27 minutes = 8 o'clock 41 min.).

Go ahead. During electric discharge explosions, according to the theory of A.P. Nevsky, exists three well-defined air shock waves. Let's just purely hypothetically, identify them by the time indicated on the seismogram, like air shock waves formed over Mount Holat Syahyl.

1. Ballistic air shock wave, which always accompanies the fall in the atmosphere of a meteorite flying at cosmic speed 9 hours 07 minutes 54 seconds. - 27 min. = 8 o'clock 41 min.

2. Explosive destruction of a meteorite (flash explosion) in the air, which is accompanied by air shock wave. 9 o'clock 08 min. 54 sec. - 27 min. = 8 o'clock 42 min .

3. Cylindrical air shock wave the formed pillar of the electric discharge explosion. (9 hours 11 minutes 14 seconds - 27 minutes = 8 o'clock 44 min. 14 sec.

That is, on the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, not deep seismic waves, which are not formed at all during cosmic air explosions, A V air shock waves of a cosmic explosion over Mount Kholat Syahyl.

To verify this, we need to restore the chronology of events in the area of ​​Mount Kholat Syakhyl, according to the stopped clock, which was left in the hands of the dead students of the Dyatlov group.

About the group hours.

There were four hours in the Dyatlov group. According to the investigation, Dyatlov's watch, at the time of the stop, showed 5 hours 31 minutes, Krivonischenko's watch stopped at 8 hours 14 minutes , at Slobodin the clock showed 8 hours 45 minutes, and the clock of Thibault-Brignolles stopped at 8 hours 39 minutes.

In the light of the foregoing, it is easy to understand that the Dyatlov clock stopped spontaneously, after the spring resource was exhausted.

The clock of Krivonischenko, who died on the slope from the first cosmic explosion of small power, not recorded by the weakly powerful seismographs of the Sverdlovsk seismic station at 8:14, gave us the opportunity to determine the time of the beginning of the tragedy.

And Slobodin's watch ( 8 hours 45 minutes) and Thibault Brignoles ( 8 hours 39 minutes), stopped near the astronomical time of the fall of the group under the influence of a cylindrical shock wave of a more powerful second cosmic explosion. (8 hours 44 minutes 14 seconds).

A slight discrepancy between the time on the students' watches and the astronomical time recorded by the seismographs of the Sverdlovsk seismic station can be easily explained by the error of the clock.

About clock accuracy.

The Dyatlov group left Sverdlovsk on January 23 and on the night of January 25 the guys arrived in Ivdel. This was the last settlement where the guys could check the clock based on the radio signal.. January 26 students left Ivdel, and further until the very moment of the space catastrophe on the morning of February 2, within seven and a half days they didn't have a chance to check their watch.

According to the passport, the factory warranty accuracy of the mass-produced wristwatches of that time was plus or minus 45 seconds a day, but in real operating conditions, for mechanical wristwatches, the average daily error was usually plus minus one - one and a half minutes, and much less often, it could be less than plus - minus 30 seconds. (Young readers can easily verify this statement by asking their grandparents.)

That is, the total clock error accumulated over seven and a half days, on average, could be (45 sec x 7.5 days = plus or minus 337 sec (5.5 min), and the real one could be twice as much ( plus - minus 11 minutes).

A simple calculation shows that the astronomical time of the cosmic catastrophe almost coincides with the time on the stopped clocks of Slobodin and Thibault-Brignolles. And a slight discrepancy (+46 seconds for Slobodin's watches, and - 4 minutes 46 seconds for Thibault-Brignolle's watches) is due to the error of the watch, usual for wrist mechanical watches of that time.

My conclusion is logical and quite obvious. The seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station recorded the time of a cosmic explosion over Mount Holat Syahyl, and the interpretation of this airborne cosmic explosion by the employees of the seismic station as an earthquake in Indonesia turned out to be thoughtlessly written off from the American seismological bulletin, only so that this explosion would not turn out to be “nameless”.

Otherwise, we will have to answer a completely inexplicable question. Why did the seismogram “not record” the explosion over the Kholat Syakhyl mountain, which is located only 550 km from the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and confidently recorded "remote deep earthquake", which occurred at a distance of more than 9100 kilometers, simultaneously with the explosion over Kholat Syahyl? What other evidence is required to confirm the cosmic explosion that occurred over Mount Kholat Syahyl? Is it possible that in this case, the supporters of Rakitin's version will argue that the cunning "American Spies" deliberately summed up the clocks of the students they killed in order to combine their readings with the clocks of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and thus mislead us?

Chapter 5. About the reason for my request to the Sverdlovsk seismic station archive.

Even at the stage of acquaintance with the circumstances of the case of the death of the Dyatlov group in 2010, I drew attention to some inconsistencies between the materials of the investigation and the facts that I managed to discover.

Firstly, I drew attention to the selective burn of trees located at the edge of the forest, which is a feature and a distinctive feature inherent in only electric discharge space explosions. No other known radiant burn explosions form.

In addition, the analysis of the incident showed that space air burst was powerful enough, and, moreover, quite clearly the impact of two blast waves on the dead group was traced. The bodies of students with severe injuries found under a 4.5-meter layer of snow, and the conclusion of a forensic expert that these injuries could only be received from exposure to a powerful air blast wave, as well as the allegations of prosecutor Ivanov, What "the death of students came from the influence of elemental force, which they were unable to overcome", gave reason to believe that we can only talk about cosmic explosions.

And the periodic appearance of fireballs over the same area for two months indicated that we are talking about a “pearl string” of a small comet, the direction of flight of which coincided with the rotation of the Earth.

And the only known, albeit very approximate analogue of such explosions, was Sasovo space explosion, the scientific analysis of which was given by Alexander Platonovich Nevsky. Therefore, I quite consciously used the parameters of this explosion in my article to explain the concept of the events that took place on Mount Holat Syahyl.

Secondly, I noticed on the surprisingly "sighted" behavior of group members, indicating that the space accident happened during daylight hours. But I could not find any absolute evidence of this in the materials of the investigation, except for a number of indirect ones. Therefore, initially, despite my doubts, I had to focus on the assumption of the investigation that the death of the tour group occurred on the evening of February 1, especially since this version was supported by absolutely all authors of books and articles and all Internet users. And I just noted that “until the last minute, all the actions of the members of the Dyatlov group were meaningful and logical» . Somewhat later, analyzing additional facts , I again drew attention to the fact that they do not coincide with the version of the evening explosion. Moreover, circumstantial evidence unequivocally testified that the explosion took place on the morning of February 2, when the students woke up but had not yet had time to get dressed. And I was forced write carefully, What "After analyzing all information available to me, I did not find a single fact that would unequivocally testified that the explosion occurred on the evening of February 1, as suggested by the investigation,(on which I also relied ), and not on the morning of February 2. In addition, the version that the tragedy could have happened on the morning of February 2, V in the light of new facts may turn out to be more consistent».

And sending your request to the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, I was almost convinced that the explosion happened on the morning of the second of February, and not the first evening, and therefore my request was made not only on the first, but also on the second of February. And the hidden logic of the question was that the cosmic explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhil, according to my assumption, must have coincided in time with the time recorded on the stopped clock of the guys.

And the only objective and irrefutable evidence of the time of the explosion that occurred over Mount Kholat Syahyl could only be a seismogram of this explosion. And when I sent the request, I understood very well that only the time of the explosion can be objective on the seismogram, and the explosion itself can be interpreted in any way: both as an industrial, and as a military, and as a technical, and as a nuclear ... that it is being interpreted as an earthquake in the region of Indonesia.

Let me explain. In principle, modern seismographs make it possible to determine the epicenter of an explosion and, by comparing the readings of several seismographs, at one station. In this case, the most correct amplitude (displacement) of oscillations can be recorded only by the seismograph whose pendulum oscillations coincide with the direction of the seismic beam. Indeed, when recording waves from other directions, “the amplitude of their oscillations will be the smaller, the larger the angle A between the direction of the beam and the swing of the pendulum. This angle is determined by the formula: tg α \u003d X2 / X1, in which X1 and X2 are the amplitudes of the oscillations of longitudinal waves recorded by two mutually perpendicularly located seismographs ".

That is, it is possible to determine the direction of the seismic ray of the longitudinal wave, and by setting aside the epicentral distance on it, determine the place of the explosion. However, we must make one small clarification. Even one seismic station can really show the direction of the seismic beam, but to clarify the location of the explosion from the seismic station in the direction (0 -180 degrees) a second seismic station is required.

And looking ahead a little, I must say that the sensitivity of the 1959 seismographs available at the Sverdlovsk seismic station did not allow recording ultra-small earthquakes located at a distance of 9100 kilometers at all.

Fortunately, we have great opportunity clarify the date and time of the explosion and according to witness testimony.

The date of the death of the group according to the testimony of Luda Dubinina's father.

Now we have to clarify whether the astronomical time of the cosmic explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl, accurately recorded on the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, corresponds to the testimony of witnesses given by them in 1959?

The materials of the investigation contain a copy of the interrogation of the father of Lyudmila Dubinina, carried out in March 1959, “... I heard the conversations of students of the Ural Polytechnic University (UPI) that the flight of undressed people from the tent was caused by an explosion and large radiation ..., and the statement of by the administrative department of the regional committee of the CPSU comrade Yermash, made to the sister of the deceased comrade Kolevatova, that the remaining 4 people, not found now, could live after the death of those found no more than 2 hours, makes us think that the forced, sudden flight from the tent was due to an explosion projectile and radiation near mountain 1079, the “stuffing” of which forced ... to run further from it and, presumably, affected the life of people, in particular, vision.

The light of a projectile was seen on February 2 at about seven o'clock in the morning in the city of Serov... I am surprised why the tourist routes from the city of Ivdel were not closed. .. If the projectile deviated and did not hit the planned range, in my opinion, the department that fired this projectile should send aerial reconnaissance to the place of its fall and rupture to find out what it could have done there. ...If aerial reconnaissance was done, then it can be assumed that she picked up the other four people. I have not shared my personal opinion with anyone, deeming it undisclosed."

Lyudmila Dubinina's father at that time was a member of the CPSU and a responsible employee of the Sverdlovsk Economic Council, that is, he unconditionally obeyed the strict rules of party discipline that existed at that time, and therefore his testimony cannot be unreliable. And he is the first and only of the witnesses who rightly and reasonably linked the outbreak of an explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhil, on the morning of February 2, with the death of students. And, it must be assumed that in the provincial Serov, located at a distance of 200-250 kilometers from Mount Kholat Syahyl, this outbreak was seen by many residents, that is, the outbreak of the explosion was extremely powerful.

And we have the right to draw the only correct conclusion that the seismogram absolutely accurately recorded the astronomical time of the cosmic electric discharge explosion just above Mount Kholat Syakhil, which occurred at 8:41 am, on the morning of February 2, 1959.

It follows from this that the assumption of the investigation that the tragedy on Mount Kholat Syahyl occurred on the evening of February 1, or on the night of 1 to 2 February, is false.

Accordingly, the assumption of academic scientists that an earthquake was recorded on the seismogram in the Banda Sea region in Indonesia is also is the biggest mistake.

Therefore, the reasoning absolutely all authors, relying in their versions on the fact that the tragedy occurred at night, are unfounded. And, unfortunately, we will have to admit that they are all just the fruit of logical constructions, based on an initially false fact.

Date of death of the group according to Axelrod.

In Nikolai Rundkvist's book "100 Days in the Urals" there is a quote from Axelrod:
“Yes, no doubt, it is their tent that stands on the gloomy slope of Solat-Syakhla. I myself took part in its sewing in the 56th. Under the tent neatly, without haste, skis are laid. The date of the death of the guys was set elementarily simply. In the far corner of the tent was a diary with the date of the last entry - February 2 1959. That is, the tourists just started the route. In the valley of Auspiya, they built a storehouse - laying food and equipment that is unnecessary above the border of the forest.

http://russia-paranormal.org/index.php/topic,4404.0.html#sthash.DDfBfTGt.dpuf (Russia Paranormal Forum)

Of course, we can assume that this date was meticulously put down by the students of the Dyatlov group immediately after 00.00. nights, but usually it is customary to set the date of the new day in the morning, after waking up. However, for our study this is not fundamental, because the death of the group, according to the stopped clock, could occur only in period from 20 to 21 pm February 1, or from 8 to 9 am on the second of February.

That is, in this case, we have an impeccable written evidence of the Dyatlovites themselves, that on the morning of February 2, after waking up, the students were still alive. And the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station perfectly accurately recorded the astronomical time of the death of the Dyatlov group. And the feeling that the flash of this explosion was seen on the morning of February 2 in Serov, makes it quite reasonable to assume that the brightness of the flash was comparable to the flash of a nuclear explosion.

Chapter 6

Investigator L. Ivanov wrote in one of his articles that he had to remove from the case file everything that indicated a "fireball" or a UFO, and further: "When E.P. Maslennikov and I were examining the scene in May, we found , What “Some young fir-trees on the border of the forest have a burnt mark, but these marks were not of a concentric shape or other system. There was no epicenter. This once again confirmed the direction of a kind of thermal ray or a strong, but completely unknown - at least to us - energy that acts selectively. " Let's try to determine the epicenter of this outbreak.

Location of the first explosion.

On the Internet, I noticed one message: "South of the Mountain (Kholat Syakhil ) already modern tourists stumbled into several deep craters "obviously from missiles". With great difficulty in the remote taiga, we found two of them and explored as best we could. Under the rocket explosion of the 59th, they obviously did not pull, in the funnel birch grew age 55 (counted by rings), that is, the explosion thundered in the remote taiga rear no later than 1944. Remembering what year it was, one could write it off as bombing drills or something like that, but... funnel, we made an unpleasant discovery using a radiometer, strong background».

I will discuss the causes of radiation at the site of the explosion below, in a separate article, but for now we will give one more message.

According to Novokreshchenov G.V., after the death of the Dyatlov group, the traces of numerous craters on the slope of Mount Kholat Syakhyl, opposite from the location of the tent, were seen by the prosecutor of the Ivdel region Vasily Ivanovich Tempalov, who took part in a helicopter flight over this area. Later, regarding these funnels, he said: "What can I say, there the rockets fell, all around funnels I'm an artilleryman."

Then the story about the Dyatlov Pass, of course, should be familiar to you. In this article, we will consider in detail all the facts related to the mysterious death of the Dyatlov group.

Despite the fact that the death of individual tourists and entire tourist groups is not a unique phenomenon (only at least 111 people died in ski trips from 1975 to 2004), the death of the Dyatlov group continues to attract the attention of researchers, journalists and politicians - up to the coverage of events more than half a century ago on the central TV channels of Russia.

So, before you is the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass.

The secret of the Dyatlov pass

On the border of Komi and the Sverdlovsk region, in the north of the Urals, Mount Holatchakhl is located. Until 1959, in translation from Mansi, its name was translated as "Dead Peak", but at a later time it began to be called the "Mountain of the Dead".

For unknown reasons, many people died on it under a variety of mystical circumstances. One of the most mysterious and mysterious tragedies occurred on the night of February 1, 1959.

Expedition Dyatlov

On this frosty and clear day, a group of tourists consisting of 10 people set off to conquer Kholatchakhl. Despite the fact that the skiers were still students, they already had sufficient experience in climbing mountain peaks.

The group leader was Igor Dyatlov.

Igor Dyatlov and two students from the tourist group - Zina Kolmogorova and Lyudmila Dubinina

An interesting fact is that one of the participants, Yuri Yudin, was forced to return home at the start of the ascent.

His leg hurt a lot, so he would simply not physically be able to overcome a long distance with his comrades. As it turns out later, this sudden illness will save his life.

Dyatlov group

So, the expedition set off on a journey in the amount of 9 people. With the onset of darkness, on one of the slopes of the mountain, the Dyatlov group made a pass and set up tents. After that, the guys had dinner and went to bed.

It is worth noting here that according to the criminal case, the tent was set up correctly and with an acceptable degree of inclination. This means that no natural factors did not threaten the lives of the expedition members.

After studying the photographs subsequently discovered by the investigation team, it turned out that the tent was set up at approximately 6 pm.

The tent of the Dyatlov group, partially excavated from the snow

And already at night something happened that led to the terrible death of the entire group, consisting of 9 people.

When it became clear that the expedition was gone, the search began.

mountain of the dead

In the third week of the search, pilot Gennady Patrushev noticed the Dyatlov Pass and the dead tourists from the cockpit. An interesting fact is that, by some chance, the pilot met the guys from the Dyatlov group on the eve of their fatal ascent.

This acquaintance happened in one of the local hotels. Patrushev knew and understood perfectly well the dangers fraught with the famous "Mountain of the Dead". That is why he repeatedly dissuaded climbers from climbing it.

Igor Dyatlov's group on the eve of the tragedy

He even tried to interest them in other peaks, doing everything possible so that they abandoned the planned trip. However, all the efforts of Gennady were in vain, since the goal of the tourists was the "Mountain of the Dead".

When the rescue team ended up at the pass where the tragedy occurred, a terrible picture opened up before them. Two people were lying near the entrance to the tent, and another was inside it.

The tent itself was cut from the inside. Apparently, the students, driven by some kind of fear, were forced to cut it with a knife, and then run away half-naked up the side of the mountain.

Mystery of the pass

Special attention deserves the study of footprints that the dead guys left on the pass. When studying them, it turned out that for some unknown reason, the members of the Dyatlov group ran around the pass in zigzags for some time, but then again gathered in one place.

It gave the impression that some supernatural power did not allow them to scatter in different directions from the threatened danger.

Dyatlov Pass

No foreign objects or alien traces were found on the pass. There were also no signs of a hurricane or avalanches.

Traces of the Dyatlov group are lost on the border with the forest.

Also, the investigation found that two students tried to make a fire near the pass. At the same time, for some reason, they were in the same underwear and, most likely, died from frostbite.

1.5 kilometers from the tent and 280 m down the slope, near a high cedar, the bodies of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were found

Igor Dyatlov himself lay in visible proximity to them. According to experts, he probably tried to crawl to the tent, but he did not have enough strength.

But this is not all the mysteries of the tragedy at the Dyatlov Pass.

The death of the Dyatlov group

No injuries were found on the bodies of 6 students, but the situation was different with the other three participants. They died as a result of multiple wounds with numerous hemorrhages.

Their heads were pierced through, some of the ribs were broken, and one of the girls had her tongue brutally torn out. An interesting fact is that the investigation team did not find any hematomas or even abrasions on the bodies of the dead.

The results of the autopsy raised even more questions. Cracks were found on the skull of one of the tourists, but the skin remained intact and intact, which, in principle, cannot be the case with such injuries.

Mystic

Since the death of the Dyatlov tourist group caused a serious commotion in society, forensic prosecutors arrived at the site of the tragic pass. They managed to discover some more inexplicable phenomena.

They noticed burnt marks on the trunks of fir trees growing on the outskirts of the forest, but no sources of ignition were identified. The experts concluded that some kind of heat beam was probably directed at the trees, damaging the fir trees in such a mysterious way.

This conclusion was also made because the rest of the trees remained intact, and the snow at their base had not even melted.

As a result of a detailed analysis of all the events that occurred that night at the pass, the following picture emerged. After the tourists overcame about 500 m barefoot, they were overtaken and destroyed by some unknown force.

Radiation

During the investigation into the death of Dyatlov and his companions, the internal organs and belongings of the dead were examined for the presence of radioactive substances in them.

Here, too, an inexplicable mystery awaited the investigators. The fact is that experts found radioactive substances on the surface of the skin and directly on the things themselves, the appearance of which was impossible to explain.

Indeed, in the territory Soviet Union no nuclear tests were conducted at that time.

UFO

There was even a version put forward that UFO was guilty of the death of the Dyatlov tourist group. Perhaps this assumption was due to the fact that during the search operation, the rescuers saw some fireballs flying over their heads. Nobody could explain this phenomenon.

Moreover, on the last day of March 1959, for 20 minutes, local residents observed a terrible picture in the sky. A huge fiery ring was moving along it, which then disappeared behind the slope of one of the mountains.

Witnesses also said that a star suddenly appeared from the center of the ring, which slowly moved down until it completely disappeared from sight.

This mysterious incident left the already frightened locals in disarray. People turned to the authorities to involve scientists for a thorough study mysterious phenomenon and explanations of its nature.

Who killed the Dyatlov group

For some time, the investigation team assumed that representatives of the local Mansi people, who had already committed crimes of a similar nature, were guilty of the murder of the skiers.

Many suspects were detained and questioned by police officers, but in the end, all of them had to be released due to lack of evidence.

The criminal case on the fact of the death of Dyatlov's tourists at the tragic pass was closed.

Photo of members of the tour group on the monument (the initials and surname of Zolotarev are embossed with errors)

The official wording was quite abstract and vague. It stated that the students died due to "a natural force that the tourists could not overcome".

The true cause of the death of the tour group on the "Mountain of the Dead" was never established.

Latest news about the Dyatlov group

From the moment of the tragedy and up to the present day, many different versions of the death of the Dyatlov group have been put forward. There are more than 60 of them in total.

Some believed that the cause of death of tourists was, others suggested that a man-made disaster was to blame.

The protocol stated that the skin of the dead was orange or purple, and, as mentioned earlier, a background radiation was found on the clothes.

The body of Igor Dyatlov with his right arm raised

An interesting fact is that absolutely all the dead students from the Dyatlov group turned out to be gray-haired. This is possible only when people experience extremely strong fear or panic horror.

There is a version that the students died as a result of a rocket fall. This assumption appeared due to the fact that a ring belonging to one of the Soviet missiles was found near the site of the tragedy.

Explosion of a radioactive bomb

There is an opinion that the Dyatlov tour group died due to the “Vacuum Weapon”, which was allegedly tested in 1944. This is largely due to the fact that the skin of the dead had a reddish tint, and internal bleeding was also found.

Similar signs can be observed due to a vacuum explosion. But even in this case, everything is not so clear.

The fact is that the development of vacuum weapons began only at the end of the 60s of the last century, as a result of which this version cannot be taken seriously.

The Dyatlov group in 1959

On the film of the dead students, the investigators found the last frame, causing a lot of heated debate among the researchers. It depicts incomprehensible light spots on a dark background.

Some say that the picture was taken at the moment when the film was removed from the camera. According to another version, this shot was taken by one of the dead at the moment when they felt the approach of danger.

The Dyatlov group shortly before their tragic death

Currently, there are 9 main versions of the death of the members of the Dyatlov expedition:

• avalanche;
• spy version about "controlled delivery";
• man-made disaster or weapons test;
• the killing of a group by the military;
• sound impact;
• conflict between skiers;
• attack by escaped prisoners;
• murder by robbers Mansi;
• paranormal activity.

Unfortunately, none of the nine assumptions can fully explain the cause of the terrible tragedy that occurred at the Mountain of the Dead Pass in 1959.

And although this terrible story happened more than half a century ago, it is still shrouded in secrets and mysteries. Perhaps in the future, more advanced equipment will help experts solve the case of the terrible death of the Dyatlov tour group on the Mountain of the Dead.

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The authors express their sincere gratitude for the cooperation and information provided to the Dyatlov Group Public Memory Fund and personally to Yuri Kuntsevich, as well as to Vladimir Askinadzi, Vladimir Borzenkov, Natalya Varsegova, Anna Kiryanova and Yekaterinburg photo processing specialists.

INTRODUCTION .

In the early morning of February 2, 1959, on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl in the vicinity of Mount Otorten in the Northern Urals, dramatic events took place that led to the death of a group of tourists from Sverdlovsk led by a student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov.

Many circumstances of this tragedy have not yet received a satisfactory explanation, giving rise to many rumors, conjectures, which gradually developed into legends and myths, based on which several books have been written and a number of feature films have been shot. We think we succeededrestore the true development of these events, which puts an end to this protracted history. Our version is based on strictly documentary sources, namely on the materials of the Criminal Case of the history of the death and search for Dyatlovites, as well as on some everyday and tourist experience. This is the version we bring to the attention of all interested persons and organizations, insisting on its authenticity, but not claiming a new coincidence in details.

HISTORY

On the night of February 1-2, 1959, a number of events occurred with the Dyatlov group before arriving at the place of a cold overnight stay on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl.

So, the very idea of ​​this hike III, the highest category of difficulty, Igor Dyatlov arose long ago and took shape in December 1958, as told by Igor's senior comrades in tourism. *

The composition of the participants in the planned trip changed in the process of its preparation, reaching up to 13 people, but the backbone of the group, consisting of students and graduates of the UPI with experience in hiking, including joint ones, remained unchanged. It included - Igor Dyatlov - 23-year-old leader of the campaign, 20-year-old Lyudmila Dubinina - supply manager, Yuri Doroshenko - 21 years old, 22-year-old Alexander Kolevatov, Zinaida Kolmogorova - 22 years old, 23-year-old Georgy Krivonischenko , 22-year-old Rustem Slobodin, Nikolai Thibault - 23 years old, 22-year-old Yuri Yudin. Two days before the trip, the group was joined by 37-year-old Semyon Zolotarev, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a front-line soldier who graduated from the Institute of Physical Education, and a professional tourism instructor.

At the beginning, the campaign went according to plan, with the exception of one circumstance: on January 28, Yuri Yudin left the route due to illness. Way forward the group committed nine. Until January 31, the campaign, according to the general diary of the campaign, the diaries of individual participants, the photo given in the Case, went well: difficulties were overcome, and new places gave young people new impressions. On January 31, the Dyatlov group made an attempt to overcome the pass separating the valleys of the Auspiya and Lozva rivers, however, having met with a strong wind at a low temperature (about -18), they were forced to retreat to spend the night in the forested part of the Auspiya river valley. On the morning of February 1, the group got up late, left some of the food and things in a specially equipped storage shed (it took a long time), had lunch, and at about 3 pm on February 1, they set out on the route. The materials on the termination of the Criminal Case, apparently expressing the collective opinion of the investigation and the interviewed specialists, say that such a late start to the route was first Igor Dyatlov's mistake. At the beginning, the group most likely followed its old trail, and then continued moving in the direction of Mount Otorten and at about 17:00 stopped for a cold overnight stay, on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl.

To facilitate the perception of information, we present a wonderfully drawn up diagram of the place of events, given by Vadim Chernobrov (Fig. 1).

ill. 1. Scheme of the place of events.

The materials of the criminal Case say that Dyatlov "came to the wrong place," making a mistake in the direction and taking much more to the left than was required to pass to the pass between heights 1096 and 663. This, according to the compilers of the Case, was the second mistake of Igor Dyatlov.

We do not agree with the version of the investigation and believe that Igor Dyatlov stopped the group not by mistake, by accident, but SPECIALLY at the place previously planned in the previous transition.

Our opinion is not alone - this was also stated during the investigation by an experienced student tourist - Sogrin, who was part of one of the search and rescue teams that found Igor Dyatlov's tent. The modern researcher Borzenkov also speaks about the planned stop in the book “Dyatlov Pass. Research and materials”, Yekaterinburg 2016, p. 138. What prompted Igor Dyatlov to do this?

COLD OVERNIGHT.

Arriving as we feel , to the point predetermined by Dyatlov, the group proceeded to set up a tent, according to all "tourist and climbing rules." The question of a cold overnight baffles the most experienced specialists and is one of the main mysteries of the tragic campaign. Many different versions are put forward, up to the absurd, they say it was done for "training".

Only we managed to find a convincing version.

The question arises whether the participants in the campaign knew that Dyatlov plans cold overnight. We think that they didn’t know *, but they didn’t argue, knowing about the difficult temper of their leader from previous campaigns and stories about them and forgiving him in advance.

*This is indicated by the fact that the bonfire accessories (axe, saw and stove) were not left at the site of the storage shed, moreover, a dry log for kindling was even prepared.

Taking part in the general work on arranging an overnight stay, only one person expressed his protest, namely, a professional tourism instructor, 37-year-old Semyon Zolotarev, who went through the war. This protest was expressed in a very peculiar way, testifying to the high intellectual abilities of his applicant. Semyon Zolotarev created a very remarkable document, namely Combat sheet number 1 " Evening Otorten.

We consider Battle Sheet No. 1 "Evening Otorten" to be the key to unraveling the tragedy.

About the authorship of Zolotarev, says the title itself " Combat leaf." Semyon Zolotarev was the only veteran of the Great Patriotic War among the participants in the campaign, and a very well-deserved one, who had four military awards, including the medal "For Courage". In addition, according to the tourist Axelrod, reflected in the Case, the handwriting of the handwritten "Evening Otorten" coincides with the handwriting of Zolotarev. So here it is at first"Battle leaflet", it is said that "according to the latest data of science Bigfoot live in the vicinity of Mount Otorten.

It must be said that at that time the whole world was engulfed in a fever of searching for Bigfoot, which has not died down to this day. Such searches were also carried out in the Soviet Union. We think that Igor Dyatlov was aware of this "problem" and dreamed of meeting Bigfoot and for the first time in the world and take a picture of it. It is known from the materials of the Case that Igor Dyatlov met with old hunters in Vizhay, consulted with them on the forthcoming campaign, perhaps it was also about Bigfoot. Of course, experienced hunters * told the "young" the whole "truth" about Bigfoot, where he lives, what his behavior is, what he loves.

* So the evidence of Chargin, 85 years old, is given in the case, that in Vizhay, a group of tourists from Dyatlovtsy addressed him as a hunter.

Of course, everything that was said was in the spirit of traditional hunting tales, but Igor Dyatlov believed what was said and decided that the surroundings of Otorten were just the perfect place for Bigfoot to live, and it was only a small matter - to get up for a cold night, cold, since Bigfoot loves the cold and out of curiosity, he himself will come to the tent. The place for a possible overnight stay was chosen by Igor in the previous transition on January 31, 1959, when the group actually reached the pass separating the basins of the Auspiya and Lozva rivers.

A photo of this moment has been preserved, which allowed Borzenkov to accurately determine this point on the map. The picture shows that, obviously, Igor Dyatlov and Semyon Zolotarev are arguing very hard about the further route. It is obvious that Zolotarev expresses against logically difficult to explain Dyatlov’s decision to return back to Auspiya and offers to “take the pass”, which was a matter of about 30 minutes and go down to spend the night in the Lozva river basin. Note that in this case the group would have stopped for the night just approximately in the area of ​​​​the same ill-fated cedar.

Everything becomes logically explainable, if we assume that already at that moment Dyatlov was planning a cold overnight stay, just on the slope of mountain 1096 *, which, in the event of an overnight stay in the Lozva basin, would be on the sidelines.

* This mountain, called in Mansiysk Mount Kholatchakhl, in translation is called " Mountain of the 9 Dead". Mansi consider this place "unclean" and bypass it. So from the Case, according to the testimony of student Slabtsov, who found the tent, the Mansi guide who accompanied them flatly refused to go to that mountain. We think that Dyatlov decided if it’s impossible, then it’s necessary to prove to everyone that it’s possible and he’s not afraid of anything, and he also thought that if they say it’s impossible, then it means exactlyhere inhabited by the notorious Bigfoot.

So, at about 17 pm on February 1, Igor Dyatlov gives unexpected a team that had a rest in the half-day group to get up for a cold overnight, explaining the reasons for this decision by the scientific problem of finding Bigfoot. The group, with the exception of Semyon Zolotarev, took this decision calmly. For the time remaining before sleep, Semyon Zolotarev made his famous “Evening Otorten”, which is actually a satirical work, sharply critical, the established order in the group.

There is, in our opinion, a reasonable point of view on the further tactics of Igor Dyatlov. According to the experienced tourist Axelrod, who knew Igor Dyatlov well from joint campaigns, Dyatlov planned to raise the group at dusk, at about 6 o'clock in the morning, then go on the assault on Mount Otorten. Most likely that is what happened. The group was preparing to get dressed (more precisely, to put on shoes, because people slept in clothes), while having breakfast with breadcrumbs and lard. According to numerous testimonies of participants in the rescue work, crackers were scattered all over the tent; they fell out of crumpled blankets along with pieces of lard. The situation was calm, no one, except Dyatlov, was seriously upset that the Bigfoot did not come and that, in fact, the group suffered such significant inconvenience in vain.

Only Semyon Zolotarev, who was located at the very entrance to the tent, was seriously indignant at what had happened. His dissatisfaction was fueled by the following circumstance. The fact is that Semyon had a birthday on February 2. And, it seems that since the night he began to “mark” him with alcohol intake, and it seems one, because according to Dr. Vozrozhdenny, no alcohol was found in the body of the first 5 tourists found. This is reflected in the official documents (in the Acts) given in the Case.

About a feast with chopped lard and empty flask with an apaha of vodka or alcohol at the entrance to the tent where Semyon Zolotarev was located is directly indicated in the Case by the prosecutor of the city of Indel Tempalov. A large flask of alcohol was confiscated in a discovered tent by student Boris Slobtsov. This alcohol, according to the testimony of student Brusnitsyn, a participant in the events, was immediately drunk by the members of the search group who found the tent. That is, in addition to the flask with alcohol in the tent there was a flask with the same drink. We think that we are talking about alcohol, and not about vodka.

Warmed up by alcohol, Zolotarev, dissatisfied with a cold and hungry night, left the tent for the toilet (a trace of urine remained at the tent) and outside demanded an analysis of Dyatlov's mistakes. Most likely, the amount of alcohol consumed was so significant that Zolotarev was very drunk and began to behave aggressively. Someone had to come out of the tent at this noise. At first glance, this should have been the leader of the campaign, Igor Dyatlov, but we think that he was not the one who came out to talk. Dyatlov was located at the farthest end of the tent, it was inconvenient for him to climb through everyone and, most importantly, Dyatlov was significantly inferior in his physical data to Semyon Zolotarev. We believe that tall (180 cm) and physically strong Yuri Doroshenko came out to Semyon's demand. This is also supported by the fact that ice ax, found near the tent, belonged to Yuri Doroshenko. So, in the materials of the Case there was an entry made by his hand “go to the trade union committee, take mine ice ax". Thus, Yuri Doroshenko, atthe only one in the group as it turned out later, it was time to put on the boots. The footprint of a single man in boots was documented in the Act by the prosecutor Tempalov.

Data on the presence or absence of alcohol in the body of 4 people found later (in May), and, specifically, in Semyon Zolotarev, are not available in the Acts of Doctor Vozrozhdenny, because. bodies at the time of the study had already begun to decompose. That is, the answer to the question: “Was Semyon Zolotarev drunk or not?” There are no materials in the Case.

So, Yuri Doroshenko, shod in ski boots, armed with an ice ax and taking with him a Dyatlov flashlight for illumination, because. it was still dark (it was getting light at 8-9 in the morning, and the action took place around 7 in the morning), gets out of the tent. A short, sharp and unpleasant conversation took place between Zolotarev and Doroshenko. Obviously, Zolotarev expressed his opinion about Dyatlov and Dyatlovtsy.

From the point of view of Zolotarev, Dyatlov makes gross mistakes. The first of them was the passage by Dyatlov of the mouth of the Auspiya River. As a result, the group had to make a detour. It was incomprehensible for Zolotarev and the withdrawal of the group on January 31 to the bed of the Auspiya river instead of going down to the bed of the Lozva and, finally, absurd, and, most importantly, fruitless cold overnight. The dissatisfaction hiddenly expressed by Zolotarev in the Evening Otorten newspaper spilled out.

We think that Zolotarev offered to remove Dyatlov from the post of leader of the campaign, replacing him with someone else, meaning himself first of all. It is difficult to say in what form Zolotarev proposed this to us now. It is clear that after drinking alcohol, the form should be sharp, but the degree of sharpness depends on the specific reaction of a person to alcohol. Zolotarev, who knew the war in all its manifestations, of course, was mentally disturbed, and could simply be aroused to alcoholic psychosis, bordering on delirium. Judging by the fact that Doroshenko left an ice ax and a flashlight and preferred to hide in a tent, Zolotarev was very excited. The guys even blocked his way to the tent, throwing the stove, backpacks, food at the entrance. This circumstance, up to the term “barricade”, is repeatedly emphasized in the testimonies of the participants in the rescue operation. Moreover, at the entrance to the tent stood an ax, absolutely superfluous in this place.

Obviously, the students decided to actively defend themselves.

Perhaps this circumstance enraged the drunk Zolotarev even more (so in the tent in the tent at the entrance the curtain of the sheet was literally torn). Most likely, all these obstacles only infuriated Zolotarev, who was rushing into the tent to continue the showdown. And then Zolotarev remembered the gap in the tent from the "mountain" side, which was repaired all together at the previous parking lot. And he decided to get inside the tent through this gap, using "psychological weapons" so that he would not be hindered, as was done at the front.

He probably shouted something like "I throw a grenade".

The fact is that in 1959 the country was still overflowing with weapons, despite all the Government Decrees on its surrender. It was not a problem to get a grenade at that time, especially in Sverdlovsk, where weapons were brought for remelting. So the threat was very real. And in general, it is very likely that it was not only an imitation of a threat.

MAYBE THERE WAS A REAL BATTLE GRENADE.

Apparently, investigator Ivanov had this in mind when speaking about a certain "piece of iron" that he underinvestigated. A grenade could really come in handy on a campaign, in particular, for killing fish under ice, as was done during the war, since part of the route passed along rivers. And, quite possibly, the front-line soldier Zolotarev decided to take such a “necessary” object on a campaign.

Zolotarev did not calculate the effect of his "weapon". The students took the threat seriously and left the tent in a panic, making two cuts in the canvas. This happened around 7 am, as it was still dark, as evidenced by a flashlight. on fire condition, dropped by students and subsequently found by searchers 100 meters from the tent down the slope.

Zolotarev walked around the tent and, continuing to imitate the threat, decided to drunkenly teach the "young". He formed the people in a line (as witnessed by all the people who observed the footprints) and commanded "Down", setting the direction. He gave one blanket with him, they say, keep yourself warm with one blanket, as in that Armenian riddle from Evening Otorten. This is how the cold overnight stay of the Dyatlovites ended.

TRAGEDY IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS.

People went down, and Zolotarev climbed into the tent and apparently continued to drink, celebrating his birthday. The fact that someone remained in the tent is evidenced by a subtle observer, a student, Sorgin, whose testimony is given in the File.

Zolotarev, settled down on two blankets. All the blankets in the tent were crumpled, with the exception of two, on which they found skins from the loin, which Zolotarev ate. It was already dawn, the wind had risen, which passed through the gap in one place of the tent and cutouts in another. Zolotarev closed the breakthrough with Dyatlov’s fur jacket, and had to deal with the cutouts in a different way, since the initial attempt to plug the cutouts with things, following the example of the hole, failed (for example, according to Astenaki, several blankets and a padded jacket stuck out of the cutouts of the tent). Then Zolotarev decided to lower the far edge of the tent, cutting the rack - a ski pole.

The weight of the fallen snow (the fact that there was snow at night is evidenced by the fact that the Dyatlov lantern lay on the tent on a layer of snow about 10 cm thick) the stick was rigidly fixed and it was not possible to immediately pull it out. The stick had to be cut with the long knife used to cut the fat. The cut stick was pulled out, its parts were found cut from the top of the backpacks. The far edge of the tent sank and closed the cutouts, and Zolotarev settled down at the front post of the tent and, obviously, fell asleep for a while, having finished drinking alcohol from a flask.

The group, meanwhile, continued to move down, in the direction indicated by Zolotarev. It is testified that the tracks were divided into two groups - to the left of 6 people, and to the right - two. Then the tracks converged. These groups apparently corresponded to the two cutouts through which the people crawled out. The two on the right are Thibault and Dubinina, who were located closer to the exit. On the left is everyone else.

One man walked in boots(Yuri Doroshenko, we believe). Let us recall that this is documented in the Case file by Prokur Tempalov. It also says that there were traces eight, What documented confirms our version that one person remained in the tent.

It was dawning, it was difficult to walk because of the snow that had fallen and, of course, it was desperately cold, because. The temperature was around -20 C with wind. At about 9 o'clock in the morning, a group of 8 tourists, already half-frostbitten, found themselves next to a tall cedar. Cedar as a point around which they decided to build a fire was not chosen by chance. In addition to the dry lower branches for the fire, which we managed to “get” with the help of cuts, it was with great difficulty that an “observation post” was equipped on it to monitor the tent. For this, several large branches obstructing the view were cut out by the Finnish Krivonischenko. Below, under the cedar, with great difficulty, a small fire was lit, which, according to the concurring estimates of various observers, burned for 1.5-2 hours. If we ended up at the cedar at 9 am, it took an hour to make a fire, and plus two hours, it turns out that the fire went out at about 12 o'clock in the afternoon.

Still taking Zolotarev's threat seriously, the group decided not to return to the tent for the time being, but to try to "hold on" by building some kind of shelter, at least from the wind, for example, in the form of a cave. It turned out to be possible to do this in a ravine, near a stream that flowed towards the Lozva River. For this shelter, 10-12 poles were cut. What exactly the poles were supposed to serve for is not clear, maybe they planned to build a “floor” from them by throwing spruce branches on top.

Zolotarev, meanwhile, "rested" in the tent, forgetting himself in an anxious drunken dream. Having woken up and sobered up a little, at about 10-11 o'clock he saw that the situation was serious, the students had not returned, which means that they were "in trouble" somewhere and realized that he "went too far". He followed the footsteps down, realizing his guilt and already without a weapon (the ice ax remained at the tent, the knife in the tent). True, it remains unclear where the grenade was located, if it really was. At about 12 o'clock he approached the cedar. He walked dressed and in felt boots. The trace of one person in felt boots was recorded by the observer Akselrod 10-15 meters from the tent. He went down to Lozva.

The question arises: “Why is there no or not noticed ninth track? The issue here is most likely the following. The students descended at 7 o'clock in the morning, and Zolotarev at about 11 o'clock. By this time, at dawn, a strong wind had risen, a drifting snow, which partly blew away the snow that had fallen at night, and partly compacted it, pressed it to the ground. It turned out thinner, and most importantly, denser layer of snow. In addition, felt boots are larger than boots, and even more so feet without shoes. The pressure from the boots on the snow, per unit area, is several times less, so the traces of the descending Zolotarev were hardly noticeable and were not recorded by observers.

The people at the cedar, meanwhile, met him in a critical situation. Half-frozen, unsuccessfully trying in turn to keep warm by the fire, bringing freezing hands, legs and faces close to the fire. Apparently from this combination of frostbite and mild burns, an unusual skin coloration of red tones of exposed parts of the body was observed in five tourists found in the first phase of the search.

People put all the blame for what happened on Zolotarev, so his appearance did not bring relief, but served to further escalate the situation. Moreover, the psyche of hungry and freezing people worked, of course, inadequately. Possible apologies from Zolotarev, or vice versa, his command orders, obviously, were not accepted. The lynching has begun. We think that at first Thibault demanded to take off his felt boots as an initial measure of "retaliation" and then demanded to give the Pobeda watch, which reminded Zolotarev of his participation in the war, which, obviously, was the subject of his pride. This struck Zolotarev as extremely offensive. In response, he hit Thibaut with a camera, which he may have demanded to give. And again, "didn't calculate", obviously the alcohol was still in the blood. used the camera as sling* he punched Thibault in the head, actually killed him.

* This is evidenced by the fact that the camera strap was wound around Zolotarev's arm.

In the conclusion of Dr. Vozrozhdenny, it is said that Thibaut's skull is deformed in a rectangular area measuring 7x9 cm, which approximately corresponds to the size of the camera, and a torn hole in the center of the rectangle is 3x3.5x2 cm. This approximately corresponds to the size of the protruding lens. The camera, according to numerous witnesses, was found on the corpse of Zolotarev. Photo saved.

After that, of course, everyone present attacked Zolotarev. Someone was holding hands, and Doroshenko, the only one with boots kicked him in the chest in the ribs. Zolotarev desperately defended himself, hit Slobodin so that his skull cracked, and when Zolotarev was immobilized by collective efforts, he began to fight with his teeth, biting off the tip of Krivonischenko's nose. So, apparently, they were taught in front-line intelligence, where, according to some information, Zolotarev served.

During this fight, Lyudmila Dubinina for some reason, was ranked among the "supporters" of Zolotarev. Perhaps at the beginning of the fight she sharply objected to lynching, and when Zolotarev actually killed Thibaut, she fell into disgrace. But, most likely, the fury of those present turned to Dubinina for this reason. Everyone understood that the beginning of the tragedy, its trigger point, was Zolotarev's intake of alcohol. The case contains the testimony of Yuri Yudin that, in his opinion, one of the main shortcomings in the organization of the Dyatlov campaign was lack of alcohol, which, it was he, Yudin, who could not get it in Sverdlovsk, but, as we already know, there was still alcohol in the group. This means that alcohol was bought on the way to Vizhay, in Indel, or, most likely, at the last moment before going on the route from lumberjacks in the 41st forest area. Since Yudin did not know about the presence of alcohol, it was obviously kept secret. Dyatlov decided to use alcohol under some emergency circumstances - such as the assault on Mount Otorten, when his strength was running out, or to mark the successful end of the campaign. But the supply manager and accountant Dubinina could not help but know about the presence of alcohol in the group, since it was she who allocated public money to Dyatlov to buy alcohol on the road. People or Dyatlov personally decided that she was talking about it blabbed Zolotarev, who slept nearby and with whom she willingly communicated (photos have been preserved). In general, in reality, Dubinina received the same, even more severe injuries than Zolotarev (10 ribs were broken in Dubinina, 5 in Zolotarev). In addition, she had her "talkative" tongue torn out..

Considering that the “opponents” were dead, one of the Dyatlovites, fearing responsibility, squeezed out their eyes, because. there was and still is a belief that the image of the murderer remains in the pupil of the victim of a violent death. This version is supported by the fact that Thibaut, who was mortally wounded by Zolotarev, had his eyes intact.

Let's not forget that people acted on the verge of life and death, in a state of extreme excitement of passion, when animal instincts completely turn off acquired human qualities. Yuri Doroshenko was found with frozen foam at the mouth, which confirms our version of his extreme degree of arousal, which reached rabies.

It is very similar to the fact that Lyudmila Dubinina suffered without guilt. The fact is that with almost 100 percent probability Semyon Zolotarev was an alcoholic, like many of the direct participants in the hostilities in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A fatal role here was played by the “People's Commissar's” 100 grams of vodka, which were issued at the front every day during the hostilities. Any narcologist will say that if this continues for more than six months, then dependence of varying severity inevitably arises, depending on the physiology of a particular person. The only way to avoid the disease was to abandon the "People's Commissar", which, of course, a rare Russian person can do. So it is unlikely that Semyon Zolotarev was such an exception. Indirect confirmation of this is the episode on the train on the way from Sverdlovsk, described in the diary of one of the participants in the campaign, which is given in the File. A "young alcoholic" turned to the tourists, demanding the return of a bottle of vodka, stolen, in his opinion, by one of them. The incident was hushed up, but most likely Dyatlov “figured out” Zolotarev and, when buying alcohol, strictly forbade Lyudmila Dubinina to tell Zolotarev about this. Since Zolotarev nevertheless took possession of the Dyatlov alcohol, and then everyone else decided that the supply manager Dubinina, who let it out, was to blame, blabbed. Most likely it was not so. Students in their youth did not know that alcoholics develop a supernatural "sixth" sense for alcohol and they successfully and accurately find it in any conditions. Just by intuition. So Dubinina here, most likely, had nothing to do with it.

The described bloody tragedy occurred at about 12 noon on February 2, 1959, near the ravine where the shelter was being prepared.

This time of 12 noon is determined as follows. As we already wrote, the tourists in a panic left the tent through the cutouts at about 7 am on February 2, 1959. The distance to the cedar is 1.5-2 km. Taking into account the "nudity" and "barefoot" and the difficulties of orientation, the difficulties of orientation in the dark and at dawn, the group reached the cedar in an hour and a half or two. It turns out 8.5-9 o'clock in the morning. It's dawn. Another hour to prepare firewood, cut branches for an observation post, prepare poles for decking. It turns out that the fire was lit at about 10 o'clock in the morning. According to numerous testimonies of search engines, the fire burned for 1.5-2 hours. It turns out that the fire went out when the group went to sort things out with Zolotarev to the ravine, i.e. at 11.30 - 12 noon. It comes out around 12 noon. After the fight, having lowered the bodies of the dead into the cave (dropping them), a group of 6 people returned to the cedar.

And the fact that the fight took place at the ravine is proved by the fact that, according to the expert opinion of Dr. Thibault himself could not move after the impact. It could only be carried. And to carry even 70 meters from the cedar to the ravine to dying, half-frozen people was clearly unable to.

Those who saved the forces of Dyatlov, Slobodin, and Kolmogorov rushed to the tent, the path to which was now free. Exhausted in the fight, Doroshenko, the fragile Krivonischenko and Kolevatov remained at the cedar and tried to rekindle the fire near the cedar, which had gone out during the fight in the ravine. So, Doroshenko was found fallen on dry branches, which he obviously carried to the fire. But they didn't seem to be able to rekindle the fire. After some time, perhaps a very short time, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko froze to death. Kolevatov lived longer than them, and finding that his comrades were dead, and the fire could not be re-lit, he decided to meet his fate in the cave, thinking that one of those who were in it might still be alive. He cut off some of the warm clothes of his dead comrades with a Finn and carried them to the "hole in the ravine" where the rest were. He also took off Yuri Doroshenko's shoes, but apparently decided that they were hardly useful and threw them into the ravine. The boots were never found, as well as a number of other things of the Dyatlovites, which is reflected in the File. In the Kolevatov cave, Thibault,

Dubinina and Zolotarev met their death.

Igor Dyatlov, Rustem Slobodin and Zinaida Kolmogorova met their death on the difficult path to the tent, fighting to the last for their lives. It happened around 13 hours of the day on February 2, 1959.

The time of the death of the group, according to our version, is 12-13 pm, coincides with the assessment of the remarkable medical examiner Dr. Vozrozhdenny, according to which the death of all the victims occurred 6-8 hours after the last meal. And this reception was breakfast after a cold night at about 6 in the morning. 6-8 hours later gives 12-14 noon, which almost exactly coincides with the time indicated by us.

THERE IS A TRAGIC END.

CONCLUSION .

It is difficult to find right and wrong in this story. Pity everyone. The greatest fault, as it sounded in the materials of the Case, lies with the head of the UPI Gordo sports club, it was he who had to check the psychological stability of the group and only after that give the go-ahead to the exit. It’s a pity for the fervent Zina Kolmogorova, who loved life so much, the romantic, dreaming of love Luda Dubinina, the foppish handsome Kolya Thibaut, the fragile Georgy Krivonischenko with the soul of a musician, the faithful comrade Sasha Kolevatov, the mischievous home boy Rustem Slobodin, sharp, strong, with his own concepts of justice, Yuri Doroshenko. It is a pity for a talented radio engineer, but a naive and narrow-minded person and useless leader of the campaign, the ambitious Igor Dyatlov. It is a pity for the honored front-line soldier, scout Semyon Zolotarev, who did not find the right ways to make the campaign go as he probably wanted, as best as possible.

In principle, we agree with the conclusions of the investigation that “the group encountered natural forces that they were unable to overcome.” Only we believe that these natural forces were not external, but domestic. Some could not cope with their ambitions, Zolotarev did not make a psychological allowance for the young age of the participants in the campaign and its leader. And of course, a huge role was played by the violation of the "dry law" during the campaign, which, obviously, officially acted among the students of the UPI.

We believe that the investigation eventually came to a version close to that voiced by us. This is indicated by the fact that Semyon Zolotarev was buried separately from the main group of Dyatlovites. But, publicly voicing this version in 1959, the authorities considered it undesirable for political reasons. So, according to the memoirs of investigator Ivanov, “In the Urals, probably, there will not be a person who did not talk about this tragedy in those days” (see the book “Dyatlov Pass”, p. 247). Therefore, the investigation limited itself to the abstract formulation of the cause of the death of the group given above. Moreover, we believe that the materials of the Case contain indirect confirmation of the version of the presence of a combat grenade or grenades from one of the participants in the campaign. So in the Acts of Doctor Vozrozhdenny it is said that multiple fractures of the ribs in Zolotarev and Dubinina could result from the action air shock wave, which just generates a grenade explosion. In addition, the forensic prosecutor, Ivanov, who conducted the investigation, as we already wrote about this, spoke about the “under-investigation” of some piece of iron found. Most likely we are talking about Zolotarev's grenade, which could be anywhere from a tent to a ravine. It is obvious that the people who conducted the investigation exchanged information and, perhaps, the “grenade” version also reached Dr. Vozrozhdenny.

We also found direct evidence that already in early March, that is, in the initial phase of the search, the version of the explosion was considered. So investigator Ivanov writes in his memoirs: “There were no traces of an explosion wave. This was carefully considered by Maslennikov and I” (see the article “Memoirs from the family archive” in the book “Dyatlov Pass” by Ivanov L.N. “Memories from the family archive” p. 255).

This means that there were grounds for searching for traces of the explosion, that is, it is possible that the grenade was nevertheless found by sappers. Since the memoirs are about Maslennikov, this determines the time - the beginning of March, so later Maslennikov departed for Sverdlovsk.

This is evidence very significant, especially if you remember that at that time the “Mansi version” was the main one, that is, that the local residents of the Mansi were involved in the tragedy. The Mansi version completely collapsed by the end of March 1959.

The fact that by the time the bodies of the last four tourists were discovered in early May, the investigation had come to certain conclusions, is evidenced by the complete indifference of prosecutor Ivanov, who was present when the bodies were dug up. The head of the last group of search engines Askinadzi speaks about this in his memoirs. So, most likely, the grenade was found not near the cave, but somewhere on the stretch from the tent to the cedar in February-March, when a group of sappers with mine detectors worked there. That is, by May, by the time the bodies of the last four dead were discovered, everything was already more or less clear to the forensic prosecutor Ivanov, who was conducting the investigation.

Obviously, that this tragic incident should serve as a lesson for tourists of all generations.

And for this, the activities of the Dyatlov Foundation should be, as we believe, continued.

ADDITION. ABOUT FIRE BALLS.

The monster is oblo, mischievous, huge, staring and barking

It is not by chance that we cited this epigraph from the wonderful story of the educator A.N. Radishchev Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. This epigraph is about the state. So how "evil" was the Soviet state of 1959 and how did it "bark" at tourists?

That's how. Organized a tourist section at the institute, where everyone studied for free and received a scholarship. Then such an "evil" one allocated money in the amount of 1,300 rubles for the hike of his students, gave them the most expensive equipment for the duration of the hike - a tent, skis, boots, windbreakers, sweaters. Helped with the planning of the trip, the development of the route. And, even issued a paid business trip to the leader of the campaign, Igor Dyatlov. The height of cynicism in our opinion. This is how our country, in which we all grew up, “barked” at tourists.

When it became clear that something unforeseen had happened to the students, they immediately organized an expensive and well-organized rescue and search operation involving aviation, military personnel, athletes, other tourists, as well as the local Mansi population, who showed their best side.

But what about the famous FIRE BALLS? Which tourists were allegedly so afraid of that they barricaded the entrance to the tent, and then cut it open in order to urgently get out of it?

We also found the answer to this question.

We were helped a lot to find this answer by the images that a group of researchers from Yekaterinburg obtained by processing film from a camera by Semyon Zolotarev with the help of a unique technique. Recognizing the significant importance of this work, we wish to draw attention to the following easily verifiable and obvious data.

It is enough just to rotate the resulting images to see that they do not depict at all mythical"fireballs" and real and understandable stories.

So if we rotate one of the images from the book “Dyatlov Pass” and called “Mushroom” by the authors by 180 degrees, then we can easily see dead face one of the Dyatlovites found last, namely Alexander Kolevatov. It was he who, according to eyewitnesses, was found with his tongue hanging out, which is easily "read" in the photo. From this fact it is obvious that Zolotarev's film, after the frames he shot on the campaign, shot by a group of search engines Askinadzi.

ill. 3. "Mysterious" photo No. 7 *. Kolevatov's face.

This is the "Mushroom" object in Yakimenko's terminology.

*Photos 6,7 are given in the article by Valentin Yakimenko “Tapes of the Dyatlovites”: Searches, finds and new mysteries” in the book “Dyatlov Pass” p.424. from there the numbering of the pictures. This position is further proved by this frame named by the authors "Lynx".

Let's rotate it 90 degrees clockwise. In the center of the frame, the face of a man from the Askinaji search group is clearly visible. Here is a photo from his archive.

Fig. 4 Asktinadzi group. By this time people already knew where the bodies are located and made a special dam - a trap "in the photo" to detain them in the event of a flash flood. A snapshot of late April - early May 1959.

ill. 5 "Mysterious" photo No. 6 (Lynx object) according to Yakimenko's terminology and an enlarged image of a search engine.

We see that, in the center of the frame, a man from the Askinadzi group is from Zolotarev's film.

We think that this person did not accidentally turn out to be in the center frame. Perhaps it was he who played the key, main, central role in the search - figured out where the bodies of the last Dyatlovites were. This is also evidenced by the fact that he feels like a winner in the group picture of the search engines and is located above all.

We believe that and All other pictures given in Yakimenko's article have a similar, purely earthly origin.

So, thanks to the joint efforts of specialists from Yekaterinburg, first of all, Valentin Yakimenko and ours, the mystery of the "fireballs" was resolved by itself.

She just never existed.

As in other matters, the "fireballs" themselves in the vicinity of Mount Otorten on the night of February 1-2, 1959.

We respectfully present our work to all interested persons and organizations.

Sergey Goldin, analyst, independent expert.

Yuri Ransmi, research engineer, specialist in image analysis.

: lomov_andrey wrote - It is also interesting to read about the Dyatlov Pass. The topic is dark and I even wondered if you could find something that was previously unknown, it’s reluctant to wait a month, so if you can ask me a question: The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass.

Having looked at how many of these versions, I decided so, let's collect here very briefly the maximum number of them. Where possible, references will lead to their more extended interpretation. And you are required in the comments (if you read this on infoglaz.rf) or by voting at the end of the post (if you read this on LiveJournal) to choose the most likely version in your opinion. In the meantime, I will briefly tell you what happened at the pass:

January 23, 1959 the group went on a ski trip in the north of the Sverdlovsk region. The group was headed by an experienced tourist Igor Dyatlov. The group left for the starting point of the route at in full force, but Yuri Yudin was forced to return due to pain in his leg. On February 1, 1959, the group stopped for the night on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl (Kholat-Syakhl, translated from Mansi - "Mountain of the Dead") or peak "1079" (although on later maps its height is given as 1096.7 m.), not far from the nameless pass (later called the Dyatlov Pass).

On February 12, the group was supposed to reach the end point of the route - the village of Vizhay and send a telegram to the institute's sports club. There is a lot of testimonies from participants in search operations and tourists from the UPI that, with Yu. Yudin gone off the route, the group postponed the deadline to February 15. The telegram was not sent either on the 12th or the 15th of February.

An advanced search party was sent to Ivdel on 20 February to organize searches from the air. Search and rescue operations began on February 22, sending several search teams, formed from students and employees of the UPI, who had tourist and mountaineering experience. The young Sverdlovsk journalist Yu.E. also participated in the search. Yarovoy, who later published a story about these events. On February 26, a search group led by B. Slobtsov found an empty tent with a wall cut from the inside, facing down the slope. Equipment was left in the tent, as well as shoes and outerwear of some tourists.

This was seen by the Dyatlovites' tent during investigative actions.

On February 27, the day after the discovery of the tent, all forces were drawn into the search area, and a search headquarters was formed. Evgeny Polikarpovich Maslennikov, master of sports of the USSR in tourism, was appointed the head of the search, and Colonel Georgy Semyonovich Ortyukov, teacher of the military department of the UPI, was appointed chief of staff. On the same day, one and a half kilometers from the tent and 280 m down the slope, next to the traces of a fire, the bodies of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were found. They were stripped down to their underwear. 300 meters from them, up the slope and in the direction of the tent, lay the body of Igor Dyatlov. 180 meters from him, up the slope, they found the corpse of Rustem Slobodin, and 150 meters from Slobodin, even higher, - Zina Kolmogorova. There were no signs of violence on the corpses, all people died from hypothermia. Slobodin had a traumatic brain injury, which could be accompanied by repeated loss of consciousness and contributed to freezing.

The search took place in several stages from February to May. On May 4, 75 meters from the fire, under a four-meter layer of snow, in the bed of a stream that had already begun to melt, the bodies of Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexander Zolotarev, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles and Alexander Kolevatov were found. Three had serious injuries: Dubinina and Zolotarev had rib fractures, Thibault-Brignolle had a severe head injury. Kolevatov did not have any serious injuries, except for damage to his head caused by an avalanche probe, with which they searched for bodies. Thus, the search work ended with the discovery of the bodies of all participants in the campaign.

It was found that the death of all members of the group occurred on the night of February 1-2. Despite the efforts of the search engines, a complete picture of the incident has not been established. It remains unclear what really happened to the group that night, why they left the tent, how they acted further, under what circumstances four tourists were injured and how it happened that no one survived.

official investigation

The official investigation was opened by the prosecutor of the Ivdelsky district Tempalov on the fact of the discovery of the found corpses on February 28, 1959, was conducted for two months, then it was extended for another month and was closed on May 28, 1959. , apparently, faced some dangerous circumstances in which no signs of a crime are seen, and could not successfully resist them, as a result of which she died. The investigation, first of all, studied the circumstances of the case regarding the possibility of other people being in the area of ​​the death of the group at the time of the events. Versions of a deliberate attack on the group were checked (by the Mansi, runaway prisoners or anyone else). The task of fully elucidating the circumstances of the death of the group, apparently, was not set at all, since from the point of view of the goals of the investigation (making a decision on the existence of a crime), this was not of decisive importance.

Based on the results of the investigation, organizational conclusions were made regarding a number of leaders of tourism in the UPI, since their actions were seen as insufficient attention to the organization and security of amateur (the term "sports" was not yet used at that time) tourism.

The full case file has never been published. To a limited extent, they were available to Anatoly Gushchin, a journalist from Regional Newspaper of Yekaterinburg, who quoted some of them in his documentary story The Price of State Secrets for 9 Lives. According to Gushchin, a young specialist Korotaev V. I. of the Ivdel prosecutor's office was appointed the first investigator. He began to develop a version of the murder of tourists and was removed from the case, as the management demanded that the event be presented as an accident. L.I. Ivanov, a forensic prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, was appointed investigator. It should be noted that information about the role of Korotaev in the investigation is given by Gushchin without any documentary evidence. The materials of the investigation by V.I. Korotaev are absent from the archival criminal case, which consists of one volume, an album and a package labeled “Top Secret”. According to Yu. E. Yudin, who was familiarized with the case, it contains technical correspondence from the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region and the prosecutor's office of the RSFSR, which got acquainted with the case in the manner of prosecutor's supervision.

According to some commentators, the investigation did not study the facts fully enough to unequivocally classify the incident as a crime or an accident. In particular, the belonging of some of the found items and the reasons for their appearance in the area of ​​​​the death of the group were not established (sheaths, soldier's windings and other items of unknown origin were found). Later it turned out that the ebonite sheath found near the cedar was suitable for the knife of A. Kolevatov (a number of sources mention the second sheath near the tent). It has not been determined with what tool the trunks of the flooring found near the stream were cut or cut, an examination was not carried out to establish the avalanche, an examination of traces of biological tissues on the trunk of a cedar, allegedly left by tourists, an examination of injuries to the skull of Thibault-Brignolles with an answer to the question: what object could to apply these fractures and whether it was of artificial origin. The source of the radioactivity of some garments is vaguely identified. It remains unclear whether a biochemical examination of the blood and bioassays of the bodies of tourists was carried out, which (according to Gushchin) were selected and packed by Korotaev in Ivdel. There are no decisions in the case on recognizing the relatives of the dead tourists as victims, and therefore their legal representatives cannot exercise their rights to participate in a new investigation of the criminal case, if there are legal grounds for such.

In 1990, L.I. Ivanov, who was conducting the investigation, published an article “The Secret of Fireballs” in the newspaper “Kostanayskaya Pravda”, in which he stated that the case was closed at the request of the authorities, and the real cause of the death of the group was hidden: “... Everyone was told that the tourists were in an extreme situation and froze to death… …But that was not true. were hidden from the people real reasons deaths of people, and only a few knew these reasons: the former first secretary of the regional committee A.P. Kirilenko, the second secretary of the regional committee A.F. Eshtokin, the prosecutor of the region N.I. Klimov and the author of these lines, who were investigating the case ... ”. In the same article, L.I. Ivanov suggested that a UFO could be the cause of the death of tourists. Some researchers suggest that the mystical bias that prevailed in the press of the 90s, and references to such artifacts, indicate the impossibility of the investigation to clearly and in detail explain the causes of the tragedy due to the imperfection of knowledge, both on the part of the investigators and in the scientific community of that time.

There are more than twenty versions of why the Dyatlov group died, from everyday to fantastic

And now the versions:

1. Quarrel between tourists
This version was not taken as serious by any of the tourists who had experience close to the experience of the Dyatlov group, not to mention the greater one, which the vast majority of tourists have above the 1st category according to the modern classification. Due to the specifics of training in tourism as a sport, potential conflicts are eliminated already at the stage of preliminary training. The Dyatlov group was similar and well prepared by the standards of that time, so the conflict that led to the emergency development of events was excluded under any circumstances. It is possible to assume the development of events by analogy with what could happen in a group of young difficult-to-educate adolescents only from the position of an average person who has no idea about the traditions and specifics of sports tourism. Especially characteristic of the youth environment of the 1950s.

3. Avalanche.
The version suggests that an avalanche descended on the tent, the tent fell under a load of snow, the tourists cut the wall during the evacuation from it, after which it became impossible to stay in the tent until morning. Their further actions due to the onset of hypothermia were not quite adequate, which ultimately led to death. It was also suggested that the serious injuries received by some of the tourists were caused by the avalanche.

4. Influence of infrasound.
Infrasound can occur when an air object is flying low above the ground, as well as as a result of resonance in natural cavities or other natural objects under the action of wind, or when it flows around solid objects, due to the occurrence of aeroelastic oscillations. Under the influence of infrasound, tourists experienced an attack of uncontrollable fear, which explains the flight.
Some expeditions visiting the area have noted an unusual condition that may be due to the effects of infrasound. In the Mansi legends there are also references to oddities, which can also be interpreted in a similar way.

5. Ball lightning.
As a variant of a natural phenomenon that frightened tourists and thus initiated further events, ball lightning is no better or worse than any other assumption, but this version also suffers from a lack of direct evidence. As well as the absence of any statistics on the occurrence of BL in winter in the Northern latitudes.

6. Attack by escaped prisoners.
The investigation requested nearby ITUs and received an answer that no prisoners escaped during the period of interest. In winter, shoots in the Northern Urals are problematic due to the severity of natural conditions and the inability to move outside permanent roads. In addition, this version is opposed by the fact that all things, money, valuables, food and alcohol remained intact.

7. Death at the hands of Mansi

“Kholat-Syahyl, a mountain (1079 m) on the watershed ridge between the upper reaches of the Lozva and its tributary, the Auspiya, 15 km southeast of Otorten. Mansi "Kholat" - "the dead", that is, Kholat-Syahyl - the mountain of the dead. There is a legend that nine Mansi once died on this peak. Sometimes it is added that this happened during the Flood. According to another version, during the flood, hot water flooded everything around, except for a place on the top of the mountain, sufficient for a person to lie down. But Mansi, who found refuge here, died. Hence the name of the mountain ... "
However, despite this, neither Mount Otorten nor Kholat-Syakhyl are sacred to the Mansi.

Or a conflict with hunters:

The first suspects were local Mansi hunters. According to investigators, they quarreled with the tourists and attacked them. Some were seriously injured, others managed to escape and then died from hypothermia. Several Mansi were arrested, but they categorically denied their guilt. It is not known how their fate would have developed (the law enforcement agencies of those years were perfect in the art of gaining recognition), but the examination established that the cuts on the tourists' tent were made not from the outside, but from the inside. It was not the attackers who "burst" into the tent, but the tourists themselves tried to get out of it. In addition, no extraneous traces were found around the tent, supplies remained intact (and they were of considerable value to the Mansi). Therefore, the hunters had to be released.

8. Tests of secret weapons - one of the most popular versions.
It has been suggested that the hikers were hit by some kind of weapon being tested, the impact of which provoked the flight, and possibly directly contributed to the deaths. As damaging factors, such as vapors of rocket fuel components, a sodium cloud from a specially equipped rocket, and a blast wave were named, the action of which explains injuries. As confirmation, the excessive radioactivity of the clothes of some tourists recorded by the investigation is given.

Or, for example, testing a nuclear weapon:

Having dealt with the enemy's intrigues, let's consider the version of a secret nuclear test in the area where the Dyatlov group is located (this is how they try to explain the traces of radiation on the clothes of the dead). Alas, from October 1958 to September 1961, the USSR did not carry out any nuclear explosions, observing the Soviet-American agreement on a moratorium on such tests. Both we and the Americans carefully monitored the observance of "nuclear silence". In addition, with an atomic explosion, traces of radiation would have been on all members of the group, but the examination recorded radioactivity only on the clothes of three tourists. Some “experts” explain the unnatural orange-red color of the skin and clothes of the deceased by the fall of the Soviet ballistic missile R-7 in the area of ​​​​the Dyatlov group’s parking lot: supposedly it scared the tourists, and fuel vapors, being on clothes and skin, caused such a strange reaction. But rocket fuel does not “color” a person, but instantly kills. Tourists would have died near their tent. In addition, as the investigation established, no rocket launches were carried out from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the period from January 25 to February 5, 1959.

9. UFO.
The version is purely speculative, it relies on observations made at other times of some luminous objects, but there is no evidence of a group meeting with such an object.

10. Bigfoot.
The version about the appearance of a “snowman” (relic hominoid) near the tent, at first glance, explains both the stampede of tourists and the nature of the injuries - according to Mikhail Trakhtengerts, a member of the board of the Russian association of cryptozoologists, “as if someone had already hugged them very tightly ". Traces, the edges of which by the time the search began would already be indistinct, could simply be mistaken for blowing or protruding stones sprinkled with snow. In addition, the search team was primarily looking for traces of people, and such atypical prints could simply be ignored.

11. Dwarfs from the mainland Arctida, Descendants of the ancient Aryans, and so on in the same vein.
The version is that the group stumbled upon some artifacts belonging to representatives of some legendary peoples, sects, carefully hiding from people, or met with them themselves and was destroyed to keep the secret. No unambiguously interpreted confirmation of this version (as well as evidence of the existence of these peoples or sects) is given.

12. Zolotarev's special service past (Yefim Saturday's version).

He was forced to move from place to place, hiding from those who had reason to take revenge on him (former colleagues or victims of SMERSH). Zolotarev could not turn to the authorities for help, because he had a "secret", which he did not want to share. This "secret" was the goal of Zolotarev's pursuers. Semyon moved farther and farther until he ended up in the Urals.

13. Version of Galka about the crash of a military transport aircraft
In a nutshell, the fuel carrier aircraft made an emergency release of cargo, presumably methanol (or itself collapsed in the air). The methanol caused sliding, unusually moving landslides, then possibly an avalanche.

14. This is the work of the KGB.

Many facts of hiding, evidence, correcting information and ignoring certain facts.

15. Military poachers

It is our military who have long been the most unpunished of all possible poachers. Try to catch up with a combat helicopter on a motorcycle or an ordinary motor boat. At the same time, often, shooting is carried out at everything “that moves”, and military personnel sometimes do not think about the problem of collecting their hunting trophies at all.

16. Crime, gold.

In the village of 2nd Severny (the last settlement), still with Yudin, who left the group, they visited a warehouse of geological samples. We took some stones with us. Yudin took some (or all?) of it with him in his backpack. From Kolmogorova's diary: “I took several samples. I saw this breed for the first time after drilling. There is a lot of chalcopyrite and pyrite here.” Several sources note that among the “locals” during the search and investigation there were rumors: “The guys’ backpacks were stuffed with gold.” In principle, some samples outwardly could resemble gold. And they could be radioactive to one degree or another. Maybe they were looking for these stones (even if they were taken by tourists by mistake?)

17. Political, anti-party and anti-Soviet overtones

ill-fated "magic power of a piece of paper", which gave official status to the Dyatlov group of tourists, with all the ensuing consequences, can be compared with a plane ticket doomed to inevitable death with all its passengers.
If the Dyatlovites had set off as ordinary wild tourists along with the Blinovites, then both episodes involving the police could seriously affect the behavior of Yura Krivonischenko, and in the village. Vizhay there would be no special need to stop, and if you had to spend the night there, then you would spend the night “in the same club where we were 2 years ago”. They would not have had to communicate with the leadership of the colony, thereby worsening their living conditions in the village. Vizhay. The Dyatlovites would not have had to advertise in the village of Vizhay the purpose of their campaign, timed to coincide with beginning of XXI Congress of the CPSU...

18. The mysterious death of the members of the Dyatlov group was associated with airborne electric discharge explosions of fragments of a small comet.

Quite quickly identified about a dozen witnesses who said that on the day of the murder of students, a balloon flew by. Witnesses: Mansi Anyamov, Sanbindalov, Kurikov - not only described him, but also drew him (these drawings were later removed from the file). All these materials were soon demanded by Moscow...

19. A slightly modified version of a thunderstorm, based on the fact that it is lightning discharges that are a direct consequence of the death of the group, and not temperature or a snowstorm.

20 Zeki fled, and they had to be either caught or destroyed.

Catch in the winter in forest thickets? It makes no sense. Destroy - than.
No, not cruise missiles, of course, and not vacuum bombs. Used gases. Most likely a nerve agent.

Or like this:

One of the versions of conspiracy theorists: the Dyatlov group was liquidated by the special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which pursued the escaped prisoners (I must say, there really were a lot of “zones” in the northern Urals). At night, the special forces collided with tourists in the forest, mistook them for "convicts" and killed them. At the same time, for some reason, the mysterious special forces did not use either cold or firearms: there were no stab or bullet wounds on the body of the dead. In addition, it is known that in the 50s. escaped prisoners at night in the wilderness of the forest were usually not pursued - too much risk. They passed orientations to the authorities in the nearest settlements and waited: you won’t last long in the forest without supplies, willy-nilly, the fugitives had to go to “civilization”. And most importantly! Investigators asked for information about the escapes of "convicts" from the surrounding "zones". It turned out that in late January - early February there were no shoots. Therefore, there was no one to catch the special forces on Kholat-Syahyl.

21. "Controlled Delivery"

And here is the most “exotic” version: it turns out that the Dyatlov group was liquidated by ... foreign agents! Why? To disrupt the KGB operation: after all, the student hike was just a cover for the “controlled delivery” of radioactive clothing to enemy agents. The explanations for this amazing theory are not without wit. It is known that investigators found traces of a radioactive substance on the clothes of three dead tourists. Conspiracy theorists linked this fact with the biography of one of the dead - Georgy Krivonischenko. He worked in the closed city of atomic scientists Ozersk (Chelyabinsk-40), where plutonium was produced for atomic bombs. Samples of radioactive clothing provided invaluable information for foreign intelligence. Krivonischenko, who worked for the KGB, was supposed to meet with enemy agents at the Kholat-Syakhyl mountain and hand over radioactive “material” to them. But Krivonischenko "pierced" on something, and then the enemy agents, covering their tracks, destroyed the entire Dyatlov group. The killers acted subtly: threatening with weapons, but not using it (they didn’t want to leave traces), they drove the young people out of the tent into the cold without shoes, to certain death. For a while, the saboteurs waited, then followed in the footsteps of the group and brutally finished off those who did not freeze. Thriller, and more! And now - let's think. How could the KGB officers plan a "controlled delivery" in a remote area that they did not control? Where could they neither observe the operation nor secure their agent? Absurd. And where did the spies come from among the Ural forests, where was their base? Only the invisible man will not "light up" in small surrounding villages: their inhabitants know each other by sight and immediately pay attention to strangers. And why did the adversaries, who conceived a cunning staging of the death of tourists from hypothermia, suddenly seem to have gone mad and began to torture their victims - breaking ribs, tearing out their tongues, eyes? And how did these invisible maniacs manage to get away from the persecution of the ubiquitous KGB? The conspiracy theorists do not have answers to all these questions.

Rakitin's version

22. Meteorite

The forensic medical examination, examining the nature of the injuries inflicted on the members of the group, came to the conclusion that they "very similar to the injury that occurred during an air blast wave." Examining the area, the investigators found traces of fire on some trees. It seemed as if some unknown force selectively affected both the dead people and the trees. In the late 1920s scientists were able to assess the consequences of the impact of such a natural phenomenon. It was in the area where the Tunguska meteorite fell. According to the memoirs of the participants of that expedition, badly burned trees in the epicenter of the explosion could be next to the survivors. Scientists could not logically explain such a strange "selectivity" of the flame. The investigators in the case of the "Dyatlovites" could not find out all the details either: on May 28, 1959, a command came from "above" - ​​to close the case, classify all materials and hand them over to the special archive. The final conclusion of the investigation turned out to be very vague: "It should be considered that the cause of the death of tourists was an elemental force, which people were not able to overcome."

23. Methyl alcohol poisoning.
There were 2 flasks of ethyl alcohol in the group, which were found unopened. No other alcohol-containing objects or traces of them were found.

24. Meeting with a bear.
According to the recollections of people who knew Dyatlov, he had experience of meeting wild animals on a campaign and knew how to act in such situations, so it is unlikely that such an attack would lead to the flight of the group. In addition, there were no traces of a large predator in the area, no traces of its attack on the bodies of already frozen tourists. This version is also contradicted by the fact that several members of the group, judging by the position of the bodies, tried to return to the abandoned tent - no one would do this in the dark, when it is impossible to make sure that the beast had already left.

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