Tragedia na Przełęczy Diatłowa (1 luty 1959 r.)

[fortyck]

January 26, 1959

On January 26 1959 Dyatlov group travels in the back of the truck in poor condition from Vizhay (13:10) to 41st logging site (16:30).

This is possibly the ride that makes Yudin sick.

Vizhay, wake up 9:00, the dining room, Zina Kolmogorova sends the letter home, Igor Dyatlov sends home a postcard.

At 13:10 the group leaves Vizhay in truck Gaz-63 with no brakes and shock absorbers.

They ride in the open back of the truck, covered by a tent.

The hikers were exposed on this trip and Yudin fell ill.

At 16:30 they arrive in the village 41st forest area.

In the evening they see movies "On his own", "Est takoy paren" and "Symphonie in Gold" (again).

Dyatlov Group diary

 

January 26
We slept in so-called hotel.

Two people per bed. Sasha K. (Alexander Kolevatov) and Krivo (Yuri Krivonischenko) slept on the floor between beds.

Woke up at 9 am.

Everyone sleep well despite the fact we did not completely close the small window and room got a bit cold.

Outside temperature is -17 C.

We did not boil water in the morning, wood was damp.

In the evening it took us 6 hours to boil the water.

Had breakfast in the dining room, goulash and tea.

When they handed us the lukewarm tea, Gosya (Igor) Dyatlov said with a smile: "If the tea is cold, then go out and drink it on the street, it will be hot."

Original thought.

We negotiated to go to Settlement 41 by a truck.

We started at 13.10, and arrived at 16.30.

We froze pretty good at the back of GAZ-63.

While traveling we sang songs, discussed various topics like love, friendship, cancer illness and cures.

In Settlement 41 we were greeted warmly, they gave us a separate room in the hostel.

We talked a lot with the local workers. I remembered particularly the red- bearded man.

The Beard, that's what his friends call him.

Ognev is an old friend, he is described in Lyuda Dubinina's private diary.

Lunch was served, we ate and now we are resting.

Some of the group is watching a movie in the adjacent room.

The rest of the group is rummaging through their backpacks.

Rustik (Rustem Slobodin) is playing his mandolin, while talking with Kolya (Nick Thibault).

I am going to do some adjustment to the equipment.

Krivonischenko

1.26.59
I can't, although I tried.

Nick Thibeaux

They were handed lukewarm tea, and after somebody complained Igor Dyatlov said with a smile: "If the tea is cold, then go out and drink it on the street, it will be hot."

Where: Sverdlovsk Region
city of Pervouralsk, Sotsgorod
Sadovaya, 13.
To: A. A. Dyatlov
Sender's address: Vizhay
Dyatlov

Hello everyone.
Today, 26, we leave on the route, we arrived well. On February 12-15 I will visit Sverdlovsk. I probably will not go home, so let Rufa bring linen to our room for a trip to Penza. From there I will return on March 5-7.
Greetings
Igor

Zina Kolmogorova diary

26.1.59
We slept in beds.

We got up late, very late.

Rustik and I are on duty.

We went into the dining room.

And then we waited for the car and drove off.

Today the road is not so beautiful, there is less snow.

We are driving off road now.

Drove for a long time.

I, as always, was approached by some countryman.

We arrived at the 41st settlement.

Workers are simply working here, not prisoners, but recruits.

There are many smart ones.

We were accomodated in the small room of the driver.

Today is the last day of civilization.

Rustic plays the mandolin very well, I really enjoy listening to him.

Today I wore Yuri's mittens, but how I did not want to!

I was told that is not good not to accept them, so I took them.

We talk.

Not much.

Alexander Kolevatov, photo must be taken around 12-13:00 before Dyatlov group climbed on the back of the Gaz-63

Luydmila Dubinina diary

26 january

In the morning Sashka jumped up from the cold and said that he had a cold night.

Zina and I slept perfectly.

Went to the dining room then began to gather.

We go by car.

Tried to sing, talked about abstract topics and in general nobody was warm.

The surroundings were uninteresting at the beginning, a scorched forest.

In general, we had to go to 2nd North, but it was getting dark and we decided to stop at the 41st.

At 4.30 we were met very hospitably.

They stayed in the barrack, where the guys live.

In general, here are all civilians, there are no women at all, except two.

The guys are all young, as Igor noticed, there are even cute and generally interesting.

Especially memorable among all is Ognev with a red beard and the nickname of his "Beard".

In general, very rarely there are such people in such a hole.

A true romantic, a geologist and generally developed.

Many of the guys play the guitar.

We watched three movies right away: "On his own", "Est takoy paren" and "Sympnonie in gold" again.

And again this music Co First in (illegible word) were divided into two groups one watched the movies, the other wrote diaries, and Rustik and Kolya reasoned a little about everything, about work, etc.

I like these guys.

A big difference between them, graduated from the institute Rustik, Ko, Yura and us.

All the same, their judgments are more mature and smarter than ours.

My God, I do not even talk about mine

After the cinema, everyone was very tired and wanted to sleep.

We lay down with Zina on a spring bed.

It's a dream come true.

And the guys are all on the floor.

Mood is bad and probably will be for two more days.

Evil as hell.

Dyatlov group is in the back of of Gaz-63. Weather is cold and windy. They will try to protect themselves with a tent, but Yudin will still get sick.

Krivonishenko told the guys that he is about to make the last photo before he climbs into the truck so each of the guys reacted their own way. Dyatlov and Thibeaux-Brignolles leaned forward and and showed Yuri the fig sign. Apparently Zina Kolmogorova moved off the backpack on which she sat, her location was significantly lower than the previous shot. Yuri Yudin painted a grimace on his face and looks at Zina Kolmogorov. It may seem that he is making a grimace to Zina intending to scare her, but in fact, with his left hand he grabbed Zina Kolmogorova's back and tries to keep her from falling on her back. Igor, Nikolai, Zina and Lyuda are looking at Yuri, Zolotaryov waves his right hand, Alexander is not visible behind Zolotaryov's back. Doroshenko and Slobodin, without reacting to Yuri's signal, remained in their seats without visible reaction.

Yuri Yudin diary

26.1.59
We arrived by truck with no brakes, broken shock absorbers , etc., (only in the taiga you can ride on any car.) in the village 41 quarter.

Ognev, Nick? since 1931. - long beard.

He knows the whole of the Northern Urals.

I was a participant of many geological expeditions.

Quite knowledgeable on many issues.

He graduated from the Ufimskiy Technical College.

In the truck (that) city we came, we brought 3 movies: "On his own" by Gorki, "Est takoy paren" and "Sympnonie in gold" "In people" by Gorky ,? "Is there such a guy"? and the "Golden Symphony".

"In people" - under the usual circumstances, in the city, I would have never gone to see this movie.

It seems nothing of interest in it for me, waste of time.

Here - you start watching ... and from the very first frames you feel that the movie is new for you, you see it with different eyes than before and many new thoughts are rushing one after another under the impression of what's on the screen.

Grandma plays excellently.

Above all, full penetration into the role.

Wealth, depth, importance of thoughts, content, and all this follows by itself, without any imposition ... himself as in a life without words and simple ??? a person and there is another recently released picture.

Paren (est takoy paren - there is such a guy) - the characters here, the artists portraying, are represented only by what they say at the moment and is not clear where and how did they originated, what they say and what they do.

It seems like they (the characters) are created to say only these particular words, and there is nothing else for them to say, and to do.

Roles like that are not clear, maybe I find the screenplay weak and superficial, bad stage director, bad artists and in short - it seems there are not living people on the screen full of thoughts, capable of creating stories themselves, but some automatic machines tuned to a spec. program, and that's why there is no performance in the whole movie.

They could have said in advance what the movie is about, and how will it end.

The whole movie in 5 mins.

"Symphonie in gold" - austr.

About ballet on ice.

The ballet itself is a good show.

Good skating rinks, skill, technical performance, but feelings, thoughts in dances - none.

Maybe since music to me is only an income.

It seems to me that way?

The light music in places is excellent, it can't be better, but in general I couldn't feel the Person, his soul.

Maybe that's why everybody that saw the movie was saying: "It feels so good, nothing is missing, they say "like life itself"

We are warmly welcomed here. they ride all kind of They gave us the only horse available here to take our backpacks tomorrow to 2nd Northern for free wood site about 200 150 km? from such a northern town as Ivdel.

There is no radio, no newspapers. (They still can't check the lottery and I promised to send back the newspaper immediately from Sverdlovsk).

They live in a dormitory.

No order whatsoever, but people are everywhere.

Read everything that they can get their hands on and do they sing ...

Quietly, from the heart.

The songs are old, long forgotten or never heard.

Here they are ... It's so good!

Why don't we sing such good, already forgotten songs.

And in general, we don't sing about the soul in places where there are some outsiders, it's not singing, not soulful, loud.

We must fight for the culture of choral singing.

Voices and change the repertoire.

So that there were no empty screaming song-trinkets.

Loggers are working poorly, work and life conditions are bad.

Are they paying poorly?

Strike.

Everything is possible, but there is no good intelligent leadership.

Master - once he studied and did not finish the Moscow Forestry Institute.

The workers are very different.

Recruits after the army, after serving time (to earn some money and stayed, or for free).

Many don't last, - they quit They work The majority has primary school or no education at all.

But there are widely erudite and even If you meet them in the city, you would never have thought that this person all his time in the taiga.

Uncle Slava.

Funny, somehow people do not think how this or that name will sound after uncle or grandpa *...

What a funny grandpa!

Until 1953, they threw in jail everybody that they could catch, innocent, then they figured it out and cleaned up, everybody was given rushed amnesty

*I think Yudin is referring to the fact Slava in Russian means Glory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

January 27, 1959

The river Lozva, the weather is gloomy, but there is no snow and no wind.

The group still consists of 10 tourist.

Almost everybody is in the photo, but Kolevatov who we can see in the previous photo is to the left of the frame, and the photographer Semyon Zolotaryov.

From the left is Doroshenko, Zina and Lyuda, in the center is the horse with pulling the sleigh topped with backpacks.

The horse is led by uncle Slava, he stands and looks at someone behind the sleigh.

Behind the sleigh follow Yura Yudin, Igor Dyatlov, Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles and Rustem Slobodin.

In the distance behind is Krivonischenko, who is making sketches.

On January 27 1959 Dyatlov group was leaving 41st district and Ognev "The Beard", the hospitality, the warm bread, wrote Mansi words in their notebooks, and at 4 pm uncle Slava and his horse sled took the backpacks while the hikers were following on skis along Lozva river, pass Ushma river and to the 2nd Northern.

The head of the site Ryazhnev promised to help the tourists to reach the abandoned geological site 2nd Northern by finding means of transportation.

Hikers mounted backpacks on the sled with a horse, got on skis and reached 2nd Northern which consisted from 24 houses only one of which was suitable to spend the night.

The sled belonged to uncle Slava, convicted in Lithuania in 1949 for 10 years and released to the settlement in 1956.

In 41st district Yudin's condition worsened. He had inflamed back nerve, sciatica.

To continue an expedition from third category of complexity was impossible without becaming a burden, so Yudin decided to return.

They discussed the matter and decided that Yudin will go to 2nd Northern and there will make the final decision.

If his pain subsides, he can continue with the group, if his condition worsens, he will take the drilling samples from 2nd Northern and return to Sverdlovsk.

Zina Kolmogorova diary

27.

Today is the first day of our journey.

The backpack is not much but somewhat heavy.

Yes, Yura Yudin is leaving us today.

His sciatic nerves inflamed again and he is leaving.

Such a pity. We distributed his load in our backpacks.

It turns out that on the last day we see some kind of civilization,stove, people, etc.

Today we arranged out backpacks to go on horseback and we are waiting them to be ready, and we will go skiing.

Everyone is singing, the workers living in barracks, did not go to work, they sing.

We sit and write songs.

Many workers are very talented, intelligent people.

Especially "the beard", his beard is ginger, ginger, and his eyes are also ginger, and brown.

The guys sing well. And Rustic plays the mandolin very well.

Today was the last day me and Lyuda slept in beds.

Tonight we are going to be in a tent, apparently.

Now we are in the 41st quarter, today our goal is to reach the 2nd Nortern.

They say, there is a hut there, but no one lives in it.

Hurry to the road, to the skis ...

How about we go? I'm lately somehow very deeply affected by music, guitar, mandolin and other.

Yesterday saw 3 movies here "In people", "There is such a guy" and again "Symphonie in Gold".

I want to see "Symphonie in Gold" even more times.

41st district, photo is taken near the logging workers dormitory.

tolya
Talaya, a river, many huts

ya - river
sos - brook, together
paste/pache-rum - hello friend
nyor - stone, if there nyor is added to the peak - the peak is bare
oyka - man
yani hum - man big
mais - small

Hikers are taking out their equipment from the dormitory. Zina Kolmogorova and Yuri Yudin are at teh doorway. Zina is in a good mood, she holds Yura by his left hand, looks at him and smiles. Next to them are two backpacks. On the right, next to the porch near the three pairs of skis is Rustem Slobodin, checking the gear.

ekva - female
ekvat - alone
ayrish - a girl
From Burmantovo to Volen paul airplane
nyan - bread
emos -good
mol - bad
saka - good
(at)Sol - (not)truth
Solval - salt
Pud - pot
Vat- water
Vit - wind

Red-bearded man called Ognev. His nickname is 'The Beard’.

Hul - fish
Neul - meat
sali - deer
Vazhenka - female
sohta - alpha male
sun - sled
sushep - look
yun - house
pyrya - scram (to the dog)
col - city
pisal - gun
topor - truck
kasay - knife
seranki mayen - give me the matches
atim - don't have
oli - have
Teynkvem - eat
ail - drink

he is holding something in his right hand, perhaps a smoking pipe, holding his left hand busily in his thigh. Ognev is clearly posing for the photographer.

eri - must
ergan - sing
Olna - money
tselkoviy - ruble
akvat - 1
kita - 2
hurum - 3
nila - 4
at - 5
hot - 6
sat - 7
vovel - 8
nevel - 9
pul - 10
tinalil - eat
yuvtilum - sell
sup - pants m
gacha - f
sapaki - slippers

Loggers come out to see off the Dyatlov group. From the left on the porch, raising his right hand to the top and squeezing it into a fist is Ognev, apparently speaking some kind of admonishing speech or a slogan. Next to him are three workers, one of the workers holds a book or notebook in his hand and looks at Ognev. Bottom of the right, next to the porch, near the window is Igor Dyatlov, he looks at Ognev and listens to his speech.

yelsup - dress
neks - sable
kutya - dog
pis-pis - mouse
suy - pine
paul - village
vor - forest
vorhum - bear
forest man
vas - duck.
kat - hands.
layal - legs.
pum - head.
punki - teeth.
palin - ears

polem - freezing
kur - stove
paltin - heat
chuval - stove
osemsau - good bye
ruma
nan - you, tav - he
am - I
nanki - you
amki - me
ayemun - large
saam - eyes

4st district, Zina Kolmogorova with Rustem Slobodin's camera. It's not cold outside, so Zina is dressed lightly.

nyel - nose.
ayserm - cold
Tyumen region
Berezovsky district
village Nyaksimvol
(sable slope)
Ognev Nikolay Grig.
----
Rudik Ivan Ivanovich

The whole day went, in front of the horse, behind the horse on the river Lozva.

They often flew to ice, cleaned skis.

They came already in the dark for a long time looking for a hut with windows and doors.

2nd North is an abandoned village, nobody lives here at all, and what beautiful places!

It's just Chusovaya.

The stones on the banks are some cliffs, limestone, white.

Today we go a few km along the

Igor Dyatlov stands with his back to the photographer near the porch. In the center of the photo Rustem Slobodin is bend over fastening his skis. Yudin is right next to him.

Lozva River, and then we pass to the Auspiya river.

> (note: the arrow from "Today" is drawn down to "Auspiya River" and to the following date "28.2.58")

Lyuda Dubinina diary

27 january

Temperature is 5°.

Warm, skis are useless.

We are getting ready since the morning.

Today is the first day of the route.

Now we sit and wait for the horse to carry the backpacks, and we go on skis.

Fortune smiles at us.

Yuri Yudin got sick, something with a nerve of his leg, in general he radiculitis and he is going home.

So, there are nine of us in the future.

At the moment we are sitting and singing songs.

Guys play the guitar, Rustic plays along with the mandolin.

Catches your heart.

This is the last place of civilization, and it is rare that we met people like that.

Overall I love the guitar and I adore all musical people.

And the guys in general are all good, they dance, they are musical. We talked with Ognev.

He knows a lot and is interesting with him, now he talks about where we are going and more like this.

This, in my opinion, is the most interesting object here on the site.

He has such a long red beard, although he is only 27 years, he looks older.

And then there is Valya, who plays the guitar well (many play) and about whom I jokingly said that I like him.

Now most of the guys sit here and sing songs to the guitar, on the occasion that they do not work today.

It seems this is the last time I hear so many good new songs.

But we hope that Rustik will live up to the challenge.

We learn some Mansi words from the guys.

Photo by Zina Kolmogorova

ya - river
neul - meat
sali - (illegible)
vazhenka - female deer
sohta - male
sun - sled
sushep - look
nyan - bread
yun - house
col - city
pyrya - scram (to the dog)
pisal - gun

Workers smile at Zina. From the left of the porch there is a window, one of the workers looks out the window, watching what is happening on the street.

sairep - axe
kasay - knife
matches - seranki
atim - don't have
oli - have
son - truth
tenkvem - eat
olna - money
ail - drink
at eri - have to (don't)
ergen - sing
tselkoviy - ruble

Photo by Rustem Slobodin. 41st district, hostel, hired labor loggers and tourists from the Dyatlov group. Collective photo for memento. Many of the hikers were with their skis on. The backpacks were loaded onto the sleigh. Working loggers came out to see off the Dyatlov group. Next to Lyuda is a young guy in a fur hat, he obviously wanted to take a picture with Lyuda. This must be Valya Lyuda wrote about in her diary. "And then there is Valya, who plays the guitar well (many play) and about whom I jokingly said that I like him."

akva - one

(a turn seems missing? - note.)

Rustem Slobodin diary

To the restless mechanical Rustik
for his diary

Northern Ural
1959
Sverdlovsk – Vizhay –

Airplane ticket
Ivdel - Saranpaul 250 rubli
(cargo free)

Warm bread. From the left on skis Alexander Kolevatov stands and says something to Lyuda Dubinina. Lyuda stands on skis, eats warm bread and looks at Alexander. Next to Lyuda, Igor Dyatlov is skiing, looking at the photographer. Near Igor, with his back to the photographer, Semyon Zolotaryov is skiing, he eats bread and looks at Alexander, Valya ties Zolotaryov's laces on a hooded windbreaker. On the right with a piece of bread in his right hand and with ski poles in his left hand is Rustem Slobodin.

Mansi words

Oyk If in the name of the mountain there is nyer - means the top (stone) is bare
oyka - muzhik, man, husband
ushnik - Mansi hunting house for warming
Tol - ya - talaya creek
sos - stream, together
ruma - friend
nache (nashte) - hello
hum - muzhik
yani - big
mais - small
ekva - woman

ekvat - alone
ayrish - girl
nyan - bread
emas - good
saka emas - very good
mol - bad
sol - true
solval - salt
at - negation
at-sol - not true
pud - pot
vat - water

A photo of poor quality. The group, having loaded backpacks on sleigh is headed to 2nd Northern along Lozva river. From left Kolevatov, Doroshenko, Zina Kolmogorova, Lyuda Dubinina. In the distance, behind the horse is Krivonischenko - the last in the group. The guys often have to stop and wait for the horse.

vit - wind
hul - fish
neul - meat
sali - deer
vazhenka - deer doe
sohta - alpha male
sun - sled
sushep - look
pyrya - scram (to the dog)
pisal - gun
sayrep - axe
mayen - give me
atim - don't have
oli - have

Photo by Semyon Zolotarev. Lozva river, steep stony banks. The group stopped to clean the skis. From the left Kolevatov with no hat, Doroshenko wearing a hat with ear-flaps, Zina Kolmogorova, Lyuda Dubinina. To the right of the photo you can see the head of a horse. Alexander, Yura and Luda are looking at the photographer. Zina holds a piece of paper or a notebook in her left hand and reads something in it.

teynkvem - eat
aim- drink
huem - sleep
eri - must
ergen - sing
alna - money
selkoviy - ruble
akvat - 1
kita - 2
hurum - 3
nila - 4
at - 5
hot - 6
sat - 7
vovel - 8

The river Lozva, the weather is gloomy, but there is no snow and no wind. The group still consists of 10 tourist. Almost everybody is in the photo, but Kolevatov who we can see in the previous photo is to the left of the frame, and the photographer Semyon Zolotaryov. From the left is Doroshenko, Zina and Lyuda, in the center is the horse with pulling the sleigh topped with backpacks. The horse is led by uncle Slava, he stands and looks at someone behind the sleigh. Behind the sleigh follow Yura Yudin, Igor Dyatlov, Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles and Rustem Slobodin. In the distance behind is Krivonischenko, who is making sketches.

nevel - 9
pul - 10
tinalil - eat
yuvtilum - sell
sup gacha - pants
yelsup - dress
neks - sable
kutya - dog
suevat - pinery
suy - pine
vor - forest
vorhum - bear forest man
ul - fish
kat - hands
layal - legs
pum - head
pumk - teeth

Photo by Semyon Zolotarev. Dyatlov group along Lozva river on their way to 2nd Northern. Yuri Doroshenko, Zina Kolmogorova bent over, next to her Krivonischenko, Zina is followed by Lyuda Dubinina. In the background, Alexander Kolevatov. The guys stopped to clear the sticky, wet snow from the skis. Doroshenko looks at the photographer and smiles at something. Krivonischenko holds a notebook in his hands and, slightly bending his head to the right, looks at the photographer. Lyuda is holding her skis in her hands and is also looking at the photographer.

palin - ears
ayemun - disease, large
saam - eyes
nyel - nose
ayserm - cold
polem - freezing
kur - stove
paltem - heat
chuval - open chimney in the corner

Dyatlov Group diary

 

1.27.59
The weather’s really good.

The wind is at our backs, and the lads made a deal with the locals for a horse to drive us to Second North settlement.

But it will be about 24 km from the 41st Settlement.

We helped Uncle Slava unload hay from a carriage and waited for the horse (it went to get more hay and wood).

We waited until 4:00 pm.

The boys started copying some songs.

One man sang beautifully.

We heard a number of illegal prison songs (Article 58 counter-revolutionary crimes).

Before that we bought four loaves of bread.

Soft warm bread.

We ate 2 loaves.

Horse is slow.

What a pleasure to go without backpacks.

We covered 8 km in 2 hours.

(River Ushma).

It's getting dark.

The horse is causing the delay.

Yuri Yudin is still with us.

He suddenly fell ill and he can't continue with the trek.

He wants to gather few minerals for the University and return.

Second North is an abandoned geological site consisting of 20-25 houses.

Only one is suitable for living.

In complete darkness we found a village and the house.

We started a fire with wood boards.

Smoke came form the stove.

Several people hurt their hands on old nails.

Everything is well.

Then the horse came.

We were talking and joking till 3 in the morning.

Doroshenko

Yuri Yudin diary

27 We spent the night in the hut of the 2nd Northern settlement.

There so much - many houses, warehouses, premises, forgot old vehicles, machine tools.

Everything was abandoned since 1952.

Here worked geological expedition what they could took out, the rest was exhausted and thrown.

The houses are all destroyed, there is only one with a stove and glass on the windows.

The place is picturesque. Lozva river is wide.

Lots of lime rocks.

Uncle Slava says that in the summer you can cross the river, many warm, hot springs.

Sagebrush and water is not entirely frozen and there are places under the snow where water is not forzen after which we need to brake the ice from the skis.

Village Vizhay - camp (???) you can buy products.

Apothecary - artist Herzen ?.

German, wife is German.

Idyll in the family.

On the walls, relief paintings with filigree decoration, very masterfully, unusually finely executed.

Thousands of Chests - a view of Lozva in the summer and the same in the winter, more jewelry boxes, paintings - everywhere.

Big ones. In the pharmacy - wax from red rose, fluorescent compound, Kremlin - from test tubes with fluorine. compositions, glowing.

Built in wrist watch "Pobeda". It works fine.

An unusually polite gentle, kind person.

Wife, German, very affable, hospitable They really care about the medicine.

For children, the best medicines are taken care of.

They beg me to send them penicillin in tablets from Ivdel, he has very little (for children), it is difficult to get good medication.

Boring, all tired of the lecture and something After all, it's so good from time to time to introduce a new thought, a new direction in the conversation ... especial

This photo was taken at the same place as the previous two frames. Semyen Zolotarev, in the background Zina Kolmogorova stands on skis and blocks the figure of Lyuda Dubinina, between them there is one of the hikers, only skis and ski poles are visible. Simyon Zolotaryov gave his camera to one of the hikers and began to clean the snow from his skis.

Lozva, you can see the skis traces that the group passed through.

Photo by Yuri Krivonischenko. Most likely this photo was taken on the Lozva river near the source of the Ushma river and the village of Ushma. Zina, Semyon and Lyuda clean their skis. Dyatlov group diary: "We covered 8 km in 2 hours (the river Ushma)." Doroshenko

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

January 28, 1959

Dyatlov group diary

 

January 28
We were awaken by the rumbling voices of Yurka Kri and Sasha Kolevatov.

Weather so far is smiling at us. It's only -8C outside.

After breakfast, some of the guys lead by Yuri Yudin, our well - known geologist, went to look for local minerals.

They didn't find anything except pyrite and quartz veins in the rock.

Took them long time to wax their skis and adjust the mounting.

Yuri Yudin goes back home today.

It is a pity, of course, that he leaves us.

Especially for me and Zina, but nothing can be done about it.

Started at 11.45. We go up the river Lozva.

We take turns to head the group for about 10 minutes.

Snow cover is significantly less than last year.

We have to stop and scrape the wet, melting snow from the bottom of the skis.

Yurka Kri is behind and makes sketches of the route.

The bank of the river near Second North (especially the right bank) are limestone cliffs that rise high at places.

Overall the terrain becomes flatter, entirely covered by forest.

We stop to rest at 5:30 pm on river Lozva.

Today we spend our first night in the tent.

The guys are busy with the stove, sewing curtains out of sheets.

With some thing completed and others not, we sit at dinner.

After dinner we sit for long time around the campfire and sing heartfelt songs.

Zina even tries to learn to play mandolin under guidance of our musician Rustik (Rustem Slobodin).

Then we resume our discussions, mostly about love.

Someone comes up with an idea that we need a special notebook for ideas that we might come up with.

Conspiring, we started going into the tent two people at a time.

The suspended stove radiates heat and divides the tent in two sections.

The further section is occupied by me and Zina.

Nobody wants to sleep by the stove.

We agree that Yurka Kri (Krivonischenko) will sleep there.

On the other side sleeps the person on duty (Sasha Kolevatov).

Yurka couldn't stand the heat and after laying down for 1-2 min, he got up and moved to the second section cursing and accusing us of treason.

After that they still argued about something for a long time, but at the end all was quiet.

Lyuda Dubinina - this entry is not signed, but can't be anybody else but Dubinina.

Zina Kolmogorova diary

28.1.58
Uncle Slava is leaving today on his horse, and Yura Yudin is leaving too.

He took a few samples.

I saw this type for the first after the drilling.

There is a lot of chalcopyrite and pyrite.

Last night the boys made stupid jokes.

In my opinion, if we don't pay attention to them, maybe they will be less rude.

And so far, nothing.

It's time to go out, but they are still digging and digging.

I do not understand what's taking so long.

The first 30 minutes are over.

Of course, the backpack is somewhat heavy.

But it's possible to go.

The first day is always difficult.

left forward
Sasha Kolevatov tested his device and threw it away.

Second halt.

It was much easier to go yesterday without backpacks
snow, snow, snow, snow
on the banks frozen river snow snow

Boundary stone.

Lunch was an hour at 4 pm

After lunch we did just one more hike and stopped to rest.

I mended the tent.

We lay down to sleep. Igor was rude the whole evening, I just couldn't recognize him.

I had to sleep on the wood near the stove.

Lyudmila Dubinina diary

28 january Woke up at 8 o'clock in the morning to someone's talk.

It turns out to be Yuri Krie and Sasha Kolya.

The weather is as warm as yesterday (t ° -8 °) Eat, h

After breakfast, some of the guys Yura Yudin, Kolya and Yura Doroshenko went for the rocks in the core storage, where they decided to collect minerals for the collection.

Nothing but pyrite, and there were no quartz veins in the rock.

Gathered for a long time, prepared rations, greased the skis then

Morning at the 2nd Northern abandoned geological site.

There is mine is in the 2nd Northern settlement.

Yura Yudin holds a sample core in his hands.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles decided to sit down.

However, the bench was too close to the wall and the backpack on his back pushed against the wall.

As a result, Kolya sat down on the edge of the bench, his skis drove off and he fell to the ground along with the bench.

The fall made everyone laugh, a smile appeared even on his face.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles lies, smiles and looks at the photographer.

Next to it stands Yudin, in his right hand holds a sample core.

Yuri pulled out a bench from Nicholas and put it back to the wall.

Parting with Yuri Yudin, they will never see each other again.

Igor Dyatlov on the left.

His backpack looks heavy.

Lyuda Dubinina hugs Yuri Yudin goodbye.

Despite the fact that her backpack is big, it does not seem to be heavy.

Lyuda had a bullet wound to her leg and the guys on the trek apparently tried to lighten her backpack as much as possible.

On the right, Kolya is behind Lyuda, he smiles and looks at Lyuda's farewell scene with Yudin.

Farewell Yura Yudin with Zina Kolmogorova.

Yudin looks at Zina and makes a movement to hug her waist.

Zina, smiling, looks at Yudin and makes a counter motion to hug at his neck.

Zolotaryov is looking at Zina, he is skiing, ski poles are in his hands.

Backpack is on his back, although not visible but the strap is (and an ice ax or a spare ski pole).

When Zina and Yura huged Zina's heavy backpack pulled her back, the skies went slid forward and Zina lost balance and fell on her back.

Yura Yudin is helping Zina to get back on her feet with her heavy backpack.

Yuri Yudin stays behind, he is going back to 41st district with uncle Slava and the horse sled.

Last photo of 2nd Northern.

Dyatlov group will never be seen alive.

A photo showing the bank collapsed from being washed by the waters of river Lozva.

The first day of the ski trip, the tourists were tired and stretched out along the route, it was decided to make the first stop.

In the distance, five figures of hikers walking along the Lozva are visible.

Semyon Zolotaryov sits on a backpack looking at Rustem and warming his fingers.

Nearby is Zina Kolmogorova, she sits on a backpack, propping her head on her left hand and writing in her diary.

Rustem Slobodin holding a camera.

Yuri Doroshenko with his hands on his hips is looks at the photographer.

Alexander Kolevatov has tooken off his hat smoothing his hair.

Lyuda Dubinina sits on her backpack.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles is holding a camera and looking at Rustem.

Igor Dyatlov is holding a camera or compass in his hands.

Three hikers are looking at Rustem, obviously he says something and they listen attentively, could be what camera shutter speed to use in such weather conditions, to get good shots.

Semyon Zolotaryov is sitting on the backpack and working his camera.

Nikolai gave his camera to Zina Kolmogorova, and she makes a photo of Rustem Slobodin.

Rustem Slobodin puts on gloves, next to him lies his backpack and are perched his ski poles.

Zina fiddling with the camera.

Semyon Zolotaryov posing for a photo.

In the foreground Krivonischenko with felt boots, in the background Rustem Slobodin.

Yuri Krivonischenko and Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles exchanged their cameras to shoot each other.

Photo by Krivonischenko.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles in the center, Igor Dyatlov to the right.

Rustem Slobodin

Semyon Zolotaryov is shooting Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles who looks pathetic in the photo, perhaps mocking the girls.

Guys are fooling around while resting.

From the left Lyuda Dubinina, Yuri Krivonischenko, Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles with the black hat, embraced by Rustem Slobodin.

Lyuda Dubinina with a camera, Rustem Slobodin points to another group of guys who stand to the right of the photographer and do not get into the frame.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, and Zina Kolmogorova kneeling.

Lyuda Dubinina, Rustem Slobodin, Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles and Zina Kolmogorova (kneeled down)

Nikolai Thibault-Brignol and Semyon Zolotarev swapped hats.

Semyon has a camera on him.

From the left, Zina Kolmogorova's hand came into the frame.

Nikolai Thibault-Brignol and Semyon Zolotaryov swapped hats.

Photo with poor quality but we can still recognize Nikolai Thibault-Brignol and Semyon Zolotaryov.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, Semyon Zolotarev and the arm of Zina Kolmogorova.

Nikolai looks at the photographer while Semyon is talking to Zina.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, Lyuda Dubinina, Semyon Zolotaryov and Zina Kolmogorova

Memorable photo - Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, Lyuda Dubinina, Semyon Zolotaryov and Zina Kolmogorova

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, Lyuda Dubinina, Semyon Zolotaryov and Zina Kolmogorova

Before the lunch break.

A picture of poor quality.

Yuri Krivonischenko, Igor Dyatlov, Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, Lyuda Dubinina and Zina Kolmogorova.

Lunch break.

Semyon Zolotaryov sits on a backpack and talks to Zina Kolmogorova.

In the left hand she holds thin gloves.

On the right are the legs of Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles sits on a log and cuts a long walking stick.

The group walked along the river, evidently Nikolai decided to acquire this stick, since he had to go on first and with his help he intended to probe the snow ahead.

Nikolai is cleaning his skis with a knife.

Lunch break.

Shot of the surrounding landscape, low shores, dense forest, the sky is cloudy.

Dyatlov group is getting up after lunch.

Semyon Zolotaryov was leading the group before lunch, and now is behind.

A photo of poor quality.

Judging by the pictures that Semyon was taking, one can make the assumption that Zolotaryov did not have much experience in photography, and he himself acquired a camera recently.

Photo by Semyon Zolotaryov.

He is behind Zina Kolmogorova and decided to take a picture of the group against the background of Хой-Эква 733m (inactive volcano).

Krivonischenko is leading the group and taking the photo.

In the distance mountain Хой-Эква 733m (inactive volcano).

Yuri Krivonischenko, Igor Dyatlov, Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles and possibly Zina Kolmogorova.

In the distance mountain Хой-Эква 733m (inactive volcano).

Photo of poor quality.

The group goes along the Lozva river, it is difficult to distinguish who is in the photo.

In the distance mountain Хой-Эква 733m (inactive volcano).

Dyatlov group pitched their tent at 17:30 on 28 January 1959 - 10 km from their starting point in 2nd Northern and 7 km to Auspiya river.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

January 29, 1959

On January 29, 1959, the men of the group took turns to cut a trail for 10 mins, and the group was taking a break after all 7 rotated.

They stopped every 70 mins (2-3 km).

They turn on Auspiya river tributary.

The group stopped for lunch at the fourth halt.

They followed a Mansi ski trail and soon started seeing Mansi signs and storage platform (labaz).

Dyatlov group spent the night at the river Hoysipulsos (Хойсиспалсос) tributary.

It's Yuri Doroshenko's birthday.

He turned 21.

Zina Kolmogorova diary

29.1.59
Today is Yurka's birthday.

We go first to Lozva then we turn to Auspiya.

Surroundings are beautiful.

Along the Auspiya Mansi have passed.

A trail is visible, grooves, a path is visible.

We often see Mansi signs on the trail.

I wonder what they write about?

Now the Mansi trail goes South.

(note: the turn is the sketch of the notch, the initials with the date Oct. 5, 1958, the drawing of the ax?)

Now we sit the three of us: Rustik, Yurka and I Waiting for the rest.

For the night stopped near the ski tracks.

We are burning firewood with Yurka.

We talked about the past.

Such a playboy.

Dyatlov group diary

1.29.59
Second day of our hike.

We made our way from the Lozva River to the Auspiya River.

We walked along a Mansi trail.

The weather is –13 C.

The wind is weak.

We often find ice on the Lozva River.

That's all.

Nick Thibeaux

Krivonischenko camera film №1 frame №12

Morning on Lozva river, Krivonischenko took a picture of the winding ski trail.

Krivonischenko camera film №1 frame №13

Krivonischenko camera film №1 frame №14

Lozva river, in the distance mountain Хой-Эква 733m.

Thibeaux-Brignolle camera film №3 frame №8

Break on Lozva.

Yuri Doroshenko sits on his backpack.

From the backpack sticking out is the handle of an ice ax or an ax, next to it there is still someone's backpack, probably Zina Kolmogorova's.

A pencil sticks out of his breast pocket.

It's cold, Yuri has a hat and a windbreaker and warms his hands in his pockets.

He listens to the conversation of the guys and smiles.

loose photo

Zina Kolmogorova barely in the frame, Nikolai, Zolotaryov, Lyuda Dubinina hidden behind him, last is Rustem Slobodin looking at the camera.

Thibeaux-Brignolle camera film №3 frame №9

Photo by Zina Kolmogorova.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, Semyon Zolotaryov, Lyuda Dubinina (left), Rustem Slobodin.

Krivonischneko camera film №1 frame №15

The group turned off from Lozva river and went to Auspiya through the forest along the river following the ski trail of a Mansi hunter.

Thibeaux-Brignolle camera film №3 frame №10

Semyon Zolotaryov, Yuri Doroshenko and Igor Dyatlov reading the map.

Krivonischenko camera film №1 frame №16

Auspiya river.

Following the Mansi hunter trail Dyatlov geoup came across a Mansi labaz (storage platform raised above the ground)

Krivonischenko camera film №1 frame №17

Dyatlov group stopped for lunch.

They are discussing the Mansi labaz and what they should do for a cache before ascending to Mt. Otorten.

Slobodin's camera film №4 frame №24

Slobodin's camera film №4 frame №25

Slobodin's camera film №4 frame №26

This looks like a trap for animals that the hikers came upon and took a picture.

Slobodin's camera film №4 frame №27

Krivonischenko camera film №1 frame №18

Dyatlov group took pictures of Mansi markings that tell how many local hunters passed through this area and the family clan to which they belong.

Mansi are people of the north.

Very interesting and unique people that inhabit the North Polar Urals, closed to the Tyumen region.

They have a written language and leave characteristic signs on forest trees.

Unknown camera film №5 frame №21

Yuri Doroshenko examining the Mansi signs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

January 31, 1959

The sequence of frames in film №1 is questionable.

The film is cut and it is hard to tell which frame follows which.

According to the sequence of frames it turns out that Doroshenko's sweatshirt was burned in the night January 31 to February 1.

However, it is known from the diary of Zina Kolmogorova that the sweatshirt was burned in the night of January 30 to January 31.

There is a clear contradiction, only one of many in this case.

Dyatlov group diary

 

31 January 1959
Today the weather is a bit worse wind (west), snow (probably from the pines) because the sky is perfectly clear.

Came out relatively early (around 10 am).

Took the same Mansi sled trail.

Till now we walk along a Mansi trail, which was crossed by a deer hunter not long ago.

Yesterday we apparently came across his resting stop.

Deer didn't go much further.

The hunter didn't follow the beaten trail and we are now in his steps.

Today was surprisingly good accommodations for the tent, air is warm and dry, despite the low temperature of -18C to -24C.

Walking is especially hard today.

Visibility is very low.

We can't see the trail and sometimes we have to advance gropingly.

All we can do is 1.52 km (1 mile) per hour.

We are forced to find new methods of clearing the path for the skis.

The first member leaves his backpack on the ground and walks forward, then returns and rests for 10-15 minutes with the group.

Thus we have a non-stop paving of the trail.

It is especially hard for the second to move down the new trail with full gear on the back.

We gradually leave the Auspiya valley, the rise is continuous, but quite smooth.

Fir trees are replaced by wispy birch-wood.

We came out of the tree line.

Wind is western, warm, penetrating.

The speed of the wind is similar to the air draft created by a taking off airplane.

Firn, open spaces.

I can't even start thinking of setting up a storage. It's close to 4.

We have to start looking for a place to pitch the tent.

We are going south in Auspiya river valley.

This apparently is the place covered with the deepest snow.

Wind is not strong, snow cover is 1,22 m.

Tired and exhausted we started the preparations for the night.

Not enough firewood. Frail damp firs.

We started fire with logs, too tired to dig a fire pit.

We had supper right in the tent. It's warm.

It is hard to imagine such a comfort somewhere on the ridge, with a piercing wind, hundreds kilometers away from human settlements.

Dyatlov

The stream is not frozen.

Walking along the creek is not possible, large snowdrifts and deep snow.

This photo in possible to have been taken on January 30.

... It's impossible to walk along the river - it did not freeze, and under the snow, water and ice ...

In the photo Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolles.

To the left in the snow lies the ski.

Large drifts, deep snow, Nikolay fell into a creek under the snow.

Nikolay lies in the snow.

The ski that lay next to it is no longer visible covered with snow, next to it there are two ski poles.

One ski stick plunged into the snow to the very handle, this indicates that the depth of the snow is more than a meter.

Some of the guys tried to pull Nikolay by the legs and pulled off his left foot boots.

Nikolay cleared himself of some snow and puts a black glove on his left hand.

Apparently it was his turn to pack the snow ahead of the group.

The group walked along the river covered with snow and at some point Nikolay collapsed.

Nikolay got out of the snowdrift, got to his feet, put on his right foot boots and looked at the guys.

In the foreground, behind the branches, lies his backpack, next to him is a black right mitt, skis and ski poles.

In front to the left is a hole in the snow, probably under it is a stream.

You can see tracks leading to the silhouette.

This is not somebody hiding in the forest going after the group, like Yeti.

This theory is Discovery channel’s way to justify a budget spent on a movie - so they had to offer an ending that will speak to the american audience.

In the states you can’t make a movie and not have an ending.

Please stop asking me about the “Yeti” photo.

This is Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle.

Ok?

Nikolay smiles at the photographer, although it's clear he is very cold.

The group stopped for lunch.

In the foreground is Zina Kolmogorova.

She stuck her ski poles in the snow, one of the guys helped her take off her backpack and put it next to her.

Zina took off the mittens and threw them on the snow, in her right hand she holds several pieces of sugar, waiting for Kolya Thibaut to give her the rest of the dinner.

On the left Kolya Thibaut's foot and hand, he sits on a backpack and distributes food to the hikers.

Yuri Krivonischenko, Lyuda Dubinina, Yuri Doroshenko and Alexander Kolevatov.

After lunch, the group heads to the pass.

Bad weather, strong wind, blizzard, visibility is limited.

In the photo, most likely it's Zina Kolmogorova.

In the photo is Rustem Slobodin, on his shoulders there is a backpack with a pair of felt boots, a handle of an ax sticks out from the backpack.

Next to him is a backpack, on the far background from the right one more backpack is seen, most likely it's a bag with the tent.

The group stopped at the foot of the pass on the border of the forest.

There is strong wind, blizzard and low visibility.

Photo by Yuri Krivonischenko

In the foreground, without a backpack, stands Igor Dyatlov and looks somewhere to the left of the photographer.

His left knee in the snow, obviously Igor was kneeling when he took off his backpack.

From the left, behind Igor, is Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle, he took off his ski boot and looked at the photographer.

Resisting the force of the wind, Igor and Nikolay inclined their bodies forward.

In the background is Lyuda Dubinina, she turns away from the wind and looks around, looks at the one who follows her.

She has a small backpack on her back.

The presence of a small backpack on the back of Lyuda Dubinina.

She had a leg wound, so the guys tried to make the weight of her backpack as easy as possible.

Behind her another figure is visible, most likely it's Alexander Kolevatov.

The group came to the foot of the pass and stopped at the edge of the forest.

Around the small crooked birches and spruce.

The weather is very different from what it was in the valley of the Auspiya river.

On the pass there is a strong wind, blizzard, low visibility is bad at 100 - 200 m.

We gradually leave Auspiya valley, the rise is continuous, but quite smooth.

Fir trees are replaced by wispy birch-wood.

We came out of the tree line.

Wind is western, warm, penetrating.

The speed of the wind is like air draft created by a taking off airplane.

Firn, open spaces.

I can't even start thinking of setting up a storage.

It's close to 4 pm.

Photo by Yuri Krivonischenko

Photo by Yuri Krivonischenko.

In Russian this photo is dubbed "Совет в Филях" or Council of Fili after a famous painting by Aleksey Kivshenko.

It seems like there were members of the group that were sent out to scout the pass, and they just came back.

Very interesting shot - it recorded one of the important moments in the fate of the group.

The tourists stopped at a halt, on the border of the forest, to put on warm clothes and prepare for further ascent in the mountain.

While the group was gathering firewood, Dyatlov and Kolevatov went further up to assess the conditions.

Igor Dyatlov on the left, talking to Semyon Zolotaryov.

Igor is on the skis, Alexander Kolevatov listens to what Igor is saying and looks at Semyon or at some of the guys behind him.

To the right is Semyon Zolotarev, he threw a jacket on his shoulders and listens attentively to what Igor is saying with a serious expression on his face.

Behind Semyon is Yura Doroshenko, he goes to his backpack.

In the background on skis is Rustem Slobodin with a heavy backpack, with boots on top of it.

On the previous photo there was an ax sticking out of his backpack, now it's not there.

They are cutting wood for the night.

Rustem warms his hands in his pockets and looks at Lyuda and Nikolay.

Next to him on the ski is Zina Kolmogorova.

She is slightly bent forward and puts her left arm on her shoulder strap from the backpack.

Near Zina on the right, stands Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolles on skis, on his shoulders hangs a heavy backpack.

With his right hand Nikolay is helping Zina to put her backpack on her shoulders.

In the foreground, with his back, next to the dwarf birch, stands Lyuda Dubinina.

She warms her hands in the pockets of her trousers and looks at the guys.

On the snow there are two backpacks, one is Yuri Doroshenko's, and the second must be Semyon Zolotaryov's.

To the backpacks are attached brush and firewood for the stove.

The group stands in a small hollow on the edge of the forest.

From the right of the group is a small hill, on which grow dwarf, ugly birches.

Strong headwind, blizzard, visibility no more than 100 m.

This photo captures a key moment.

What happened here?

It may seem that Igor, as the head of the group, made a gross mistake, led tourists to a radial ascent without having made storage and the group was in extremely unfavorable conditions.

Here everything depended on the further choice of the route.

... Today, probably, we will build a storage. ...

Apparently, there was no certainty, Igor himself did not know exactly where they would build the storage?

If the group was going to follow the route; the river Auspiya - the river Lozva - mountain Otorten, they should overcome a pass and go down to a valley of the river Lozva.

The ascent to the Mt Otorten, by plan, was supposed to happen from the valley of Lozva river, but then they would not need need the brush and firewood before going through the pass.

The group reached the pass early, and during lunch, Dyatlov decided to stack up with firewood and go up the pass for an overnight on the ridge.

There was still enough bright time of day to continue the trek for the day.

Igor intended to raise the group with full equipment to Mt Kholat Syakhl.

There he planned to spend a cold overnight, then to cross the northern peaks of the Kholat Syakhl and descend to the valley of the Lozva river, build a storage and continue to Mt Otorten.

After careful consideration Igor decided that the exercise to spend the night on the pass will make more sense if they leave the extra load here.

On this photo is captured the moment when Igor is explaining to Zolotaryov his change of plan:

• go back to Auspiya river for a warm and sheltered campsite
• make a storage, leave an extra load
• next day continue to Mt Otorten without descending from the pass. They would have already built the storage and left the extra load on Auspiya river. The standard route to go up Mt Otorten was from Lozva river. Dyatlov had a different idea in mind - once on top of the pass to continue on the ridge light from extra weight, trek easily on firm ice on the ridge of Mt Kholat Syakhl without loss of altitude, and spend a warm night on the lake, the source of Lozva river
• make an ascent to Mt Otorten and set off on the return journey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

February 1, 1959

On February 1 the group started out late, covered 2 km only and pitched a tent on the open ridge for a "cold" overnight i.e. without firewood.

Dyatlov group had to prepare a note for the ascent to Mt Otorten, but instead they write on Evening Otorten №1, the satirical propaganda leaflet.

The only written piece where snowman (or Yeti) is mentioned is in Evening Otorten №1, the satirical propaganda leaflet Dyatlov Group put together at the night of the incident.

The case file does not contain a photo of this flyer, only a transcript of its content.

You might think that Keith McCloskey, Libecki and others would want to consult the original document in order to independently authenticate such an apparently important clue, but they do not.

We have to guess what their plans were.

• They were carrying the stove and even though they did not used it that night it means that they were planning on using it at least once before their return back to the labaz.
• They pitched the tent on the ridge although they had the time to go down to Lozva river. The only reason to do that is to continue in the morning on high grounds towards Otorten, where it is easier to ski on firm snow.

The conclusion is that they planned to have more "warm" overnight on February 2 at lake Lunthusaptur (Лунтхусаптур) under Mt Otorten where the source of Lozva starts.

They must have planned to make the note for the ascent then.

On the morning of February 3 make an ascent to Mt Otorten, and replace the note that was there with their own.

Then they pack their tent and start their way back.

They spend another "cold" overnight on February 3 on Kholat Syakhl.

On February 4 the group was supposed to go back to their labaz on Auspiya river.

From the campsite on February 1 to Mt Otorten is about 18 km.

Taking into account the return journey, that makes 36 km.

The group planned to leave on February 1 and return on February 4 to the labaz, the group had to take products for 3 days.

The upcoming route was r. Auspiya - lake Lunthusaptur - Mt Otorten - r. Auspiya.

They started late on February 1 because they waited for the weather to clear out.

They wrote Evening Otorten №1, built a storage (labaz), gather firewood for the return back.

Then after lunch, Dyatlov took the risk and lead the group up the the mountain Kholat Syakhl.

Dyatlov Pass is not where the group was headed.

The pass is the place to go over Kholat Syakhl if you are going to come down.

Some people speculate that Dyatlov got lost and didn't find the pass.

This is not true.

The group didn't intend to go though the pass.

They wanted to gain altitude and stay on the ridge for a "cold" overnight i.e. without firewood.

Loose photo with unknown origin

Dyatlov (left, bended), Zolotaryov, Dubinina and Krivonischenko (right) brushing ashes from Dyatlov's portable stove.

We can see Kolevatov's Finnish knife.

Note how the tent is suspended on a rope tied to nearby trees.

From this photo and other we can speculate that Lyuda liked to hang around the the senior member of the group - Zolotaryov and Thibeaux-Brignolle.

That can explain her choice to join them at the last hours of her life.

Krivonischenko film №1 frame №29

Alexander Kolevatov and Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, behind them stands a pair of skis.

Behind Nikolai's right, leaning against the birch and all in the snow, lies a backpack.

To this birch is tied an extension that holds the center of the tent.

Behind the backpack and birch stands a tent.

The edge of the slope of the tent is covered with snow, wet spots are visible on the slope.

Alexander is pointing at something down and laughs, Nikolay looks down and laughs too.

The guys most likely laugh at the burnt Doroshenko's quilted jacket.

Krivonischenko film №1 frame №30

Morning, just for laughs Rustem Slobodin puts on the burnt quilted jacket that belonged to Yuri Doroshenko and posed for the photo.

Krivonischenko film №1 frame №31

Rustem Slobodin posing for a photo in the burnt quilted jacket that belonged to Doroshenko.

Behind him in the snow lies a pair of skis, in front of him is a backpack, Rustem's feet are covered with shoe covers.

The group is preparing to get on the trail.

They went 2 km and about 3 pm setup a camp site.

Krivonischenko's film№1 frame №32

February 1 Dyatlov group on their way to Kholat Syakhl

Krivonischenko's film№1 frame №33

Loose photo with unknown origin

Dyatlov group setting up the tent for their last night alive, photo is taken around 5 pm.

Rakitin disputes this conclusion, we can not be sure what time were these last photos taken.

Loose photo with unknown origin

According to the Resolution to close the case where Lev Ivanov says:

“...Dyatlov, as the leader of the group, made a gross mistake allowing the group to begin the ascent on 1.II.59, only at 15-00.

- 2 -

Later, on the ski trail, which was preserved at the time of the search, it was possible to establish that the tourists, moving to the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva River, were 500-600 m to the left and instead of the pass formed by the peaks "1079" and "880" they went up on the eastern slope of height "1079".

This was Dyatlov's second mistake.

Using light day time to rise to the top of the "1079", in conditions of strong wind that is usual in this area, and a low temperature of the order of 25-30°C, Dyatlov group found themselves at unprofitable conditions for spending the night and decided to pitch the tent on a slope of height "1079" so that in the morning of the next day, without losing altitude, go to the Mt. Otorten, to which the distance in straight line remained about 10 km.

In one of the cameras the last frame shows the moment of excavation of snow for the installation of the tent.

Considering that this frame was shot with an exposure of I/25 seconds, with a diaphragm of 5.6 at a film sensitivity of 65 Un.

GOST, and taking into account the density of the frame, we can assume that the tourists started the installation of the tent around 5 pm 1.II.59.

A similar picture was taken with another camera.

After this time, no records and no photos were found.”

Rakitin disputes Ivanov's examination of the photos.

He says that Ivanov calculated the time based on their Sverdlovsk time and the position of the sun on the plain.

And Rakitin believes that in the mountains the sun sets earlier and therefore it is necessary to make allowances.

Photographers believe that according to such characteristics as ISO, aperture and shutter speed (shutter speed 1 / 25s, with aperture of 5.6, with a film sensitivity of 65 UGOST), in principle, it is impossible to determine the shooting time, because on a clear and cloudy day you will have different camera settings at the same time.

You can determine the time of shooting only if you have a clear shadow and you clearly know the direction of North-South, based on the concept of astronomical midday and the movement of the sun 15 degrees per hour.

There are no shadows on these photos and orientation is not known.

So time can not be set in principle.

On February 2 the group was supposed to cover 14 - 14.5 km on a firm snow, reach lake Lunthusaptur and to have a "warm" overnight.

That's way they took the stove with them and was found in the tent, not used on the tragic night of February 1.

What happened on the night of February 1959 will haunt us till this day.

I can offer only a speculative reenactment of the events of this night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Żródło: https://www.facebook.com/dyatlovmania/

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Annual conference in Memory of Dyatlov group in real time.

 

https://www.ural.kp.ru/daily/27234/4361208/?fbclid=IwAR0Z2IBNfN8lxZpdaY2W7F7rGM41pergmVaY-QoFQtZa5yD3YpsB9vU8gyg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Żródło: https://www.facebook.com/dyatlovmania/

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In memory of Dyatlov group that perished 62 years to the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Żródło: https://www.facebook.com/dyatlovmania/

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Od maja 2020 r., dostępna jest druga po polsku książka o tragedii Diatłowa z 1959 roku.

 

 

 

Data premiery: 6 MAJA 2020

Liczba stron: 280

 

 

 

TRAGEDIA NA PRZEŁĘCZY DIATŁOWA

HISTORIA BEZ KOŃCA

ALICE LUGEN

 

 

Pod koniec stycznia 1959 roku grupa turystów, głównie studentów i absolwentów Politechniki Uralskiej, postanowiła uczcić kolejny zjazd KPZR zdobyciem góry Otorten w Uralu Północnym.

Wyprawa zakończyła się tragicznie i w wyjątkowo zdumiewających okolicznościach.

Obozujący na zboczu turyści rozcięli swój namiot, wybiegli w uralską noc, rozpalili ognisko.

Nikt nie przeżył nocy – niektórzy zmarli z powodu hipotermii, u innych znaleziono liczne urazy, ślady krwotoku z nosa, sporych rozmiarów sińce na twarzy, złamania.

Do dziś nikt nie wyjaśnił tej sprawy, a samo śledztwo z 1959 roku było równie zagadkowe, jak tragedia.

Prokurator zamknął je nagle, a w sprawozdaniu napisał, że przyczyną śmierci turystów była „potężna siła”.

Dziś w Rosji badaniem tej sprawy zajmuje się kilkanaście tysięcy osób, w tym Fundacja Pamięci Grupy Diatłowa.

 

Napisano na ten temat kilkanaście książek, nakręcono filmy dokumentalne, opublikowano tysiące artykułów.

 

Co roku w rocznicę wydarzenia na Uniwersytecie Uralskim odbywa się konferencja poświęcona pamięci ofiar.

 

Tajemnicza śmierć dziewięciorga turystów i niespodziewanie zakończone dochodzenie to idealny punkt wyjścia do snucia teorii spiskowych.

 

Ale Alice Lugen poszła w zupełnie inną stronę.

 

Historia wyprawy służy jej do opowiedzenia o biurokratycznym chaosie, zimnowojennej histerii i zakulisowych politycznych rozgrywkach.

 

Zamiast horroru z paranormalnym tłem dostajemy biurokratyczny thriller, który nie przypadkiem przywołuje na myśl głośny serial o tragedii w Czarnobylu.

 

 

 

 

Świeżo wydana „Tragedia na Przełęczy Diatłowa” jest książką nader aktualną – opis wydarzeń związanych z dochodzeniem prawdy sięga ostatnich miesięcy 2019. Reportaż śledczy Lugen nosi podtytuł Historia bez końca i to wskazuje czytelnikowi kierunek, w jakim poszła autorka: tym, co interesuje ją najbardziej, nie są same mniej lub bardziej spiskowe teorie na temat śmierci ludzi Diatłowa, lecz tragedia jako szczególnego rodzaju test. Wydolności systemu biurokratycznego, uczciwości wymiaru sprawiedliwości, ideologicznego zaślepienia, a wreszcie – test na ludzką empatię, solidarność, lojalność, gotowość do poświęceń.

24 KWIETNIA 2020 PIOTR KOFTA, EDGP.GAZETAPRAWNA.PL

Reportaż operujący faktami trzyma w napięciu jak horror. I to budzi znacznie większą grozę niż najbardziej fantastyczne teorie spiskowe.

04 CZERWCA 2020 ALEKSANDRA ŻELAZIŃSKA, POLITYKA.PL

Czytając „Tragedię na Przełęczy Diatłowa. Historię bez końca” żałowałam szalenie, że mam w rękach książkę z dziedziny non-fiction, ponieważ od pewnego momentu zaczęłam przeczuwać, że nie ma szans na logiczne i dokładne wyjaśnienie wszystkich wątków. Gdyby to była powieść, wymagałabym od autora, żeby uporządkował fakty i zadbał o psychologiczne prawdopodobieństwo wydarzeń. Prawdziwe życie, niestety, nie poddaje się takiej presji.

05 CZERWCA 2020 OLGA WRÓBEL, EMPIK.COM

„Tragedia na Przełęczy Diatłowa” to świetna książka dla fanów historii, miłośników thrillerów i horrorów. Ale też tych wszystkich, którzy cenią sobie książki wielowymiarowych zagadek. Lugen ma nie tylko talent do snucia opowieści, do umiejętnego utrzymywania napięcia, ale też i godny pozazdroszczenia dar porządkowania faktów, panowania nad nimi, podawania ich tak, by przeprowadzić czytelnika przez jeden z najciekawszych historycznych labiryntów XX wieku.

15 CZERWCA 2020 ŁUKASZ KAMIŃSKI, WYBORCZA.PL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Żródło: https://czarne.com.pl/katalog/ksiazki/tragedia-na-przeleczy-diatlowa

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RESERACHERS CONFIRM MAGNETIC ANOMALY ON DYATLOV PASS

Aleksander Alekseenkov, a researcher of the tragedy from Moscow, told about this during the annual Dyatlov group conference in Yekaterinburg, February 2, 2021.

For many years in a row, twice a year (in summer and winter), he traveled to the Dyatlov Pass to conduct various experiments.

In 2020 he used a magnetometer from one of the laboratories.

"My expectations were justified: a magnetic anomaly was discovered a few hundred meters from the tent site, - said Aleksander Alekseenkov.

- The gradient (spread) of the voltage was from several units to several tens of units, and in that place - right up to 1700 units, that is, the difference is several orders of magnitude."

While the articles refer to death by magnetic anomaly the authors of "1079" are putting this finding in a much more plausible context.

https://dyatlovpass.com/1079#magnetic

Photo by Aleksander Mamaev © URA.RU

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Żródło: https://www.facebook.com/dyatlovmania/

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February 23 - the search is airborne!

The organization of rescue work from 24.02 was trusted to the head of the military department of the UPI Colonel Georgy Ortyukov.

Ortyukov was able to agree with the chief of the air force of the district on the allocation of an aircraft and two helicopters, and Maslennikov engaged in the preparation and organization of the actions of search groups from tourists and climbers.

Radio communication with the groups was set up with the help of the Nevolin and Yaburov radio operators of the Northern geological expedition (headed by Sulman).

With the help of regional and local authorities and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a group of military men, led by Captain Chernyshov (Chief of Staff internal troops unit 6602 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ivdel), was involved in the search.

They brought guides Moiseev and Mostovoy with two rescue dogs, and later - the soldiers of the defence of Ivdellag under the command of Lieutenant Potapov and sappers Lieutenant Colonel Shestopalov with mine detectors.

Local indigenous Mansi also took part in the searches - the family of Kourikovs, Anyamovs from the village of Suyevat Paul and Komi hunters.

The Bakhtiyarov family led a search for the missing toursit in their habitats along the valleys of Vizhay and Toshemka.

The search groups were joined by some local residents: hunters, foresters (Pashin and Kuznetsov), military (Cheglakov).

Intensely questioned were hunters, researchers and local residents, whether they had seen Dyatlov group.

The rescuers cautioned how important is to inform the search headquarters of any signs of the missing group.

The search area was huge.

Short daylight (6 hours) and unfavorable weather conditions made it very difficult for aerial search and rescuers drop offs with military helicopters.

Sights of the hikers or their tracks from the airplane was nearly impossible, therefore it is very difficult to direct the search parties in the open spaces of the taiga.

For such large area the search efforts were clearly inadequate.

Headquarters tried to narrow the search zone tactically.

The main focus was on the most remote, complex and dangerous area from Mt Otorten to Oika-Chakour.

It was decided the first two search groups to land in the regions of Mt Otorten (the northern Slobtsov group) and Oika-Chakour (the southern Grebennik group), 70 km south of Ototen.

Moving towards each other, these groups had to find signs of Dyatlov group and meet on the ridge.

The search parties were given the task to find traces of the missing group: ski tracks and camp sites, follow them and rescue Dyatlov group.

Tactically, the search was built like this: after disembarkation in the search area, the group was divided into several units of 2-3 people, who, during the day covered in radial directions distance of several kilometers and return to their bivouac.

The purpose of the radial search was to determine in which direction did Dyatlov group go.

Then the group in its entirety moved to a new point on the supposed route of the hikers, equipped a new bivouac, and again searched radially.

It was expected sooner or later to stumble upon linear ski tracks left by Dyatlov group.

If this were the case the search parties were to follow them and find Dyatlov group camp site and eventually the place of the accident.

So it was decided to find the tracks first, and then the group itself.

Before the arrival of the radio operators, the instructions were given to the rescue groups by dropping canisters from the aircraft with instructions inside, and the searchers responded by writing on the snow a conventional sign (letter).

At this moment the search operations have the urgency of a rescue, which is life-saving.

Search operations will eventually find the dead, and clarify the causes of death, but everybody hoped for a favorable outcome.

One by one, the rescue teams went to the search area, landed from helicopters and moved through the taiga and mountains, looking for traces of the missing group.

In terms of scale and duration at that time, these rescue operations were unprecedented.

Aircraft AN-2 at the airfield Aramil, Sverdlovsk

February 23
In poor visibility, Slobtsov group was transferred by two helicopters to what turn to be Mount Pumsalnel 1055, a peak east of Otorten.

They were trying to get as close to Otorten as they could since this was the final destination of Dyatlov group.

They wanted to find out if they have been to Otorten.

Within five hours of the aerial search, a ski trail was spotted running along the bank of the Auspiya River and then in the direction of the ridge.

The trail appeared to be old. After landing on Pumsalnel 1055 Slobtsov group descended towards Lozva river and secured the equipment in a bivouac.

Slobtsov wrote:
"On the top, where we were brought in by helicopter, we saw no tracks.

The next day was dedicated to some useless searches along the Lozva River.

That very day we came to the banks of the Auspiya, where we knew that Dyatlov was intending to create his storage depot.

Sure enough, on the left bank of this river we found some old ski tracks.

A radio message was sent by our search team operator, and we received the following message from our fellow rescue group: ‘We’re six or ten kilometers from the Auspiya and we’ve found narrow sports ski tracks, different to the wide tracks of the Mansi skis.

It’s a good trail made by a number of people, and is probably 10-15 days old, very easy to follow in the forest, but almost invisible in open places.

The track goes to the ridge, where of course it disappears due to wind and snow drifts."

Ivdel airport, in the center helicopter commander Protyazhenko and Colonel G. Ortyukov, on the far right criminalist Lev Ivanov and next to him radio operator Egor Nevolin

February 24
Next day Slobtsov rescue group reached the mountain and came to a conclusion that Dyatlov group never made it this far.

The students didn't find any traces, flags or anything else that would indicate recent ascend.

They crossed the source of Lozva trying to find tracks left by Dyatlov group.

They didn't find any but realized that tracks can be only preserved in the taiga.

On the open slopes of the mountain the skis didn't leave any trace.

Therefore they decided to look for footprints father down, in the taiga, and cross the forest part of Auspiya valley.

There laid another possible route of Dyatlov group.

On Feb 24 Slobtsov group moved south, to the valley of Auspiya river.

The landing site on Kholat Syakhl.

February 25
Slobtsov group going up and down Auspiya valley found 5 km down the river Dyatlov group camp site.

On the left bank of the river were barely noticeable snow-covered ski tracks.

Karelin group finished a trek to Mt Molebny Kamen from 9 to 24 Feb 1959.

They started in the area of the upper sources Niols river towards Mount Sampalchakhl 910 where Dyatlov group was supposed to end their trek at the same time.

Both groups had discussed meeting near Oykachakhl 1322.

When Dyatlov was no show Karelin made a big deal of it and they continued their way.

Two weeks later 25 Feb 1959 in a dining room at the train station of Serov city a man, calling himself a representative of Northern geological party, approached the hikers and asked casually "Aren't they searching for you?"

They answered warily "What do you mean search?

We are not due yet."

They called hastily Sverdlovsk and learned from Orlov about the missing Dyatlov group.

They were summoned to participate in the search operation.

Two of the members, Goryachko and Granin, were in no shape to continue and were sent back to Sverdlovsk.

The other six members: Vladislav Karelin, Georgy Atmanaki, Boris Borisov, Evgeniy Serditih, Vladimir Skutin and Vladimir Shavkunov joined the rescuers in Ivdel by train same day at 11 pm.

Next day 25 Feb Georgy Atmanaki and Vladimir Skutin were on board of the plane that flew to survey a point of disembarkation for Akselrod group near peak Otorten.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Żródło: https://www.facebook.com/dyatlovpass9

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February 26 - first signs of Dyatlov group

Grebennik group having checked the upper sources of Vishera river, passed to the eastern slope - moving south towards Mt Oykachakhl, so the next day they can ascend to its summit.

On their way to the top a plane flew above and dropped a canister with an order to retreat down along Toshemka river.

Grebennik rescue group

Oleg Grebennik
Vladimir Shlyapin
Vladislav Kirsanov
Vitaly Kostrulin
Vladimir Skachkov
Ivan Tatsienko

Atmanaki and Skutin flew to Otorten to observe the area of Lozva river and the slopes of the mountain for landing sites.

Karelin rescue group

Vladislav Karelin
Georgy Atmanaki
Vladimir Skutin
Boris Borisov
Evgeny Serditih
Vladimir Shavkunov

Despite the bad weather Akselrod rescue group was dropped off at 16-00 8 km east of the peak Otorten.

Yaburov, Akselrod and Tipikin, photo by Sergey Sogrin

Moses Akselrod
Tipikin
Sergey Sogrin
Yaburov
Chiglintzev

Captain Alexey Chernyshov rescue group took off from Ivdel at 13-00, landed in the designated area in the upper sources of the Purma river, about 25 km from the Peak 1079.

They were to cover the passes of Auspya-Purma and Purma-Vishera

Kourikov, Anyamov, Slobtsov, Cheglakov, Sharavin, Sogrin, Akselrod, Brusnitsin, Halizov, Lebedev, down - Tipikin, Atmanaki, Koptelov

Captain Alexey Chernyshov Captain Vlasov
Petty Officer Sidorov
Staff Sergeant Verhovsky Yablonskiy

Egor Semenovich Nevolin
Stepan Kourikov
2 more members of Kourikov family
Nikolay Anyamov

Michail Sharavin, Vladimir Lebedev, Boris Slobtsov, Vyacheslav Halizov (with the map), photo by Vadim Brusnitsin 25 Feb 1959

Boris Slobtsov
Vadim Brusnitsin
Stas Devyatov
Yuri Koptelov
Vyacheslav Krotov
Vladimir Lebedev
Vladimir Strelnikov
Vyacheslav Khalizov
Michail Sharavin
Ivan Pashin
Alexei Cheglakov

Slobtsov group split into three divisions.

The first one went south where Dyatlov group could have gone after their descent from Otorten, the second division examined Auspiya river for tracks and in the search for the storage site (labaz) of Dyatlov group.

The third division followed the trajectory of the Dyatlov group ski trail up Kholat Syakhl where they found the torn Dyatlov group tent.

Boris Slobtsov and Mihail Sharavin, together with Ivan Pashin the Mansi forester, noticed the dark shape of a tent covered by snow and a protruding stovepipe on the slope of the Kholat Syakhl.

Pashin was hesitant to approach the tent, so the two students went on alone.

Upon encountering the scene, they noted:
“The tent was situated on the northeast slope of the Kholat Syakhl Mountain.

It was about 300 meters from the summit and was pitched on a special flat area dug into the snow, with some snow walls around it for protection from the wind.

One end of the tent faced southeast towards the Auspiya river, the other faced northwest towards the Lozva river.”

Another rescue team described the slope as ‘uneven and descending, and crossed by three stony ridges parallel to one another before passing into a hollow’.

“As we approached the tent, we discovered the entrance was out of the snow, but the rest was buried.

In the snow around the tent, there were ski poles and one pair of skis.

The snow on the tent was 15-20 cm deep.

The snow had obviously drifted there and was very firm.

At the side of the tent there was a Chinese flashlight, which we later found belonged to Dyatlov.

But we couldn’t understand why the snow under the flashlight was ten centimeters thick, yet there wasn’t any on the flashlight itself.

I put the flashlight down and saw it was switched off.

I switched it on and there was light.

I didn’t notice it at the time, but I was later told that close to the side of the tent was a mark where someone had urinated, and next to the entrance of the tent was an ice axe.”

There were no bodies near the tent or inside it.

The students took the diaries and a flask of alcohol from the tent before returning to join the rest of the group.

Around 4PM that day, they met another group with a radio set and sent a message with the coordinates of the tent.

Understanding what happened at the tent is a very important node in the chain of events.

This is where the tragedy started to unfold.

For reasons that were never answered, the sides of the tent were cut from inside and it looks like the hikers chose this strange exit for leaving the tent completely ignoring the entrance, or did they?

The tent hung in the largest room in Ivdel Department of Internal Affairs to be photographed.

The prevailing opinion was that some vandals surprised and attacked the hikers cutting the tent in the process.

Vladimir Korotaev, who in 1959 was young investigator, recalling the events of that time, said that major break in the case was made almost by accident.

A woman was called to help mending his uniform.

She took one look at the tent and spoke with confidence that the cuts were made from inside.

This changed the course of the investigation entirely.

Forensic analysis confirmed the cuts were indeed made from inside.

The examination was conducted in Sverdlovsk Forensic Laboratory 3-16 April 1959 by senior forensic expert Henrietta Eliseevna Churkina.

Official protocol report on Dyatlov group tent:
Official protocol report on Dyatlov group tent:
Camp site is located on the northeast slope of mountain 1079 (Kholat Syakhl , red) at the source of Auspiya river.

Camp site is located 300 meters from the top of the mountain 1079 on a slope of 30°.

Camp site consists of a pad by flattened snow, on the bottom of which are stacked 8 pairs of skis (for tent support and insulation, red).

Tent is stretched on poles and fixed with ropes, at the bottom of the tent 9 backpacks were discovered with various personal items, jackets, rain coats, 9 pairs of shoes.

There were also found men's pants, and three pairs of boots, warm fur coats, socks, hat, ski caps, utensils, buckets, stove, ax, saw, blankets, food: biscuits in two bags, condensed milk, sugar, concentrates, notebooks, itinerary and many other small items and documents, camera and accessories to a camera.

The nature and form of all (...) cuts suggest that they were formed by contact with the canvas inside of the tent with the blade of some weapon (presumably a knife).

The tent was suspended on a rope.

Two photos were made that consequently didn't fit together very well, but the problems didn't end there:

• The side of the tent facing uphill is not photographed. We know there was at least one hole in the tent and Dyatlov jacket was found tucked in it.
• The far right end of the tent is left out of the photos.
• Part of the torn material on right side is covering a hole that is not measured.
• The sizes of the holes are not precise but approximate. Why couldn't they be measured with precision?
• How did Churkina decide which cuts were important and worth mentioning, measuring and showing on her scheme?
• On the photos there is no ruler or something else to be used for a scale to measure the cuts. Rakitin found out what model is the chair that is in the left photo my chance, and made his measurements comparing with the size of the back 40 cm.
• Churkina's drawing is not only overly schematic but also the positioning, sizes and number of cuts are not accurate.

Some of the cuts from inside didn't make it all the way through.

The back of the chair is used as a measurement ruler.

The cut made by Slobtzov when he found the tent

The piece of the tent material is covering at least one big hole that can not be measured.

This is how Henrietta Churkina saw the tent. This drawing is part of the official file case.

This scheme depicts the state of the groups last minutes quiet routine.

Everything seems orderly and normal except the pile of shoes in area A.

Even if there some shoes there left for the night the chaos of the footwear piled on top is uncharacteristic for the scene.

The following shows the construction of Dyatlov's group tent:

1. loop at the top of the tent for stretching ropes to avoid the sagging of the canvas
2. Dyatlov's group tent was made from two 4-person tents and this is the double seam that connects them
3. Igor Dyatlov created this suspended stove, on the drawing the chimney is assembled and the stove is showing suspended but the search party found them on the floor of the tent.

 

 

This drawing and most of the observations (but not all) on this page belong to Alexey Rakitin

Reconstruction of the general form of the tent with the stuff inside on their places the way they were found.

Not to clutter the scheme are omitted hikers 9 backpacks lying on the floor, 9 blankets (2 spread and 7 crumpled) and jackets.

For a scale is shown a man with the size of Yuri Doroshenko (height - 180 cm, shoulders - 55 cm).

A. to the left of the entrance, this is where almost all the footwear of the hikers was piled up - 7 felt boots (valenki) and 6 pair of boots
B. to the left of the entrance, household inventory - 2 buckets, flask with alcohol, 2 large axes, 1 small ax, cooking pots, rasp in its sheath, suspended stove, bags of biscuits, as well as a piece of loin approx. 3 kg
C. in the center of the tent to the right of the entrance were found 2 pair of shoes
D. in the far part of the tent where stored the food - cereals, cans, sugar, and wood for the stove

Near the entrance of the tent was found the satirical propaganda leaflet Dyatlov Group put together at the night of the incident "Evening Otorten".

The content of this document is indicative of the mood inside the group and the fact they had the time to write it.

Later on, an innocent reference from this flyer will become the sand grain that grew the pearl of the Yeti theory of their demise.

Here is the original and translated Evening Otorten №1.

The entrance of the tent was looking south.

The north part was covered with 15-20 cm of snow.

It was concluded from general appearance and density that it was not a result of an avalanche but blown by the wind.

Near the tent, a pair of skis were sticking out from the snow (they couldn't remain like this if there was an avalanche), and at the entrance of the tent in the snow was an ice axe.

Near the ice axe was lying Dyatlov's jacket.

In the pockets was a pocket knife on a carabiner and a pocketbook with Zina Kolmogorova's photo inside.

The objects didn't shed any light about what happened, but it was strange that Dyatlov took off his jacket outside the tent.

On the side of the tent on top of 10 cm of snow laid Dyatlov's flashlight (made in China).

Boris Slobtzov picked it up and turned it on - the flashlight was in working condition.

One of the rescuers remembers "we couldn’t understand why the snow under the flashlight was 10 cm thick, yet there wasn’t any on the flashlight itself.

Unfortunately no one expected to find the tourists dead so there was no attempt to preserve or record the footprints of people around the Dyatlov Pass.

To this day there has been a discussion of exactly how many people were in this pass on that fateful day.

However judging by words of the people involved in the search and who took the lower right picture there were definitely 8-9 tracks of footprints left by tourists who wore almost no footwear.

Their feet pressed the snow and this left a characteristic "columns" of pressed snow with a footprint on top.

Members of the group walked in a single file with a tall men walking in the back.

His footprints partially covered the footprints of his friends who walked in front of him.

Overall the path gave an impression of organized and uneventful descent down the slope of the mountain.

Several trails would deviate from the general direction, but then rejoin the group.

Other footprints were also discovered and photographed.

It is hard to say if these were left by someone else or rescuers themselves.

Elevated footprints

(1) male footprints with not very big steps
(2) small female footprints
(3) two overlapping male footprints, and
(4) larger male footprints that go on same track as the girl's as if this person was covering or walking behind the group.

The only footprint of a boot, you can clearly see the heel of a shoe.

The imprint is not complete, the heel is deeper, the sole - to the middle, this is how a footprint looks like when a person is going downhill putting most of his weight on the heels.

Pertinent testimonies from the criminal case files:

Maslennikov
“When we finished taking inventory of the tent’s contents, we moved it to the helicopter pad, about 600- 700 m away.”

Radiogram: “We managed to identify footprints of eight or nine people starting from the tent and going about 1 km down the slope, and then they were lost.

One person was in boots, the others were only in socks and barefoot.”

Some members of the rescue team claimed these footprints started from right outside the tent, and others that they started a little to the side of the tent.

Atmanaki
”There were no footprints right around the tent because when the Dyatlov group dug they had stacked the snow all around, and later this snow was drifted by the wind, thus covering all the tracks.

But thirty or 40 m down there was a file of very well preserved footprints.”

Slobtsov
”There were footprints of bare feet, but in socks. Some were from valenki, and occasionally we could make out the tread of a ski boot.

All of these prints were raised higher than the actual wind-scoured surface of the slope.

We followed these prints from the tent in the direction of a spreading cedar, which was clearly prominent on the hill.

First we lost, and then we found, the tracks again.

They appeared again in the birch-tree undergrowth, and then they went down along the ravine which led to the Lozva River.”

Brusnitsin
”Footprints can be preserved in the mountains because of the way the wind works there.

You see the prints not as lowered imprints, but rather as raised columns, because the snow under the print is left compacted and cannot be eroded by the wind, but the area around it is scoured by the wind.

Then the sunrise makes the print area become even firmer, and in this way it can be preserved for the entire winter.”

Captain Chernyshov
”When they crossed a stony ridge where the tracks disappeared, but further down they appeared again, and then they were lost. T

he prints were very distinct. In some of the prints one could see whether the person was barefoot or in socks because you could see the toes.”

Second flashlight was found switched off and battery discharged 400m down the slope

Students took three photo cameras from the tent, group diary, some alcohol and few minor things, and hurried down the mountain to the campsite that was already established at the base of the mountain.

Several Mansi natives joined the group.

Additionally Egor Semenovich Nevolin, a radioman, joined the search party.

At 6 pm they radioed back about their discovery on the last campsite of the Dyatlov group.

UPI informed them that a large search group with will be delivered by a helicopter to their location.

They would also deliver two large military tents for better comfort and security.

A detective would join the search and rescue effort with Colonel Ortyukov as well.

Several members started cooking dinner while everyone else was looking for clues how to continue the search.

They found 710 rubles and railroad tickets for the whole group.

Most took this as a good omen.

They assumed that criminals were not involved since they would steal everything of value.

During dinner Boris Slobtzov raised a toast for the health of his friends and expressed hope that they will be found soon. Local forester, Ivan Pashin, was less optimistic about finding everyone alive and suggested that they should probably drink for the dead rather than the living.

Students found his words offensive and almost beat him up.

The thought of their friends simply perish like that in Siberian Taiga couldn't sink into their minds yet.

The next day - March 3, 1959 at Ivdel airport all things from the location where the tent was found were spread out and protocoled: 9 parka, 8 quilted jackets (vatnik), 1 fur jacket, 2 fur sleeveless vests, 4 shell pants, 1 cotton pants, 4 Scarf, 13 pairs of gloves (fur, cloth and leather), 8 pairs of ski boots, 7 pcs. boots (valenki), 2 pairs of slippers, 8 pairs of gaiters, 3 skating caps, 1 fur hat, 2 felt beret, 3 compass, 1 pocket watch, 2 Finnish knives (Tibo's and Krivo's) in their parkas, Kolevatov's Finnish knife in black leather sheath, 3 axes (2 large and 1 small in a leather case), 19 pcs overboots, 2 buckets, 2 pot, 2 flasks, 1 first aid kit.

There was also a significant number of small items (socks, foot clothes, masks, toothbrushes) taken out of the backpacks, making it difficult to determine who did they belong to.

Conclusions: They left without outer clothes, hats, gloves and shoes.

Only exceptionally serious threat might motivate a group of 9 young and physically fit people urgently leave their shelter in the winter evening in a completely uninhabited forest.

The question apparently was: a retreat down the hill, or the immediate and imminent death at the camp.

This is not to say that the group was completely unarmed - hikers left in the tent three axes and three Finnish knives, and likely they had more knives with them since they cut the fir and birch trees later in the night.

The danger they faced in the camp was not such that could be confronted with axes and knives.

When the group was chased out of their tent they went down the slope to the forest, not to the storage site where they had left provisions before climbing Kholat Syakhl.

19 items (total weight of 55 kg) among them cereals, sugar, wood, Krivonischenko's mandolin, pair of skis used to mark the location, 2 pair of shoes (ski and warm), an ice axe (which is strange), a cap, mask and a shirt.

The storage seemed undisturbed. (read more)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 27 - the cedar and first bodies

The Head of the UPI sports club Maslennikov, Master of Sports and experienced hiker himself arrived at the tent and started to inspect it with great and meticulous care.

Before the arrival of prosecutor Tempalov, everything was "studied", "investigated" and rearranged into "its" place.

In addition, the students lifted the tent and pulled three pairs of skis out of the tent.

After that students continued their independent actions without the participation of the officials in this investigation.

After inspecting the tent, Atmanaki group went downwards, indicating to Slobtsov group the proposed place for the base rescue camp, and instructing them to go there and carry the equipment.

At about 11:00, at a distance of about 1.5 km from the tent, Sharavin and Koptelov found the first two bodies.

They were Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko but at the time Doroshenko’s body was mistaken for Zolotoryov’s.

Colonel Ortykov reported in the radio message sent by the search team to Ivdel, “His face is completely covered with snow but we’re now of the opinion he is Doroshenko, not Zolotaryov.

They are both the biggest men in the group.”

Neither Sharavin nor Koptelov were questioned during the investigation.

Sharavin says that, by the time the investigation was conducted, he was in a hospital and therefore couldn’t testify; even more reason why there should have been a statement by Koptelov.

The statement in the criminal files is by Slobtsov:

“While looking carefully around the area, Mihail (Sharavin) noticed something dark close to a cedar tree.

There was a flat area next to the cedar, and on this were remains of a fire.

About two or three meters from the fire they found Yuri Doroshenko, frozen without his clothes and with his hand burned; and a little to the side they found Yuri Krivonischenko in the same state.

Under Doroshenko’s body were three or four cedar branches of about the same thickness.”

Krivonishenko and Doroshenko’s bodies partialy cleared from the snow.

Describing the condition of the bodies in the official record, Vasily Tempalov, the prosecutor in the criminal case, stated:

“Krivonischenko’s right leg has no footwear.

On his left foot there is a brown sock, torn.

Another sock like this was discovered half burnt next to the fire.

On the backs of his hands the skin is torn.

Between the fingers there is blood.

The index finger is also torn.

The skin of the left shin is torn and covered in blood.

There are no more visible injuries on his body.

Doroshenko has woolen socks on his feet, and over these socks another lighter sock.

His ear, lips and nose are covered in blood, and on his left hand, the middle finger is bloody.”

Brusnitsin
“Next to the bodies was a fire.

Nearby were more than ten small fir-tree branches, cut with a Finnish knife.

The lower dry branches, of about 5-cm diameter, had been cut from the cedar.

Some of these were lying next to the fire.

The snow around was trampled.”

Captain Chernyshov
“It’s possible to surmise that other people had since been by the fire.

We found various garments next to it rather than on the bodies, but we didn’t find any other bodies.

The trees near the fire had been cut with knives, but we found no knives with the bodies.”

Maslennikov
“Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, maybe with the help of others, had made a pretty good fire with the branches of fir-trees.

But that fire had been alight for maybe an hour and a half (8-cm branches of cedar had burned through).”

Atmanaki
“For about 20 meters around the cedar, there was evidence of young fir-trees being cut with a knife.

We saw around 20 such cut stumps.

But we didn’t see any of the cut branches left, except for one.

It isn’t possible to imagine they were used to maintain the fire.

First of all, they are not good for firewood.

Second, around them were quite a lot of dry twigs and debris.’

Radiogram
“The volume of work done here in making this number of cuts suggests there were more people here than only these two.’

Maslennikov
“Several wool and cotton socks were scattered around the fire.

There was a woman’s handkerchief burned through in several places and some fragments of woolen clothes.

But we didn’t find the actual clothes themselves.

In particular, we found the cuff of a dark sweater there, not on the bodies.

Also, we found some money, eight rubles.”

The cedar tree had since become a focal point of Dyatlov Pass tragedy.

This place held many clues, some of them made sense, but most of them raise more questions than answers.

The testimonies of the individuals present at the scene are similar and they bear each other out.

Captain Chernyshov
“All the low branches of the cedar within arm’s reach were broken completely.

One was cut four or five meters high.

They were thick.

These types of branches are extremely difficult to break, even if, for instance, you hang on them with the whole weight of your body.”

Maslennikov
“The lower dry branches of the cedar were broken up to two meters high.

Somebody climbed the tree, because the branches four or five meters high were also broken.”

Atmanaki
“Most of the dry branches up to five meters were broken.

Beside this, the side of the tree facing the slope and the tent was completely cleared of branches.

These were not dry; they were young and were not used.

ome of them were just lying on the ground, and the others were hanging on the lower branches of the cedar.

It looked as if someone had created a viewing hide facing the site from where they came.”

The same day, at a distance of 1100 meters from the tent and 300 meters from the cedar, the body of Igor Dyatlov was found.

He was lying on his back, his head in the direction of the tent, with no hat, covered with snow, and with his arm leaning on a small birch sapling.

His dying pose can be described as dynamic, he was moving when he felt down.

Igor Dyatlov's body partialy cleared from the snow.

Maslennikov
“Dyatlov was lying 300 m away from the cedar towards the tent, next to a birch [sapling] with his face up.

His left hand was kind of dragged to his face as if he had tried to protect himself from the wind.

He was dressed better than Doroshenko and Krivonischenko.

He had a fur vest, his collared shirt, underwear, ski trousers and other clothes.

But he had no hat, gloves, boots or shoes.

Also, he was without his padded jacket or windbreaker.

On his wrist was a watch which had stopped at 5:31.”

Atmanaki
“The impression was that he tried to go up [the slope], judging by the way his body was situated; and next to his head was a cluster of small saplings in which he was probably stuck.

But if he had been heading down, then he would have had to go around them to get into the position where his body was discovered.”

Tempalov
“[Dyatlov’s] left elbow is leaning on a birch sapling, his head is clearly behind the birch and 5-7 cm from it.

There are no visible injuries on the body.

There is ice on the face and under the chin.”

Radiogram
“We’ve found the bodies of Dyatlov, Doroshenko, and Krivonischenko or Zolotaryov.

It is hard to say for sure because there are major injuries on their faces, hands and legs.

The prosecutor and Maslennikov are trying to identify them.”

Gennady Grygoryev (journalist)
“We came upon Mount 1079.

The weather was calm, and the mountain was as if it was frozen in ice.

The snow was compacted.

There were ice-covered rock craters all around.

The going was so slippery that, as I was carrying the camera and notebook, I almost broke my leg …

The corpses were frozen and broken like glass.

Finding the first corpses was devastating for the rescue teams, especially for the students.

They came to the site to save their friends, who they believed were only in trouble.

They were anxious to find them and bring help.

Initially, the students were very eager; they didn’t eat and worked up a sweat.

Then, once they realized their friends were dead, the tension let up.

Silence fell all around.”

Atmanaki
“On completely open, flat snow, swept by wind and snow, Akselrod’s dog became interested in something.

We dug a little, and under ten centimeters of snow we found an elbow.

The general location of the body was beneath 50cm of snow.

The head was pointing in the direction of the tent, and the whole position was typical for a person trying to walk or crawl uphill.

The team recognized Kolmogorova.”

Tempalov
“There are no trees for seventy meters.

The body lies, like the previous bodies, face to the ground on its right side.

The arms are bent under the body.

Both legs are half bent, and the right is tucked up into her stomach.

This gives the impression she was climbing.

Her face is covered in blood.

In the small of her back there’s blood.

It can be conjectured that she didn’t try to crawl forward, but was trying to maintain her position.

There appeared to be no injuries on her body with the exception of some grazes on her face.

She probably got these from falling down on the stony ridges.”

The body of Zina Kolmogorova was found by a rescue dog Alma (Альма) under 50 cm of snow.

Radiogram
“We found Kolmogorova with her head fractured – please call for weather information from the 30th of January to the 2nd of February, because the place and the pose of the bodies suggests a massive wind storm.

The prosecutor called for medical experts to see the bodies.

The strongest core of the group has been located, which means we must look for the others under the snow.

We’ve found Dyatlov’s document bag.”

In the following days, the search team began checks of the hollow, sweeping the 1500 meters between the cedar and the tent – 350 meters wide at the top near the tent and narrowing to 200 meters wide towards the cedar.

The whole brigade performed a methodical search, walking abreast, each forcing probes into the snow at one-meter intervals.

In addition to the probes, the area was covered by a thorough free search.

Another search was conducted four to five kilometers along the Lozva river.

The search produced nothing.

No other footprints or animal tracks were found.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 28 - conspiracy or negligence

The date on the cover of the official Case file is 6 February 1959.

How’s this possible if Dyatlov group was not even due back by that time?

The conspiracy advocates point this as a clear evidence that the investigation started before the official discovery of the first dead bodies.

Even though the physical criminal case file was recovered, having suffered from age and frequent use, the initial date of 6 February 1959 was copied without correction on the front cover - documents are shown in the middle and right of the header image.

To the left of the header image you can see a witness testimony of Vasily Popov, the head of communications at Vizhai timber department, conducted by the local police chief on 6 February 1959.

There we have the same date, 3 weeks before the first dead bodies were found.

The conspiracy theory thickens - investigator Korotaev was secretly asked to conduct an unofficial investigation before the official one was launched.

To make matters worse (for the common sense) Tempalov’s decision to open a prosecution case dated 26 February is based on the discovery of the frozen bodies of Krivonischenko, Kolmogorova, Dyatlov and others.

These bodies were found next day - 27 February 1959.

Prosecutor Tempalov decision to open a case.

February 26, 1959 Attorney Ivdel Tempalov reviewing data about the discovery of the bodies of students, tourists at Peak 1079

Taking into account that at Peak 1079 the frozen bodies of Krivonischenko, Kolmogorova Z, Dyatlov, and others - students, hikers from Sverdlovsk Polytechnic Institute, and taking into account that this fact requires a preliminary investigation to identify the causes of death of such persons,
In accordance with Art. Art. 96 and 110, CPC (typewritten insert - approx comp.)

R U L I N G:
To open a case to prosecute
Start criminal prosecution
the death of the hikers from Sverdlovsk Polytechnic Institute and proceed with an investigation.
Proсecutоr city of Ivdel,
Junior prosecutor Tempalov (signature).

Evgeny Vadimovich Buyanov

Evgeny Vadimovich Buyanov, writer-publicist, Master of Sports on mountain tourism, author of "Mystery of the Dyatlov group death" (2011) - ambassador of the avalanche theory, wrote to the Prosecutor’s office explaining that the obvious mistake in the date of Vasily Popov’s statement - 6 February was indeed 6 March, is carried on the cover of the Case file and it is a source of a lot of nonsense talk about a major cover up, that the officials knew about the accident before the actual discoveries of the bodies.

In his letter Byanov is asking to change:
– the date on the cover of the Case file from 6 February 1959 to 28 February 1959, as well as – the date of Vasily Popov’s testimony from 6 February 1959 to 6 March 1959.

Buyanov's letter to the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region (GASO), where the CA is stored

One of Buyanov’s arguments is that in the decision to grant extension to the case the date of opening is clearly typed as 28 February 1959.Decision to extend the investigation.

Decision to extend the investigation

The answer from the Prosecutor’s Office is that “his arguments about the date on the cover being wrong are noted and will be taken in consideration in future correspondence on the case”.

The answer to Buyanov's letter from the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region, located in Yekaterinburg

Another letter follows from State Archives of the Sverdlovsk Region stating that
“Any corrections and clarifications in the records of investigative actions, including the change in the date of a document, can be made only on the initiative of law enforcement officers who conducted the investigation in the criminal case or on the instructions of a supervisory authority.

Similar requirements apply to making changes to the records on the cover of the criminal case.

Employees of the archival service do not have such authority.”

Responce to Buyanov's letter from State Archives of the Sverdlovsk Region

Kolevatov’s eldest sister Rimma Sergeevna Kolevatova is really disappointment with the pace of the investigation.

On 26 February she sent a telegram to Nikita Khrushchev.

"Dear Nikita Sergeevich By the scheduled date on February 9, a group of tourists from the Polytechnic Institute of Sverdlovsk did not return from an expedition in the Northern Urals Search began late only after 10 days had passed Regional organizations have not yet taken effective measures We earnestly request your assistance in the urgent search for our children.

Every hour counts now"

Rimma Kolevatova's telegram to Nikita Khrushchev

The telegram was shown in Kremlin on February 27.

Rimma Kolevatova's in her testimony from April 14 clearly shows her knowledge that a telegram from the hikers sent from Vizhay was expected on February 12 with a notice about their arrival in Sverdlovks. Kolevatov's sister, in her despair, made up and earlier date of the group’s expected return date to make the facts more ominous.

This telegram may have escalated the search and rescue operation to the highest circles.

Special report dated February 28 addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR signed by the Minister of the Interior of the RSFSR is published below.

Special report signed by the Minister of the Interior of the RSFSR

"S P E C I A L R E P O R T
Re the death of the Ural Polytechnic Institute students - members of a hiking trek in Sverdlovsk region

During the winter break a group of students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute (Sverdlovsk), consisting of nine people, left for the Ivdel District of the Sverdlovsk Region to undertake a 300 km ski trip along the route north of Mt Ivdel – in the area of Mt Otorten.

On January 28 the group left from village Burmantovo 70 km north of Mt Ivdel with provisions to last till February 14.

On February 19, the Institute appealed to local party and Soviet authorities asking for help in finding the missing students.

To that point Department of Internal Affairs of Sverdlovsk Region didn’t know anything about the missing tourists.

Search groups including trained skiers-athletes from the Institute and workers from the Ivdel Correctional labor camp with search dogs were dropped by helicopters in the area of Mt Otorten.

On February 26 on the south face of the mountain rescuers found tents with skis, ice axe, cameras, blankets and provisions, and on February 27, 1 km from away - 4 corpses covered with snow.

The searches continue.

Participants are 46 athletes- skiers, airplanes and helicopters are dispatched to aid in the search.

Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of CPSU established a commission to oversee the organization of the search and investigation of the reasons for the deaths of the students.

Minister of the Interior of the RSFSR”

Testimony of Vasiliy Popov, Case files sheet 48

Regarding Popov's testimony dated 6.02 - the main reason for the confusion with the date on the cover of Dyatlov case (dating 6 of February - a week before Dyatlov group was even due back in Vizhay) the Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk Andrey Kuryakov in a press conference on 4 Feb 2019 in Yekaterinburg suggested that it could have come from another unrelated case, because there is no reference to Dyatlov case in the testimony.

This is setting a very bad precedent.

This means all the testimonies even if they refer to tourists if they don't directly mention the name of Dyatlov, they might be from a different case.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posting this here with mixed feelings.

There was not enough time.

 

Part I

 

https://www.tvevropa.com/2021/03/nova-kniga-s-iznenadvashta-hipoteza-za-sluchaya-dyatlov/?fbclid=IwAR0a-KeqrSh4tYWpOzuwGav44-wIJAtjqlAf0QaryeT4iTaCcBCjCzpO3ZA

 

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Part II

 

https://www.tvevropa.com/2021/03/pateshestviya-misterii-i-tehnite-razvrazki/?fbclid=IwAR2yNDCgddGbu_DBRYbCfe6L8tRD4Cyhs4TaxeEfbf0RurEAd1_mAdc9tWw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 2 - the storage (labaz)

Radio message sent by the search team:
“2 March – At 18.30 hrs the group of Slobtsov and the Mansi, Kourikov, found Dyatlov’s depot 400 m from the rescue camp. In the storage were nineteen items of food with a total weight of 55 kg.

Also found were some medical supplies and Dyatlov’s warm outer boots, plus one pair of spare ski boots, a mandolin, a set of batteries and a lamp, and an extra set of skis.

The storage depot was found 500 meters below the top edge of the forest, in the upper sources of Auspiya river.”

Slobtsov and Kourikov at Dyatlov group labaz

The storage site where Dyatlov group left provisions for their way back and lighten their backpacks for the ascend.

In different sources they call the site "labaz".

Mansi rise platforms to store their game to pick it up later.

Photo of a Mansi labaz from Krivonischenko's camera

In other sources I have read that the items were left in an abandoned camp site.

In last entry of the group diary on January 31 Dyatlov wrote "I can't even start thinking of setting up a storage" (meaning they are that tired).

Their inventory was found like this marked with one ski propped in the snow and a gaiter slipped onto it.

Question remains who's ski is this, where is the other one, nobody mentioned anything about spare skis.

Yudin returned on his skis.

Did they damaged a ski and threw it away (nobody has found it), and used the spare to mark the storage?

Relaying on witness testimonies is proven not to be reliable and shouldn't be final.

Yudin’s memory isn’t flawless.

He has been interviewed many times by different people, and sometimes he makes mistakes.

For instance, in one interview he stated he searched for minerals alone at the 2nd Northern, but the diaries show that several students were involved in this.

Ski professionals say that extra pairs of skis are essential for such a long route.

Traditionally, the last person in the line drags them behind with a rope.

It was probably this extra pair that was used to make Kolevatov's sledge mentioned in their satirical propaganda leaflet Evening Otorten.

Also Slobtsov said when he first found the tent, that he saw ‘an extra pair of skis’ like this is something common for an experienced trekker in winter conditions.

Dyatlov group labaz the way it was found

The group had one ice axe yet two were found

 

 

From the inventory of the Dyatlov group tent, circled in red is ice axe - 1 pc

The document above is from the Case files (sheet 17) “Protocol of inspection of things found at the scene of the incident” or where the tent was found.

There is a 1 pc of ice axe.

Next document in the Case file (sheet 18) dated March 3 "Things brought from the labaz" there is another ice axe.

It is not clear whether this ice axe was the same one found by the tent or if there was another one in the labaz.

Sheet 18 from Dyatlov group Case files - circled in red is ice axe 1

No ice axe was initially reported by those who found the storage (labaz).

Or, if there was indeed an ice axe in the storage this means the ice axe found by the tent does not belong to the group.

Inventory protocol of Dyatlov group cache (labaz)

Protocol
inspection the storage (labaz)

March 2, 1959 Search party base camp in the upper sources of Auspiya river.

Attorney forensic Sverdlovsk region Ivanov prosecution in the presence of the head search party comrade Maslennikov (city of Sverdlovsk, Zavodskaya St, 32) and Slobtsov Boris Efimovich (Sverdlovsk, Lenin St 13-a, apt. 23) in accordance with Art. 78 Code of Criminal Procedure made this Protocol as follows:
on this date in the upper sources of Auspiya river, under the pass of the river Lozva found labaz (storage site) of Dyatlov group.

Labaz is located at a group's camp site well hidden packed with fire wood, covered with planks and spruce debris.

In the storage one ski is propped in the snow and a torn gaiter is slipped onto it,

Sheet 9
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upon excavation of the cache the following products were found:

1. Condensed milk 2.5 kg
2. Meat canned banks 4 kg
3. Sugar - 8 kg
4. Butter - 4 kg
5. Cooked sausage - 4 kg
6. Salt - 1.5 kg
7. Kissel-compote - 3 kg
8. Oatmeal and buckwheat 7.5 kg
9. Cocoa 200 gr
10. Coffee - 200 gr
11. Tea - 200 gr
12. Loin - 3 kg
13. Milk powder - 1 kg
14. Sugar - 3 kg
15. Crackers - 7 kg and Noodles - 5 kg
16. Also found:
mandolin, a pair of shoes 41 size, and worn socks inside, a pair of insulated boots, mounting set, 2 batteries mounted with the bulb for lighting

Sheet 10
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According to Blinov the insulated boots belonged Dyatlov.

Since the products are not of interest to the investigation, they transferred the head of the search party comrade Maslennikov as an emergency reserve.

All containers of product, and mandolin, two pairs of shoes, socks and the mounting set are confiscated.

Protocol is read, and written correctly.

Maslennikov (signature)
Slobtsov (signature)
Attorney forensic Jr Counselor of Justice Ivanov (signature)

Possible locations of the cache site (labaz).

To this day we don’t know where exactly the labaz is located.

All we know is 400 m from the rescue camp and many testimonies from search party members where that camp was, but there is no indication in which direction from the rescue camp was the labaz found.

The exact location is important since this is the starting point of Dyatlov group in their last day alive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 4 - first 4 autopsy reports

On March 4, an expert of the Regional Bureau of Forensic Expertise, Boris Alexandrovich Vozrozhdenny and forensic expert of the city of Severouralsk Ivan Ivanovich Laptev, carried out the autopsies of the dead hikers brought to Ivdel.

In order to properly assess the circumstances of what happened on the slope of Kholat Syakhl, we are describing the clothes in which they were delivered for anatomical post mortem examination and basic bodily injuries, noted by the experts in their autopsy reposrt of Yuri Doroshenko, Yuri (Georgy) Krivonischenko, Igor Dyatlov and Zinaida Kolmogorova.

Yuri Doroshenko (21)

 

Yuri Doroshenko post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Yuri Doroshenko was 180 cm tall, most sturdy and tallest member of the group.

The complexion of the deceased has been described as "brown-purple".

He was wearing sleeveless cotton undershirt, short sleeve checkered shirt with two empty breast pockets with all six buttons fastened, shorts and swimming trunks, blue cotton underpants fastened with two buttons - badly ripped on the front of the right side with one large hole 23 cm in length and inside the thigh of the left side 13 cm in length.

He was wearing different set of wool socks on both feet, socks on left foot were burned.

No shoes.

Livor mortis spots were located at the back of the neck, torso and extremities, which was not consistent with the position of the body in which it was found.

This means the body was moved some time after the blood stopped circulating.

Yuri Doroshenko injuries

1. in the hair of the deceased expert found particles of moss and pine needles; hair is burned on the right side of the head
2. ear, nose and lips are covered with blood
3. swollen upper lip with dark red hemorrhage
4. right cheek soft tissue covered with gray foam; gray liquid coming form his open mouth. Most apparent cause is pulmonary edema.
5. ear auricles in bluish-red color; in the right ear lobe and tragus dense patches of brown-red color
6. inner surface of the right shoulder has two abrasions 2x1.5 cm with no bleeding in the tissues, two cuts on the skin
7. right armpit has a bruise 2x1.5 cm
8. brown-red bruises with size 4x1 cm, 2.5x1.5 cm, 5x5 cm in the upper third of right forearm
9. swelling and small abrasions in the rear of the right hand soft tissue
10. bruise with bleeding into the underlying soft tissue on the back of the right hand corresponding to the second metacarpal bone
11. the soft tissues of both hands and fingers tips are especially dark purple; all fingers and toes are severelly frostbitten. If Yuri Doroshenko would have survived, he would have required an amputation of all his toes and fingers.
12. on the inner surface of the left shoulder in the lower third abrasion brown-redcolor
13. on the inner surfaces of the left elbow minor abrasions brownish-red color
14. on the inner surface of the left forearm there is a surface skin wound covered with dried blood
15. similar bruises in pale red color on the shins of both legs

Amount of urine was 150 cm3.

This volume is smaller than what it would be expected in case of death by hypothermia.

The body was still making efforts to fight the freezing at the time of death.

The hypothermic death cases have significantly more urine in the bladder (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov).

The foamy grey fluid that was found on the right cheek of the deceased started the speculations that before death someone or something was pressing on his chest cavity.

This forceful method was common for interrogation by the NKVD (Stalin's Secret Police) and Special Forces.

The cause could also be a nasty fall from a tree.

This aspect was ignored in the final papers, that read cause of death: hypothermia.

Experts described the injuries - bruises and abrasions, as non-life threatening and explained them with Doroshenko hitting himself in rocks and ice, and other surrounding objects, in the state of agony.

Death, according to the file, occurred 6-8 hours after the last meal.

Full autopsy report of Yuri Doroshenko →

Yuri Krivonischenko (23)

 

Yuri Krivonischenko post mortem in Ivdel hospital

His body was discovered under the cedar tree.

He was dressed in a undershirt, long sleeved checkered shirt, swimming pants, long underpants and torn sock on his left foot.

No footwear.

Yuri Krivonischenko injuries

1. bruises on the forehead 0.3x1.8 cm
2. diffuse bleeding in the right temporal and occipital region due to damage to temporalis muscle
3. bruise around left temporal bone
4. tip of the nose is missing, no traces of blood meaning it was bitten most probably by animals post mortem, the deceased was found face up
5. frostbitten ears
6. portion of the epidermis from the right hand is found in the mouth of the deceased
7. back of the right hand is swollen, fingers are brownish-purple
8. tips of the fingers on right hand are dark brown color, minor skin abrasions on the soft tissue
9. palm of the right hand bluish-red color, dark brown skin wound with jagged edges at the base of the thumb
10. in the middle phalanx of the fingers 4-5 cutaneous wound with hard edges and charred surface
11. detachment of the 2 cm epidermis on the back of his left hand
12. abrasion in pale red color on the right side of the chest 7x2 cm and 2x1.2 cm
13. pale red abrasions along middle clavicular line at the edge of the rib of the right hypochondrium
14. dark red abrasions on left wrist, back of the left hand is swollen
15. pink and brown-red bruise on his left buttock 10x3 cm
16. three linear skin lesions with straight edges, sharp corners and depth up to 0.3 cm on the inner side of the upper third of the left thigh
17. three cutaneous wounds with sharp corners on the inner side of the upper third of the left hip
18. dark brown abrasion on the front of the right femur and tibia
19. dark brown-red abrasions on the front-inner left thigh
20. edema on the left leg and foot, burn in the area the size of 31x10 cm on the entire outer surface of the leg
21. patches in area 10x4 cm of brown-red epidermis peeling from the back of the left foot, second toe charred to dark brown color and the tissue is dense to the touch

The amount of urine in the bladder was 500 cm3.

Cause of death: hypothermia.

The presence of skin between his teeth that was torn from his hand might suggest that Krivonischenko tried to stay on the cedar tree as long as he could and tried to awaken his irresponsive hands by biting himself, or he was trying to stifle a cry.

The first two bodies of (Doroshenko and Krivonischenko) that were found from the Dyatlov Pass incident showed an expected pattern of death.

They froze to death.

Their clothes were removed by their friends.

It might sound bad, but this is the reality of Siberia.

If you can't keep yourself warm, you will die quickly.

One of the most common myths that surround these deaths is a theory of so-called "paradoxical undressing".

This theory ignores the fact that the bodies were undressed after they died and it was done by other members with a help of a knife in some cases.

Different articles of clothing were simply cut from the dead bodies or taken off and used by other members of the group.

The sliers clearly showed logical will to live.

There was no state of panic and there were no illogical actions.

Bodies were carefully and respectfully laid side by side and their possessions were divided among the survivors.

Full autopsy report of Yuri Krivonischenko →

Igor Dyatlov (23)

 

Igor Dyatlov post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Igor Dyatlov was found 300 m from the cedar tree, face up, head towards the tent.

Above the snow were visible only his hands clenched into fists folded in front of his chest.

The unbuttoned jacket is unusual for somebody that is freezing to death.

Height 175 cm, the complexion of the deceased has been described as "bluish-red".

He had unbuttoned fur sleeveless vest - outer side blue cotton, inner side dark grey fur (Yudin later recognized this as vest he gave Krivonishenko when they parted), a blue sweater, long sleeve red cotton shirt, in the breats pocket 4 pills Streptocide (anti-inflammatory agent used for wound infection) still in the blister, blue sleeveless cotton singlet, ski pants over his pants.

No shoes.

He had one cotton sock on his left foot, and one woolen sock on his right foot.

It is hard to explain this uneven distribution.

It could be that he had two socks on one foot and later took it off to protect the other bare foot.

It might have been someone's sock who simply gave it away to protect a friend from a certain death.

The watch "Zvezda" (Star) on the his wrist had stopped at 5:31 .

Igor Dyatlov injuries

1. minor abrasions on the forehead
2. minor abrasions on the upper eyelids
3. brown-red abrasions above the left eyebrow
4. minor abrasions on the left cheek
5. brown-red abrasions on both cheeks
6. dried blood on lips
7. lower jaw had a missing incisor, the mucosa was intact that suggest the tooth was lost long before the final trip
8. bruised knees without bleeding into the underlying tissues
9. both ankles had brownish red abrasions, size 1x0.5 cm and 3x2.5 cm with hemorrhage into the underlying tissue
10. single incision 4x2 cm in the lower third of the right tibia
11. many small scratches of dark red color on the lower third of the right forearm and palm surface
12. purple-gray discoloration on back side of the right hand
13. metacarpophalangeal joints on the right hand had brown red bruises. This is common injury in hand to hand fights. To get a better idea of the injuries just make a fist. This is the part of the hand which you use to hit someone.
14. left hand is brown-purple color with brownish-red bruises
15. superficial wounds on the 2nd and 5th finger on the left hand
16. skin wound in the palmar surface of the 2nd 5th finger of left hand

There were no internal injuries.

Amount of urine in the bladder about 1000 cm3.

Cause of death: hypothermia.

Later Yury Yudin will testify that the long sleeved shirt found on the body of Igor Dyatlov was his.

But he gave it to Doroshenko then he was departing.

It would be logical to assume that Dyatlov got it from a frozen body of the Doroshenko after he had died.

Full autopsy report of Igor Dyatlov →

Zinaida Kolmogorova (22)

 

Zinaida Kolmogorova post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Zinaida was found 630 m from the cedar, face down, head towards the tent.

She was better dressed than the bodies under the cedar.

She had two hats, long sleeve undershirt, sweater, checkered shirt and another sweater with torn cuff of the right sleeve.

It was unclear whether she cut them it or it was torn by another person.

Sweaters were inside out which is not unusual for mountaineers when they try to dry clothes by wearing them.

Waist down Zinaida was wearing cotton sport pants, trousers, ski pants with three small holes at the bottom of the right trouser-leg, and three pairs of socks.

Two pairs were thin, then the third pair was woolen with insoles inside.

No footwear.

In her pockets were found 5 rubles and a military style protective mask on the left side of her chest between the top sweater and the checkered shirt underneath.

Zinaida Kolmogorova injuries

1. dark red abrasion on the right frontal eminence
2. pale gray area 3x2 cm above the right eyebrow
3. dark red abrasion on the upper eyelids
4. brown red graze on the bridge and tip of the nose
5. numerous abrasions on the left cheekbone
6. bruised skin on the right side of the face
7. brown-red abrasion on the back of both hands in the area of metacarpal phalangeal and inter-phalangeal joints
8. wound with jagged edges and missing skin on the back of the right hand at the base of the third finger
9. frostbites on the phalanges of fingers
10. a long bright red bruise 29x6 cm in the lumbar region on the right side of the torso. The bruise looks like left from a baton

Amount of urine in bladder is 300 cm3.

Cause of death: hypothermia due to violent accident.

Medical examination shows that Zinaida was not sexually active at the time of her death.

This fact is only relative to (1) asses the nature of the relationship between Zinaida Kolmogorova and Igor Dyatlov, and (2) if escaped prisoners were to blame for the crime it's doubtful that they would have left the girls alone.

Full autopsy report of Zinaida Kolmogorova →

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 5 - the body of Rustem Slobodin is found

Rustem Slobodin’s father, a university professor in Sverdlovsk, was born in Ivdel.

He joined the search party of students coming from Sverdlovsk.

In Ivdel he was granted a permission to go to the search and rescue camp.

Rustem and his father had a special bond, not only as a father-son but they shared the love for the mountains.

In the summer of 1958 Rustem together with his father made a traverse from Frunze (present Bishkek) to Andijan, where Rustem's older brother worked.

This 300-kilometer trek took place in mountainous sparsely populated area of western Tien Shan.

In the less inhabited lands when ethnic Russians travelers meet with Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Uzbeks, Dungans - when there are no witnesses to the encounter, everything is possible.

Nevertheless, both father and son made it through these dangerous mountains.

They relied on their own strength and were ready to stand up for themselves.

This trip establishes Rustem as courageous, hardened, dependable and adventurous.

After spending several days questioning around about sightings of the Dyatlov group, Rustem’s father went back to Sverdlovsk.

The next day, 5 March 1959, Rustem’s body was found.

Rustem Slobodin's body partially cleared by the snow.

Rustem's body was found face down 480 m from the cedar tree covered with 50 cm of snow.

He was in a dynamic pose, with his left hand extended.

Slobodin was the first body (and remained the only one) with an ice (dead) bed underneath.

This is indicative of him being alive (relatively warm) when he fell in the snow.

Since he was the strongest member of the group physically, is not very likely that he would give up walking before anybody else, even Kolmogorova whose body was found on the February 27.

It is probable that Rustem was impaired to walk by something else besides hypothermia and exhaustion.

Akselrod:
“One of his legs, the right one I think, was in a valenki, and his left foot, without a valenki, was under his right foot.

His face was completely calm without any trace of violence.

Under his chest and the rest of the body was a layer of half snow, half ice about 7 cm deep, which gives me reason to think he didn’t die immediately but was alive for some time after he lay down.

His watch had stopped at 8:45.”

Thsi is how the bodies were transported to the airlift pad.

All the bodies found were transported to Ivdel, where they were examined in the prison hospital’s morgue.

The bodies of Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova, and possibly Dyatlov.

Boot Rock today and 1959, where Kolmogorova and Krivonishchenko (and possibly Dyatlov) lay for the rescue helicopter.

Valentin Yakimenko
“We lived in a special Army tent and were all together – students and six people in black padded jackets.

[The men in black jackets] all had pistols with them and were from a special group of the KGB.

There were also about nine invited personnel dressed in white sheepskin bomber jackets with crew cuts, all young.

Every day we worked in deep snow, at least knee deep but often waist deep.

So we worked very slowly and for many hours per day, testing with the three-meter probes.

Sometimes when our probes touched something and we thought that we had found a body, we would dig feverishly with full power, shovels and hands, but the snow would fall back.

Finally, we would find something.

‘Oh shit, it’s a tree trunk.’

We would start again.”

The search team probing the deep snow in the valley of Lozva river.

The army brought some metal detectors, but they didn’t penetrate the snow effectively. In addition, the bodies were half dressed and didn’t have significant amounts of metal on them.

So the search teams primarily used the three-meter-long metal probes.

Line of people - shеrenga in russian

The cost of the search operations was very high.

There is an official letter from Nikolay Klinov, the Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk region, to S.A. Golunskim, the Director of the National Institution of Research in Criminology, which states:
“The enormous expense of the search may keep growing if no new method of searching for the corpses is applied.

We know that your institution planned to create a device for spotting bodies buried underground using ultrasound.

We heard there were some successful results when the device was used in similar situations.

We think it would be reasonable to let us try to use such a device in our current search.”

The institute issued an official reply stating that they didn’t have such a device.

Every night, the radio message sent by the search team reported:

“Nothing new.

We continue searching.”

Note by Lev Ivanov

“Фотографии поисковой группы.

Ширенга людей после шло зондирование - прокол щупами снега через каждые 50 см на всю глубину до земли, а затем щуп закручивали и вытаскивали.

Зацепляли либо кровь, либо одежду, волосы, и иногда был и мусор.
Иванов”

“Photos of the search party.

People line up and start probing puncturing the snow every 50 cm all the way to the ground, then the probe was twisted and pulled out catching either blood, or clothes, hair, sometimes there was garbage.
Ivanov”

Note by Lev Ivanov

“Долина гибели туристов и технология поиска
отдельно сфотографирован мастер спорта Е. П. Масленников - руководитель поисковой группы
подпись (Иванов)”

“The valley of the death of tourists and search technology
separately photographed master of sports E.P. Maslenikov - head of the search party
signature (Ivanov)”

The photos these notes refer to can be seen here →

Till the discovery of Rustem’s body the Search operation was still holding the momentum of a rescue.

The students worked tirelessly hardly remembering to eat.

When the fact that their friends were actually possibly all dead finally sank to their minds the despair hit them bad.

From praising the survival ability of their pals they went 180°.

There was a reporter, Gennady Konstantinovich Grigoriev, present at the search whose recollection describes the mood that settled in the camp.

“All night, yesterday, they spoke about the dead.

About why they broke open the tent, etc. It was said that Dyatlov really was full of himself and loved to issue commands.

One time he told the group to go from one side of a river to the other for no reason.

Simply without reason.

One day everyone became so outraged by his behavior they stopped following his orders.

Then he left them and went on a hunger strike.

When he was part of the rank and file he was good.

[but as a leader] all mistakes were attributed to him.

Two people in particular, who’d been with him before, spoke about this.

They said negative things about him as the leader of a group.

One said it was stupid for the group to have left at three o’clock, when darkness would fall in one-and-a-half to two hours.”

Dyatlov was a hero till now.

The time came when the dead were blamed for their own demise.

This is indication of a crumbling moral, lost hope and a deep and sincere heartbreak.

The search party was running on fumes.

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March 8 - autopsy of Rustem Slobodin

Rustem Slobodin post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Rustem's body was found 480 m from the cedar on March 5, the day after the autopsy of the first four bodies, covered with 50 cm of snow, face down, head towards the tent.

He was better dressed that the previously found hikers.

He wore a long sleeve undershirt, shirt, sweater, two pairs of pants, four pairs of socks, and one felt boot (valenka) on his right foot.

His watch stopped at 8:45 am.

On the chest under the sweater were two shoe insoles, in the shirt pocket - 310 rubles and his passport.

In other pockets were found small folding pocket knife (penknife), pencil, pen, comb in a plastic sleeve, box of matches with 48 match sticks, and one cotton sock.

His autopsy was performed on March 8 by Vozrozhdenny alone.

Rustem Slobodin injuries

1. hemorrhages in the temporalis muscles
2. minor brownish red abrasions on the forehead
3. two scratches are 1.5 cm long at the distance of 0.3 cm between them
4. brownish red bruise on the upper eyelid of the right eye with hemorrhage into the underlying tissues
5. traces of blood discharge from the nose
6. swelling and a lot of small abrasions on both sides of the face
7. bruises in the metacarpophalangeal joints on both hands (bruised knuckles). Similar bruises are common in hand to hand fight
8. brown cherry bruises on the medial aspect of the left arm and left palm
9. swollen lips
10. bruises on the left tibia in dimensions at 2.5x1.5 cm (not shown on diagram)
11. epidermis is torn from the right forearm (not shown on diagram)
12. fracture of the frontal bone 6x0.1 cm located 1.5 cm from the sagittal suture (showing on separate skull trauma diagram without numbers)

 

Boris Alekseevich Vozrozhdenny suggested that the fracture in his skull could be done with some blunt object.

Medical autopsy further states that Slobodin probably suffered loss of coordination due to initial shock right after the blow that could speed up his death from hypothermia.

However the conclusion is predictably careful.

Death of Rustem Slobodin is ruled as a result of hypothermia.

All bruises and scratches were blamed on last minute agony.

Although it is still somewhat unclear how did he manage to harm his exterior hands and legs.

When the person falls even in an irrational state it is usually the palms that suffer the most as well as medial aspects of the legs.

Injury to the head are less common, especially bilateral ones.

It is also unusual to harm the face and sides of the skull while the back of the head has no damage.

In case of Slobodin's body we see the opposite.

His injury pattern is a reverse of what we would usually see in injuries suffered by a freezing man in the last minutes of his life.

It looks as if Rustem fell repeatedly on his face as he was walking down the mountain.

And every time he fell he managed to hit the sides of the his head.

This is unusual for a man who was probably in a better physical shape than anyone else in the group.

Even a long ski trip could hardly be responsible for this alleged "clumsiness".

Rustem's body was the only one with icy bed under from the hardening of the thawing snow.

This means that the body fell when relatively still warm and there was a noticeable heat exchange into the environment.

On Doroshenko, Kolmogorova and Slobodin the livor mortis spots were on the top surface of the body.

This allows speculations that the bodies were moved (turned over) after their death.

This finding is controversial.

In "Судебно-медицинское исследование тела Рустема Слободина. Незаданные вопросы и неполученные ответы..." ("Forensic examination of the body of Rustem Slobodin.

Answers not received on questions not asked...") - scroll to the bottom, the author speculates that the medical examiner Vozrozhdenny mistook frostbite erythema for livor mortis.

Article is citing the forensic bible at the time "Forensic medicine" 1953 by M. I. Rayski where there is no mentioning of frostbite erythema but on p. 233 it says that livor mortis in frozen cadavers change color when carried in a warm room from purple to light red, and then darken again.

Same thing happens with frostbite erythema when defrosting a corpse.

So the author of the article says "it is not surprising that the medical examiner Vozrozhdenny thought that he sees livor mortis spots".

Why did Rustem Slobodin die first?

This is a speculative reenactment of the events outside the tent up on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl on Dyatlov group last night alive.

This story is based the following facts:

• sightings of light effects in the sky are common for this latitude ***
• Zolotoryov and Thibeaux-Brignolles were wearing felt boots (valenki)
• the camera found around Zolotoryov's neck
• frame from Zolotoryov's damaged film
• Thibeaux-Brignolles and Krivonischenko’s knives were found in their parkas inside the tent
• Kolevatov's Finish knife was found inside the tent in March
• The black plastic sheath of that same knife was found outside the tent in May when the snow started to melt
• Kolevatov was wearing one felt boot on his right foot
• Dyatlov's jacket was found outside the tent, knife in his pocket
• Dyatlov's flashlight was found on top of the tent
• Slobodin's injuries
• Rustem's body was the only one with icy bed under from the hardening of the thawing snow

 

*** Here is a statement of someone familiar with the region: "I have lived a number of years above the Arctic Circle.

Lights, fireballs, and other strange luminescent events are common.

People in the lower latitudes only know about 'the Northern Lights' but there is a whole range of strange and spectacular things that happen at the higher latitudes.

And it's not all lights either.

Sound events often occur too, with and without lights.

I have heard and seen things that I would think were alien ships whizzing by or crashing if I wasn't an engineer with a physics education.

The amount of energy deflected and channeled by the earth's magnetic field is enormous and causes all sorts of light and sound shows at the higher latitudes.

Everyone wants to treat the fireball events seen around the time of the Dyatlov tragedy as special.

Sorry, that sort of thing is not special at all.

Go spend a couple winters up there and you'll see.

I have.

And I am not impressed at all by the stories.

They are as common as hurricanes in Florida.

Sure, some are bigger than others and some seasons have few and others a lot.

But what was seen was not unique."

Let's read about an incident that happened on March 31, 1959. Sergey Sogrin, 4th year student in UPI, went out of the rescuers tent to relief himself at 4 am and saw a "fireball" (the emergency flight of the R-7 ICBM from Tyuratam to Kur).

He went back to the tent and alarmed Meshteryakov, who was the watchman at that time, and who woke up the rest of the rescuers.

They all went out to look at the fireball the way they were sleeping or else they will miss the show.

They were wearing socks only, and trying to step on branches that were laying around the tent.

Does it ring a bell?

What if Zolotoryov and Thibeaux-Brignolles put their valenki and went out to relief themselves, saw something in the sky, Zolotoryov might have rushed back to the tent to get his camera and called the rest of the hikers to observe whatever was happening in the sky.

I am speculating that whatever got the hikers out of the tent was in the sky and not an immediate threat because they would otherwise try to put on some shoes, clothes, and take their knives.

Dyatlov went out in his jacket and there was a knife in his pocket.

Kolevatov had his Finish knife in a sheath hung on his belt.

They would also have exited the tent through its designated opening, and not cutting through the sides, or else they wouldn't arrange and look up in the sky while Zolotoryov is shooting photos above their heads.

Cutting through the sides of the tent would call for running for their lives which did not happen.

The footprints show walking in the snow, not running.

While they watch the sky something goes terribly wrong.

But they are 9 young and physically fit people, 2 women amongst them.

Behavior analysis says that it is very probable somebody to try to stand up for the group.

If they were threatened with (machine) guns and ordered to strip (Dyatlov's jacket was found outside the tent), Kolevatov must have unbuckled his belt to remove the sheath and throw it in the snow.

If Slobodin snatched the blade from the sheath and try to confront the attackers, he would have been beaten to be incapacitated, not just for intimidation.

He received several heavy blows to the head, capable of knocking anyone out, he had low foot injury (two well-known abrasions remained on the lower third of the left shin), crack in the skull (on the left side) that looks very much like from a butt of an firearm, bilateral hemorrhages in the temporal muscles, abrasions and scratches on the forehead, abrasions on the left cheekbone and eyelid of the right eye.

Rustem had bloody nose too.

These injuries are consistent with boxing or wrestling i.e. hand to hand fight.

Rustem had bruised knuckles and laceration of the skin in the lower part of the right forearm (like Yuri Doroshenko).

Now lets turn our attention to the black plastic sheath that Yuri Yudin and Rimma Kolevatova identified as belonging to Alexander Kolevatov.

The knife was a present from Rimma to her brother and she knew it very well.

The knife was found in the tent, and the sheath was outside the tent.

What is more interesting is why the sheath was without a belt.

The owner had to unbuckle the belt, remove the sheath, and then put the belt back through the loops of the pants - this manipulation itself is rather strange, because a knife suspended in a sheath does not cause inconvenience.

You can quickly get used to it and stop noticing it, you can even sleep with it without any problems.

But Kolevatov for some reason decided to get rid of the sheath.

Apart from this, the knife was removed from the sheath outside the tent.

If Kolevatov really saved his friends from under the snow slump and cut his tent with his "fink" from the inside, the picture should have been the opposite - the empty sheath is in the tent, and the knife is outside it.

That's not the case though.

Something prompted Alexander Kolevatov to remove the knife in its sheath from the belt and throw it into the snow, as if they were unnecessary to him - and this action is completely absurd in the case of any non-criminal scenario of events.

A knife dramatically increases his chances of survival in an uncertain environment.

The logic in removing the sheath from the belt and throwing out the knife can only be in case of forced disarmament, i.e. execution of the team under threat of reprisal.

Another scenario - there is an avalanche and Kolevatov, the only one with his knife on the belt pulls it out, cuts the tent from the inside to secure an escape route, then throws the knife away to help his friends out.

The knife is registered to him and if he loses the "Finn" he can get up to 5 years of imprisonment (Article 182 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR in the redaction of 1926 with additions from 1933 and 1935).

Lets say Kolevatov is not rational.

But why stop outside and make the much more lengthy exercise of removing the empty sheath from his belt?

After Kolevatov put his "Finn" in the sheath on the snow, someone tried to use the knife.

There is no other explanation why the sheath is empty outside the tent. Alexei Rakitin in his article "Why Rustem Slobodin froze first?" ("Почему Рустем Слободин замёрз первым?") in his online edition "Death is not far behind... " (my friend Andrei Andreev contributed this loose translation of "Смерть, идущая по следу…") makes a very good speculative reenactment of the events surrounding the first encounter of the group with their attackers.

Because of Rustem Slobodin's character, background, type of injuries and how he was found - Rakitin believes that Rustem Slobodin was the person who pulled the "Finn" out of the sheath and try to resist.

The moment when he must have tried that would be when he bent to remove his felt boots.

He was found with only one felt boot on his right foot.

Slobodin remained in the same felt-boots: the first he took off himself before grabbing the knife, and after the beating no one began to pull off the second felt from the unconscious body.

The other two hikers wearing felt boots were Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles and Semyon Zolotaryov.

In my scenario they have their boots on because they went out to relief themselves while the rest of the hikers were called out to look at "fireball" in the sky.

Even if the attackers did not care about their boots and marched the hikers down the slope after Rustem caused the commotion, I cannot explain why they didn't "loose" Zolotoryov's camera.

No matter who they were, the perpetrators must have known what a camera was for and that there could be incriminating photos that will survive the ordeal.

In Rakitin's scenario Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles and Semyon Zolotaryov were out when the tent was attacked and they hid or ran in the dark, and joined their friends later on when they were already marching down the slope.

I have it difficult to adhere to this version because the hikers were stalked before the confrontation.

I don't see a way that Thibeaux-Brignolles and Zolotaryov will come out unnoticed.

They couldn't have been out in their felt boots for more than 5-10 mins, and the traces of urine were not far away from the tent.

Nobody goes to pee in the untrampled snow.

The beating of Slobodin was the climax in the scene at the tent.

Suppressed by all seen and heard, not understanding the essence of what is happening, the hikers have already obediently performed the last command of their tormentors: "Get out of here while you can!"

Having picked up Rustem Slobodin, who was not yet fully come to life, the tourists pulled down the slope, intuitively realizing not to go in the direction of the labaz (cache), so their attackers would not vandalize the provisions they have left there.

The hikers did not run, the attackers told them to scram.

Their first reaction to the incident was quite understandable - they were relieved that the extremely shameful, disgusting and senseless scene of their general humiliation and beating had ended.

The weather was relatively warm -5°С to -7°С - and compared to the stress such cold did not seem prohibitive or even dangerous. Very soon - literally a few dozen meters from the tent - the group was joined by the Thibeaux-Brignolles and Zolotaryov.

While going down the slope the reunited group was engaged in a animated discussion of the incident, a discussion that must have been very polemical and even conflicting.

Zolotaryov knew more than others and had the most extensive life experience, it he must have offered a plan, perhaps even imposed it on the rest of the group.

What this action plan was, we will never know and can only guess.

We know that the tracks down the slope converged, then parted, but kept a common direction, and the hikers were always within a earshot.

They certainly talked on the move, adrenaline high, vigorously proving and convincing each other of one thing or another. So, what does it prove?

Objectively, nothing, or rather, just that the hikers descending the slope had the intention of sticking together.

However, for a psychologist this "swarming of the footsteps" ("Human Swarming and the future of Collective Intelligence") there is considerable meaning. Hikers intuitively divided into groups "according to preferences" - when someone suggested a reasonable plan of action, supporters moved closer to him, when another reasonable proposal followed - people went to him.

This does not mean that the hikers ran from one leader to another, this is unconscious movement.

Unfortunately the tracks were not photographed and studied by the investigators.

If this were the case, after the discovery of the corpses, prints on the snow could have been matched to a specific person.

Imagine being able to say: here Lyudmila Dubinina walks for 150 m along with Dyatlov, and then moves closer to Zolotaryov and continues descending beside him; Kolevatov always remains near Semen Zolotaryov; Rustem Slobodin moves a little apart from the rest of the hikers and in a general does not seem to be involved in the conversation ...

We could have followed each of the group members down the slope and their body language could have said a lot about the last hours of their lives, about the clustering from the cedar in particular.

Rustem Slobodin was suffering from the cerebral trauma he received stumbled behind the group.

At a distance of about 1 km from the tent he fell into the snow.

Rustem lost consciousness and the ability to move about 20 mins after the attack.

It is well known that people who have suffered the heaviest knockout and who received a severe closed brain injury can recover and for some time demonstrate satisfactory condition (until the intracranial hemorrhage begins to put pressure on the meninges).

Soccer players can continue the game, the boxer can break into a fight ... well-known video recordings of athletes who received death craniocerebral injuries during the competition, but at the same time show complete self-control and external well-being for a while.

After 10-20 minutes, it ends with a call to the team physician first, and then - the paramedics.

This phenomenon of the seeming vigor of an already actually dying person is sometimes very accurately called "deferred death".

The speed of development of the process is significantly affected by the motor activity of the victim and the temperature of the environment - both slow the growth of hemorrhage.

No one noticed the disappearance of Rustem Slobodin in the dark - the group went ahead leaving their mortally wounded friend lagging behind.

Rustem was the first to die, this is clearly indicated by the high temperature of his body at the time of the fall in the snow.

Underneath was discovered the so-called "bed of the corpse", a layer of melted snow that forms from the warmth of the body.

Such a "bed of the corpse" was present only under Slobodin's body, the rest of the hikers found on the slope and at the cedar were already very cold by the time they fell to the ground.

The icy dead bed under the body of Rustem Slobodin is a strong argument against the sanitisation of the scene.

There are theories of the hikers being killed elsewhere and being brought on the slope of Mt Kholat Syakhl post mortem.

The perpetrators won’t bother to fake a dead bed on only one body, if it is possible to stage a thing like that at all.

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March 9 and 10 - the first 5 funerals

Yuri Doroshenko, Zina Kolmogorova, Igor Dyatlov and Rustem Slobodin found their last peace in Mikhailovskoe cemetery, and Yuri (Georgiy) Krivonischenko was buried in Ivanovskoe cemetery.

Yakimenko, student in UPI and participant in the Search operation:
"I hung up the announcement of the funerals in the foyer of the main building of the UPI.

Half an hour later I was summoned by the Party Committee of the UPI, where the secretary, Kasuhin, reproached me for disturbance and made me remove the flyers.

I refused, but someone took them now anyway.

The reaction of the secretary of the Party Committee is incomprehensible, evidently he is afraid of something.

March 9 - an update: Today will be buried only four people, and Yuri Krivonischenko, for some reason in another, Ivanovskoe cemetery, although his parents did not object to his son being buried with the others.

We hung another announcement about the funerals.

It was immediately taken down by someone.

We are outraged.

Decided everyone to go in their faculty and by course walk around each classroom and inform the students about the hour and place of the funerals."

The authorities surrounded the funerals with lots of fog and omissions, which greatly overshadowed the already unpleasant event.

At first the CPSU tried to persuade the parents of the dead to bury their children in Ivdel quickly and quietly, and the relatives members of the party were reminded of the "party conscience" and unequivocally threatened with reprimand for their obstinacy to bring their dead to Sverdlovks.

When it became clear that all attempts to obtain consent to the funeral in Ivdel did not yield the desired result, the party retreated and allowed funerals in Sverdlovsk.

However, the commies did not manage to gain full control on how the funerals would be organized.

Two flyers manage to escape the censorship, notifying about the place and time of the civil funeral.

Obscuring the funerals detail was done, apparently, in order to limit the number of people who came to attend.

Nevertheless, on March 9, 1959, a crowd of thousands gathered.

When the procession reached Mikhailovskoe cemetery, the funeral procession was not let in through the main gate, but from the adjacent street, for which it was necessary to disassemble the fence.

This is what the boorish attitude of the authorities towards the people came down to.

Thousands of people took part in the funeral procession in Svredlovsk despite the government attempts to hush down the event.

The fact that the Soviet government has behaved with people so shamelessly and disrespectfully should not come as a surprised.

The Soviet Union did not sink ships, aircraft did not fall and rockets did not explode, and only labor achievements heroism were proclaimed.

Any talk about catastrophes, social unrest and mass deaths was regarded by the authorities as "ideological diversion" and was stopped as quickly and harshly as possible.

The authorities were pathologically afraid of any negative information that could at least indirectly cast a shadow on the Soviet government as the best in the world.

Hence the irrational fear of saying or letting the superfluous, which determined the logic of many actions of the Communist Party and Soviet leadership at all levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy in the USSR.

The death of Dyatlov group, it seems, in no way could discredit the CPSU and the Soviet government, however, the authorities themselves did not consider it and tried to organize the funeral processions in March 1959 so that they are less talked about in the city.

It turned out to be not the smartest move, since there were still a lot of talking about the dead hikers in Sverdlovsk, but besides that, it amounted resentment against the unfair attitude of the authorities to the tragedy.

Rustem Slobodin's coffin

Despite, or possibly because of the authorities’ strenuous effort to limit interest in the funerals, the number of mourners was enormous.

The plan was for the procession to stop for a moment at the university where they had all studied.

The police, of course, did not allow this, and the whole crowd was turned away and forced to follow an alternative route.

Yuri Kuntsevitch, the head of the Dyatlov Foundation in Yekaterinburg, said:
“At that time I lived next to the cemetery, and was 12 years old, so I was really interested.

I tried to push through the crowd to see everything, but it was impossible.

I was amazed by some of the people in the crowd.

They were wearing trilby style felt hats and had jodhpurs or motorcycle riding pants.

They were supervising the procession with their faces blank, expressing nothing.

I was standing on a pile of earth at the graveside and I was about eight meters from the bodies.

Their skin had a somewhat brick color, and I saw some of the students helping to lower the coffins to the graves.

It was said they were there despite being forbidden to leave their classes to attend."

Victor Nikitin

Next to the 4 graves of the Dyatlov group at the Mikhailovskoe cemetery, another student of the Sverdlovsk Polytech, named Victor Nikitin, who died of pneumonia, was soon buried.

He studied at the first year of the institute, did not take interest in tourism, and most likely did not even know the members of the Dyatlov group.

Nikitin was a country boy from a very poor family; his family could not pay for the transportation of the body to his hometown, and the weather was bad.

It was decided to buried in Sverdlovsk.

To the history of Dyatlov The death of Victor Nikitin is not related to the Dyatlov Pass history.

That didn’t prevent the conspiracy to involve his death, as anything else that touches Dyatlov Pass incident.

The fact that he was buried next to the 4 graves of Dyatlov group members, and Krivonischenko being buried in another cemetery made him a secret agent.

We keep saying that the Krivonischenko’s burial at Ivanovskoe cemetery has nothing to do with his parents, but what is really certain in this case?

The fact that such a request is not documented on the net doesn’t necessarily mean that it doesn’t exist.

The government’s desire to disperse the interest towards the event may also yield to a consent or even encouragement such move.

Witness testimony of Rimma Kolevatova given on April 14 (Case files pages 270-272).

This is before the body of her brother Alexander Kolevatov was found.

"I was present at all the funerals of the group.

Why were their faces and hands all so dark brown?

How can we explain the fact that the four of them who were beside the fire, they were obviously alive, why didn’t they try to return to the tent?

If they were considerably better dressed, as far as I can see from clothes missing from the tent … if it was a natural disaster, then for sure, after being warmed by the fire, then the guys would have crawled back to the tent.

The whole group wouldn’t have perished from an Arctic storm!"

Recollection of relatives and eyewitnesses at the funeral, given almost fifty years after the tragedy, mention the dark orange color of the skin, reminiscent of the color of bricks.

Though unusual, nothing of this was recorded in the official records of the autopsies.

At that time, all photography was black and white, so there are no color pictures of the dead.

Some say that only the exposed skin was darker in color, that the skin under their clothes what could be seen (it was Zina family member who witnessed this), was not so unnaturally colored.

Here is a thought - what if this orange tinge was a bad mortician job?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Den

When in May the snow started melting a Mansi native Kourikov with his dog noticed some cut branches that were forming sort of trail which they followed and 50 m from the cedar they found black cotton sweat pants, the right leg cut off with a knife.

Cedar branches, a young fir tree was missing its top, another piece of clothing was found - the left half of the women's light-brown wool sweater, right half and sleeves cut off.

Sweater was presumed to belong to Lyudmila Dubinina.

The area was previously searched with avalanche probes but the snow then was deeper than expected.

Vladimir Askinadzi and Boris Suvorov, both UPI students, were key players in the rescue team.

Kurikov followed some small fir tree branches in the snow till 50 m down from the cedar they led into the snowdrift.

Rescuers began to dig and at a depth of 3.5 m they found cut branches covered with clothes.

The bed of branches consisted of 14 fir tree branches and one birch, and on top were belongings and clothes.

The clothes on a bed of cut branches made 4 seats

The clothes included:
- One leg of a pair of black ski trousers;
- A thick brown woolen sweater;
- A white woolen jumper, made in China; and
- A pair of brown trousers tied at the ankles but flared open with a tear to widen them.

15 m up the bank from the stream, they found half of a beige sweater and the other half of the ski trousers.

15 m from the den, they found a spoon and a knife sheath.

From the Official criminal investigation, Decision to dismiss criminal case:

“The bodies were found few meters away from the clothes found of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko - pants, sweater.

All clothes had been cut when they were taken from the bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko.

Bodies of Thibeaux-Brignolle and Zolotaryov were better dressed, Dubinina’s fur jacket and hat were found on Zolotaryov, her leg was wrapped in woolen trousers that belong to Krivonischenko.

Krivonischenko’s knife was found close to the bodies, it was used to cut off branches of young fir trees.”

Here is a very strange fact – knife was never found in the area, only a knife sheath.

Lead investigator Lev Ivanov could not have mistaken a sheath for a knife.

The branches were cut with tool, that could not be misinterpreted, but the absence of this tool could not be explained without having somebody taken the knife from the crime scene, and that meant that the case could be closed as a “calamity or overwhelming force”.

Dying place of Lyudmila Dubinina

20 m from the den, a probe 4 m deep came out with a fragment of flesh.

They started to dig. Dubinina's body was found in the ravine on may 5th, 1959.

From the official record of the discovery of the bodies:

“On the northwest slope of Peak 880, about 50 m from the cedar, in the stream, we have discovered four bodies: three men and one woman.

The body of the woman has been identified as Lyudmila Dubinina.

The bodies of the men cannot be identified without removing them from the water.

They are buried in snow 2.5 m deep.

The men are lying with their heads facing north and downstream, and the body of the woman is lying facing upstream.

She is dressed in a small skullcap and a yellow sleeveless shirt.

Then a flannel shirt; two sweaters, one gray the other dark; and on her legs are leggings and brown ski trousers.

On one foot are two woolen socks and, on her right foot is bound half of a beige sweater.

On the back of her head and on her back there are traces of damage from our probe.

Her body is decaying.

The first man is dressed in a khaki-colored windbreaker, and on his wrist he has two watches, one a Pobeda and the other a Sportif.

The Pobeda had stopped at 8:38, and the Sportif showed 8:15.

It is not possible to see the head and legs of this body, because he is not completely exposed.

The other two bodies lie in a kind of hug, both with nothing on their heads, and some their hair missing.

They are both dressed in windbreakers, but it is hard to say what else, and it will have to wait until we get them out of the stream.

The bodies are decaying and we have photographed them.

They need to be taken out of the stream immediately because they are decaying fast and will soon be lost in the stream, which is very fast.”

It was Vladimir Askinadzi’s probe that damaged Dubinina’s body. In 2013 Askinadzi published a letter in Ural Pathfinder magazine, in which he recalls that the distance between all the heads of those found in the brook was about 30 cm (about 11.5 “) – they were all very close to each other.

As for Dubinina, he says her head was laying down on a kind of a natural ledge with water rolling over it.

Her mouth was open.

There are claims that the tongue was ripped, or eaten, or whatnot.

The medical records simply that "the tongue is missing".

Vozrozhdenny describes missing hypoglossal muscle as well as muscles of the floor of the mouth.

Kolevatov's body (upper left) was found right next to Zolotariov's as if the latter was carrying or protecting him. Tibo's body was positioned 30 cm lower downstream.

When they tried to pull them out, they saw that Zolotaryov had a notebook in one hand and a pen in the other. Ortyukov saw this, grabbed the book, read it and immediately said scornfully: ‘He’s written nothing.’

Georgy Ortyukov, the Army Colonel in charge of logistics and helicopter support, was the only one who saw the notebook in Zolotoryov’s hand.

Vladimir Askinadzi recalls that it was hard to identify the bodies as they found them, and it was Colonel Ortyukov who was ordaining who was who.

We were surprised,’ Askinadzi said, ‘because it was really hard to see, and no one could object or disagree.’

Askinadzy also mentioned that while he was present during that period, he felt very strongly that those in charge were not really interested in a proper investigation.

He remembers that the lead investigator Lev Ivanov ‘did not even approach the pad of branches, didn’t take pictures, it seemed they already had a theory’.

Askinadzy extends this accusation to Ortyukov, who was in charge of the whole rescue operation.

He wrote: ‘If it was really so important to get this right, why didn’t they call for Yuri Yudin?

He was the only one that knew them all, and could say for sure.

I only knew Zina.’

The whole search operation was rushed.

This pressure was from someone above – from Moscow, Sverdlovsk, or Ivdel.

The atmosphere was very tense.

Everyone was anxious for answers and awaiting for news.

Ortyukov and some soldiers took all the bodies from the stream, carried them up the bank and placed them on special stretchers to drag them across the snow, then took them up to the pass to the helipad.

It was hard work, and they repeated the same process four times.

A helicopter met them on the pass, but the pilots refused to take the bodies on board, complaining this was outside their official duties.

It has been said that the pilots knew the bodies were poisoned with radiation and, for this reason, didn’t want them in the aircraft.

Ortyukov sent the following radiogram:

This is a scandal!

I and fourteen other people brought these bodies on our shoulders and they refused to take the bodies in spite of me insisting.

As a Communist I am outraged by the behavior of the crew and ask you to inform the Communist Party leader about it.

And I have to mention to you for clarity, these bodies are frozen.

We packed them for transportation and there was no reason to refuse to take them.

The medical expert refused to examine or to cut the bodies here on site.

It is absolutely not dangerous from the point of hygiene.

They are folded and covered in special impervious material.

The crew said they would not transport them until they are in Zinc coffins.

At this point Colonel Ortyukov reached the limits of his desperation.

He took out his pistol and threatened the crew.

Vladimir Askinadzi intervened, after which the medical expert reorganized how the bodies should be packed for transportation, and they were finally airlifted for transportation to Ivdel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 9 - last 4 autopsy reports

The header image is from “Dyatlov Pass - end of story” where Eduard Tumanov - modern times forensic pathologist in Russia who revised the post mortem analyses of the last four bodies.

In this movie Tumanov says:

“In Sverdlovsk, there is one of the best and largest Forensic Bureau in the former Soviet Union, having some of the high-level experts at the time.

I would say this is true even nowadays.

And then, you see, whyt prevents the head of the bureau or his deputy from the expertise division to assign a forensic physician.

And fly to Ivdel with two experts already.

Vozrozhdenny could have helped them with the autopsy, gather some experience.

Why was everybody satisfied with a young forensic doctor with only 2 years of experience.

Another strange thing was that the operations in the Ivdel morgue were carried out under personal control of the district prosecutor Nikolay Klinov.

He was not only supervising but also signing the autopsy reports.

This is unheard of.

The head prosecutor of the region leaves everything to supervise the autopsies.

Vozrozhdenny at the time has been tried for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda and then given amnesty.

You understand that in those years an amnesty is conditional and uncertain.

Most likely they needed to be able to control him.”

Lyudmila Dubinina (20)

 

Lyudmila Dubinina post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Lyudmila wore a short sleeve shirt, long sleeve shirt, and two sweaters.

The brown sweater belonged to Krivonischenko - one of the two found beneath the cedar, and lately tested radioactive.

The body was dressed with underwear, long socks, two pairs of pants.

External pair was badly damaged by fire and subsequently ripped.

She also wore a small hat and two pairs of warm sock.

A third sock was not paired. Lyudmila apparently in the last attempt to preserve her feet took off her sweater and cut it in two pieces.

One half she rapped around her left foot.

Another half she left or dropped unintentionally on the snow.

Lyudmila Dubinina injuries

1. soft tissues are missing around eyes, eyebrows, nose bridge and left cheek bone is partially exposed
2. damaged tissues around left temporal bone, size 4x4 cm
3. eye sockets are empty, eyeballs are missing
4. nose cartilages are broken and flattened
5. soft tissues of the upper lip are missing, teeth and and upper jaw is exposed
6. tongue is missing
7. ribs 2, 3, 4, 5 are broken on the right side, two fracture lines are visible
8. ribs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 are broken on the left side, two fracture lines are visible
9. massive hemorrhage in the heart's right atrium
10. bruise in the middle left thigh, size 10x5 cm (not shown on diagram)

Dubinina was laying on a kind of a natural ledge with water rolling over it.

Her mouth was open.

There are claims that the tongue was ripped, or eaten, or whatnot.

The medical records simply that "the tongue is missing".

Vozrozhdenny describes missing hypoglossal muscle as well as muscles of the floor of the mouth.

It looks weird especially given the fact previous bodies had more detailed autopsies.

There is no credible explanation for this vague statement.

Although it is mentioned that the stomach contained about 100 g of coagulated blood.

It is used by some as an indication that the heart was beating and the blood was flowing when tongue was removed from a mouth.

The cause of death is stated as hemorrhage into right atrium of the heart, multiple fractured ribs and internal bleeding.

Medical examination shows that Lyuda was not sexually active at the time of her death.

This fact is only relative to the fact that whoever did the crime did not sexually assault the girls, or the men as a matter of fact.

Semyon Zolotaryov (37)

 

Semyon Zolotaryov post mortem in Ivdel hospital

The body of Semyon Zolotaryov was found at the Dyatlov Pass with two hats, scarf, short, long sleeve shirt, black sweater and a coat with two upper buttons unbuttoned.

It was fairly clear that the guy didn't die from the cold.

On the contrary the den was pretty warm place for him.

His lower part of the body was protected by underwear, two pairs of pants and a pair of skiing pants.

He had a copy of newspapers, several coins, compass, and other few items.

His legs were protected by a pair of socks and a pair of warm leather hand made shoes known as "burka".

They probably couldn't keep him warm for a long time, but in the den it was sufficient in keeping the man alive.

Semyon Zolotaryov injuries

1. eye balls are missing
2. missing soft tissues around left eye brow, size 7x6 cm, bone is exposed
3. open wound on the right side of the skull with exposed bone, 8x6 cm in size
4. flail chest, broken ribs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on the right side, two fracture lines

Additionally the body of Zolotaryov had a camera around his neck as it is clearly seen on the pictures.

According to hearsay that this camera became a complete surprise to Yuri Yudin.

That he assumed the group had only four cameras that were found in the tent.

And all of a sudden a fifth camera turned out on the body.

Unfortunately melting water damaged the film.

But the question still lingers.

Why did Zolotaryov left the tent with the camera and why did he take two cameras to the trip?

One was used on daily basis and everyone saw it.

It was left in the tent and discovered there by the search party, but another was hidden throughout the journey and was found only after Semen Zolotarev have died.

The film was damaged by water so the question remains: "What was so important that he captured on the slope of the mountain that day?"

He was also found holding a pen in one hand and a small notepad in the other.

Vladimir Askinadzi recalls that Colonel Ortyukov grabbed the notepad, looked at it, cursed and said: "He’s written nothing."

He seems to be the only one that has seen the notepad.

The whereabouts of this notepad is unknown, it was never filed in evidence or seen by anyone else.

On the other hand we hear only from Askinadzi about the whole episode with the pen, notepad and Colonel Ortyukov, and that 59 years after the fact in a recent letter of Askinadzi to Ural Pathfinder magazine.

Both Zolotarev and Dubinina have an interesting pattern of injuries.

They are very similar in direction and force despite difference in shape, height and body composition of the two.

This would suggest that whatever caused these injuries was not a single uniform event.

Еxcerpt from the interrogation of forensic expert of the Regional Forensic Investigation Bureau Boris Vozrozhdenny led by Junior Counselor of Justice and Criminal Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk region, Lev Ivanov, on May 28, 1959:

How is it possible to explain the cause of the damage to Dubinina and Zolotaryov?

Is it possible to combine them into one cause?

I think the character of the wounds on Dubinina and Zolotaryov – a multi-splintered fracture of the ribs – on Dubinina were bilateral and symmetrical, and on Zolotaryov were one-sided.

Both had hemorrhaging into the cardiac muscle with hemorrhaging into the pleural cavity, which is evidence of them being alive [when injured] and is the result of the action of a large force, similar to the example used for Tibo.

These wounds, especially appearing in such a way without any damage to the soft tissue of the chest, are very similar to the type of trauma that results from the shock wave of a bomb.

How long could Dubinina and Zolotaryov have lived?

Dubinina died 10-20 minutes after the trauma.

She could have been conscious.

Sometimes it happens that a person with a wound to the heart (for example, a serious knife wound) can talk, run and ask for help.

Dubinina’s situation was one of complicated traumatic shock resulting from the bilateral rib fracture, with subsequent internal hemorrhaging into the pleural cavity.

Zolotaryov could have lived longer.

It needs to be taken into account that they were all trained, physically fit, and strong people.

Alexander Kolevatov (24)

The body of Aleksander Kolevatov was well insulated, but he was missing a hat and shoes.

His upper torso was protected by a sleeveless shirt, long sleeved shirt, sweater, fleece sweater and ski jacket with a zipper and buttons.

Ski jacket was damaged.

A big hole on the left sleeve had burnt edges and measured 25x12x13 cm.

His right sleeve was also damaged.

Several tears 7-8 cm were found.

The jacket was unbuttoned and unzipped.

A strange finding for person who was supposedly dying from cold and hypothermia.

During autopsy following objects were retrieved from his pockets: key, safety pin, some blank paper (probably to keep a record of his thoughts or events) and two packages of pills (soda and codeine).

The lower part of the body had shorts, light pants, ski pants and another pair of canvas pants.

From the right pocket doctors retrieved a box of matches that was soaked wet.

His feet as it was mentioned had no shoes, but they were protected by home knitted woolen socks with sights of fire damage.

His right foot was also protected by a light sock underneath a woolen one.

His left foot had similar three socks.

Additionally a bandage was discovered on the left ankle, but it was probably put before the Dyatlov Pass Incident since the group left their first aid kit in the tent.

The waistband of his sweater and the lower parts of his trousers later tested radioactive.

Aleksander Kolevatov injuries

1. lack of soft tissues around eyes, eyebrows are missing, skull bones are exposed
2. broken nose
3. open wound behind ear, size 3x1.5 cm
4. deformed neck
5. diffuse bleeding in the underlying tissues of the left knee (not shown on diagram)
6. softened and whitened skin (maceration) of the fingers and feet, sign consisted with putrefaction in a wet environment
7. overall skin had a gray green color with a tinge of purple

This autopsy had similar strange silence about the injuries of the victim.

Broken nose, open wound behind the ear and deformed neck might be the result of a fight and be cause of death.

On the other hand it could have been caused by natural elements since the body was exposed to nature for three whole months.

Yet the doctor ignores this matter and doesn't try to explain the reason for these strange injuries.

We should probably add that snapped neck and blow behind the ear is a common sign of killing performed by special forces.

However we can't be sure about this since the autopsy report didn't specify any more details about the body.

We are left guessing on the nature and origin of these injuries.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolle (23)

Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle was well protected against coldness of Siberian winter.

It was suggested that he and Zolotarev might have been outside of the tent at the time mysterious threat struck them.

This explains why both tourists wore shoes and were covered by several layers of clothes.

Both men were much better prepared than the rest of the group when they were forced to abandon their tent.

Nikolay wore a canvas fur hat and home knitted woolen hat.

Upper body was protected from coldness by shirt, wool sweater worn inside out and a fur jacket on a sheepskin.

Woolen gloves were found in the right pocket along with three coins, comb and several pieces of paper.

Lower part of the body was protected by underwear, sweat pants, cotton pants and ski pants.

On his feet he wore hand-knitted woolen socks and a pair of felt boots (valenki), Russian winter shoes perfect for Siberian coldness.

Additionally Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle wore two watches on his left arm.

One stopped at 8:14 and another at 8:39.

Cadaveric spots were discovered on the back of the upper body, neck and upper extremities.

Face hair length up to 1cm.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolle injuries

1. multiple fractures to the temporal bone, with extensions to the frontal and sphenoid bones, the close up of the fractures to the skull is shown on the picture
2. bruise on the upper lip on the left side
3. hemorrhage on the lower forearm, size 10x12 cm

Vozrozhdenny, who undertook the autopsy, excluded accidental fall on the rock as a possible cause for such a massive and unusual fracture.

From what kind of force could Tibo have received such damage?
In the conclusion, it’s shown the damage to Tibo’s head could have been the result of the throwing, fall or jettisoning of the body.

I don’t believe these wounds could have been the result of Tibo simply falling from the level of his own height, i.e. falling and hitting his head.

The extensive, depressed, multi-splintered (broken fornix and base of the skull) fracture could be the result of an impact of an automobile moving at high speed.

This kind of trauma could have occurred if Tibo had been thrown and fallen and hit his head against rocks, ice, etc., by a gust of strong wind.

Is it possible that Tibo was hit by a rock that was in someone’s hands?
In this case, there would have been damage to the soft tissue, and this was not evident.

How long could Tibo have lived after the trauma.

Could he have moved on his own, talked, etc.?
After this trauma, Tibo would have had a severe concussion; that is, he would have been in an unconscious state.

Moving him would have been difficult and, close to the end, movement would not have been possible.

I believe he would not have been able to move even if he had been helped.

He could only have been carried or dragged.

He could have shown signs of life for 2-3 hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 12 - the last 4 funerals

On May 12 Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexander Kolevatov and Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolle were buried in Mikhailovskoe Cemetery, in a plot designated to UPI.

Semyon Zolotaryov's funeral was a few days after May 12.

It was delayed so his mother could attend.

She had to travel from Krasnodar to Sverdlovsk.

Semyon Zolotaryov, since he was not a UPI contingent, was buried in Ivanovskoe cemetery where Yuri Krivonischenko was rested in peace on March 9.

Funerals 12 May 1959, relatives behind Alexander Kolevatov coffin

Alexander Kolevatov wreath in front at 12 May 1959 funerals

Alexander Kolevatov funeral 12 May 1959

Zolotaryov had no relatives or friends in Sverdlovsk, and it was Sogrin who identified his belongings.

Before joining Dyatlov group Zolotaryov enlisted in Sogrin group for a trek to Circumpolar Ural that would have lasted 25 days.

Zolotaryov needed the title Master of Sports which would have reflected his pay and this trek could have given him the qualification.

Sogrin describes him as a very open, outgoing, polite, with good communication skills which is expected for a guide.

Semyon explained to Sogrin that he found a shorter trek (15 days) and that Igor Dyatlov accepted him n the group.

Semyon apologized for the situation and explained that he has family reason - he wanted to take his mom to Caucasus before the begging of the touristic season when he will be busy.

Zolotaryov’s mother came from Krasnodar to Sverdlovsk to collect his belongings in April, as she was told to, before her son was found.

It’s known she was not in Sverdlovsk in May when the bodies arrived.

It’s likely that the authorities guessed the body was that of Zolotaryov by the process of elimination.

I have to mention that all the known photographs of Zolotaryov that can be used for superimposition are since 1943 i.e. after the war.

Recent exhumation of Zolotaryov's body on 12 April 2018 was preceded by 1 year effort to obtain a permit since there was no record of Semyon Zolotaryov being ever buried in Ivanovskoe cemetery, or anywhere else in Sverdlovsk.

So it is hard to say when exactly was his funeral, but witnesses remember that it was a few days after May 12.

Semyon Zolotaryov grave when he was buried in May 1959

This time no one called Yudin to identify the bodies.

The secrecy grew tremendously.

Yuri Yudin, according to his words, was told 40 years later about the terrible internal injuries some of his friends had.

There is a controversy about the non-disclosure.

Even if there was a non-disclosure why nobody say anything earlier.

On the other hand, there is undercurrent that KGB was warning that bad things are going to happen to people that try.

• Korotaev in a interview says that he and everybody present on the pass had to sign a non-disclosure for 25 years. But the fact is that he was never on the pass. He gave a lot of information that can not be verified. Here is an audio link with his voice.
• Gushtin book "The price of a Govsecret - 9 lives"

The last 4 bodies found in May were buried in closed coffins, unlike the ones found in February, which were buried in open coffins as is the usual practice in Russia to this day, except for military deaths.

Many years later, in the 1990s, Lev Ivanov, the official investigator for the case, apologized for preventing the parents from dealing with their loved ones in a proper way, not even being allowed to see the faces of their children.

But the reasons for his decision are not just based in secrecy.

In an interview given to a Kazakh newspaper in the 1990s, after his retirement, Lev Ivanov said he had made one exception for Alexander Nikolaevich, the father of Lyudmila Dubinina.

While she was in the coffin in the morgue, he let her father enter, and permitted someone to open the lid so that he could see her.

When he saw his daughter’s corpse, he fainted.

Witness testimony of Alexander Dubinin given on April 14 (Case files pages 284-287).

This is before the body of his daughter was found.

"Till the day I still can believe that this could happened in the Soviet Union, that in this large industrial and cultural center of the country, could exist such a criminal disregard for preserving the lives of a whole group of people...

Those heartless leaders were never concerned that eight days after the planned return date at Vizhay, there was no contact, yet nobody did anything and search was rescue operations started on the 21 February."

In 1962, next to their graves in Mikhailovskoe Cemetery, a monument was erected with pictures of all nine members of the group.

Dyatlov group monument erected in 1962 in Mikhailovskoe Cemetery, Sverdlovsk

Also in 1962, on that pass on Kholat Syakhl mountain, a group led by Valentin Yakimienko set a memorial plaque saying.

Dyatlov group memorial plaque on Kholat Syakhl mountain, Northern Urals

“In memory of those who left and did not return, we name this pass on Dyatlov group”

Dyatlov group memorial plaque on Kholat Syakhl mountain, Northern Urals

The pass has been called Dyatlov Pass ever since.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lyudmila Dubinina's premonition of her tragic death

Author Aleks Kandr and Sabine Lechtenfeld

If in other instances of telepathic communication both parties participated, clearly aware of their involvement in what is happening, then in the following example of telepathic contact between unfamiliar people, the power of telepathic influence is not so obvious, causing only a premonition and vague guesses of something fatal.

It will be about the premonition of Lyudmila Dubinina of her tragic death, signs of which, one way or another, appear in the records of her personal diary and in the peculiarities of her behavior during and after Dyatlov group pass through Vizhay.

Many authors of criminal versions of the death of Dyatlov’s group note the fact that the hikers were killed with extreme cruelty, as indicated by the nature of the injuries on the bodies of hikers discovered by search and rescue in a ravine in early May 1959.

This in turn suggests that the murder was committed based on the hatred of the murderers personally to those of the hikers who suffered more.

Only two members of the Dyatlov group were mutilated by the murderers with extreme cruelty: Alexander (Semyon) Zolotarev and Lyudmila Dubinina.

However, Lyudmila Dubinina had more severe injuries - in addition to numerous rib fractures on both sides of the chest, she had not only eyeballs, but also no tongue, according to the autopsy report.

Consequently, there are good reasons to assume that the main object of hatred and revenge for the murderers among all the hikers was exactly Lyudmila Dubinina.

Therefore, any researcher investigating the death of the Dyatlov group in the framework of the criminal version of a premeditated murder, taking into account the data of the autopsy report of Lyudmila Dubinina, should first of all examine all the materials of the criminal case relating to this girl in order to identify possible conflict situations with her participation, and this is primarily from the hikers diaries.

The version of the mystery of the murder of Dyatlov group is currently the only of all criminal versions, which has a documentary rationale for the possibility of a conflict between Lyudmila Dubinina and one of the employees of colony No. 64 under USh / 349-Ivdellag during the stay of the Dyatlov group in the village of Vizhay.

Dyatlov group arrived in Vizhay together with another group led by Blinov, and decided to stay for one night, as a result of which they spent in the the village almost a day from 14:00 on January 25, left for a ride only at 13:10 on January 26.

It is possible that the atmosphere of psychological discomfort that prevailed in the village.

Vizhay, had a depressing effect on hikers, which Lyudmila Dubinina partly reproduces in her diary: "We had a tearful goodbye with Blinov group.

The mood sank. ...

In general, I am very, very sad".

In addition to this can be an entry in the personal diary of Zina Kolmogorova, who described the movement of the group from the village club to the hotel in Vizhay, carefully provided to the hikers by someone from the leadership of the settlement-colony.

Such participation in the fate of a group of hikers by the colony’s leadership is explained by the fact that Igor Dyatlov has a travel certificate and a trade union voucher, in which he addressed the leaders of Soviet, party and public organizations, “to render all possible assistance” in providing the Dyatlov group of hikers campaign XXI Congress of the CPSU, the opening of which was scheduled for January 28, 1959.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that Zina Kolmogorova formulated this movement as follows: "25.1.59…

We arrived in Vizhay.

First we stopped at the same club where we were 2 years ago.

Then we were taken to the hotel".

Even Zina's use of the words "taken away" instead of "invited to move", "offered to move" or something like that, in these parts at that time had a very specific tint, meaning, as an addition, "under escort" to the word "taken".

But this is only a touch to a very specific psychological atmosphere of the village.

Vizhay, whose inhabitants provided jobs for the colony at that time.

This specific atmosphere for this area influenced on a subconscious level, forcing to choose specific words corresponding to its environment. ("we were taken"), and not just words.

Continuing on, Zina notes in her diary a certain peculiarity of the influence of this place on herself: "I talked a lot about things which are completely unfamiliar to me and I scarcely do, but I tried, sincerely.

But this is all nonsense.".

It is unlikely that we will find out what is sincere and unusual for her earlier, Zina spoke at the hotel of the settlement-colony Vizhay.

Dyatlov group would be better to stay overnight "In the same club where they were 2 years ago", rather than agree to "be taken" to the hotel, Judging by the non-forest review of her in the general diary of the group on the morning of January 26: "Slept in the so-called hotel, some bundling 2 people on a bed, and Sasha K. and Krivo even on the floor between the beds".

The canteen in Vizhay. Igor Dyatlov said with a smile: "If the tea is cold, then go out and drink it on the street, it will be hot."

That is, the group was clearly not happy with "so-called hotel", I think, not only due to the fact that her hotel service did not provide for the availability of a sufficient number of beds for all hotel guests.

The fact is that the hikers who returned in high spirits from the club after watching a movie "Symphony in Gold"

On the evening of January 25, they encountered serious difficulties in preparing a hot dinner due to raw wood for the stove, as a result of which the cooking process took "a lot of time".

From the diary of Lyudmila Dubinina:

"We are on duty with Yuri today.

We decided to cook noodles on the stove.

But it was very difficult to heat the stove with such raw firewood, so it took a lot of time.

Finally we began to eat.".

Yuri Krivonischenko, who was on duty this evening with Lyudmila, wrote in the diary of the group the next morning: "We did not boil water in the morning, wood was damp.

In the evening it took us 6 hours to boil the water.… Krivonischenko".

Such problems in preparing a hot dinner for experienced hikers, even in remote taiga, were extremely rare, as follows from the entry in the group’s diary for January 30: "As usual we quickly start a fire".

Even if we take into account the possible exaggeration in the assessment of time – "6 hours", spent on the kindling of the stove, then the difficulties that arose in the "so-called hotel" Vizhay could ruffle any experienced hikers for whom it was not difficult to quickly make a fire even in the forest.

And given the difficult mental state of Lyudmila Dubinina these days, it can be assumed that the difficulties encountered in the "so-called hotel" she could be completely out of balance, causing a flush of fair anger and anger on conditions "hotel service", to put it in modern language.

Therefore, she could express everything she thinks about this in the most harsh terms to anyone responsible for this “hotel service” person, regardless of her rank and position.

This is in complete agreement with the opinion of O. Arhipov: "Well, it is known that Lyudmila Aleksandrovna was sharp on the tongue and principled.

She would not keep her mouth shut.".

This peculiarity of Lyudmila’s character is confirmed in her personal diary the day before the hikers arrive in the village of Vizhay: "January 24th ...

Yes, and I generally like to add fuel to the fire, damn me".

The negative superstitious potential of such a phrase, recorded on paper, could in some way “program” its further actions, determined by this striking feature of its character.

Confirmation of the inflated state of the psyche of Ludmila we find in her notes in her personal diary the day after her ordeals as an attendant in the "so-called hotel" in village of Vizahy:

"January 26...

Mood is bad and probably will be for two more days.

Evil as hell".

I.e. even the next day, Lyudmila felt a sense of anger, the degree of which she so uncompromisingly marked: "as hell".

Her expectations of improving her mood in two days obviously did not happen, but despite this, she nevertheless continued to keep her personal diary for two days.

Judging by the fact that from January 28, Lyudmila ceased to keep a personal diary at all, having previously recorded in her impressions of the hike, her mood two days after being in Vizhay not only did not improve, but was also aggravated by some kind of depression, fading interest in everyday trivialities of hiking life, which earlier made up the majority of her personal diary entries.

After visiting the village of Vizhay Lyudmila's psychological state deteriorated quite sharply, aggravating day by day, which is confirmed by the peculiarities of her behavior from January 26 to January 30, which are known to us from her personal diary and Zina Kolmogorova's notes in her diary.

In Ludmila’s personal diary, even on January 27, the first sign of some unconscious doom, expressed by the negative potential of the phrase, is encountered: "the last time", referring to the whole group:

"January 27...

Now most of the guys sit here and sing songs to the guitar, on the occasion that they do not work today.

It seems this is the last time we heard so many good new songs.

But we hope that Rustik will live up to the challenge."

"This is the last time we heard..."

And how can you not become superstitious, listening to popular wisdom not to use this phrase, so as not to incur the misfortune.

It should be noted that on January 27th Lyudmila uses the word "it seems" before the key phrase: "this is the last time we heard", i.e. although she was under the impression of her forebodings, they still didn’t have that fatal doom which followed the next day, January 28, when Lyudmila completely stopped writing her impressions of the everyday life in her diary.

Only the presentiment of something fatal could have suppressed the long-term habit of an experienced hikers to keep his personal diary during a hike.

The possibility of perceiving other people's thoughts or feelings directed at the subject of perception has long been a subject of study - telepathy, finding confirmation from persons endowed with such an ability that it is not uncommon.

Therefore, at the heart of Ludmila Dubinina’s foreboding of her fatal doom, her ability to perceive her feelings of revenge related to her personally, rather than feelings of hatred, filled with negative emotions, fueled by the willingness to materialize them with a picture of the upcoming murder.

Considering that on January 28th Lyudmila completely stopped recording in her personal diary, it can be assumed that on this day the person who ordered the murder made the final decision to deal with the hikers, using associates from his inner circle, staging the killing of group members as an accident caused by the "overwhelming force" on Ural mountain ridge, with reference to the words of forester Rempel I. D. about the potential dangers lurking there for hikers.

It was on that day that Lyudmila Dubinina, previously so verbose in the records of her personal diary, completely stopped writing in it, apparently vaguely anticipating all the fatalism of the deadly threat hanging over her.

It is not excluded that Lyudmila Dubinina’s short but brief conflict with someone from the staff of the colony settlement of Vizhay over raw wood for the stove had its continuation already at the telepathic level of communication between the parties to the conflict, as is almost the case in life when the parties of an emotional conflict continue to mentally express to the offender everything that has boiled over.

I think anyone can remember from their own experience an episode of their emotional involvement in an imaginary continuation of a conflict situation after the abuser has long disappeared from sight.

As a rule, the conflict situation continues at the telepathic level of communication until it energetically disrupts itself in one way or another.

As we can see, even the next day, Lyudmila experienced a feeling of anger - "evil as hell", and this emotional negative could feed the energetics of her telepathic communication with those whom she clearly said too much (cut out her tongue) under the influence of her complex emotional state, known to us from her diary.

She was clearly unlucky because she dealt with a professional killer who had served for many years in the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs).

With each day, Lyudmila Dubinina increasingly "went into herself", plunging into the foreboding of something fatal, apparently already fearful from the thought of presenting her fears in her personal diary, much less sharing them with her friends.

A possible culmination of this depressed state was a sharp, outwardly unreasonable, change in her behavior on the evening of January 30, which outraged the whole group.

As follows from Zina Kolmogorova’s diary entries, it was in the evening of January 30th that Lyudmila Dubinina lost interest in working together on patching up the holes of a dilapidated tent, apparently, already immersed in a stupor from the suddenly increased premonition of her fatal doom:

"January 30...

Lyuda quickly got tired and sat down by the fire. Nick Thibault changed his clothes.

He began to write a diary.

The law is that until all the work is done, do not approach the fire.

And so they had a long argument, of who will sew the tent.

Finally K. Tibo gave up and took a needle.

Lyuda remained seated.

And we sewed the hole (and there were so many that there was enough work for all except two attendants and Lyuda.

Guys are terribly outraged.

Today is the birthday of Sasha Kolevatov*.

Congratulations.

We give him a tangerine, which he immediately divided into 8 pieces (Lyuda went into the tent and did not come out until the end of the dinner).

A possible reason for such a sudden change in the behavior of Lyudmila on the evening of January 30 is the described in the investigation section of the Killers' Ski Route to the upper sources of Auspiya.

It is possible that the three murderers, having gone early in the morning of January 29 from 2nd Northern to the upper sources of Auspiya "took a shortcut on one of our forest paths" (words of forester I. D. Rempel), by the evening of January 30, they could have already achieved their intended destination, settling for the night in the headwaters of Auspiya.

For this reason, on the evening of January 30, they could mentally withdraw from the two previous days of a ski trip to the upper sources of Auspiya, focusing their attention on waiting for the hikers to arrive and discussing the details of their plan.

This may well explain such a dramatic change in the behavior of Lyudmila in the evening of January 30, because she was the main object of revenge, which riveted the thoughts of the murderers to her more than her comrades, judging by the severity of injuries inflicted on her later.

Mention Lyudmila in his personal diary "evil spirits" - "evil as hell", and to some extent "calling out" to her - "damn me", give the tragic death of Dyatlov's group some kind of ominous mystical connotation that actualizes the significance of domestic superstition:

January 24... Yes, and I generally like to add fuel to the fire, damn me to hell.
January 25... The mood sank. In general, I am very, very sad.
January 26... Mood is bad and probably will be for two more days. Evil as hell.

What can cause such changes in Lyudmila's behavior from January 26 to 30, which later became the victim of revenge in Dyatlov group murders (..., cut the tongue)?

The only plausible explanation for such dramatic changes in Lyudmila’s behavior can only be her premonition of an impending mortal threat, due to her ability at the telepathic level, to vaguely perceive the terrible picture of her plans being visualized by the murderers, which she simply could not want to believe, but the oppressive negative of this premonition had its influence on her thoughts and actions.

In any case, the diary notes of Lyudmila Dubinina and the peculiarities of her behavior shortly before and after the visit of Dyatlov group to the village of Vizhay can hardly be explained only rationally, consistent with the beginnings of common sense, without attracting the irrational component of human existence, bringing something ominously mystical to the tragic death of the Dyatlov group.

End of article

I have solicited an opinion from Sabine Lechtenfeld, forensic psychologist from Hannover, Germany on the subject.

What was tormenting Lyuda's mind in the days before the tragedy, was she feeling the impending doom or was she just a troubled soul?

Here is her opinion.

I thought long and hard about what kind of assessment of Lyuda's behavior prior to her death I could put together.

I decided that there is just not enough reliable material for a proper scientific expertise.

I don't want to go down the path of many others and pull an imaginary rabbit out of my hat, although it's very tempting.

However I will give you an assortment of my subjective impressions and tentative conclusions.

Let me start with the idea that some of Lyuda's behavior and her last diary entries may have been out-of-character and hint at the possibility that she had a premonition of the tragedy, or - as the article you sent me seems to suggest - may even have been in telepathic contact with her future killer.

If we are looking at a suspicious death, it's standard procedure to scrutinize the behavior of the victims shortly before their death and look for changes and unusual behavior.

But you have to adopt a pre-mortem perspective in order to avoid the fallacies of confirmation bias.

This is the key question: could we say that Lyuda's behavior and her diary entries are strange and different from her usual behavior - even if we don't know the fate of the group?

Unfortunately there's not a lot of material available for answering that question accurately.

Let's first look at the fact that she stopped to write her diary and that she decided not to help with some daily chores like mending the tent and that she isolated herself from the other members shortly before they all perished.

From the little we do know from her curriculum vitae and the various diary entries, I conclude that she was an intelligent and well- educated girl who was introverted and did not socialize easily.

She seems to have been well organized and honest to a fault.

Since she was the treasurer of the expedition this would've served her well.

And according to her own assessment she could not hold her tongue and didn't hesitate to speak her mind, which she regretted sometimes.

She also scolded herself for being socially awkward.

I looked at all available pictures of Lyuda and concluded that she was a serious and rather introverted person and did not smile easily.

I saw her most engaging and beautiful smile when she looked at her little brother.

I sense a bit of reservation in the pictures where she has physical contact - like a hug - with other expedition members.

Compared to the other members of the group her body language comes across as a bit reserved - although I have to attach the important caveat that she may simply not have been totally relaxed and comfortable in front of a camera.

That she stopped to update her expedition diary is indeed concerning, since keeping a personal diary on a daily basis was considered to be one of the essential duties during these expeditions.

But in order to assess if her neglect was totally out-of-character, we would need to know if she has ever failed to update her diary on a daily basis on previous expeditions.

That she failed to assist in some daily chores like mending the tent, also seems to be not compatible with what we know about her, and her attitude is duly noted by the other members in their diary entries.

But it's only a short notice and no one seems to have made a huge song and dance about it or kicked up a fuss because of her apparent moodiness.

Therefore it's difficult to say if this was a very unusual behavior for Lyuda, or if those members who knew her better were used to her having certain mood swings now and then.

If it is correct that Lyuda had been prone to mood swings, her behavior during the last days of her life may not have been out-of-character at all.

But the big question remains: what caused her bad mood?

Let's Look at her diary entries which many consider to be a premonition of the tragedy.

She wrote:

"Everybody felt really tired after the movie and wanted to sleep.

Zina and I lay on a mesh-work bed.

It's a dream.

The lads rested right on the floor.

The mood is evil (horrible).

Seems it's going to be evil (horrible) for about two more days.

I'm mad as hell (as a devil)".

I included alternative translation possibilities in brackets ,since there are different possibilities to translate the origial Russian text.

The English word "evil" which seems to stick out here, has a different and more emotionally loaded connotation than the word "horrible".

What's really odd about these few sentences is, that Lyuda doesn't seem to give us the slightest hint, why her mood is so bad.

And this self-assessment of her mood seems to come totally out of the blue.

Before she wrote this down she told in a spirited and positive way about what the group has been up to during the day, and she and the others seemed to have enjoyed themselves.

Even the sleeping arrangements (she and Zina are sharing the only available bed) seemed to have agreed with her - if we interpret the sentence "it's a dream" in a positive way.

So, everything seems to be fine - and then she writes without any explanation whatsoever that her mood is horrible/evil and that she is mad!

Even without the benefit of hindsight this is somewhat odd.

But then she writes that her mood will be horrible/evil for about two more days.

This is very interesting insofar as she seems to know quite well what's the cause of her bad mood and when it will end, although she doesn't spell it out explicitly.

It has been suggested that she may have had her period or that she was in her pre-menstrual phase.

This is a very plausible idea since it would explain why she seems to know quite well, when her bad mood will end, and it would be such a private but banal and recurrent event that she doesn't bother to explain it.

Another possibility is that she is very discontent/annoyed with the current situation before the group starts to embark on their ski-hiking trip, and that she expects that her mood will improve once they start skiing and leave behind their current location and their people.

The following sentence "I'm mad as hell/as the devil" is also hard to assess, since she doesn't bother to explain.

Does she feel always mad/angry in connection with her period or other inconvenient situations, or is there something else which goes through her head while she's lying on her bed which angers or upsets her greatly?

Frankly, this sentence doesn't seem to be a vague premonition of doom, which she cannot figure out.

To me it seems that she knows quite well what exactly is upsetting her.

Unfortunately we will never know what it was.

Therefore my next thoughts are purely speculative:

Is it possible that she spotted something in her current location and situation which struck her in a very negative way?

Did she notice something which struck her as being bad and not ok, but she hesitates to put it down in writing?

If this continued to bother her while she mulled it over, it could explain why she was so occupied with these thoughts that she didn't even continue to use her diary.

She may literally have stopped speaking her mind.

Since she anticipates that her mood will be better within two days I conclude that her bad mood had probably nothing to do with the upcoming ski-hiking expedition and/or any specific members of her group.

But could Lyuda have noticed something which may have had a connection or even led to the terrible fate of the expedition?

She strikes me as a perceptive and honest person.

If she noticed something going on which wasn't right in her opinion she certainly might get mad and be in and "evil" or "horrible" mood.

But do we even have the slightest factual hint in that direction?

This depends largely on the correct assessment of the autopsy protocols.

Lyuda's pre- and postmortem injuries were more horrific than the injuries of all the other group members.

She didn't only suffer the most, but her eyes were mutilated and her tongue was missing.

If the missing facial organs have any significance for the case depends largely on this: were natural decay and small animals responsible - or was Lyuda deliberately mutilated?

Since the original investigation concluded (or was forced to conclude) that the Dyatlov Pass deaths were not the result of a crime, they officially concluded that the facial injuries were the result of natural decay and /or scavenging animals.

Some experts came later to a different conclusion.

But most experts seem to agree on one point: these facial injuries happened after Lyuda's death.

If this was deliberate but postmortem, then these mutilations were not the result of torture while she was still alive.

Since I'm not a pathologist I cannot decide which conclusion is correct.

But let's assume for a moment that the mutilations happened deliberately after Lyuda had perished.

What exactly would that tell us?

We could for starters conclude that the assailants stuck around until she died.

This is a very important conclusion because it would exclude all scenarios where after an initial wave of attacks all injured victims were left alone and then died without their attackers being around.

If Lyuda was mutilated after her death at least some killers stuck around and made sure that Lyuda (and probably the other students, too) would be dead or die shortly.

In a scenario of deliberate postmortem mutilations we further have to ask why this was done.

It has been suggested that Lyuda may have been the primary victim.

Personally I have big problems with the idea that all killings have been committed because someone was targeting Lyuda specifically in a personal vendetta, and that the other group members were just collateral victims.

Nothing we know about Lyuda's short life hints into such a direction, and to me it seems to be totally over-the-top and excessive that a personal enemy would take on such a great risk and kill all those other people just in order to get back at Lyuda.

It's also highly unlikely that the killings were the work of only one assailant.

But is it really plausible to assume that a personal enemy of Lyuda deliberately would recruit helpers in order to wipe out the whole group?

I don't think that this is a very likely scenario.

The reason that her injuries were more horrific than the injuries of the others could simply be due to the fact that she may have been more resilient, and therefore she enraged the killers.

Therefore she may have been savagely attacked in a final attempt to finish her off without using a weapon.

Also, the nature of Lyuda's postmortem facial mutilations are not typical tell-tale signs for someone having a personal grudge.

A totally smashed face and the mutilations of breasts and the sexual organs are far more typical mutilations if someone acted out because of a personal grievance. However, the deliberate removal of tongue and eyes are a very typical icon since ancient times that the mutilated victim may have seen too much and was suspected to have talked about it.

It also could be a symbol that the mutilated victim will never again be able to talk.

Very recently the famous mobster Whitey Bulger has been killed by his prison inmates, and his tongue and eyes have been mutilated after he died, most likely because he had a long history as a police informer.

I don't want to imply at all that Lyuda was a snitch.

She strikes me as a person of great integrity who always tried to do the right thing.

But if her facial mutilations were not the result of natural decay and small animals, but the deliberate postmortem work of the killers, then we should contemplate if this is a tell-tale sign that she had seen something which she shouldn't have seen and which she and the rest of the students shouldn't talk about.

I don't reject the possibility completely that Lyuda had a premonition of impending doom, but we don't have any proof whatsoever that she was indeed psychic.

And since she seemed to think that her bad mood would become better in a matter of two days, I personally would exclude the idea that Lyuda had a true premonition.

I prefer a more rational explanation and think it's at least possible that Lyuda consciously noticed something going on in her immediate surroundings before the skiing stated, which bothered her greatly and caused her to be in a "horrible" or "evil" mood.

If she continued to mull it over, it could've continued to occupy her mind after they had started their ski-hiking trip, and she may have become edgy and withdrawn to the point where she didn't even bother to keep up with her expedition diary.

If she noticed something which greatly upset her, she and her fellow members may have been perceived as a potential danger for someone or a group of people.

In this case they may have been followed by their eventual killers.

If the ski-hikers noticed something, this may well have sparked their jests about the existence of yetis.

The last paragraph may seem to pull an imaginary rabbit out of my hat - or rather my brain - after all.

But it is a chain of arguments which is based on the assumption that Lyuda's facial disfiguration were the work of perpetrators who mutilated her face deliberately after she died.

If this assumption is correct it has great implications for the case. However, if Lyuda's facial disfiguration were the result of natural decay and/or scavenging animals, the whole chain of argumentation is mute.

Personally I don't readily believe in telepathy without additional proof (although I don't completely exclude it from my world views) and it's not my first choice for explaining Lyuda's diary entries.

I believe in premonitions only insofar as they may be the result of subtle or less subtle hints which our brain has picked up and then subconsciously processed.

Our brain continues to work even when we are not aware of it - even when we sleep.

Great scientists often experienced solutions for their theories in their dreams, and the results of these subconscious processes can be very valuable.

But it was only possible because all necessary knowledge and information were already there.

Many gifted seers and clairvoyants work by picking up subtle clues.

But that's not what I would call a true premonition.

A true premonition would be if there were no informations and no hints at all available, but a person would have an awareness of things to come nevertheless.

While I don't completely reject the idea that telepatic communication and true premonitions are possible, I prefer to assume that Lyuda's bad mood had either nothing to do with the subsequent tragedy, or that she consciously or subconscioulsy processed hints and observed facts.

That may have led to Lyuda's so-called demons.

And I believe that her facial mutilations may be a hint into that direction - if they were indeed the deliberate work of the killers.

Unfortunately we probably will never know that for sure...

Ed. note: On Jan 27, 1959 while at the 41st logging site Dyatlov group learn some Mansi words.

Zina, Lyuda and Rustem make similar notes in their diaries.

The first word they write is "Я - ручей" which in Russian sounds like "I am a river" or with the dash "I am in the river".

Something that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when you think where was Lyuda found.

Dubinina was found in a creek by Askinadzi metal probe on May 5th 1959

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