Tragedia na Przełęczy Diatłowa (1 luty 1959 r.)

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The results of the new investigation are repeating Shkryabach conclusion all over again.

 

My personal opinion is that Andrey Kuryakov gave a modern scientific explanation to an old wrong conclusion.

 

https://www.facebook.com/notes/dyatlov-pass/the-mystery-of-the-death-of-dyatlov-group-criminalist-conclusion/1940002429629023/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This cover is my response to the investigation.

If you missed it, Andrey Kuryakov announced the results on July 11, 2020.

https://dyatlovpass.com/procecutors-investigation?rbid=18461

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is peak 905 where Andrey Kuryakov set their geodetic instrument to confirm the spot where the tent was found.

 

They used the terrain on the background of these two photos made in 1959.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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According to the Ural Forest Aviation Protection Base, the burning area is 32 ha.

 

Experts concluded that the fire was started by someone and began from the area of the Dyatlov Pass.

 

Fire spread down the slope from the hiking trail.

 

It was reported that a MI-8 helicopter and 11 specialists of the aviation fire service of the Ural Air Base are operating at the ignition site.

 

It was also noted that, despite the fact that in some places there is still snow and there are stony participants, the situation is complicated by natural conditions - low cloud cover and strong wind.

 

After the news of the fire, some media called the pass "a cursed place."

 

Is someone burning evidence?

https://ren.tv/news/v-rossii/722159-prokliatoe-mesto-video-strashnogo-pozhara-v-raione-perevala-diatlova?fbclid=IwAR18wsqaFSCya1qnlj_F1sJJ1sdFJ6dj6w7HY5ZILe0U4YTuW9iDI_nECgk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We can review some of the results from the Prosecutor's preliminary investigation.

 

The documents were immediately bombarded with criticism by the case researchers and experts on the Dyatlov Pass incident.

 

We start with the location of the tent, with which Kuryakov spoke very proudly at the press conference held in the Komsomolskaya Pravda editorial on July 11, 2020.

 

https://dyatlovpass.com/investigation-materials

 

 

 

 

Feb 28, 1959

 

 

 

Mar 18, 2019

Photo №11

18.03.2019 2:06 pm

East slope of Kholat Syakhl

tent location №1

view to the North

Prosecutor Kuryakov signature

M.M. Malishev signature

Feb 28, 1959

Mar 18, 2019

Summit 905 →

← 4th tributary to Lozva

Photo №10

18.03.2019 2:06 pm

East slope of Kholat Syakhl

tent location №1

view to the East

Prosecutor Kuryakov signature

M.M. Malishev signature

The calculated data are given in the table with accuracy of determining distances ±50 m.

The angle of the slope at the tent is 13.3°

Russians vigorously disagree with the Prosecutor's results. They have been going to the pass year after year and have pin pointed the location of the tent with certainty. On the photos of the prosecutors the pole with the red flag is marked TENT. Somehow through calculations the prosecutors managed to put it at a distance of 116 m north.

The coordinates according to the prosecutors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kuryakov said that according to the situational and behavioral specialists, after Krivonischenko and Doroshenko died, all of the remaining started off towards the tent.

 

Kolmogorova, Slobodin and Dyatlov backtracked their footprints while Zolotaryov, Dubinina, Kolevatov and Thibeaux-Brignolle had to break trail and didn't go very far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bienko - the 11th member of the Dyatlov group

DYATLOV PASS·ŚRODA, 29 LIPCA 2020·

 

 

All rights belong to Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Vladislav Bienko now lives in Minsk.

At the time of this interview (June 26, 2013), he is 77 years old - the same age as Igor Dyatlov.

Vladislav Nikolaevich perfectly remembers the winter of 1959 and the members of the Dyatlov group, with whom he was supposed to go ob a trip to Mount Otorten.

When the last preparations were completed and there were three days before leaving, Bienko as a student was summoned to the Komsomol committee, where he was questioned what he had done during the last summer and winter holidays, when his comrades and fellow students helped the national economy on labor fronts - on state farms, timber industry enterprises and at construction sites in the country.

It turned out that Vladislav had spent all his holidays on mountain hikes!

Well, if so, then the Komsomol member Bienko was immediately awarded a ticket to the "Udarnik" timber industry enterprise, and no higher school administration could help him escape this fate.

- Even our head of the department, Professor Pal Zakharych Petukhov, could not help me, - recalls Vladislav Bienko, - with whom I had very good relations. I had to give my share of equipment and food to Semyon Zolotaryov, who replaced me, an instructor at the Kourovka tour base.

And when the time came for the group to leave for the North, all I could do was help my comrades load heavy backpacks on the train.

– It turns out that Semyon Zolotarev took your place in the group?

– Yes, because my place vacated.

– Maybe the Komsomol specifically sent you to the timber industry camp in order to make room for Zolotaryov?

– No I do not think so. In those days, everything was much more honest.

The Regional Party Committee was pulling all the strings

– They say that Zolotaryov was a stranger to the Dyatlov group?

– Not true.

Everyone immediately fell in love with Zolotaryov.

He was a sociable and cheerful guy. Easily connected with anyone.

He knew a lot of hiking and camp songs.

He easily fit into the Dyatlov group.

He especially made friends with Nikolay Thibault.

They were inseparable. So, if it were not for that Komsomol obligation, then I would have gone with the guys to Otorten...

I didn't manage to work for a long time at the timber industry enterprise - I was summoned urgently to Sverdlovsk with a telegram from UPI.

When I arrived, I found out that the Dyatlov group did not make the deadline, they should have already ran out of food.

We need to look for them immediately, and no one knows the exact route of the expedition except me. I must say, all my life I was distinguished by punctuality and meticulousness.

I knew the route by heart. So, following my tips, the rescuers set off.

They didn’t take me to any of the rescue groups, considering that I could be more useful at the search headquarters.

I became an eyewitness to such a rapid organization of large-scale searches that now it seems unreal.

And the secret of such efficiency was that, bypassing all departmental barriers, the Regional Party Committee called the District Committees, and they called the Party Committees of the necessary organizations.

Help, both civilian and military, was provided immediately.

This included vehicles, planes, helicopters, and special units.

At the request of the Regional Party Committee, the military first dropped off at the search area a group led by Captain Chernyshev, and then K9 units, cadets of the Ivdellag school of sergeants, and sappers.

A few days later - on February 26 - students Slobtsov and Sharavin found an abandoned tent on the slope of Mount Kholat Syakhl.

On the morning of February 27, the same sharp-eyed Sharavin found the first bodies - Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko, half-naked near the remains of a fire under a cedar, with charred fingers and toes.

On the same day, the dog of the Mansi guides found Dyatlov and Kolmogorova, and on March 4 - Slobodin, also half-naked and frozen in poses of movement towards the abandoned tent.

A student was entrusted with developing a film of the Dyatlov group

– It is known that you personally worked with investigator Ivanov.

– The criminal prosecutor Lev Nikitich Ivanov was young, smart and honest. As soon as the first news of the tragedy with the Dyatlov group arrived, he included me in his work.

From the scene of the tragedy, Ivanov sent me by plane to Sverdlovsk the very first film found in Yuri Krivonischenko's camera.

It had to be done urgently, and I developed it overnight in my apartment and printed photographs of the last day of the group - from the morning fun gatherings to the evening setting up the tent in stormy conditions.

True, I was a little hasty, washed the paper poorly, and now the photographs have turned yellow.

Krivonischenko film №2 frame 27 from Bienko's archive

– Amazing!

Why Ivanov entrusted the development of the film to you, a student, and not to forensic specialists?

– I do not know.

He probably trusted me.

And secondly, perhaps he was in a hurry to see what was in the photographs?

It is possible that because it was the weekend, their departmental darkroom did not work.

Ivanov also entrusted me to deal with some newspaper articles about UFOs before his flight to the scene of the tragedy.

Such messages appeared in other newspapers in the northern districts of the Sverdlovsk region, including the large newspaper Tagilskiy Rabochiy.

Later, when Ivanov returned to Sverdlovsk, he additionally asked the police and meteorological services to explain the UFO situations that had been observed in the period close to February 1, 1959, that is, to the date of the group's death.

But no one could explain anything. Ivanov even wrote to the USSR Ministry of Defense asking if there were any bright flying objects, resembling what the eyewitnesses saw, e.g., military or space rockets, or some other aircraft?

He sent a request and did not expect an answer.

But the answer came quickly, literally in a couple of weeks. Ivanov was very surprised.

It stated that no launches were made either in this area or to this area.

It is possible that this was so, because witnesses say that they saw bright balls above the horizon, which means that if the rocket flew by, then it flew far from the site of the tragedy.

If it were in the region of the Northern Ural, then the phenomena would be visible at the zenith.

Ivanov interrogated the Mansi if they have seen anything unusual.

He collected all the information that he could find.

He tried to find the reason of it all.

He was sure to the very end that the hikers left the tent voluntarily and of sound health, except for their mind.

He meant that they were physically healthy, but they were not completely there in the head.

What caused the insanity was a mystery to Ivanov.

Apparently, it was only in the forest that they regained the ability to reason.

They tried to return to the tent, but it was too late - the wind and cold killed them.

– What did Ivanov believe happened?

– When Ivanov returned from the scene of the tragedy, he told me that if he were superstitious, he would have believed in the devil.

What happened to the guys couldn't have happened due to natural causes.

The slope where the tent stood cannot be called steep.

Only an overactive imagination can see an avalanche descending there.

Moreover, there are no signs of an avalanche on the tent - all the mountings are in place, the tent has not moved a single centimeter.

The avalanche version as completely ridiculous was not considered at all until May 4, 1959, when the bodies of Dubinina, Thibault and Zolotaryov were found.

These bodies inside were as if crushed by a powerful Uralmash press.

The rest of the guys froze either in the forest or on the way back to the tent.

The medical examination of the first five bodies was very thorough.

They didn't have any violent injuries.

But these three hikers found in May have almost no ribs left unbroken.

Dubinina's heart is pierced, Thibeaux-Brignolle's skull is broken.

Ivanov returned from the location where the last four bodies were found a different man, I couldn't recognize him.

From an energetic, agile and sociable, he turned into a depressed and indifferent person.

He seemed aged with decades.

When I asked him what is going on, he only said: "You know, Slava, it seems to me that there were two applications of a natural force unknown to us: one - psychical, which drove healthy guys out of the tent, and the second - physical, that injured and killed three people who left the main group."

– Maybe Ivanov learned something that was a state secret?

– I don't know.

The bark peeled off the trees

– What do you think about this tragedy?

– I think they divided into three groups, with three people in each.

The first three - Dyatlov, Slobodin and Kolmogorova - went back to the tent and froze on the way.

The second group - Doroshenko, Krivonischenko and Kolevatov made a fire under a cedar.

The third group - Zolotarev, Thibault and Dubinina went into the ravine to do the flooring.

There, the third group was attacked by something.

Kolevatov heard the cries and came to them from the cedar.

Maybe he tried to help them?

He froze clinging to Zolotaryov's back.

– What could have injured those three?

– In 1964, my family and I moved to Minsk, where my wife began to teach English to officers upgrading their qualifications at the Minsk Higher Radio Engineering School of the Ministry of Defense.

And once during a free conversation with the officers, she mentioned this tragedy in the Northern Ural.

The officers told her that they had heard about tests in this area of acoustic low-frequency psychic weapons.

Maybe all this is nonsense, or maybe not.

But it is interesting - also in those days other military men who guarded the convicts in the logging areas of the Northern Ural said, that allegedly after the winter of 1959 in many forest areas the bark peeled off on the trees.

If this is true, why did it peel off?

Maybe, in fact, under the influence of some acoustic tests?

V. N. Bienko recollections (June 2013)

It all started with a carousel
Life asked: "Where to get off?"
I told her: "Anywhere.
Wait, no. I'll go North!"

Life said: "Go, the pull is strong.
But don't make a mistake,
When you get to know the North,
It will seem to you so different".

I did not have luck with my own cherished route through the Subpolar Ural, and in early January 1959 I asked to join I. Dyatlov's group, leaving for the Northern Ural, and I was accepted.

My fellow classmates joined other groups.

Victor Plyshevskiy joined the group of Sergey Sogrin, leaving for the Subpolar Ural.

His mountaineering training, obtained in the "Ullu-Tau" alpine camp in the Elbrus region, and experience in working on rocks, snow and ice, came in handy.

Oleg Grebennik also received the "USSR Mountaineer" badge there.

The doctor did not allow me to climb the summit, considering my pulse too fast after running around the clinic.

For the sake of fairness, it should be said that a little later, having passed a strict medical examination, of the entire academic group, only O. Grebennik and I were allowed to fly on the Il-28 jet attack aircraft.

But the destruction of domestic military aviation by N. Khrushchev was so rapid that we managed to fly only on the Li-2 in 1959 in the Far East and in 1960 in Ukraine on the Tu-4 (the American "flying fortress" B-29, which dropped the first nuclear bombs on Japan).

I remember our preparation for the expedition in January 1959 as a continuous fussing over equipment, food, containers and weights small and big issues.

The room was covered with supplies and filled with serious voices.

Then the door opened and in the frame appeared familiar protruding ears, behind them the mandolin and finally Yuri Krivonischenko himself.

Cheerful cords sounded right from the doorway.

And the work became more fun, and life seemed truly beautiful and amazing.

And then, just a few days before leaving for the North, I was urgently summoned to the Komsomol Committee and sternly asked what I did during the last winter and summer holidays, when other students, as much as they could, helped the national economy in the timber industry, on construction sites and collective farms.

Have you been to a mountain camp? Hiking to Konzhakovskiy Kamen?

Trekking in the Tien Shan?

Now you have to work off your labor debt to the timber industry enterprise!

Even our head of the department, Doctor of Technical Sciences, could not help me.

Professor Tal Zakharych Petukhov, whom I helped a lot in responding with deeds to the virgin land raising company - to develop a hay pick-up that forms hay balls without the use of scarce knitting wire.

I must say that Tal Zakharych was a legendary person, for example with the advance on his salary he bought himself a "Moskwitch".

Since this is not really a top of the line car to his bewildered colleagues, he replied that he wanted to learn to drive on it, and with his salary he is going to buy a "Pobeda".

So, even Tal Zakharych could not help me with anything.

I had to give my share of equipment and food to Semyon Zolotaryov, who replaced me, an instructor of the Kourovka basecamp, a cheerful guy who knew many hiking and camp songs and easily fit into the friendly Dyatlov group.

And now the time has come for the group to leave for the North.

I helped to load their heavy backpacks into the carriage and was the last person to see the guys in Sverdlovsk alive.

I didn't work for long at the timber industry enterprise - a telegram came calling me to Sverdlovsk.

At UPI I learned that the group of I. Dyatlov did not get in touch within the deadline, they should have run out of food.

They needed an urgent rescue operation, and no one knows the exact route of the trip, except me.

On the detailed map, obtained by the military department of the UPI at the headquarters of the district, they marked the planned route of the group and began to transfer the rescuers by helicopters to the nodal points of the route: in the beginning, the town of Pumsalnel (B. Slobtsov); the first third, Otorten (captain Chernyshov and M. Akselrod); the second third, Oyka Chakur (O. Grebennik).

They didn’t let me go to any of the rescue bases, believing that I could be more useful at the search headquarters.

I became an eyewitness to a very expedient, taking couple of days, organization of large-scale search that now it seems unreal.

And the secret of such efficiency was that, bypassing departmental barriers, in case of emergency, the Regional Party Committee called the District Committee, and the latter called the Party Committee of the necessary organization.

The resources, both civilian and military, needed to save people is urgently provided by the organization.

The military has always one step faster,

automobiles, planes, helicopters, and special units.

All the mountains, valleys, and rivers along the planned route of the group of I. Dyatlov were carefully examined from the air.

At the request of the Regional Party Committee, the military first dropped off at the search area a group led by Captain Chernyshev, and then K9 units, cadets of the Ivdellag school of sergeants, and sappers.

The weather was favorable for the search, and their scale and swiftness immediately yielded results: the Mansi found traces of the supposed overnight stay of the Dyatlov group.

On February 22, rescue groups were just formed at UPI, and on February 24, the Slobtsov group, dropped off by aviation in the area of the beginning of the route, was informed about the find with a canister from an aircraft.

Having decided on the search area, the rescuers went on the trail of the missing group and on February 26 B. Slobtsov and M. Sharavin found on the gentle slope of Mount Kholat Syakhl a tent half-covered with snow with untouched food, equipment and personal belongings of the Dyatlov group, including warm clothes and shoes.

From the tent, which had been cut with a knife, well-preserved tracks mostly barefoot led towards the forest.

The radio operator from a group of geologists who came with two Mansi hunters reported to Ivdel in the evening about a terrible find.

It became clear that the group had died. Military and civilian search parties began to move to the scene of the tragedy.

Meanwhile, the next morning on February 27, the same sharp-eyed Sharavin discovered the first bodies of Y. Krivonischenko and Y. Doroshenko, half-naked, with charred fingers and toes near the remains of a fire under a cedar.

On the same day the dog of the Mansi guides found I. Dyatlov and Z. Kolmogorova, and on March 4 - R. Slobodin, also half-naked and frozen, in poses of movement towards the abandoned tent.

On February 28, a radiogram about the discovery went to Sverdlovsk, where on the same day an emergency search commission of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU was created, which decided to continue intensive search work until they are all found.

The criminal prosecutor Lev Nikitich Ivanov, appointed to conduct the investigation in this complex case, was an extraordinary person - still relatively young, energetic, intelligent and honest.

As soon as the first news of the tragedy with the Dyatlov group arrived, he included me in his work, instructing me, before his flight to the scene of the tragedy, to deal with some newspaper publications about UFOs that change brightness, color and shape.

There were quite a few such reports, mainly in regional newspapers in the northern part of the Sverdlovsk region, including in the large newspaper "Tagilskiy Rabochiy" (Tagil worker).

Later, when L. N. Ivanov returned from the scene of the tragedy to Sverdlovsk, he additionally requested information from the police department and the meteorological service.

The picture of celestial events close to February 1, 1959 was carefully studied using all possible sources of information.

Yes, unusual phenomena in this region of the Northern Ural were observed before and after February 1, 1959 (but not February 1), usually in the morning, and did not cause anything but curiosity.

From the scene of the tragedy, Ivanov sent me by plane to Sverdlovsk the very first film found in Yuri Krivonischenko's camera.

To speed things up, I developed it at night in the bathroom of my apartment on Sverdlov St. and printed the photographs from from it of the last day of the group - from the morning fun gatherings to the evening setting up the tent in stormy conditions.

Later from the Kolmogorova's diary, we learned that this last evening in the tent was fun and after dinner ended with the release of a humorous newspaper "Evening Otorten" - after the name of the peak they were going to summit on the next day, despite its name, which translated from Mansi means "don't go".

When Ivanov returned from the scene of the tragedy, he told me that if he were superstitious, he would have believed in the devil.

What happened to the guys couldn't have happened due to natural causes.

The slope on which the tent is pitched cannot be called a slope.

It is almost invisible to the eye. It is impossible to slide on skis on it without pushing off with poles.

Only an overactive imagination can see an avalanche descending there.

Moreover, there are no signs of an avalanche on the tent - all the mountings are in place, the tent has not moved a single centimeter.

The avalanche version as completely ridiculous was not considered at all until May 4, 1959, when the bodies of Dubinina, Thibault and Zolotaryov were found, their bodies inside literally as if crushed by a powerful Uralmash press.

The rest of the guys froze either in the forest or on the way back to the tent.

The medical examination of the first five bodies was very thorough, cutting up every scratch.

They didn't have any violent injuries.

Well, fox-eaten noses.

And that's all.

But these three hikers found in May have almost no ribs left unbroken.

Dubinina's heart is pierced, Thibeaux-Brignolle's skull is broken.

But they will be found only in May, in the stream bed under a 3-4-meter layer of snow.

In the meantime, all March and all of April heavy search work was conducted in the area of ​​the tragedy - military units and UPI students with three-meter probes pierced the snow to the ground till there was daylight.

Investigator L. N. Ivanov was faced with an extremely difficult task - to find what, I don't know what, what made the guys, strong in spirit and body, mad with fear, rip the side of the tent and flee from it headlong, without shoes and outer clothing, in 27 degrees of frost.

Judging by the well-preserved traces, all 9 hikers were in perfect physical health.

I shared with L. N. Ivanov some information I've read in a popular science magazines about the "Flying Dutchmen", ships abandoned by crews mad with fear, and the reasons for this fear - low-frequency oscillations that sometimes occur when air currents pass over the undulating surfaces of oceans, deserts and midlands. L. N. Ivanov made a request to the Ministry of Defense if any tests were carried out in the Northern Ural around February 1, 1959.

They didn’t hope for an answer,

but it came, entirely negative.

There were no witnesses of the incident in the area of the tragedy - geologists, Mansi, military personnel and other hikers were all quite far away.

But well-preserved footprints leading from the tent to the forest unambiguously speak of the stampede of physically perfectly healthy people.

All nine. Apparently, only in the forest did they regain the ability to reason.

They tried to return to the tent, but it was too late.

The wind and frost caught up with them.

After the terrible discovery on May 4, I saw L. N. Ivanov only once, and I was struck by the change in him - the liveliness of his character disappeared, as if he had aged many years.

- "You know, Slava, it seems to me that there were two applications of a natural force unknown to us: one - psychical, which drove healthy guys out of the tent, and the second - physical, that injured and killed three people who left the main group." - I also think that hearing their cries,

A. Kolevatov made his way to them from the fire under the cedar and helped them as best he could until the very end...

In 1964, my family and I moved to Minsk, where my wife began to teach English to officers upgrading their qualifications at the Minsk Higher Radio Engineering School of the Ministry of Defense.

And once during a free conversation with the officers, she mentioned this tragedy in the Northern Ural.

The officers told her that they had heard about tests in this area of acoustic low-frequency psychic weapons.

Most likely, this is just speculation trying to explain the death of strong guys, temporarily distraught for an hour in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And the last thing.

My mother, a petty bourgeois woman of the Voronezh province, who had a negative attitude towards the Komsomol all her life, after this tragic event, abruptly changed her position, rightly considering the Komsomol, which sent me logging instead of the expedition, as my savior.

Vladislav Nikolaevich Bienko
Minsk
June 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The investigator of the death of Dyatlov's group was warned of incomplete official compliance

DYATLOV PASS·PONIEDZIAŁEK, 17 SIERPNIA 2020·

 

The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov issued a warning about the incomplete official compliance of the deputy head of the Department of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District, Andrey Kuryakov.

The document is fully posted on the «Bivshiy Sledak» telegram channel.

Its reliability was confirmed by the source of Kommersant-Ural in the regional department.

Decree of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation dated August 10, 2020

The document says that on July 11 this year, Mr. Kuryakov, acting for personal purposes, took part in a press conference announcing the completion of the investigation into the death of Igor Dyatlov's group in 1959.

During the press conference, he also assessed the activities of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region in conducting an audit of the circumstances of the death of hikers in 2018-2019, says the decree.

Andrey Kuryakov - Press Conference February 4, 2019

At the press conference Andrey Kuryakov said that the mystery of the death of hikers at the Dyatlov pass was revealed: an avalanche became the cause of death.

According to him, this version has found its full confirmation.

He voiced this information for the preparation of his PhD dissertation for the degree of candidate of legal sciences, follows from the decree.

Igor Krasnov called it a disciplinary offense in the form of improper performance by Andrey Kuryakov of his official duties.

In this regard, he was warned about incomplete official compliance.

This is the maximum possible punishment before dismissal.

Andrey Kuryakov is delivering the results and conclusion of the latest investigation as a civilian at the Press Conference July 11, 2020

Andrey Kuryakov has been working in the department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District since November 2019.

Prior to that, since 2011, he headed the Department for Supervision over the Execution of Federal Legislation of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region.

It is believed that it was thanks to him that the Prosecutor General's Office initiated the audit of Dyatlov's death.

The source of "Kommersant-Ural" said that the management, even without a press conference, has complaints against Andrey Kuryakov.

According to the source, Mr. Kuryakov, using his official position, tried to influence the replacement of the prosecutor of Yekaterinburg.

Since 2015, the city department has been headed by Svetlana Kuznetsova.

The position of her deputy is occupied by Venera Kuryakova, who is the wife of Andrey Kuryakov.

Source Kommersant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The investigator of the death of Dyatlov's group was warned of incomplete official compliance

DYATLOV PASS·ŚRODA, 19 SIERPNIA 2020·

 

The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov issued a warning about the incomplete official compliance of the deputy head of the Department of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District, Andrey Kuryakov.

The document is fully posted on the «Bivshiy Sledak» telegram channel.

Its reliability was confirmed by the source of Kommersant-Ural in the regional department.

Decree of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation dated August 10, 2020

The document says that on July 11 this year, Mr. Kuryakov, acting for personal purposes, took part in a press conference announcing the completion of the investigation into the death of Igor Dyatlov's group in 1959. During the press conference, he also assessed the activities of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region in conducting an audit of the circumstances of the death of hikers in 2018-2019, says the decree.

Andrey Kuryakov - Press Conference February 4, 2019

At the press conference Andrey Kuryakov said that the mystery of the death of hikers at the Dyatlov pass was revealed: an avalanche became the cause of death.

According to him, this version has found its full confirmation.

He voiced this information for the preparation of his PhD dissertation for the degree of candidate of legal sciences, follows from the decree.

Igor Krasnov called it a disciplinary offense in the form of improper performance by Andrey Kuryakov of his official duties.

In this regard, he was warned about incomplete official compliance.

This is the maximum possible punishment before dismissal.

Andrey Kuryakov is delivering the results and conclusion of the latest investigation as a civilian at the Press Conference July 11, 2020

Andrey Kuryakov has been working in the department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District since November 2019. Prior to that, since 2011, he headed the Department for Supervision over the Execution of Federal Legislation of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region.

It is believed that it was thanks to him that the Prosecutor General's Office initiated the audit of Dyatlov's death.

The source of "Kommersant-Ural" said that the management, even without a press conference, has complaints against Andrey Kuryakov. According to the source, Mr. Kuryakov, using his official position, tried to influence the replacement of the prosecutor of Yekaterinburg.

Since 2015, the city department has been headed by Svetlana Kuznetsova.

The position of her deputy is occupied by Venera Kuryakova, who is the wife of Andrey Kuryakov.

Source Kommersant

So where does that leave us. Its even more confusing now.

Does it mean that there is hope yet.

Will the Russian authorities, aka, the Russian Government, finally give us the Investigation that is really needed.

Galina Sazonova is attempting to answer this question in Dyatlov Pass Forum.

This government will not allow a "real" investigation. You need to understand Who is Who in Russia.

Andrey Kuryakov
2011- Nov 2019 headed the Department of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region.

Prosecutor General of Russia that time - Yury Chaika.

The investigation started in 2017.

Yury Yakovlevich Chaika - Prosecutor General of Russia from 2006 to 2020. He was fired by Putin and succeeded by Igor Krasnov

Nov 2019 Kuryakov was promoted by Chaika to Head of Department Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District.

Prosecutor General of Russia was still Yury Chaika.

Jan 22, 2020 Yury Chaika was fired and succeeded by Igor Krasnov.

Igor Victorovich Krasnov - Prosecutor General of Russia since January 22, 2020

Igor Krasnov
is the new Prosecutor General of Russia. He signed the above mentioned decree.

In Russia, as in many countries, the Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee are completely different organizations.

The Investigative Committee conducts the investigation, and the Prosecutor's Office oversees compliance with the law.

Before heading the Prosecutor General's Office Igor Krasnov was Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee.

There are only two options to reopen the case.

1. apply to the Investigative Committee
2. apply to the Prosecutor's Office

Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP) and Leonid Proshkin started from Investigative Committee (IC) in 2014.

Investigation lasted several years and ended in an amazing way.

Thanks to Keith McCloskey, we got the answer from the IC "we have not conducted any investigation, we do not know anything" (full text).

The lawyer has copies of all documents in his hands, but the IC replied that they see them for the first time.

It was Krasnov.

Ok, if it doesn't work in one place - let's go to another.

KP initiated another investigation, now at the prosecutor's office. Everything goes well until Krasnov gets in the picture.

It is possible that the old situation would have repeated and no one would have received results at all.

Kuryakov showed all documents during the press-conference and was punished by Krasnov.

Сould an avalanche be the cause of such games and events at the highest level of Russian officials?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So where does that leave us.

Its even more confusing now.

Does it mean that there is hope yet.

Will the Russian authorities, aka, the Russian Government, finally give us the Investigation that is really needed.

Galina Sazonova is attempting to answer this question in Dyatlov Pass Forum.

 

https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/index.php?topic=665.msg10556#msg10556

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Who did Yudin give his vest that was found on Dyatlov

DYATLOV PASS·CZWARTEK, 3 WRZEŚNIA 2020·

 

Dyatlov was found in an unbuttoned fur sleeveless vest - outer side blue cotton, inner side dark grey fur. It belonged to Yudin.

Case files say he left the vest to Kolevatov, but Yudin himself said in 2008 he gave it to Doroshenko when they parted in 2nd Northern.

This letter sheds light on the manner case files were signed and investigation was conducted.

Galina Sazonova has also made a point of more discrepancies in the Resolution to close the case.

It is not necessarily indicative of a cover up (or is it?), just the way things were back in 1959. You trust the organs to do the right thing.

Then changes come and we no longer find it proper, we try to find a motive, looking in all directions.

Who did Yudin give his vest that was found on Dyatlov

 

Kolevatov
From the "Protocol inspection of items found at the scene" (Case files sheet 13):
One piece of clothing found on I. A. Dyatlov body described in the autopsy report was a fur vest trimmed with blue satin. Yuri Yudin said that the vest belonged to him, and on 28-Jan-1959 he gave it to S. Kolevatov.

Doroshenko
Yuri Yudin himself said the following in a letter dated May 14, 2008:

Dear Aleксander! I am answering Olga's questions from the TAU forum.

1. About wadded quilts and fur jackets.
   According to the inventory, there were 6 of them in the tent and one was in S. Kolevatov's backpack.
   In the tent was I. Dyatlov's leather fur jacket with a zipper. K. Thibault was found in a fur jacket (I think his own).
   Total = 9 pcs.
   As for the inconsistency in the inventory, he has a quilted jacket, then perhaps this is an incorrect entry by investigator Ivanov. He wrote the inventory as he needed in his own handwriting. He wrote that I gave my fur sleeveless jacket to S. Kolevatov, while I gave it at the 2nd Northern to Y. Doroshenko.
   He attributed to me that I allegedly identified the intimate parts of Zina's clothing and what the first five bodies were found in, but naturally I could not do this since I was not present at the autopsy and undressing of the bodies... I was naive and signed the inventory without reading it, firmly believing in the actions of the investigator.
2. About the headwear: Y. Doroshenko and S. Zolotaryov wore earflaps, K. Thibault fur hat, in addition, according to my inventory, there were 7 woolen hats, which provided protection even in severe frost.
3. About the shoes at the camp site: there were 5 pairs of felt boots, Zolotaryov had quilted soft wadded boots without soles (burki) for sleeping, in the tent there were also two pairs of fur covers and two pairs of cloth house slippers. At the campfire sites they stayed in inner boots with covers on them.
4. I can't say anything about the sweaters.
5. About storm pants: Y. Doroshenko probably had them and remained in the tent, and Ivanov wrote them down to Kolevatov.
   5 storm trousers were found in the tent, S. Kolevatov was found in storm trousers in May, S. Zolotaryov was found in overalls in May.
   A total of 7 canvas trousers. Girls in our time did not like to walk in clumsy oversized canvas trousers. Apparently, they did not take them on the trek.
6. According to the prosecutor's office dated May 6, 1959, it can be understood that Kolevatov was wearing a storm suit. But from the photo, where he is transported to the helicopter, only storm trousers (most likely his own) are visible, and the storm jacket is no longer visible, only a ski jacket with a burnt sleeve. According to my inventory, all 9 storms were in the tent.
7. As for S. Kolevatov's birthday, I can't comment anything. From the context of the group's diary, it looks like they celebrated his birthday on January 30, I have no doubts about it.

Respectfully Y. Yudin (signature) May 14, 2008

I attach 2 copies of a power of attorney.

Text in Russian

But this is not quite it.

Doroshenko had borrowed the same type vest from a friend before the trek.

This is a line from the protocol of identification of the items by relatives: Case file 240 (back)

3. Sleeveless fur vest borrowed from Farid Gaynutdinov, course R-463

In the protocol of the items found in the tent Yudin said that the following items belonged to Kolevatov.

Note that they were not found on Kolevatov, so Yudin could have been easily mistaken.

This could be Doroshenko's vest, and he could have unwillingly contributed to the mess in the case files.

Ivanov is not solely to blame.

Case files 16

8. Identified as Kolevatov's belongings: black backpack.

Blanket of soldier cloth, jackets and pants, fur vest...

On the other hand Kolevatov's relatives did not identify any such vest, so it must belong to someone else.

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"There was no snowstorm": New investigation conclusions on the weather the night of the Dyatlov Pass incident

DYATLOV PASS·PONIEDZIAŁEK, 7 WRZEŚNIA 2020·

 

This weather report is part of the prosecutor's investigation in 2019

All right belong to Komsomolskaya Pravda. Authors Nikolay Varsegov and Natalya Varsegova

In the winter of 1959, a group of nine hikers disappeared in the mountains of the Northern Urals.

They were led by fifth-year student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute Igor Dyatlov.

For 18 days, the group had to ski 300 kilometers in the north of the Sverdlovsk region, climbing two peaks.

The hike was of the highest category of difficulty according to the 1950s classification.

A month after the disappearance of the hikers, rescuers found their tent cut from inside and five frozen bodies within a radius of one and a half kilometers on the slope of a pass.

The bodies of the rest were found only in May.

The investigation found that some of the hikers died from the cold, but some of them had fatal injuries of unknown origin.

What exactly happened to the Dyatlov group is still unknown.

In 1959, investigators closed the criminal case with a strange wording: "The cause of death of hikers was a overwhelming force, which they were unable to overcome."

No one ventured to explain what kind of "overwhelming force".

The first thing that comes to mind is maybe some kind of meteorological phenomenon?

Like a sbowstorm?

But there is practically no mention of the weather in the official documents.

No requests to local hydrometeorological services, no meteorological information.

In general, we doubt that the investigators were then interested in the weather on the day the hikers died.

In the criminal case, there are only a few witness statements, from which it is known that, for example, the forester Rempel from Vizhay warned Igor Dyatlov about strong winds in the mountains in winter.

And witness Popov said that in early February the weather was terribly windy.

But the forester's warnings can hardly be considered official confirmation, and Popov, judging by the document, communicated with the investigator on February 6, which does not fit in with the beginning of the criminal case initiated on February 26.

As it happens, no one has yet explained this discrepancy in the dates, not even the prosecutor's office.

But the prosecutor's office tried to establish whether there was a severe frost and winds with the force of a hurricane at the pass on the night of 1 to 2 of February, 1959.

One of the last photos of the group

A microclimatic examination of the Kholat Syakhl mountain region in January-February 1959 was carried out at the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory in St. Petersburg.

The specialists used the method of calculating weather conditions based on data from several weather stations.

In our case, expert Galina Pigoltsina determined a detailed microclimatic assessment of the Dyatlov pass, relying on the readings of January-February 1959 of the nearest stations Ivdel, Burmantovo, Vizhay, as well as Taganay (a high-mountain point 600 km south of Kholat Syakhl), Polyudova Kamen (western foothills of the Urals ).

The expert noted that the Dyatlov pass has been studied "in meteorological terms extremely insufficiently", and information about the area is "practically absent".

That is why the conclusions are circumstantial.

Here they are:

TEMPERATURE

It snowed continuously in the area of Mount Kholat Syakhl from January 31 to February 1.

The snowfalls were accompanied by strong winds, with temperatures ranging from -10°C to -32°C.

Please note that temperatures are calculated not only by hours and by hiker's locations.

Temperatures in °F

The well-known forensic expert Eduard Tumanov does not agree with this conclusion.

- I do not agree with the method of calculating the time of death by examining the stomach content, the expert says.

- It is based on the fact that a person ate at a certain hour and the contents gradually enter the stomach, and then descend into the intestines, and that all this happens at some intervals.

But each person has his own intestinal rhythm. And in the case of Dyatlov group incident, cold and stress must be taken into account.

And even the cause of death affects intestinal motility.

The reaction of the intestines to agony can not be predicted and taken into account e.g. each body reacts differently.

WIND

Was there a strong wind (with force of a hurricane) on Kholat Syakhl that drove the hikers out of their tent to their demise?

We know from ourselves that a strong piercing wind blows constantly on the mountain - both in winter and in summer.

The microclimatic examination answers the questions how strong it was on February 1, 1959.

Galina Pigoltsina claims that on February 1 and 2, 1959, according to aerological and synoptic data, a northwest wind was blowing over the mountains.

A wind shadow has formed on the eastern slope (a place where the wind speed is significantly reduced).

Skiers set up their tent there.

Wind speed in mph

It turns out that the wind speed was relatively low.

There was no snowstorm in the day of the Dyatlov group incident.

We found an circumstantial confirmation of this in the diaries of journalist Gennadiy Grigoriev "Snowstorm in the Mountains", who was at the scene of the tragedy during the search.

He wrote: "I imagined, listening to the whisper from the cedar, how Krivonischenko and Doroshenko died here.

There is moss on the birch trees.

Near the cedar there is a mountain ash [aka rowan] bush.

Snow all around (deep).

On the mountain ash are a few dry leafs and a some berries not yet pecked by the birds."

Obviously, a hurricane wind would not have left any leaves or berries on the trees.

Wind chill temperature index

The "feels like" temperature is a measurement of how hot or cold it really feels like outside.

For example, skin that is exposed to wind and cold temperatures will make a person feel that it is colder outside than it really is because heat is drawn away from the body at a faster rate.

When we look at the weather on the phone, the application shows two values: minus 25, it feels like minus 30.

The latter value is the wind chill index, the complex effect of temperature and wind on a person.

The wind chill index on 1 and 2 of February, 1959, at the tent and cedar:

Wind chill temperature index in °F

Wind chill index values:

It turns out that at the moment when the tourists left the tent (at about 9 pm), the wind chill index both at the level of the tent -31.8°C (-25.2°F) and at the level of the cedar -29°C (-20.2°F) corresponded to the moderate risk of hypothermia and frostbite...

By the time three hikers decided to scale the slope back to the tent, at about 3~5 am, the wind chill index at the cedar was already -43~-46°C (-45.6~-50.8°F).

SNOW

The key point of the microclimatic examination is the increased thickness of the snow cover to 250 cm, which, according to Pigoltsina, formed 50 m above the tent.

It was this large mass of snow that allegedly descended onto the tent under the influence of the wind and thaw.

It is known that at the end of January the weather in those parts was warm for the winter.

But on February 1, the temperature began to drop lower and lower.

This, according to some researchers, provoked the formation of the snow slab.

A participant in the search for the Dyatlov group, Vladislav Karelin, analyzed the expert's calculations and did not agree with them.

- I was at the pass from February 27 to March 9, 1959, - Vladislav Georgievich recalls.

- And I didn't see any signs of an avalanche.

In addition, the tent was not on the eastern slope of Kholat Syakhl, but on the slope of the northeastern spur of this mountain range.

The expert calculated the distribution of the height of the snow cover over the tent, using the pattern she obtained on the slopes of the Aibga ridge in the Caucasus.

But the conditions of the Caucasian relief are fundamentally different from the altitude characteristics of the Ural Mountains.

The slopes and peaks in the Caucasus are steep and rocky, with a well pronounced prominence, and in the Urals there are smooth outlines of peaks with a small difference in heights on the slopes.

These differences cast doubt on the results of the expert's calculations.

In addition, my observations made during the search clearly contradict the calculated data of the expert.

According to Galina Pigoltsina, the depth of the snow near the tent was 150 cm.

But during my searches in February-March 1959, I repeatedly stuck a metal probe into the snow, which went deep near the tent in no way more than 80-100 cm.

According to the expert's calculations, the depth of the snow on the northeastern spur of Mount Kholat Syakhl in 1959 was 140 cm.

But I, together with the head of search operation Evgeniy Maslennikov, climbed the northeastern spur.

And there I saw stones, slightly powdered with snow. T

herefore, I have great doubts about the calculations and conclusions made by the expert.

"The avalanche could have happened with a high degree of probability," the expert concluded.

But it is obvious that the possibility of an avalanche is not evidence of its actual occurrence.

In addition, the expert did not give any real and specific signs of an avalanche.

Therefore, it is not yet possible to speak of the avalanche version as the only possible cause of the tragedy.

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How many bodies were brought in Ivdel for autopsy - 9 or 11? (part 1)

DYATLOV PASS·ŚRODA, 16 WRZEŚNIA 2020·

 

© NGO "INTERNET CENTER of the Dyatlov group tragedy", 2008.

The text of the conversation of the "Center for Civil Investigation of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy" (NAVIG, Verden), Tuapse and others with the former nurse N-240 in 1959 Solter Pelageya Ivanovna (PI) and Victor Konstantinovich (VK) on the case of Dyatlov Pass incident 04-05 July 2008

The text is based on a video of the conversation.

Copyright for sound recording and this text have: Center for Civil Investigation of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy and Tuapse.

The text is recorded and edited by Verden, NAVIG and Tuapse.

NAVIG: What Pelageya Ivanovna will say will be filmed on video so it can serve in court as an evidence.
VK: This is a case that even parents still do not know how their children died. There are many contradictions ...
NAVIG: You lived there at this time?
VK: The administration was very strange at that time. I lived in Ivdel and worked in the establishment of the N-240.
NAVIG: In what capacity?
VK: I was later a senior engineer, and before that, in the 59th, I was the inspector of the State ... Soyuzgosles Inspectorate. I was in charge of logging, procurers, consumers ...
NAVIG: Did you know the Mansi? Kurikov, Anyamov?
VK: I did not know them in person. Saw them in the press, in the local newspaper, and in the city... I am familiar with the life of Mansi to some extent. I myself am a mushroom picker, in these areas where the mountains begin, between Ivdel and Polunochnoe, there is a road to these mountains to the north ...
PI: This is where you come from? (photos on the table are brought by the Center)
NAVIG: Yudin gave us this... Is this you in the photo?
PI: (nods).

Pelageya Ivanovna Solter

VK: We can give you a lot of medical photos. She was the Head nurse of the surgical department.
NAVIG: Prudkova?
VK: Yes, Prudkova. Prudkov was a surgeon ...
TUAPSE: Civilian or military?
VK: He was famous, very conscientious, hardworking, accepted people ...
PI: Such a good man! And I worked with him.
VERDEN (asks again): Was he a military surgeon or civilian?
VK: He was a certified?
TUAPSE: What is "certified"?
VK: "Certified" means doctors who worked in the institution, in the camp area - the hospital was full, there was a staff ... Then they started to certify, there are all surgeons and nurses ...
TUAPSE: Was the hospital civil or a military department ?
VK: No, it was special, for the establishment of the N-240 Ministry of the Interior of the USSR. The Ministry of Internal Affairs had great power at that time.
NAVIG: It used to be Ivdellag.
VK: They did not even submit to the hill, but to the camp management, well, to some extent, the KGB.
NAVIG: KGB directly?
VK: No, the Ministry of Internal Affairs
NAVIG: In the year 59, I was transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and before that it was Ivdellag ...
NAVIG: We want Pelageya Ivanovna to tell us about the Dyatlov group. What happened, in what order, how did it worked back then.
TUAPSE: Maybe you will tell, how did you get to know them? Did you ever meet them?
VK: You know, she can be mistaken, her memory is not the same ... But I remember them. We lived near the Headquarters. And there was a bus station. When I went to work, there were all these hikers who came there and waited the bus with their backpacks, 5 or 10 at a time. That's where she saw them.
NAVIG: Here they are, 9 people. Do you remember anyone? (a photo)
VK: No, she did not know them in person.
PI: Did they all die? Well, you say "you don't remember" ... We were called with Prudkov. I washed, and Prudkov helped the bodies to be dress ... Then they took them to the car and drove them to the airfield. And they were sent directly to Sverdlovsk in coffins. And they were buried in Sverdlovsk. Without relatives.
NAVIG: Was there an autopsy?
PI: Prudkov only examined, described. I washed them, wiped them ...
VK: Allow me? The fact is that according to Matveeva's book the autopsy was done in Ivdel. She says that the autopsy was not done in Ivdel. It was a preliminary preparation for them, probably for an autopsy ... And the autopsy was done somewhere else, it was not known where. Or maybe in the city hospital ...
PI: No, they did not do it in the city. They were sent to Sverdlovsk by airplanes.
VK: No, it wasn't in Sverdlovsk, according to the book that they did it in Ivdel.
PI: We washed them here ...
NAVIG: Pelageya Ivanovna ...
TUAPSE: And how do you know that they were sent to Sverdlovsk then?
VK: Yes, because she thinks that it was all ...
NAVIG: Pelageya Ivanovna, do you remember their external appearance? Look, here is what they looked like in the morgue N-240. Were they like that? Do you remember?
PI: I can't recognize them, of course.
TUAPSE: How about the degree of decomposition?
NAVIG: Or is it not them?
VERDEN: Are these them? Did you see them? Did you wash them off? You washed them in this way?
PI: We washed them in the morgue ...
NAVIG: No, but their appearance? Is this the Dyatlov group ...
VERDEN: Did they look like this? Did they?
VK: These was them. Only she says that they were very dirty.
VERDEN: You see here, there is great damage, there is no face ...
NAVIG: Well, they were found in a creek, they were brought like that...
PI: Prudkov described them.
NAVIG: Nothing is mentioned about this in the case files.
VK: I read about Vozrozhdenny ...
PI: Prudkov described them, washed them and put them in coffins. Then they were send on an airplane to Sverdlovsk where they were buried.
VK: Listen, and why there is no signature of the second surgeon, German surname ...
NAVIG: Yes, there isn't. Was he there?
VK: I do not know, Matveeva writes ...
NAVIG: And was Ganz with Prudkov? Pelageya Ivanovna, did you know him?
VK: They didn't know. They didn't know Vozrozhdenny either. They just prepared and they were taken away ... Where were they taken? Maybe they were taken to the city hospital. Maybe they took them somewhere else ...
NAVIG: Victor Konstantinovich, we assume that there were two groups of bodies, and they did not know each other. This is what we trying to find out. Did you work with the Dyatlov group or the other people? And who did Ganz and Vozrozhdenny perform autopsies on?
PI: We did not do autopsy on anyone.
NAVIG: No one? But the act is, which was opened in the N-240, Vozrozhdenny and Ivanov - the investigator ...
PI: We did not do autopsies on anyone. Prudkov only examined, described, I washed them all ...
NAVIG: Were they wearing clothes?
PI: They were wearing clothes. They were very dirty.
NAVIG: And here you write that there were two girls and one guy ... So were there two girls?
PI: One girl was found with the guys, and the second girl was found after 2 or 3 days.
NAVIG: Or a month?
VK: Month! No, I said "two days"?
NAVIG: Months or a days? This is very important.
PI: Month ... no.
NAVIG: No? And they were found in early May, and those at the end of February. So were they brought all together or at different times?
PI: One girl was found right away, and the second girl was found later.
NAVIG: So you and Prudkov were repeatedly summoned? Have you been called twice or just once?
PI: We were called out with Prudkov - as soon as they were brought, they call us immediately.

1. Pelageya Ivanovna Solter - nurse; 2. Yosif Davydovich Prudkov - surgeon

NAVIG: They were frozen, the bodies? Frozen?
VK: I saw 5 bodies being brought. In Ivdel. I saw them in front of the morgue, in the car. Brought apparently from the airport. I saw how they were unloaded. I didn't go close, but I just know that they were frozen in different poses, wrapped in blankets ... I think they were blue blankets.
NAVIG: That's the way ... Here they are photographed on the pass, in the snow.
NAVIG: And the bodies, were they thawed?
PI: They were brought and put in a morgue.
NAVIG: But they probably had to be thawed somehow?
VK: Well, I saw that the hands even here were like (pose), and remained ... 5 people.
VERDEN: How did they wash it at the same time? They were defrosted first?
VK: Of course. Laid down, defrosted probably ...
PI: Thawed. In the morgue, everything ...
NAVIG: And how much time did they thaw?
VK: We did not deal with these details. I only know about the situation in the city. If they were autopsied in Ivdel, we would have know about it.
NAVIG: What did they do with their clothes?
VK: Well, ... They could have burned them, throw in the furnace and burn it. Moreover, they also had radiation on their clothes. Although they lay in the water ...
NAVIG: And the first group?
VK: Yes, I again read this from the book, that she (Matveeva) there leads the facts. An autopsy, it also describes everything.
VERDEN: Do you remember what were they dressed in (after being washing)? What were the clothes?
PI: We had to buy the clothes. There were no relatives ...
VK: Look, the first group did not even have any damage, and the second one had all the ribs broken. Who could casue these injuries on them? For this type of injuries, it should be ...
TUAPSE: And who discovered that the ribs were broken? Or did you read this in the book?
VK: Yes, we learned this from the reports. This can only be determined with an autopsy.
NAVIG: And besides Prudkov, who else was there?
PI: There was no one, he was alone there.
NAVIG: You were unsupervised, there was no guard?
PI: No, there was only Prudkov and that's all.
NAVIG: And who was on the washing? You, Yosif Davydovich ... who else?
PI: No one else.
NAVIG: Was the morgue guarded?
PI: No, there was no one.
VK: And there were no orderlies who were washing?
PI: I washed them.
NAVIG: And their appearance? What did the bodies look like?
PI: Of course, if I immediately wrote everything down, but now ...
VERDEN: Are the bodies were they well preserved?
PI: Well, they were in one piece. One had a head wound, a crack in his head, but they were all in one piece, not injured.
VK: The group found in the spring, they were decayed. The second party.
VERDEN: How many bodies were there? How much do you remember?
PI: I remember that the first time they brought six people. And first one girl, and the second girl was later found ...
NAVIG: Did you know Korotaev? This is an investigator, he worked in the Ivdel Prosecutor's Office.
PI: I do not remember who he was...
VK: I know who is he.
NAVIG: Korotaev wrote that he assisted Ganz and Vozrozhdenny in Ivdel with the autopsies, that he packed the organs for analysis. In Ivdel.
VK: Could be.
NAVIG: I have his story. He personally told me this.
VK: In each autopsy report it says in which hospital or morgue it was performed ...
NAVIG: In the morgue of N-240 ...
VK: Maybe it was done at night, and they just prepared them ...
VERDEN: So, they apparently had the impression that the corpses would be sent, but in fact the corpses were not sent? Maybe that was it?
VK: That's right. They said so and probably ... Because there is everywhere a veil of mystery, some haste ...
PI: These corpses were later put in coffins and sent by plane to the cemetery in Sverdlovsk. And there they were buried.
VERDEN: Did you see how they were put in coffins?
PI: Of course. We dressed them and laid them down. Clean.
VK: If there was some sort of collusion or some kind of pressure, no one could tell them where the corpses were actually sent. Here they prepared them, and at night in the same morgue they did an autopsy. And that's all they were told. End of conversation.
TUAPSE: This is not likely, because it says here that the autopsy was performed in daylight.
VK: "In daylight" who wrote this?
NAVIG: Investigator Ivanov and expert Vozrozhdenny. And the expert criminalist Churkinа.
NAVIG: They couldn't have been prepared. Bodies can not be washed before examination. They should be in the clothes in which they were found.
TUAPSE: The bodies were not prepared, they were in the clothes in which they were found.
NAVIG: They (the experts) undressed them themselves. "The corpse lies, dressed in a hat, in a mask" ... Before the examination they can not be undressed... Or maybe they made a synthesis?
VK: I am telling you, there was some sort of undressing. They simply cut all the clothes with knives, to remove them faster... I know that they were buying suits in Ivdel.
PI: All the clothes were dirty, everything was dirty, everything was removed from them ... Clothes were bought.
VERDEN: This is the second evidence that clothes were bought in Ivdel.
PI: Clothes were bought and they were laid in coffins ...
NAVIG: Did you see it yourself?
PI: Yes. Went to the coffins at once. Coffins brought ...
NAVIG: And who was lying down?
PI: ... The coffins were sent to Sverdlovsk.
NAVIG: Did you give a non-disclosure statement?
PI: Prudkov was doing all this.
NAVIG: We talked with his wife, Valentina Ivanovna. Did you know her?
PI: Yes, I did.
NAVIG: And she says she did not know you.
PI: She doesn't?
NAVIG: Were you called Maria?
VK: She may not know Prudkov's wife. How do you know her?
PI: Well, why wouldn't I know her? She is a teacher...
VERDEN: No, she's a pediatrician.
NAVIG: It is not her then.
VERDEN: No, that one. She called her "Valentina Ivanovna" ...
NAVIG: I told her that.
VERDEN: No, she called her even at the very beginning of the conversation, and I wrote down to clarify everything later.
NAVIG: Let him repeat it again.
VERDEN: What was the name of Prudkov's wife?
PI: Valentina Ivanovna.
NAVIG: A teacher?
PI: Yes.
VERDEN: She says she's a teacher. A pediatrician and children's teacher are somewhat similar: working with children
NAVIG: Do you have a pictures of Prudkova? The medical department there, its kind ...
VK: There are photos, I can bring you ...

Ivdel Medical Personnel: 1. Tzel Davydovna Schmidt - doctor; 2. Ekaterina Vasilievna Evstigneeva - pediatrician; 3. Savenkov - Head of Ivdel hospital; 4. Yosif Davydovich Prudkov - surgeon; 5. Shrayner N.K.

NAVIG: Your name is Pelageya, right? And why are you sometimes called Maria?
PI: I am Pelageya, but some have addressed and called me Maria.
VK: But according to the documents Pelageya Ivanovna.
NAVIG: Pelageya Ivanovna, and on what operations did you usually assist Prudkov?
PI: Yes, all operations. Who was brought, all were operated on...
NAVIG: Did you know the instruments you handed to him?
PI: I boiled the instruments that were used in operateds.
NAVIG: Did you know the names of the instruments?
PI: Scalpel, then clamps ... there were clamps and bent tips...
TUAPSE: And Prudkov, did he perform autopsies?
PI: Of course. He was a very smart doctor.
PI: So the autopsy were perfomed in the morgue ...
VERDEN: So, he operated on living and dead people? Corpses?
PI: Yes, he did everything there, he was in charge ...
VERDEN: Maybe because it was the zone? ...
VK: I know that there was better pay for autopsies. In my opinion, Sharonin did all the autopsies.
PI: Sharonin came in the picture later ...
NAVIG: We have a letter ... Pelageya Ivanovna, you wrote to Yudin ...
VK: I wrote this.
NAVIG: No, you wrote the second letter, and the first one she wrote. Pelageya Ivanovna, you wrote in it that when they were brought they looked like dead. What does it mean?
VERDEN: "At first they brought three, two girls and one guy. Their faces were like those of the dead. "
PI: Yes.
NAVIG: What does that mean? They were brought dead, not alive? Why did you write that?
PI: No, they did not bring them alive, they brought them dead ...
NAVIG: So you wrote it right? All correct?
PI: Of course.
NAVIG: This was written in 2000 when you remembered everything.
VERDEN: You wrote further: "At one girl the hair from one side was charred, on one arm the sleeve slightly burnt ...". Do you remember these corpses? Were they burnt?
PI: Yes, they were burnt. You know, they were very dirty.
NAVIG: Where would the mud come in winter. Those were the ones in spring, probably ...
PI: If I knew that you would ask, I would have written everything down ...
VERDEN: And where were the documents kept, Prudkov files? Where can they be?
VK: Well, she's a nurse ... If they were in the hospital, they would be in the Headquarters office ...
PI: In Sverdlovsk. Everything is in Sverdlovsk ...
VK: There is a special department in that institution, which keeps all sorts of tricks ...
NAVIG: We have now sent an official request to Ivdel. We sent it to the Headquarters of the correctional penal system, and they sent it to Ivdel. In Sverdlovsk there are no documents on the Dyatlov group.
VK: In Ivdel this institution is now closed. It is suspended. In Ivdel, there are now 7 or 8 colonies and each colony, it ... But all the archives from the Main Directorate that was in Ivdel is stored somewhere ...
PI: Main Directorate archives, you can still apply in Ivdel.
NAVIG: Well, they sent the request to Ivdel, but the answer has not come yet.
NAVIG: That's how you remember them? This one is in his clothes ...
VK: Well, how can one remember, they look different here ... Let me see ...
NAVIG: They are already thawed here. Lie normally ...
VK: Is this the first group or the second?
NAVIG: The second.
NAVIG: Do you remember how they were brought? Did you see them?
VK: I did not see the second group. I went to business trips often. But on the first groupf I just came across ...
TUAPSE: And when was that - the first group. What time?
VK: Well, they were also brought to the N-240. And there the surgical department and I went to the procedures. I saw that the car was standing and unloaded ...
TUAPSE: It was in March, or in February, you do not remember?
VK: It was probably early March.
TUAPSE: And did you write this letter?
VK: Yes.
PI: And does Prudkov's wife live in Sverdlovsk?
NAVIG: Yes, we talked with her. She said that her husband did not tell anything at home that they were not allowed to tell.
VERDEN: How did the bodies thaw? Did they just lay and thaw?
PI: They just lay there ...
VERDEN: How long? How many days does it take to thaw a body?
PI: Well, a week, probably / they were lying ... They were all frozen.
NAVIG: 49 years have passed, but no one knows why they died.
VK: This is a cruel case. Nobody knows ... And agree, but it is not only my opinion: people, could have even blinded them, could be explosion of some sort ... the thing is that they started to choke, there was not enough oxygen to breathe. And in their fever they ran down, everybody in same direction ... And then, down below, there was more oxygen, they began to breathe, and so on ... But why did not they have enough strength to stick together? If you are going to die, so be it, but why in this manner, some here, another there, by the stream, almost half kilometer away ... Why did they split? You can imagine that there was, for example, 27 degrees below ... and they were barefoot. How did they manage to move? Dyatlov himself, you could tell it was him, holding on to that birch, trying to go back to the tent, because there was their salvation, there was alcohol, clothes ... Maybe they even use psychotropic weapon on them.
PI: They said there was a fireball ...
VK: It was later, it was said there ... I personally often saw in the evenings in this region some kind of firebolts ...
NAVIG: Far away?
VK: Well, there, in the Ural Mountains. Ivdel is higher and the Ural Mountains are close by... In that area.
NAVIG: What year? About? Before?
VK: Yes, and before that, and after I saw.
NAVIG: What was the situation in Ivdel when they were found? Do you remember? Was there a lot of military, special communication? Did the generals come?
VK: No.
NAVIG: Shtrauh wrote that they came. Do you know Shtrauh?
VK: Shtrauh I know.
NAVIG: He said that there was special communication, telegraph pole were installed, the generals were walking about ...
VK: Maybe there was something like that, but I do not know anything about it. I know that there was a military unit that guarded the institution, the camps. There was the regiment, or in my opinion, even a division... And so maybe some generals ... Well, the colonels were of internal troops.
NAVIG: So you have not seen them?
VK: I did not see it.
NAVIG: A Shtrauh says that he saw.
VK: Well, Shtrauh is an intelligent man, a correspondent of a newspaper, he could have known more.
NAVIG: Did you know Solomonovich?
VK: Felix Yakovlevich? But what about.
NAVIG: We spoke with him recently. He had there, by the way, his wife was also present. She worked somewhere in the office.
VK: We worked together with Solomonovich, in one department, he was a lieutenant colonel.
NAVIG: Solomonovich says that the autopsy was done in the zone and sent to Sverdlovsk.
VK: Did he say that? Well, so they did. And, you see, she (Pelageya Ivanovna) was told that they were taken on planes to Sverdlovsk.
VERDEN: She might not know the fate of the bodies, she just did some specific task ...

Pelageya Ivanovna Solter

VK: There's a hospital in the zone, all the contingent was treated in it ... in the zone ... there is surgery ...
NAVIG: A where is the morgue?
VK: A morgue beyond the pre-ice zone.
VERDEN: Pelageya Ivanovna, do you remember if all the corpses were dirty? All nine?
PI: All dirty, everyone was washed ...
NAVIG: So the morgue was outside the zone?
VK: This morgue was in the hospital. There, in the town, we had a therapeutic department, the brick building was good, good doctors.
NAVIG: Was it beyond the zone? And what was in the zone then? Was there a morgue?
VK: I do not remember where the morgue was ... there were no cons here ... There was a small morgue, and the next day the prisoners were taken out and buried ...
NAVIG: The autopsy was done in the zone morgue ...
VK: Correct.
NAVIG: So, has Prudkov been called to the civil morgue or to the camp morgue?
VK: In the civil, I know for sure.
VERDEN: Did Prudkov inspect the civilian morgue?
VK: N-240 is in the hospital, and the camp hospital is separate, in the camp zone.
PI: He worked in the hospital, and the morgue was from the hospital.
VK: They sent these bodies to Prudkov to prepared ...
NAVIG: In the civilian?
VK: Yes, they made a description there ...
NAVIG: I have to clarify, they worked all in what hospital, in the territory of the zone or in civilian?
VERDEN: Pelageya Ivanovna, did you work in the morgue with Prudkov on the territory of the zone or on the territory of the hospital?
PI: On the territory of the zone.
VK: What zone?!
PI: Well, I went into the hospital in the zone... With Prudkov.
VK: What kind of zone? You and Prudkov worked in the morgue in the zone. What morgue is there in the zone?
NAVIG: Behind the barbed wire?
VK: Let's determine what "in the zone" means!
NAVIG: Yes, let's ...
VK: There was a contingent there, tens of thousand of people, you have to treat them. There was Four, it was in the city, very close to Headquarters.
NAVIG: What is Four?
NAVIG: Management? Zone - Four?
VK: The zone of the Four, in this Four there was a hospital for the convicts specially, from all the colonies were brought and treated. There is surgery and operations were performed, well, everything ..., and there were many doctors. And there were good specialists, because...
PI: Well, maybe there's still someone left.
VK: They paid more than in the civil.
NAVIG: In the zone?
VK: In the zone, yes, they paid more. And here, beyond the zone, there was surgery, too, there was hospital , the clinic was separate. It was for civilian contingent only. Well, the personnel who worked at the N-240.
NAVIG: It was for them, yes?
TUAPSE: For civilians?
NAVIG: Did you go out of the population? No?
VK: No.
NAVIG: That is for civilian personnel.
VK: There was a central hospital for Ivdel's population. It is still there. It's a special hospital, you see, they even had a slightly higher salary.
NAVIG: No, I see. Well, what about the barbed wire, the area was surrounded by a wire? Was there a passing mode?
VK: Sure. There were the barracks where the condemned lived.
NAVIG: So, this hospital was behind this zone?
VK: It was in this Zone, but it was still fenced off separately.
TUAPSE: Do we understand correctly that there was a hospital for prisoners separately, separately for the personnel who worked in the Zone and separately for civilians and residents of Ivdel?
VK: This is what I am explaining.
TUAPSE: We have three hospitals?
VK: Yes, there were three hospitals. Convicts were treated, and specially, and this structure is still in the medical institutions of the Ministry of Justice. But, given that now the Colonies have autonomy, the Headquarters reduced it, so they left the medicine and left the clinic. They didn't even abandon all branches
PI: And Prudkov's wife is she still alive? Does she live in Ivdel?
VERDEN: No, in Sverdlovsk.
PI: Does she live in Sverdlovsk? And the sons are they both surgeons?
VERDEN: Yes.
NAVIG: One is Chief surgeon of the Urals Federal District, Mikhail. And this one - he is the Head of the department of the Sverdlovsk administration.
VK: Are these the sons of Prudkov?
NAVIG: Yes. Aleksander, he will be the shorter.
VK: Here she was in the hospital, in the 40th or in some kind of place she was lying. There, her son even attending her. The son, I do not know, was he a surgeon?
NAVIG: Surgeon.
VERDEN: In the 40th hospital of what city?
VK: In Sverdlovsk. She (Pelageya Ivanovna) got in the hospital with stones. And I went there, and even lived in the hospital for 2-3 days, I slept in the corridor on a couch.
PI: Prudkov son operated on me. Got out the stones from my kidney.
VERDEN: So you know him well?
PI: Yes. Acquaintances. Still, you know, they will come: "Call dad." They will come in surgery for free oepartion.
VK: Do you want a graphic plan for the hospital?
NAVIG: Where is the barbed wire, where was the pass?
VK: Give me that. I will ...
NAVIG: Because we do not understand.
VK: This is town. City of Ivdel, it is mostly down, around, on both sides is Ivdel river. This is Ivdel river. Here is the road to Gorodok (small city - ed. note). Here is Gorodok.
VERDEN: You do not know what happened to Yudin during the hike, why did he leave the trek?
PI: I do not know.
VERDEN: They did some kind of operation on him? Did you attend an operation of appendicitis? Did Prudkov operated him in the city? Was he operated on?
NAVIG: The letter says he was.
VERDEN: Do you remember Yudin? Do you know who Yudin is? It was the tenth hiker who did not go to the mountains. You wrote him a letter ....
PI: Well, I wrote, but I already forgot.
VK: There's a road here, near the road are the Headquarters. Here, from the Headquarters, the road goes to Vizhay. Right here opposite the polyclinic is a civil office.
TUAPSE: Was it all open to access?
VK: It's civil, it's open. This is the Zone.
NAVIG: Write there "Zone".
VK: Zone. The N-240 was then the Four.

NAVIG: Was there a barb wire?
VK: Sure thing. A double fence even.
NAVIG: There were cons in general.
VK: So the zone, there was inner fence, and one outside.
NAVIG: Understandable.
VK: There was third zone on the street.
NAVIG: You mean, one more fence?
VK: Fence. There was a watch, too. And here is where the hospital was. I think there were several rooms there.
VERDEN: Have you ever been to the territory of the Zone?
VK: But what about. And not once was. Went there. There, Popov Aleksander Ivanovich is still working, doing X-rays. Radiologist. He is still working, his wife passed away, also a doctor. And in the Zone there are barracks, messroom, surgery, therapy. In Gorodok here, I abbreviated it, also residential buildings, polyclinic, there was a hotel and so on. Here, too, there was a civilian surgery, and a polyclinic for all those who worked in the institution. This is surgery.
NAVIG: Is it a road?
VK: It's the road from the river, Ivdel river. On the right side here is the city, and here it is all city.
TUAPSE: And this clinic for those who are in the Headquarters?
VK: Management, who works in institutions, Colony on Vizhay ...
NAVIG: Was there barbed wire here?
VK: No, why? It's civil ..
NAVIG: But they did not treat civilians?
VK: They treated civilians related to the work.
NAVIG: But not if you are kolhoznik.
VK: The city residents were treated in the city hospital. And here - only the people from the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Those who worked in the colonies, on the field ..., there was a whole system.
NAVIG: Morgue?
VK: Right here at the polyclinic, in the same district, here is the morgue. Here is how the road goes, the paths ... And this is the morgue, and this is the Institutions. Here is this hospital, civil, morgue. If the morgue was there it was also for the convicted.
NAVIG: Yes, there was a morgue in the zone?
VK: They were not kept there for a long time.
NAVIG: Well, was there a morgue there?
VK: Well, I guess there was.
NAVIG: No, well, because it says here, in the morgue of the N-240 autopsy was performed. Washed in same morgue.
TUAPSE: And this system belongs to N-240?
VK: You know, well, some logic, there should be some logic in all this ...
NAVIG: The report is there, see? They will not lie, it's a document.
VK: Wait, there should be some logic, I reckon. Why do it, you know, in the morgue, there are no conditions for perfom surgical operation. When next to it, you know, there is a surgical department in the zone. At night, take them there, do an autopsy, take them out. Where, no one will know. Or do ... well, it's unlikely, it was a fiction, so that someone would do an autopsy in the morgue.
NAVIG: This is a reference to Dyatlov group. We are only talking about Dyatlov group. And why, there is a table and it's done.
VK: So even the same Dyatlov group. Well, you need tables, some instruments.
NAVIG: Well, probably, they brought them there.
VK: If this is what Solomonovich said, maybe he could have known more, then ...
NAVIG: Yes, he does not state any facts, he just said it. You can not confirm anything.
VK: Did you talk to him?
NAVIG: Yes, on the phone. He said the autopsy was done there, but where he got this information is unknown. Yes, no one knows.
VK: I know because I lived there. Well, you know, in the city ..., there was this murmur that people died, that Mansi could have attacked them and so on. So, probably, it went on for a month. Then all this quieted down. But the fact is that if there was an autopsy done, one way or another, I would have known.
NAVIG: Here? (in the zone)
VK: Yes.
NAVIG: And why would you know? Because your wife worked there?
VK: Yes, I worked too, I was connected with everything, I ...
NAVIG: Did you come here? Did you had access to the zone?
VK: I came here, she worked here. Yes, she then worked in the zone again.
NAVIG: After that?
VK: Yes, she worked there for another 30 years or 40 in the zone.
NAVIG: Well, let's not be particularly interested in this.
VK: And we were good friends, greeted for the holidays and the Day of medicine, in this hospital with all doctors, medical personnel in this hospital, we always gathered in the clinic and spent the evenings.

Recording stopped.

Forest Management Central Polyclinic: 1. Tzel Davydovna Schmidt - doctor; 2. Sara Mihaylovna Agisheva; 3. Ekaterina Vasilievna Evstigneeva - pediatrician; 4. Yosif Davydovich Prudkov - surgeon; 5. Evgeniy Ivanovich Tzaskin; 6. Anna Petrovna Taranova; 7. Filatova - doctor

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How many bodies were brought in Ivdel for autopsy - 9 or 11? (part 2)

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The text of the conversation of the "Center for Civil Investigation of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy" (NAVIG, Verden), Tuapse and others with the former nurse N-240 in 1959 Solter Pelageya Ivanovna and Victor Konstantinovich on the case of Dyatlov Pass incident 04-05 July 2008

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VK: They were unloaded right here.
NAVIG: Did you see them? They were in what, in coffins or just like that?
VK: No, they were, they were just brought from ...
NAVIG: from the pass.
VK: They were brought from the airfield. And with a car, they are just so, you know, well, frozen, they pull them out, wrapped in blankets. I remember it now, blankets were blue.
NAVIG: In these? They had blankets there, on the Pass. They slept in them.
VK: Well, they could have used the same blankets to transport them. It's not necessarily the same blankets. Or maybe they were theirs.
NAVIG: Did you know Patrushev?
VK: Whom?
NAVIG: Pilot Patrushev? Gennadiy.
VK: No, I did not know him. There was a club opposite Dzerzhinsky's club. There were pilots, I knew one there.
NAVIG: There was Gzhatenko, I remember. Helicopter pilot, he died, crashed.
VK: No, he was an old pilot, he flew on these, U-2 or something like that.
NAVIG: AN-2.
VK: AN-2, I knew him. Now, he lived in Ivdel for a long time, even after he had already built a house. He lived there anyway.
VERDEN: But still it's unclear, was there a morgue in the zone?
VK: Well, I do not know where it is located, I just know that there was an solitary near the guardhouse in the corner for the colony. Isolator. That is, if you misbehave they put you in the solitary, from these barracks, there.
NAVIG: And if prisoners die, where did they put them? Did they bring them to this morgue?
VK: I'm telling you, no, how can they be brought in a civilian? No.
TUAPSE: Maybe they had their own (morgue) somewhere?
VK: They had their own, there was a morgue. They must have had, because if a prisoner dies, they keep him for a day or two and then bury. And that's all. Any hospital has a morgue somewhere probably. I can not draw you, I do not know where it was.
NAVIG: Well, it's clear that you didn't see it. Was the territory big?
VK: Well, the zone, I reckon, in meters, probably under 200 - length and width, probably 150 roughly, there was a colony. Well, meters 200-300, yes not 300, and all 400, probably, was. Well, something like this.
NAVIG: And in other places, 41 district, knew this? The Second North. There were also zones there.
VK: I know, the North ...
TUAPSE: What was in the Second North?
VK: So, Second North, now I'll draw. What do I know about the Second North. Well, you know from Ivdel the road went, as you may say ..., to a small town of urban type called "Polunochnoe" ...

NAVIG: Well, it still exists.
VK: Polunochnoe. This is if Ivdel, let's say, from the Institution if you went to the colonies. The road goes like that, and after Polunochnoe, 7 kilometers further along the road is "Taloe". No, it's here, Taloe village is here.
NAVIG: turns to Solter: Did remember anything about Yudin?
VK: So after Polunochnoe First and Second North. The second North is about here. Well, on the road to the village, you know, there is an eating house, we always went there, went to the eating house, bought bread, general store, they had good supplies. The Second North. Here. And then the road went to the village "Shepichnoye", then went on, this is a colony. This is Shepichnoe. The Fourth, the Fifth are districts Colonies were colonies. In my opinion, here was the 7th district, in my opinion. Further Burmantovo, also a large settlement, further this colony was, Vizhay, more colonies, three or four colonies. There were also three or four colonies here. Settlements. Like this.
TUAPSE: And what was in the Second North?
VK: Second North, Second North was that ... They had a big quarry, you know, they got there manganese ore. There were big careers here, you know ...
NAVIG: Were there prisoners there?
VK: No, thеre were not. Here, then the Second North. Here the were the stone mountains, you see. Well, there were rocks, all the dumps, because this is a huge pit, probably a kilometer in diameter, and trucks were moving roundabout here ... And the Second North here was this settlement here. That's the village on this side, all here are houses. Here. Here is the quarry, here was still, you know a workshop, the crushing workshop № ... The workshop crushed the stone. Well, and then from here, probably, from the Second, probably, they went, there the road is there to the ridge.
NAVIG: And where's the 41st site? They went to the 41st after that. What is it?
VK: Well, I do not know.
NAVIG: Logging , probably some kind?
VK: Probably, too, because, you know, they had careers earlier small, probably this was the 41st district.
NAVIG: They reached the Second Northern, and Yudin turned back, and they went into the forest. And Yudin took the stones here. So 41st was here right here?
VK: Maybe there was a quarry here, maybe this one they called, an old abandoned quarry. We went there to pick mushrooms.
VERDEN: What did geologists do there, why did geologists live there? Where were they aniway - on the Second North or on the 41st, where is it?
VK: The Second North is a whole ..., it was a big settlement.
VERDEN: What did geologists do there in the winter?
VK: Well, what did they do? Firstly, they drilled in the winter ...
VERDEN: They drilled in the winter?
VK: Yes. They, for example, in the summer they went to the ridge there. Let's say, here's the Polunochnoe, then the roads to the ridge, everywhere the roads were there.
NAVIG: And what are the cores? You know?
NAVIG: Cores from geologists - what is that? They extract them in the winter for some reason. There is a report from a geologist who went there to take dirt samples and saw strangers on the Pass. So, what are these cores for geologists? Maybe it's an instrument, or something?
VK: A, cores ... I'm telling you again, here they are, they have this road everywhere ..., then the road there, everyone went to the ridge, we went there for mushrooms, we often made our way by car, the ridge was going like that.
NAVIG: The Urals?
VK: The Urals range.
NAVIG: It's called Poyasovoy kamen (means Waistband stone - ed. note)
VK: We went there, and often I, you know, spent the weekend in the woods. I was getting to Polunochnoe, not as far as Taloe, there was the military checkpoint here.
NAVIG: So there were military there?
VK: No. Given that there is a colony here, you see, from the military unit 6602, in my opinion, here it was, the checkpoint here. Then you know what, well, for security reasons, to catch convicts. Little did they make a check in the morning, and he ran away in the afternoon. During this time you could leave by car, and then the cars were checked here. And this checkpoint checked everyone. And here from this checkpoint was the road, there, up. I walked mostly along this road, mountains were already beginning here, I gathered cranberries here on these mountains, at the foothills.
VERDEN: And here was no checkpoint of some kind? There was not any checkpoint on this stretch from the Second North?
VK: Well, here, I'm telling you ...
VERDEN: Here you drew Polunochnoe ...
VK: No, it's not Polunochnoe, for Taloe, it's for Taloe, there can be kilometers, well, from Taloe 6 or 7 kilometers there was a checkpoint.
VERDEN: So there's a checkpoint between Taloe and Polunochnoe here, right?
VK: Yes-yes-yes.
VERDEN: And here?
VK: And then Taloe, that's why here Taloe is called, there Taloe river flowed. It goes down that way. Maninskoe lake there. Maninskoe lake was big. And this river took from there from the upper reaches and flowed there.
NAVIG: What about the cores, we forgot the cores ...
VK: A, the cores. You know, they had certain places. Let's say that they are drilling, there is a truck, say, on the road here, and the drilling machine is standing here somewhere. And these are all these, these are those that are extracted from the pipes, they are picked up afterwards, and then they are put here in boxes. In such boxes, let's say, stand here, just like this. These are all the samples from the pipes. Here. They lay here. And then they are taken to certain places, and then they are taken from there, these are the cores that are taken away somewhere.
TUAPSE: And what's the point of bringing them somewhere?
VERDEN: Soil?
VK: No soil, stones. There and pyrite and all possible minerals. Everything is there. To study, that's here.
VERDEN: So a core is a drill that drills this stone and takes a sample?
VK: Well, you know, this drilling technology must be known. Drilling machine, this is such, maybe 200 meters deep pipes, and the soil at a depth of 200 meters to take a sample. And then they take the whole thing upwards, put it in boxes in certain places, along the road they have warehouses for them. And then they take ...
TUAPSE: Does the box consist of several compartments?
VK: Well, different, there even the date is written, when, what, depth. There, in order to analyze these samples, you need to know where this well is located. It's getting cold, we had a settlement there, there was a geological prospecting expedition, people lived there. And there was a laboratory, I had acquaintances from this laboratory.
VERDEN: Was there a laboratory in the village of Northern?
VK: Not on the North, Second Ivdel, no ..., yes, Second Ivdel, Second Ivdel village.
VERDEN: There was such a settlement there, Ivdel-2? Or was it called Second Ivdel?
VK: Second Ivdel. The first Ivdel, this is when we come to the city, and then if you go 5 kilometers, the is Second North, there is a settlement, a settlement of geologists.
VERDEN: And these core samples they were made in certain places? Or just someone collected them on the road? Was there a truck that picked them up?
VK: They have their own system there, they know where to lay, what, where ... Well, let's say, the drill station is here, they have repository nearby, they cover with felt to prevent moisture from entering there, and there are the boxes ... and in these boxes, there are a lot of them there, probably about 100 pieces out there of these core samples.
NAVIG: Well, they can take them in the winter, right?
VK: In the winter they sometimes lie there in the summer ...
NAVIG: Could that be on the ridge?
VERDEN: How often did they get there?
VK: I went for mushrooms, sometimes I see, I look at this warehouse.
NAVIG: Near the ridge can there be such sample cores?
VK: No, near the ridge ..., and maybe they were.
TUAPSE: How are they going to drive there?
NAVIG: Why drive, they're on foot. They were dropped by a helicopter.
VK: The roads are going around, these are the roads.
TUAPSE: And drilling?
NAVIG: So in the summer they drill, and in the winter he went to take pictures.
VK: Listen, here's what I drew for you, here along this road, here is the Second Northern, in the same place once the establishment of the N-240 chopped down the forest, there are solid roads, the road goes up to the ridge. And the roads are so good that you can go there and geologists get there, drilling works are carried out. Then these stumps, which were harvested by loggers, after 3-4 years or 5 years later, they are hoisted and taken to the city, then unloaded, in my opinion, very good varnishes are made of them and a lot of materials are made. Osmol was called, osmol took care of their own. So there were roads everywhere, there in this area. I heard that there, somewhere in Burmantovo or nearby, that there to the ridge, there seems to be some military unit, a small one.
NAVIG: About Chistop, there is a word going around that there was some kind of radar station or something like that.
VK: Yes-yes-yes, there was.
NAVIG: In the year 59, in my opinion, it was not there.
TUAPSE: At what time was this small unit there?
NAVIG: Was it in 59?
VK: Look, Burmantovo, then we went even further along the road to one mountain, there were another 10-15 kilometers, there was a mountainous area, at the foothills already, and there was such a road, I was thinking, who is this for, such a beautiful road, very well paved. Such a big road, it must have be going somewhere, probably.
NAVIG: What year was this?
VK: Well, that's already, you know, much later.
NAVIG: And this is another question, when the civilians arrived in Ivdel, this was the area of Ivdellag, did they have to registered mandatory? For example, hikers? Or in general, so if I came there, I had to register, right? For the local it is not necessary, but for an outsider?
VK: In the city there is such a situation that hikers who come are obliged to register.
NAVIG: What kind of organization was that, what kind of unit, KGB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs or prison security?
VK: You know, this is just how it was.
NAVIG: No, but what's there a checkpoint where to register?
VERDEN: In the cityhall, in some kind of administration?
VK: Well, that was a problem of the city.
NAVIG: In the city, right?
VK: In the city, yes. Previously, there was a Part committee. And there even was a representative of the KGB.
NAVIG: And when one leaves, he too must check his registration on the way out, right?
VK: Well, about this registration ...
NAVIG: Yudin says they did not register.
VK: They did not register.
NAVIG: Because otherwise he had to withdraw from the registration when he went back.
VK: I even heard that when there was party committee in the city, it seemed like it was forbidden to visit these places in this region.
NAVIG: Yes, exactly.

Recording stopped.

P.I. Solter reads Chernobrov publication in the background.

PI: I'm Pelageya Ivanovna, but he calls me Maria.
TUAPSE: Here you said about Buyanov that he was very interested, but who else was interested in this whole case?
VK: What now?
NAVIG: Who else was interested in what you have to say?
VK: Oh, well, Yudin wrote a letter to me first. Well, the first one I answer it. I just did not want to deal with all this scribbling, I was even pissed that I, what source am I? I am in the deep and do not know these events. What I heard as rumors, I wrote to him. So, he must find, that's the way, whether he has friends, comrades, who are better acquainted with whole thing.
TUAPSE: And Yudin was interested?
NAVIG: Yudin was there.
VK: I also, you know, I was somewhat connected with Sverdlovsk, I worked as a senior inspector of the state forest inspection of Sovivdelles (Soviet Ivdel Forrest - ed. note), lived in Ivdel, in the Northern Urals. But often I came to Sverdlovsk, I had a certificate from the Regional Party Committee. So, we went to inspect large enterprises, consumers, even large factories, metallurgical plants in Magnitogorsk, Sverdlovsk, everywhere Lespromhozes (Forrest Management Sectors - ed. note), docks were checked. But we had a certificate, besides our tasks, let's say, a reminder that we should reflect in the acts of inspections, the Regional Committee of People's Control gave us these tasks. We had to report 12 checkpoints. So I…
NAVIG: Strauh says that there was the Sosvinsky Reserve, there was a training ground. It's higher up there ...
VK: Maybe there was. What was it called again?
NAVIG: Sosvinsky Reserve, this is on the border with the Tyumen region, in my opinion.
VK: I'm convinced that ...
NAVIG: And if there was a test range, then missiles flew there.
VK: I'm convinced that this is some kind of technogenic, let's say, accident.
NAVIG: There are no traces of explosion. There is no explosion, there are no pits.
VK: The explosion maybe not so evident, the explosion can be air above the ground.
NAVIG: Then their limbs would be broken, they would be thrown back, hit, arms and legs would break. Bodies would be scattered around.
VK: How do you know what happened, and how the bodies were found? Don't you think there could be some staging? Do you know where and how were they killed?
NAVIG: This one had his skull caved in - clearly from a blow with a butt. The bone here was pressed into the skull to a depth of 2 cm, this force must be huge.
VK: This is a terrible secret. I can not even imagine. I have heard what beautiful people they were. Women see here, in my opinion, one of them Dubinina, she - an only daughter of her parents. Father, they say, was so solid. And Dyatlov himself, you see.
TUAPSE: Do you know anything about their past? Maybe something you heard somewhere?
VK: Absolutely nothing, these are students. How can we know?
TUAPSE: Well, you never know, rumors?
VK: No, no, there's something doubtful in what they say about Zolotaryov.
NAVIG: Well, no one knows who he is, and where is he from. But there are rumors. He went allegedly to get a master of sports.
VK: Listen, I imagine that there were twigs on the ground, you see, if it is a brushwood, it will be dry. You could, you know, start a fire, and not climb, but there were fragments of branches of the tree. Birches are cut, small birches. There grев birch, aspen. And they like, they tried to cut this with a knife. Why didn't they see around, you know, that there was brushwood laying around them.
NAVIG: Тhey cut branches to make the flooring. There was a stream there, a ravine, they made a den there. They found the rest in May.
VK: A, flooring, well, maybe flooring ...
NAVIG: From cut branches ...
VK: From the spruce here with this from the conifer?
NAVIG: Yes. The tops were severed. Yudin shows photos, and there are severed. And who cut them down is not clear.
VK: And what did they cut them down with?
NAVIG: With an ax, of course, what else. So there were outsiders. Some kind of strangers.
VK: Listen, aren't there ranks that do just that - clean and tie up loose ends. If there was something, they could just clean everything up and hide it somewhere in general. Not leave a trace knowing that they will be an extensive search and so on. This is unreasonable.
NAVIG: Maybe be they were in a hurry?
VERDEN: Maybe it wasn't on that level at all.
VK: Why hurry?
NAVIG: Why hurry? So searches have already begun on February, 12th. They had to come back by the 12th. If they don't show by the 12th, a civil search will begin. And they were discovered much later. When their accident occurred or whatever it was.
VERDEN: Pelageya Ivanovna, why did you say here that the corpses were not nine, but eleven? Is it true?
PI: Of course it's true, if I wrote it.
VERDEN: Why not nine but eleven, don't you remember you said that? Why were there eleven corpses?
NAVIG: So, what's written there, that's it?
PI: Well, I only wrote the truth.
TUAPSE: And why eleven?
VK: Before I write something, it was necessary to give me a note. It must have been writen somewhere.
VERDEN: Do you think there could be eleven corpses?
VK: How could there be eleven, Yudin's alive, well, listen, will he let his comrades down?
NAVIG: Well, maybe there were outsiders.
VERDEN: There could be outsiders.
NAVIG: They could have been killed there, too. If counterintelligence was involved, then anything is possible.
VK: But if they went up there on skis, you understand the whole thing, clothes, there was some kind of unidentified clothing there, Yudin, but maybe he couldn't recognize it.
NAVIG: There broken skis, there were pieces of film. They did not take the film.
VK: No, are you sure they didn't take the film?
NAVIG: The film, and there were pieces of film.
VK: When they were preparing a place for the tent in the snow, they photographed the first frame.
NAVIG: The films were in the cameras, and that was in the snow, it was found later. It's in the protocol.
VK: I heard there was a circle metal part there.
NAVIG: That's much later. From the S-200, the rocket. That could have fallen afterwards.
VERDEN: Pelageya Ivanovna, why did you say after all that there were eleven corpses?
VK: No, maybe she forgot.
VERDEN: But there is even a clarification there that the corpses were not nine, but eleven.
TUAPSE: And that it's written in some kind of article.
VK: Who, where is it written?
VERDEN: Well, that's what Chernobrov wrote.
VK: She (Pelageya Ivanovna - ed. note), you know, she was already coming to Leningrad. I came earlier, and there was a member of the Komsomol and journalist on the train. They started talking, sat into the same compartment, and she (Pelageya Ivanovna - ed. note) told them that they were eleven. Maybe her memory was already going astray. That's the problem.
VERDEN: And what year was it?
VK: It was probably already in 1999 or 2000. I arrived, in my opinion, in 1998, and she remained there for a while. And there she said to them something in the compartment which I don't know whether it's true or not.
VERDEN: And do you know someone in Ivdel, who in those days, could have anything to do with this matter? Transportation of corpses. Maybe you remember someone who lives in Ivdel. A truck driver, some orderlies?
VK: Well, at that time, why did I need to know about this? Now question are raised, who, whom, what. To find a catch. At that time, we absolutely went on with our lifes and an event like this, something happened, then everything died down. Years have passed.
VERDEN: Well, you know the whole system, who could be responsible for the removal and transportation of corpses, for example. Well, you had some kind of transport there, the head of the transport department.
VK: Well, to take out corpses from the scene, must be by helicopters. Helicopters were always ordered by the Institution. There was an enterprise, an Ivdel airline, there were always requested. I was even flying on a helicopter, I flew by helicopter to do my job.
TUAPSE: Was it a civilian enterprise or a military one, where helicopters were requested?
VK: No, these are civil aviation enterprises, well, the airport.
TUAPSE: And what about civil helicopters?
VK: Yes, civilian helicopters. And the Institution sometimes rented them. If it was necessary to transfer cargo or something, somewhere. Geologists often rented them...
TUAPSE: Did the institution have its own helicopters, its aviation?
VK: No, they didn't.
VERDEN: And what did they have, any kind of transport? Were there cars?
VK: Sure. There were a lot of cars.
VERDEN: If they were sent by train, as in one version, they (corpses) should have been driven by a car.
VK: We had motorbikes, and boats on Lozva river. If somebody escaped, there were boats on the river. There was the motor depot, and they had their own vehicles. This was an large enterprise, the N-240/2.
NAVIG: You have to write here your name Pelageya Ivanovna and sign.
VERDEN: Is this Pelageya Ivanovna?
VK: Yes, that she is.
VERDEN: And where is she? In Ivdel? What year is that?
VK: One minute, let me bring the photo album.
NAVIG: And here's a gynecologist, what was her name? You were there. She was with Sharonin.
PI: A woman who worked in a free hospital, Taranova Anna Petrovna.
NAVIG: Was she also at the washout?
TUAPSE: We are talking about the free free clinic.
NAVIG: Well, she (Pelageya Ivanovna - ed. note) was there with her and Prudkov. Here is a letter, where she (Pelageya Ivanovna - ed. note) wrote about it.
PI: She (Taranova Anna Petrovna - ed. note) worked in the free clinic.
NAVIG: Was she ... was she present with Prudkov.
PI: We worked in the zone, and she worked in a free clinic. In the zone only men were allowed, not women. So Anna Petrovna did not work with us in the zone, but in a free clinic. But she knows everything, I don't know if she's alive or not.
NAVIG: She didn't work, but she was present at the morgue.
VERDEN: And why was she in the morgue?
NAVIG: So the morgue was not in the zone.
TUAPSE: I still don't understand this division to the end.
VERDEN: I don't understand either.
NAVIG: No, why, it's for a citizen anyway, but here there were convicts already.
TUAPSE: Here is for prisoners, here is for civilians, here is partially for civilians.
NAVIG: No, there were prisoners here. How can you enter here, if there are prisoners.
VERDEN: Why did you need a gynecologist?
VK: Convicts were treated separately, but it's possible with civilians.
PI: They called out how the commission was.
VERDEN: Oh, just like the members of the commission some, huh?
PI: Yes, yes. And this is me, this is my office, I was dealing with the systems.
VK: This is the surgical department at a different times.
TUAPSE: Ivdel?
VK: Well, of course, she worked here, Mary Ivanovna. These are all the doctors here.
TUAPSE: And who's this in the middle?
VK: That's Prudkov. And all the medics.
PI: That's Prudkov, that's the Head nurse. And this is Tsel Davydovna, a doctor.
VERDEN: Do you know if any of these doctors still live in Ivdel?
VK: Yes, take the photos with you.
NAVIG: Are you sure?
VK: Yes, of course.
NAVIG: Great!
PI: And this is Tsaskin Aleksander Evgenievich. He was a gynecologist.
VK: This is Savenkov, the Director if the hospital.
VERDEN: This was a free hospital, right?
VK: Yes, free. This is the wife of the Head of the department of the Institution, she was the wife of this one here ...
PI: Ivanova.
VK: Ivanova Valentina Ivanovich.
PI: She was a doctor. And this is Tsaskin Aleksander Evgenievich.

Forest Management Central Polyclinic: 1. Sara Mihaylovna Agisheva; 2. Yosif Davydovich Prudkov - surgeon; 3. Evgeniy Ivanovich Tzaskin; 4. Savenkov - Head of Ivdel hospital; 5. Anna Petrovna Taranova; 6. Ekaterina Vasilievna Evstigneeva - pediatrician; 7. Tsel Davydovna Schmidt - doctor; 8. Filatova - doctor

VK: These are already doctors in the zone here. Here is Sharonin ...
NAVIG: Who, the one with the glasses?
VK: Yes.
NAVIG: Sharonin.
VK: Here, Mary Ivanovna, you see, she is looking sideways.
NAVIG: Where? That's her?
VK: Yes.
VERDEN: But this is the zone, it's the hospital in the zone, right?
VK: This is a hospital in the zone, but here she is, Mary Ivanovna.
VERDEN: Tell me, do you know if any of these people are alive? Could they know something, for example?
VK: Well, this one is probably alive. Nurses are probably alive. Here is Pronovozova, she's still alive.
VERDEN: Yes? What's her name?
VK: Pronozova. Here she is, she is a Head nurse, a war veteran.

1. Yosif Davydovich Prudkov - surgeon; 2. Aleksandra Ivanovna Pronozova - head nurse, war veteran; 3. Evgeniy Ivanovich Tzaskin; 4. Anna Petrovna Taranova

NAVIG: In Ivdel?
VK: Yes, she lives in Ivdel, still alive.
VERDEN: What's her name?
VK: She was a Head nurse in the zone.
PI: Aleksandra Ivanovna.
VERDEN: What's her name?
PI: Aleksandra Ivanovna Pronozova.
VK: She was in the free clinic at the time.
NAVIG: Do you have a phone or an address for her?
VK: No.
VERDEN: And she had something to do with this story? Well, she could have, right?
VK: Well, maybe she knows something. She's an old worker.
PI: She's from Ivdel, she would know.
VK: She worked as a civilian, she worked in the free clinic, and then she moved there. Because the pay was better.
VERDEN: She's even born in Ivdel, right?
VK: Yes, from Ivdel. A lot of them lived there.
VERDEN: And can there be anybody else? Or maybe someone else is alive, people in all are not so old in the photo.
VK: Well, this is Dr. Schmidt, this is Tsel Davydovna, she's gone now. Here it is Anya Molostova, she was our neighbor.
VERDEN: And Sharonin is dead, right?
PI: Yes. Long dead.
VK: Here I can clearly see Pronozova.
PI: Well Pronozova is still alive. She lives in the small town there.
VERDEN: In town? She lives in the town.
VK: This is what you should do.
VERDEN: We'll try.
NAVIG: We did not know, now we know.
PI: This is Elvira Andreevna, still alive, and her daughter Lisa.
VERDEN: What's her name?
VK: She is also alive, Elvira.
VERDEN: Does Elvira Andreevna have a surname?
VK: Now, one minute. Simon, in my opinion.
VERDEN: Simon?
PI: Simon? No no. What was her name ...
VK: Elvira Andreevna even wrote letters to us, there are somewhere here.
VERDEN: Maybe you have some envelope with an address? Maybe we should contact her, too?
VK: I 'll look for envelopes. Well, you see, here ...
PI: There are probably still alive too ...
PI: This is Borsch Lisa.
NAVIG: Mary Ivanovna, I mean Pelageya Ivanovna.
VERDEN: And what's her name, Borsch?
PI: Borsch Elvira.
VERDEN: How is it spelled?
PI: Lisa Borsch.
VERDEN: Is this a zone hospital?
PI: Yes. And this is Valentina, I forgot how ... She lived beyond the river.
PI: This is our hosting nurse. Her name was German, I think.
VERDEN: By the way, did the hosting nurse have anything to do with this matter?
VK: Well, probably, they are alive. I dont know. Here is Taranova Anna Petrovna. She lives in Sverdlovsk, she just recently moved. She is alive, we even have her phone number.
NAVIG: Yes, can we have it.
VK: Gynecologist.
VK: There she was, she was a young doctor.
VERDEN: This one?
VK: Yes.
PI: Doctor-gynecologist.
VERDEN: Was she present at the autopsy? Good…
NAVIG: Not at the autopsy, but at the wash.
VERDEN: And in general, in St. Petersburg, no one has moved from your friends? Is there no one else here?
VK: You know, well there was Sichkar who worked somewhere in some neurological center or in some place Sichkar, a doctor. He spent 3 years in Ivdel, and after the Institute came here, he lives here.
VERDEN: Did he have anything to do with the Dyatlov case?
VK: How should I know, I don't know.
NAVIG: We are only interested in this aspect.
VK: Well, doctor, Taranova, now I'll look, let me get up. Photos of the dead, washed them there, stored? She (Pelageya Ivanovna - ed. note) only has an opinion, there is noway she could know, and I heard that they were put in the coffins immediately. But it turns out, they, you see, did the autopsy there. And if they did, then must be in the zone, because ...
VERDEN: You know, the rumor could have appeared by mistake. That is, there is a certain level of personnel who knows that the corpses will be sent to Sverdlovsk. And that's all that matters for them, because their work is done. Then comes the second round, which knows that the corpses will not be sent right away, something like that.
VK: And they could have done an autopsy in the surgical department of the zone.
VERDEN: Of course, they could have come from the small town here in the zone and perform an autopsy. And people thought that they were taken to Sverdlovsk.
PI: They had everything handy, everybody knew.
VK: So an ambulance, not one, but it was ambulance, loaded the corpses, drove to the zone, and did it right there.
VERDEN: Well yes, an ambulance could have shuttled between the small town and the zone.
VK: No, not there, but next to the zone.
NAVIG: No, wait, the fact is that Pelageya Ivanovna says that they changed their clothes into new clothes. So did they take off their clothes for examination again? She (Pelageya Ivanovna - ed. note) can not confirm this, because she has forgotten it already.
TUAPSE: And what rumors, what kind of talk was there in the city after this accident?
VERDEN: Yes, what did people say, what were the rumors?
VK: First in the city, you know what, there were rumors that they were dead, here and there...
VERDEN: And from what?
VK: Well, they were saying that an autopsy will be performed to determine in what condition they would be. They said that Mansi must have attacked them. Because the tent was cut, you know.
VERDEN: Were there any reasons for the population to think that the Mansi did it? Did Mansi generally had a habit of attacking civilians? Were there similar cases?
VK: No, Mansi, in my opinion, are unlikely to attack.
VERDEN: So you've never heard?
VK: Although they say that there they had a sacred mountain, where is not allowed ...
VERDEN: And there were no cases of attacks on geologists, there, or someone else?
VK: No, there were not.
NAVIG: Let's continue with the rumors.
VK: Ok. 300 kilometers from Ivdel there is a Mansi village. There, not far from the village, the administration of the Ivdel district built them a new settlement, so this nationality, doesn't perish completely. To help them sustain.
VERDEN: Hence the rumors. Besides the Mansi, what other rumors did you hear?
VK: Well, these rumors, they are such a benevolent people, if you visit them, you know, they give you what they have, help you what they can.
NAVIG: And rumors about the Dyatlov group?
VK: Well, nobody mentioned back then a landslide or some kind of shaft, there was no hurricane. Everybody said that must be rockets.
VERDEN: Why did people think that they were rockets? Why didn't they think that was an avalanche?
VK: Because an avalanche, who knows these mountains, especially, well, I understand the hurricane, such a hurricane can exist. Well, there are hurricanes that can raise a tractor, and throw it ...
VK: It so happened that, I think I even heard that there was an atomic bomb near the mountains, they even tested it.
VERDEN: So, there were such rumors at the time?
VK: Yes, there were such rumors that even the radiation increased in Ivdel. Yes, and no one has published any information about this in the newspaper. The background could be published to people. Although this was all hidden. Radiation background.
NAVIG: Now, I would like to, Pelageya Ivanovna ... All the same, you dressed them in clothes?
PI: Well, I was dressing them, I had some help.
TUAPSE: And who helped?
VERDEN: And how did you dress them? They were corpses, how did you dress them? You cut the suit on theback, how do you dress a corpse?
PI: First on the head, hands, and then pull them down, pants.
TUAPSE: And who helped you?
VK: Yes, there could and should be nurses.
VERDEN: Who helped?
VK: Who, some authorized people, could have been?
PI: Orderlies maybe, I have forgotten already.
VERDEN: You couldn't have been dressing them yourself? It's probably hard to put something on a corpse.
VK: Well, of course, you can imagine.
NAVIG: If they were dressed, then why do this?
VERDEN: This doesn't make any sense at all.

End of recording.

Victor Konstantinovich and Pelageya Ivanovna Solter at the time of the interview in Saint Petersburg July 5, 2008

Text in Russian

The text is based on a video of the conversation.

Copyright for sound recording and this text have: Center for Civil Investigation of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy and Tuapse.

The text is recorded and edited by Verden, NAVIG and Tuapse.

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Ivdellag breaks in 1959

DYATLOV PASS·CZWARTEK, 17 WRZEŚNIA 2020·

 

 

The cooperation with the prosecutor's office, which began in September last year, made us look somewhat differently at the materials of the criminal case on the death of a group of hikers led by Igor Dyatlov in the Urals in the winter of 1959.

We decided to try not to focus our opinion on riddles, but to try to find a simple and logical explanation for them.

The writer Oleg Arhipov found and studied the archives of the investigator Korotaev, and one document attracted particularly close attention.

We are talking about the note of the Prosecutor Tempalov.

Tempalov's memo addressed to Korotaev and dated 15.II.59

Instructions in this memo are not only to attend the trial in the case of Adam Reeb (and it was this fact that helped us figure out the true date of writing the note), but also a request to interrogate the head of the lag department Hakimov.

"In addition, on the instructions of the regional prosecutor to interrogate the chief of the logging branch of Vizhay Hakimovwhether the leader of the hikers group (who died) said that they will return to Vizhay not on 12.II. 59 but 15.II.59."

An examination carried out by the prosecutor's office established that this particular issue was the most important for Tempalov at the time of writing the note, and he continued to think about February and the deceased group, reflexively putting down the same dates further.

And if this issue was so important for the prosecutor, it means that it deserves our close attention.

Moreover, now many researchers of the mystery pose a legitimate question: "If there was an order to interrogate Hakimov, then why is there no protocol of his interrogation in the materials of the Criminal case?"

Hakimov Zakiy Gasimovich, born in 1923, participant in the Second World War, member of the CPSU, was a career soldier and was the head of the 8th camp department located in the village of Vizhay.

It was from Vizhay that the Dyatlov group went on their last trek and had to return there, notifying the Sports club with a telegram about the end of the expedition.

It is quite natural that when the group did not return at the appointed time, the first thing they did was call Vizhay.

What if you forgot to send a telegram or the mail was closed?

Gordo's testimony:
"Blinov, a member of the hiking section bureau, told me that the Dyatlov group would return to Vizhay on about February 14-15, 1959, allegedly Yudin, who was also part of Dyatlov's group, had said so, when he returned due to illness on the way.

Therefore, the Sports club started looking into the reason for the non-return of the hikers from the Dyatlov group only after February 15, 1959...

Searchers were not sent on February 16 this year because we got through to Vizhay only on the night of February 17...

On February 18 he called Vizhay again.

I was told that a group of the local population was getting ready, and that they saw a group of hikers."

Lev Semyonovich Gordo, the chairman of the UPI sports club, seems to be justifying himself before the investigation why the search was not started on February 16.

He makes it clear that Vizhay has taken the lead.

Gordo does not name Hakimov, but can such issues be resolved without the participation of the head of the log department, who controls the settlement?

However, calls to Vizhay did not bring the expected result and Lev Semyonovich, together with Yuri Blinov, a friend of Igor Dyatlov, fly to location on the morning of February 20.

Oddly enough, but it was precisely on the phrase "on the morning of February 20 of this year that Blinov and I flew to Ivdel." where the interrogation of Lev Semyonovich was interrupted.

Yuri Blinov was not interrogated at all.

The next to arrive in Vizhay on February 22 is a group of students led by Boris Slobtsov.

In the memoirs of Boris Slobtsov there is a story about the capture of fugitive prisoners, which gave rise to a number of versions associated with gulag convicts, aka zeks.

But there really was an escape!

In the State Archives, they managed to find a book of escape registration for 1959, from which it follows that on February 19, a group of three prisoners escaped immediately after Gordo called Vizhay.

They will only be caught on February 21, when Gordo and Blinov were already there.

Does thsi have something to do with why the investigation doesn't ask them what exactly happened on the spot at that period?

There should have been a large-scale search not for the Dyatlov group, but escaped convicts.

After all, this is exactly what is included in the direct responsibilities of the colony leadership.

And you can be sure that in accordance with the instructions, having notified Moscow about the group escape that took place, they deployed the search headquarters, informed the secretary of the Party Committee of the Party, police, transport police, interviewed the local population, geologists, flew around the territory, looked for and analyzed all tracks.

And, for sure, they were happy when the search was successfully completed on February 21.

Prosecutor Tempalov's interrogation protocol:
"On February 21, 1959 I learned from the Secretary of the Ivdel CC CPSU comrade Prodanov that a group of nine hikers did not return to the Polytechnic Institute from a trip to Sverdlovsk."

On February 21, the final meeting of the headquarters of the search for the escaped convicts was supposed to take place and it was at this moment that the Prosecutor Tempalov first learned about the disappearance of the Dyatlov group.

On February 23, the Slobtsov group is flown to Otorten.

Who decides that a group of students should be dropped off there?

After all, both Evgeniy Maslennikov and Colonel Ortyukov, who led the subsequent searches, are still in Sverdlovsk, and there is just a discussion about how to conduct the search operation.

On February 21, Maslennikov still thinks "that one of the participants could have injured his leg, and the group had to help the hiker, which is slowing their movement.

Or that one of the hikers fell ill with the flu and the whole group was sitting in a secluded place."

On February 23, a meeting at the UPI is just gathering and there is "a discussion about the details of the preparation of the group, about the route, about what, in my opinion, could have happened with the group and about my considerations for organizing the search."

Maslennikov compares the search area with the territory of Belgium and suggests sending several groups along the entire Dyatlov route, and the Slobtsov group is already just a few kilometers from the site of the tragedy.

But the Slobtsov group was the only group of students with whom two more local people went in search: the head of the fire department of the same log camp, an experienced hunter Aleksey Cheglakov and a forester of Vizhay Ivan Vasilyevich Pashin.

Cheglakov's testimony:
"on the orders of the Chief of the logging branch Hakimov, together with the forester Ivan Pashin I flew by helicopter to the site of the death of a group of hikers near Mount Otorten."

Much later, Mihail Sharavin, who happened to find a tent on the slope, analyzing the events of those days, came to the conclusion that the forester Pashin sent them to the tent, and he himself remained to wait aside.

And this feeling is confirmed in the materials of the criminal case.

All students are sure that the tent was found on the 4th day of the search, February 26, but Pashin and Cheglakov assure that they found the tent earlier, on the second day of the search.

Cheglakov's testimony:
"On the second day we found the tent of the hikers which was located in the upper reaches of rivers Auspiya and Lozva at the height of the mountain Verhuspiya.

It was badly drifted by snow. We did not go inside."

Pashin's testimony:
"On the first day of the search, once descended into the Auspiya we found ski tracks from the hikers.

Here we pitched a tent, spend the night, divided into three groups and went to look for the hikers, as a result of the search we found a tent with belongings that was not clearly seen since it was covered with snow, we did not go into the tent.

The tent was found in the upper sources of Auspiya and Lozva at the height of the mountain Verhuspiya."

One can suspect that they were "lost" in the days of searching.

But in order to dispel these doubts, both emphasize that if the tent was discovered on the second day (at Pashin's - after the first overnight stay), then the first bodies were discovered on the fifth day of the search.

"On the fifth day of our search we found 4 bodies covered with snow and on this day we were taken back home with helicopter to the village of Vizhay." (Pashin)

Cheglakov and Pashin assure that "they did go inside" the tent. But should they have tried to look into it?

After all, the entrance withstood.

This is not very convenient to do, especially when it is dark in the tent, but you can always try to shine a flashlight?

And turn it off after that, because during the day it is not needed outside, and then accidentally forget it on the top.

And then there will be snow under it, and above it there will be a little snow, which was swept in several days, until the students "found" the tent.

The flashlight will work, since it has not been in the cold for a month, but only for a few days and the batteries would not have time to discharge.

Tempalov does not mention the flashlight in the protocol on the discovery of the campsite, although he was obliged.

Maybe because Cheglakov and Pashin confessed to him that it was their flashlight?

Maybe this explains the fact that Tempalov does not show much interest in inspecting the tent, knowing that since the tragedy many have already visited and examined it, which means the scene has been contaminated?

Ivdel is a small town, whose life is closely connected with the life of the gulag, and the escape of the prisoners was an important and unpleasant event.

What if we assume that during the break, the convicts stumbled upon the scene of the tragedy and, fearing that the deaths of people could be associated with them, chose to surrender?

Boris Slobtsov says that the escapees surrendered themselves.

And then the local leadership, knowing the approximate area of ​​the tragedy, directed their people to assess the situation and try to keep the situation under control.

But all this happens in February, and the need to interrogate Hakimov arises in April, two months later.

The memo states the purpose of the interrogation:

"whether the leader of the hikers group (who died) said that they will return to Vizhay not on 12.II. 59 but 15.II.59."

This means that the investigation is concerned not so much with the organization of the searches but when it started.

On April 14, a few days before the memo was written, the parents of the deceased hikers sharply speak out against the institute and sports organizations.

Rustem Slobodin's father:
"Knowing that Dyatlov’s group had to return on February 13th, after this period I called the sports club at UPI...

The search for the group began 18 days after the disaster, and the place of death was found only 26 days after the accident that caused the death.

Obviously, with such a time frame and pace of carrying out measures to find the group, it was impossible to count on the provision of assistance and the rescue of any of its participants."

Aleksander Kolevatov's sister:
"I then called the city sports club comrade Ufimtsev.

He assured me that there is nothing to worry about, that the group is delayed for a week and they are on their way back.

A certain fact is indignant and criminal: Gordo informed UPI party committee that a telegram had been received from Vizhay on February 18 reporting a delay of the group."

Lyuda Dubinina's father:
"These soulless and heartless leaders didn't express any concern for the fate of the group 8 days after the planned return date to Vizhay (12/II) and started looking for the group only after the intervention of the CPSU Regional Committee, namely 21/II."

In a telegram addressed to Khrushchev says the same:
"Search began late only after 10 days had passed"

The parents of the deceased are clearly trying to hold representatives of sports organizations accountable for such a late start of the search, and they are trying to justify themselves, referring to information received from Igor Dyatlov about the postponement of the return.

Gordo:
"it was allegedly said by Yudin who was a participant in Dyatlov group, but had to turn back due to illness."

On April 15 Yuri Yudin denied knowing about any changes in the return date of the trek.

"Question: When you parted with comrade Dyatlov, did he tell you that the return date will be moved from the February 2nd to February 15th of 1959?

Answer: No, there was no talk about the deadline being postponed to 15/II-59.

Who else could have Dyatlov discussed this with?

The head of the logging camp department Hakimov is one of the last people to see Dyatlov alive.

Immediately after Yuri Yudin's testimony Tempalov flies out to question Hakimov on the same issue.

What was Hakimov doing at the time when he had to start looking for the Dyatlov group?

How come the interrogation protocol is not in the case files?

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Zolotaryov's meltdown

Dyatlov Pass wtorek, 6 PAŻDZIERNIKA 2020

Author Aleksandr Surkov

All events and characters are fictional, any resemblance to real events and people is purely coincidental.

The tent partly cleared of the snow, 27 Feb 1959

This story turned out to be so confusing due to the fact that a so-called "legal impasse" happened in the case.

A general example for this is when there is no direct evidence, and a lot of circumstantial evidence leads to a person who has an alibi.

In this regard, this case cannot be officially closed, but it is possible to re-enact what happened, if you do not try to fit within a legal framework.

After analyzing the personalities of the hikers, one can understand that they are all smart and friendly, only two stand out among all - Igor and Semyon.

Igor was a unique person with a specific character.

As a student of the radio engineering faculty, studying in the 5th year, he was offered to stay at the department.

He was an inventor and successfully implemented his developments in hiking.

For the last two years, he was the chairman of the UPI tour section.

In addition to many positive qualities, he was excessively demanding, both to himself and to others, and since he possessed extraordinary abilities, he often demanded from people what, unlike him, was difficult for them to accomplish.

Because of this distinctive feature, Igor already had conflicts, so now only selected candidates who are able to fulfill all of his deliberately complicated requirements go on hikes with him.

Semyon is a key figure in this tragedy.

He has a difficult fate and a difficult character.

He has no family of his own, no friends or comrades.

He does not have good relationship with the management and constantly changes his place of work.

Krivonischenko camera film 1 frame 3

Semyon is a key figure in this tragedy. He has a difficult fate and a difficult character.

He has no family of his own, no friends or comrades.

He does not have good relationship with the management and constantly changes his place of work.

To understand what happened in his last trek, we need to analyze his biography.

Semyon is a Kuban Cossack.

At the age of 20, he was drafted into the army and after six months of training, in May 1942, he went to fight on the fronts from Stalingrad to Berlin.

During his service he did not receive a single wound and is awarded four military awards.

After the war, he tries to make a military career, but a year later falls under the all-Union mass demobilization.

After that, in August 1946, he entered the Minsk Institute of Physical Education, and in June 1950 he graduated and received the qualification of a teacher of physical education.

After graduating from the Minsk Institute, Semyon returns to his place in the North Caucasus and gets a job as a physical teacher at the Pyatigorsk Pedagogical Institute.

After working for only 4 months he receives a severe reprimand with a warning, and he leaves of his own accord.

His next job is as a physical teacher at the Pyatigorsk Pharmaceutical Institute, located in a nearby building.

There he will work for 3.5 years, receive two reprimands, one of them for rude and tactless treatment of students.

In 1954 he will be fired for absenteeism, and receives another negative characterization.

Semyon moved from Pyatigorsk to the neighboring town of Lermontov, where he worked for 4 years as a physical education instructor in a secondary school until December 1958.

Since 1951, Semyon, having completed course for instructor and at the same time as a physical teacher, he begins working during the holidays as an instructor in local tour centers.

In December 1953, Semyon receives the second category in tourism, with which he will go on a hike with Igor to receive the first category.

Since 1952, Semyon has been living in a civil marriage.

In February 1956, they had a son, and six months later, in August, the common-law wife leaves Semyon, taking the child with her.

Semyon, plunges into depression, decides to radically change his life.

Since he was not a sociable person but he had to work with people, in particular with children, it became a burden for him.

He decides to find a quiet work in a managerial position at one of the tour centers.

For a managerial position, he needs to have first category of tourism.

In addition Semyon plans to get the title of Master of Sports in Tourism, which is very honorable.

He wants to surprise everyone with his achievement.

Zolotaryov's trek book (fragment)

To become a Master of Sports, he needs to go on treks of each type of tourism: hiking, water, as well as winter skiing.

He has to go on treks in the first and second categories of difficulty for each type of tourism.

Next, he will need a winter ski trip of the third (highest) category of difficulty.

In the summer he could lead a trek of the highest category, complete the requirement for the title Master of Sports, and by autumn get a job at one of the tour centers in the North Caucasus, in a position up to a director.

At the beginning of 1957, Semyon fired up by this idea makes the easiest plan to achieve his goal.

For the next two years he will live this dream.

In the summer of 1957, Semyon goes hiking in the Caucasus.

At the beginning of 1958 he goes on a ski trek in the Carpathians, and in the summer he goes on a water trek in Altai.

There Semyon meets someone who has friends in the UPI tour section.

Semyon asks to help him get into a winter hike of the highest category.

That person promised to write to a friend and explain the situation, and agreed that as soon as he received an answer, he would forward the letter to Semyon.

In September 1958, Semyon returns from Altai to school in Lermontov and awaits the letter with information about a winter trek in UPI.

At the beginning of December, Semyon receives a letter in which he is informed about the planned trek at the end of January, and a recommendation to contact Sergey (Sogrin).

The school director refuses to give leave for a hike in the middle of the school year and Semyon, having caused another scandal, quits.

Semyon is looking for a job closer to Sverdlovsk and in mid-December gets a job as an instructor at the Kourovskaya tour base.

Before the New Year, having received permission to hike, he goes to his home in Lermontov for the New Year's holidays.

At home, suffering from loneliness, Semyon decides to tattoo himslef in memory of his only friends, the ones he had while fighting the war.

Now he has nothing to fear that with such tattoos he will not be hired to work with children, because he is no longer going to work as a teacher.

Zolotaryov's tattoos

After the New Year holidays, Semyon goes to Sverdlovsk, where he finds and meets Sergey, who takes him into his group, and even provides Semyon with accomodation at his apartment.

Semyon is preparing with Sergey and 3 days before the hike he finds out that Igor's group is leaving on the same day, and his trip is 10 days shorter.

Semyon turns to Igor with a request to join his group. Igor, having consulted with the group and relying on Semyon's professionalism, takes him to his group, having no moral right to refuse.

But Semyon does not suspect that Igor leads the toughest and most strenuous hikes in the UPI tour section.

Semyon's age and physical fitness are not able to withstand the demands of Igor, as he hikes not to get sports awards, but to test himself under the most difficult conditions.

If we take into account Igor's authoritarianism and Semyon's unruly nature, the conflict would only be a matter of time.

Chronology of events:

January 28

Krivonischenko camera film 6 frame 33

Yuri (Yudin), knowing firsthand what kind of stress Igor has, feeling the incipient pain, and fearing to disrupt Igor's trip (in case of a complication of the disease, due to the heaviness of the backpack and the cold), decides to turn back. His load (2-3 kg) is distributed among all the participants, making the already overloaded backpacks heavier.

On this day, two diary entries were made: Zina and Lyuda (in her diary, Lyuda's entry is cut off due to the fact that, having started writing her diary, she had to postpone it and fill out the group diary).

At 11.45 the group set out on the route, the temperature is -8°C (17°F), they ski along Lozva, each one breaking a trail for 10 minutes.

Zina in her diary twice complains about the weight of the backpack.

In the evening, they sing songs by the fire for a long time.

After that, they did not sleep for a long time and argued about something in the tent.

By the way, for all 10 days of the hike, Semyon is mentioned in the diaries only in the first two days.

For the remaining 8 days there is not a word about him.

It is also unknown whether he fulfilled the duties of an attendant or was released from it.

January 29

On this day, the first key event takes place, which disrupts the climate in the group and irrevocably spoils the attitude of all the guys towards Semyon.

Turning from Lozva to Auspiya, Igor begins to lead the group in the forest, following the trail of a hunter, as it is more challenging and interesting, instead of calmly walking along the river, following the trail of the Mansi sleigh.

Semyon, at one of the halts, already feeling tired, begins to advise Igor where it is better, and most importantly, easier to go.

Igor is very indignant at this and asks Semyon not to tell him where to go.

It was then that Semyon begins to understand that is dealing with someone that loves power.

A little later he will understand that he is also extreme.

It becomes clear that Igor will not cut him any slack.

Semyon has a personal dislike for Igor, and the guys, seeing Igor's toughness toward Semyon, start feeling anxiety.

This very moment was captured by Kolya at a halt:

Outraged by each other, Semyon and Igor, and between them sits Yuri, puzzled by this situation.

After this incident, Lyuda, who until that day had all the records sufficiently detailed, ceases to keep a diary altogether.

She realized that this trip, due to the presence of Semyon, was already been ruined, and she had no desire to record the negative development in her diary.

This situation strained everyone so much that on this day no one dared to fill out the group diary, because the incident would have had to be mentioned somehow and could have caused unnecessary problems.

From that day on, only Zina and Igor leave entries in the diaries.

Kolya will only make a formal entry in the general diary tomorrow evening, retroactively.

On that day, only Zina will leave an entry in her diary, but she will not want to mention it either.

Zina will write that Yurka has a birthday that day, that they turned from Lozva to Auspiya, and by the end of the day she, Rustik and Yuri went ahead, and that they were sitting and waiting for the others.

It seems that Semyon is already starting to slow down the group.

From that day on, the group no longer sings songs and does not conduct evening discussions.

The spirits are low and for the next two days there is not a single smile in the photographs.

Krivonischenko camera film 1 frames 21-22-19

January 30

Daytime temperature -13°C (8°F), in the evening -26°C (-15°F).

The day passes in the same mode as yesterday: the forest, the loss of the trail, access to the river for a light duty and again into the forest.

And the overnight stay will be, as Igor writes the day after "surprisingly good", which is not surprising, because after such loads everyone sleeps "like the dead".

Only Igor, having arranged the "course of a young soldier" for Semyon, due to his youth, does not understand that Semyon is 15 years older than them and at the age of 38 he is not to recuperate so easy overnight as at 23.

Semyon's fatigue and anger will only grow bigger.

Krivonischenko camera film 1 frame 20

January 31

The weather is getting worse every day, and this day is "worse than yesterday" again.

On this day, the second key event takes place. Igor, as it is typical for him, does not walk along the river, but gradually moving away from it, leads the group through the forest, along a steeper ascent, using a very controversial and exhausting "new method of progressive walking", in which a "non-stop way of laying the track" is invented.

They raise to the pass.

Seeing the slope of Kholat Syakhl, on which a blizzard is raging, and the wind "is similar to the air coming from an airplane engine" Igor realizes that this is an ideal place for a cold training night.

He tells the group about his decision.

How Semyon reacted to this can be seen in this photo:

Krivonischenko camera film 1 frame 28

Semyon understands that simple persuasion will not work on Igor and, already in a harsh form, is trying to pressure and dissuade Igor from this idea.

Semyon perhaps is offering to make the cold night in the foothill of the mountain, in the forest, in milder conditions.

Semyon can be understood, he was not ready for such training, but there is only one tent and the group can not split in two.

Igor did not want to deprive himself of such a training, especially since no one invited Semyon to this trek.

Semyon himself asked for it, and the demands for a softening of the regime from the candidate for Master of Sports cause bewilderment in Igor.

Moreover, Igor has a law in his treks: the actions of the leader are not discussed!

And Semyon has already violated it twice.

Igor refuses Semyon, explaining that the tent is one and there is no other choice, but Igor's patience is already at its limit.

It is not known whether Semyon knew before the hike that Igor was planning a cold overnight stay, but you need to understand that a cold overnight in a tent under such conditions is like torture.

This is a sleepless night, after which you will still need to ascent Otorten.

It is difficult to imagine how Semyon felt, given his general fatigue and the fact that he was born and lived in the warm Kuban climate.

Not finding a place for a storage near the pass, the group descends back to Auspiya.

After this conflict, even Zina finally lost her desire to keep her diary, although for the last two days she at least somehow tried to do it, not paying attention to the prevailing gloom in the group.

On this day, only Igor will make an entry in the diary, and it will also be the last entry: "Tired and exhausted we started the preparations for the night...

We are having dinner right in the tent. It's warm.

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

February 1

Igor prepares the group for a cold night.

Gives everyone a good rest and sleep.

While everyone is working on the storage, Georgiy writes the satirical combat leaflet "Evening Otorten" and hides it in his backpack to cheer everyone up in the evening in the cold tent.

3 PM – the group has lunch and leaves for Kholat Syakhl at 3.30 PM 5 PM – reach the camp site on the ridge.

6 PM – set up a tent and change, quickly putting on dry clothes so as not to lose precious warmth.

A cold overnight stay with a squall wind and temperatures below -30°C (-22°F) is a great danger to health, so Igor appoints a turn of duty for one hour.

Not everyone has a watch, so Georgiy's wrist watch is handed from one attendant to another.

Kolya is the first to be on duty, and he puts on Georgiy's second watch, which after the shift will have to be passed on to the next duty attendant.

In the tent, Semyon, feeling cold and angry, again begins to make claims to Igor and another conflict occurs, after which Igor's patience bursts and he decides to severely punish Semyon, knowing perfectly well how it will end for him.

Igor announces the early termination of the trek.

Semyon goes into a rage!

He understands that after his return, the consequences for him will be catastrophic.

Hiking activities will be closed for him forever.

He will be fired with a "wolf ticket".

All his life Semyon was haunted by failures, and another dream with which he lived for the last two years was shattered.

He has nothing more to lose, he decides to punish Igor and the guys who never accepted him.

"You wanted a cold night?

You will have a cold night!"

Here you need to understand that Semyon is a front-line soldier who is trained in the science of hand-to-hand combat, destruction of the enemy in the shortest possible time, using special techniques or edged weapons.

Judging by the awards and no wounds, Zolotaryov mastered this science perfectly.

6:15 PM – Semyon silently makes his way to the exit, opens the tent and grabs the ice ax that lies at the entrance.

Kolya is on duty, he is also located at the entrance and, seeing that Semyon grabbed the ice ax, tries to detain him, but receives a blow with his elbow in the temple and falls unconscious with a broken skull.

An example of a skull injury after an elbow blow to the head:

Elbow blow trauma

Semyon quickly jumps out of the tent, while hitting Yuri in the face, who also tried to detain him.

Semyon stands at the entrance and now anyone who dares to get out of the tent is guaranteed to get an ice ax in the head.

The guys were in shock.

Semyon, threatening to chop everyone with an ice ax, orders everyone to take off their jackets and felt boots, and leave the tent one by one.

Everything happens so quickly that the guys have no time to think it over, and the shock from Kolya lying unconscious makes them fulfill his demand.

Everyone takes off their jackets and felt boots, and begins to get out, some in socks, and some in slippers.

The last two, Igor and Rustem, he orders to get Kolya out.

Rustem grabs the checkered shirt and felt boots lying with Kolya, and Igor tries to take out his jacket, which Semyon notices and forces him to throw it away.

Already outside the tent, Semyon makes everyone take off their slippers and hats (Zina and Lyuda, standing behind the guys, take off and hide their hats) and orders them to go down, taking Kolya with them.

Kolya remains clothed, he is carried by six: two are holding his hands, two are holding his legs, and two are holding his jacket, so six pairs of tracks are in formation.

The seventh is walking alongside.

Photo of the footprints 1959

An approximate diagram of the guys carrying Kolya:

Semyon is alone.

Visibility no more than 30 meters (100 feet), temperature -30°C(-22°F), wind, blizzard.

He waits for the guys to disappear from sight and, after waiting a little longer, climbs into the tent and makes 2 short cuts (one at the entrance, the other in the middle of the tent) for observation.

Semyon, after thinking it over and realizing that the situation is developing in his favour, is going to make everything look like an accident.

He checks all the diaries for negative references to him, and cleans up Igor's diary, leaving only two entries in it: for January 24 and 30.

In the investigation this diary will be called "copy of Zina's diary".

Then he realizes that the visibility from the tent is very limited and he can be bypassed on the left.

He pulls off the northern stretch straps and lowers the north end of the tent.

Makes a long cut for observation and in the event of an attack he will able to leave the tent both through the entrance and through the cut.

He shortened the ski pole that held the north skate, making a circular incision, and uses it as a second pole for support of the lowered north skate.

The skis holding the middle of the tent on a rope, he sticks at the entrance.

Now it is impossible to approach him imperceptibly, and the already unnecessary short cut at the entrance, he plugs with Rustem's jacket.

He finds a flask of alcohol and occasionally takes a sip, snacking on a loin.

At some point, he urinated at the entrance to the tent, because now there is no need to go farther from the tent.

Meanwhile the guys go down the slope and at 7 PM stop at the cedar.

They were blown hard on the slope for 30-40 minutes while they were descending.

The guys understand that Semyon will not freeze on the slope all night, but he also cannot leave without being convinced of their death.

He will wait 2-3 hours, which will be enough for the frostbite to set, and he will definitely go down to them.

Since they have no chance in an open fight, they plan to set up an ambush.

After scouting the area, they find a windless place in a ravine with a frozen stream, 50 meters (164 feet) from the cedar perpendicular to the path from the tent, with good snow blows that can be used for an ambush.

Kolya is well fastened and taken to the stream.

A little higher, 6 meters (20 feet) away, having dug out holes for the ambush in the snowy bank, they begin to make a flooring from the tops of fir trees, which are cut at a distance of 30 meters (100 feet) from the stream to the cedar.

A trail of pine needles will follow from the cedar to the den.

From the tent, the path leads to the cedar, from the cedar the path leads to the stream.

Kolya lies up the stream.

He remained where he was laid while the flooring was being made, because there is no wind there.

Behind Kolya there is an ambush point in the snow blows, and a little further is the flooring.

They shouldn't make fire near the flooring, because Semyon will see this it and then it will be impossible to predict his actions.

He should only be able to follow in the footsteps of the guys, and they will lead to an ambush.

A duty attendant sits at the cedar, who is replaced every 15 minutes and who must warn in time about the approach of Semyon in order to have time to take their position in an ambush.

While the guys were making the flooring, Yuri and Georgiy were on duty at the cedar.

They made a fire in such a way that the person on duty can be between the fire and the cedar.

One climbed on the cedar, the second warmed up by the fire.

They used Kolya's checkered shirt, which Rustem grabbed from the tent.

While they had strength, they took turns climbing the cedar, making an observation window in the branches so that they could notice the approaching Semyon as early as possible.

Because of this, they spent a lot of energy, they were more exhausted than the rest, and at 8:30 PM Yuri dies on duty from pulmonary edema.

By 9 PM Georgiy also dies on duty.

Because the attendant is between the fire and the cedar, Georgiy put his frostbitten leg too close to the fire, received a burn, and in order not to miss Semyon and not let the guys down, having already fallen and losing strength, he tries not to fall asleep by biting his skin on his finger.

As a result the bitten piece of skin breaks off.

Th etwo of them were discovered and dragged away from the fire by the attendant who came on duty.

Igor, on his watch, decides to cut off their clothes in order to warm the others, puts them on the flooring and makes a seat for the person on duty at the cedar.

He does not take any piece of clothing for himself.

In order not to get lost on the way back, Semyon straps on a compass on his left hand, and puts on a mask for the wind.

He takes two flashlights out of the tent, turns them on to check which one works better.

He leaves one flashlight on top of the tent, which is already covered with 5-10 cm (2-4 in) of snow.

At 9 PM Semyon begins to descend down the tracks left by the guys, leaving behind an eighth track.

He walks 450 meters (1500 feet), the footprints of the guys are clearly visible and the visibility is acceptable.

Because the light of the flashlight can forewarn about his approach, Semyon throws out the flashlight, which turns on from impact on the ground ice.

At the time of Semyon's approach to the cedar, five hikers are still alive.

Since one is on duty at the cedar, there are only four seats on the flooring, made of clothes cut from Yuri and Georgiy.

The diagram is approximate, the guys are sitting on the flooring.

They will stand in ambush when the duty attendant comes running and reports:

At 9:30 PM, 30 meters (100 feet) from the cedar, the duty attendant Rustem notices Semyon and runs to warn the guys.

Since the only boots the guys had was passed on to the duty attendant, Rustem will remain in them, and some of the things on which the duty attendant was sitting will later be scattered by the wind some distance from the cedar in the direction of the flooring.

The warned guys take their places in ambush.

Semyon approaches the cedar, sees the already frozen Yuri and Georgiy and goes further along the trodden path leading to the flooring.

Lyuda, realizing that they have little chance against Semyon, decides to talk to him and meets Semyon before being ambushed.

Semyon approaches Lyuda and Lyuda tries to speak, but Semyon grabs Lyuda by the throat with his left hand and breaks the hyoid bone with his fingers, and with the camera case, which is firmly clamped in his right hand, he strikes her in the nose.

Lyuda falls on her back, covering her face with her hands, and Semyon inflicts 1-2 kicks in the chest, breaking her ribs.

On the slope of the mountain from the tent to the cedar there was a strong wind, and even approaching the cedar, Semyon began to freeze.

He deliberately did not begin to warm himself too much so as not to limit his movements with too much clothes, but when he saw two people who were frozen near the cedar and a weakened Lyuda, he believed that no one will offer serious resistance.

He decides to warm himself up, takes off Lyuda's woolen hat and puts it under his leather hat with earflaps, unbuttons her fur vest, turns it over her head, pulls the vest off through her hands and puts it on himself.

Lyuda will remain lying in this position, hands up.

The ledge on which the searchers will find Lyuda was sloping (30-40°) in winter covered with ice. In the spring the ice melted under her and she ended up in a kneeling position.

Because of the broken hyoid bone, Lyuda's mouth was slightly open.

She was lying with her face against the current, her tongue and eyes washed with a strong stream of water.

Semyon follows the tracks, passes Kolya, notices the flooring ahead, and at this moment Rustem pounces on him from an ambush and, grabbing Semyon by the waist, pushes him towards Igor.

Igor grabs Semyon's legs and they throw him on the ice.

Then Igor moves to Semyon's chest, and Zina began to hold his leg.

Semyon manages to deliver a strong blow to Rustem on the head.

Rustem is lightly knocked down, but he quickly comes to his senses and tries to hold Semyon's right hand, striking with his left hand.

Semyon strongly resists, tries to break free and hits the guys.

The hands of all the guys are frostbitten and not functional, so Zina grabs Semyon's leg with her forearms and tries to hold it with her face, getting abrasions on her face and scratching her hands on the ice.

Since Kolya is lying next to him, Igor and Zina periodically kick him with their feet.

Semyon's left hand is holding Sasha by the throat and he is trying to free himself.

Igor, having inflicted several punches with his fists and realizing that he could not bring much damage with his frostbitten hands, starts pressing from above with his knees, using the weight of his whole body.

Pressing the knee on Semyon's chest breaks his ribs, and pressing on his stomach causes defecation.

Semyon stops resisting, his body goes limp.

Having died a violent death, Semyon now himself becomes a victim and thereby receives an iron alibi.

Sasha's throat is injured, he will remain lying next to Semyon.

Kolya lies next to them, followed by Lyuda.

For 25 days, snows up to 5 meters (16 feet) high will accumulate into the creek ravine and they will be found only in May.

Igor, Rustem and Zina decide to return to the tent, where their only salvation is the stove, but Igor has strength only to walk 300 meters (1000 feet), Rustem - 450 (1500 feet), Zina - 650 (2100 feet).

Igor was unique in everything, and he will die like no one else - looking at the sky.

Zina's heart will be the last to stop, on February 1, 1959, at 11 PM.

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Zolotaryov's meltdown

 

 

 

Source (Russian): http://iriverplus.narod.ru/dytlov.html

 

English: https://dyatlovpass.com/zolotaryovs-m...

 

 

Aleksandr Surkov's scenario explores the idea of two opposites clashing, Igor and Semyon.

 

Semyon does not suspect that Igor leads the toughest and most strenuous hikes in the UPI tour section.

 

Semyon's age and physical fitness are not able to withstand the demands of Igor, as he hikes not to get sports awards, but to test himself under the most difficult conditions.

 

If we take into account Igor's authoritarianism and Semyon's unruly nature, the conflict would only be a matter of time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tried for bribery and traitor brother

Dyatlov Pass wtorek, 8 PAŻDZIERNIKA 2020

 

New documents found about the most mysterious member of the Dyatlov group

All rights belong to Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Authors Nikolay Varsegov и Natalya Vatsegova

 

The most mysterious member of the Dyatlov group was the 37-year-old combatant Semyon Zolotaryov.

In the winter of 1959, nine hikers-skiers disappeared in the mountains of the Northern Urals.

They were participating in a trek led by Igor Dyatlov.

A month later, rescuers found their tent cut open.

Within a radius of one and a half kilometers from it they found five frozen bodies.

The rest of the group were found only in May.

Almost all the hikers were barefoot and half-naked.

Some have fatal injuries.

It is still not clear why the guys fled to the bitter frost and to their death.

It is known that the most mysterious figure in the Dyatlov group was the 37-year-old combatant Semyon Zolotaryov.

After the war he graduated from the Minsk Institute of Physical Education and went to the secret and closed city of Lermontov.

He got a job as a physical training teacher.

People who knew Semyon said that he, being a communist, was not an example of morality for a Soviet person and that he had a unruly character.

He committed misconduct for which someone else would have been both expelled from the party and fired from his teaching position.

But for some reason Semyon Zolotaryov got away with it.

Some researchers of the tragedy of the Dyatlov group believe that Zolotarev could have been an unofficial employee of the security agencies.

And even that he went with a secret mission on that fateful expedition.

Recently we managed to get an interesting document - the minutes of a closed party meeting, at which the moral character of Semyon Zolotaryov is once again examined.

And in this document the life and character of our protagonist are reflected quite vividly.

The atmosphere of those years is also interestingly shown here: theft at various levels and the leading role of the Communist Party in educating its members who have tripped.

Some researchers of the tragedy of the Dyatlov group believe that Zolotarev could have been an unofficial employee of the security agencies. And even that he went with a secret mission on that fateful expedition.

 

Here is the full document, including our comments.

Extract from the minutes of a closed party meeting of the primary party organization at secondary school № 18 dated May 9, 1955.

Agenda:

Personal file of Comrade Zolotaryov, member of the CPSU.

Listened to:

1. Comrade Zhidkovа, who reported that during the distribution of apartments, Zolotaryov's wife, Comrade Burgach, had bribed the head of the Housing and Communal Department.

If earlier Comrade Zolotaryov denied his involvement in this case, now he does not deny that the bribe was given with his consent.

It must be assumed that Zolotaryov is an accomplice in the bribing.

Investigating this issue, the Civil Code of the CPSU established that for 4 years Zolotaryov lived with his aunt at her expense, hiding his salary, treated her very rudely, even beat her (there is a medical record).

Then he moved to live with Burgach, where he also continued to behave rudely and hid his salary to save money.

Zolotaryov's gravest crime is that he concealed from the party the betrayal of his brother during the Nazi occupation and that his brother was shot as a traitor to his homeland.

2. Zolotaryov.

He said that the first time at the meeting, he behaved poorly, denying involvement in the bribery.

He said that it is his fault that he did not convince Burgach against it. In reference to his aunt, it was important that she deceived him, saying that she was buying food at the market while she was stealing from the sanatorium where she worked.

He started saving money while still a student.

In relations with his aunt, he was rude, because his nerves could not stand it.

And the beating in question happened by accident.

Here, too, he admits his guilt. As for the concealment of his brother's betrayal, at first he did not know about it, and then he believed that everyone is responsible for himself.

He is fully responsible.

It is his fault.

He admits his mistakes, Zolotaryov assured the party organization that he had corrected all the mistakes, he would work honestly, and asks to remain in the ranks of the party.

The most mysterious member of the Dyatlov group was the 37-year-old combatant Semyon Zolotaryov.

 

People who knew Semyon said that he, being a communist, was not an example of morality for a Soviet person and that he had a unruly character.

FROM THE AUTHORS:

Little is known about Semyon's brother Nikolay. He was born in 1903, in 1941 he went to the front.

But soon after being wounded he returned home to the Kuban.

And after the occupation of the Kuban by the Germans, he went to their service.

Already in 1943 he was arrested and convicted of treason.

The verdict is execution.

The family never found out where his remains were buried.

But what is curious is that in the closed city of Lermontov in the 1950s, in the conditions of the strictest secrecy, uranium was mined.

And any newcomer was carefully checked by the state security authorities.

The relatives of the visitor were also investigated.

But they missed a man whose brother is a traitor!

How could this happen?

Or Semyon had a serious trump card, which, even after being exposed with his brother's betrayal, gave him the right to stay in the city?

Little is known about Semyon's brother Nikolay

 

Nikolay Alekseevich Zolotaryov, born in 1903, native of the village of Udobnoy, Otradnensky district of Krasnodar Territory, Russian.

He was mobilized into the Red Army by the Udobnoy Military commissariat and sent to the Crimean sector of the front in November 1941.

In March 1942, N.A. Zolotaryov was wounded and treated in a hospital in the city of Esentuki.

He went to live back in the village of Udobnoy.

In November 1942, after the occupation of this region of the Krasnodar Territory, he joined the auxiliary police unit under the local occupation administration.

After the liberation of this territory from the Nazi invaders, N.A. Zolotaryov N.A. was arrested on April 14, 1943.

The military tribunal of the Armavir garrison of July 8, 1943 convicted him under Art. 58-1 "b" of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and sentenced to capital punishment - execution.

The verdict was carried out on August 24, 1943.

Questions:

When you were elected secretary of the party organization, did you tell your biography? Answer: No, I didn't.

Why didn't you register your marriage with Burgach? Answer: She has no divorce from her first husband.

Who are your parents and where do they live? Answer: Father is a medical assistant, mother is a housewife, they live near Cherkessk.

What did you talk with Burgach in regards to the bribe? Answer: At first I agreed, and then I was against.

Did you live in the same apartment with Burgach until recently? Answer: Yes.

How do your parents live and how do you help them? Answer: My father receives a pension, I send groceries, I help with the household on vacation.

How much are you paid monthly? Answer: 1200 rubles.

For what purpose did you save money? Answer: The deposit is confidential.

What kind of troops did you serve during the war and did you have any awards? Answer: Served in the engineering troops, was awarded the Order of the Red Star and three medals.

How do you feel about your brother's betrayal? Answer: Blocked him from my memory as a traitor.

FROM THE AUTHORS:

Semyon Zolotaryov's salary of 1,200 rubles in 1955 is not a bad salary, considering that the national average salary was 711 rubles.

The salary of a teacher was 742 rubles.

The maximum salary was for water transport workers - 906 rubles.

The minimum for collective farmers is 458 rubles, food and transportation industry workers - 449 rubles.

A kilogram (2 lbs) of white bread cost 3 rubles, rye 1 ruble, a kilo of beef 12 rubles 50 kopecks, a liter of milk 2 rubles 24 kopecks, butter 27 rubles 80 kopecks.

A bottle of vodka 22 rubles 80 kopecks.

Red caviar 36 rubles per kilo, black caviar 85 rubles.

The most expensive suit was 1,500 rubles.

Why Zolotaryov, who has nothing to do with uranium mining, has this salary remains unclear.

In fact the role of the combatant Semyon Alekseevich in the fateful expedition could have become fatal.

Listened to:

T. Zhidkova, who drew the attention of party members to Zolotaryov's character trait - greed.

Hence all the consequences that we are discussing today.

The second trait is insincerity.

Even his last written explanation is more sincere than what he said here.

This is the reason he didn't tell about his brother.

We are discussing today an ugly manifestation in the party.

We need to think about whether Zolotaryov's behavior is compatible with the title of a party member.

Comrade Zolotaryov.

His brother lived separately from the family, so nothing can be said about his upbringing.

I saved up money to buy a house or apartment.

He thought of all his actions and considers his behavior to be wrong.

T. Peskov, who immediately upon arrival at school had dealings with Zolotaryov about party work, which is not yet up to the party standards.

Zolotaryov was distracted from the work.

At the last meeting, Zolotaryov's behaviour was innapropriate, denied everything.

This suggests that Zolotaryov fell to the lowest level of human hypocrisy.

The facts forced him to come clean.

The fault of the party organization is that Zolotaryov's behavior has not yet been recognized at the meeting.

Considering his combat merits and the fact that he admitted his mistakes, he proposes to give Zolotaryov a severe reprimand with a final warning and an entry into his personal file.

T. Krikunov (the school director), who said that Zolotaryov's relationship with his family was known to him.

But the most important thing is that Zolotaryov hid his brother's betrayal.

As for work, last year he worked much better, then somehow he began to behave more carelessly.

But now, after the inspection, Zolotaryov began to work better.

Taking into account the latest decisions of the Central Committee of the party on the sensitivity of the approach to party members, and on the educational value of decisions, relying on the party charter, he proposes to issue a severe reprimand to Zolotaryov with a final warning and an entry into his personal file.

T. Polievktov says that silence after the instructor's message is not just silence.

It is very difficult to talk about the behavior of the secretary after we have discussed personal matters.

By asking questions, we tried to find out the morale of Zolotaryov.

Apparently, he has good inclinations, but he suppressed them within with his greed.

He agrees with the proposal of his comrades.

It is necessary to re-educate a person, direct him to the right path.

The spirit of a person born under Soviet rule should help him rebuild his behavior.

Proposals received:

Consider that Comrade Zolotaryov deserves expulsion from the party for all the above facts.

Given his participation in the Great Patriotic War, government awards, based on the party charter, we concider:

1. For dishonest behavior, expressed in complicity in giving a bribe, in the wrong attitude towards relatives and in hiding from the party the fact of his brother's betrayal during the period of fascist occupation, to give S.A. Zolotaryov a severe reprimand with a final warning and an entry into the personal file.

2. Release Comrade Zolotaryoev from the post of secretary of the party organization as having compromised himself.

Listened to:

Comrade Zolotaryov, who asked to leave him on the post of secretary of the party organization, since he would like to improve on this post.

Comrade Zhidkova, who said that Zolotaryov, apparently, did not understand that the communists are doing condescension to his good past and want to re-educate him.

So he should not be left as secretary.

The party meeting decides:

1. Give Comrade S.A. Zolotaryov a severe reprimand with a final warning and with entry into a personal file for dishonest behavior, expressed in complicity in giving a bribe, wrong attitude towards relatives and hiding from the party the fact of his brother's betrayal during the Nazi occupation.

2. Release Comrade S.A. Zolotaryov from the duties of the secretary of the party organization.

In the winter of 1959, nine hikers-skiers disappeared in the mountains of the Northern Urals. They were participating in a trek led by Igor Dyatlov.

FROM THE AUTHORS:

We are often asked why we are so closely studying the biography of Semyon Zolotaryov, because his personal life is essentially not related to the tragedy in 1959.

We think that in fact the role of the combatant Semyon Alekseevich in the fateful expedition could have become fatal.

His character was a difficult one, hot-tempered and unruly.

We do not exclude that a confrontation between the leader of the trek and its most senior participant could have led to the tragic events.

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The criminal case was cut short

Dyatlov Pass wtorek, 8 PAŻDZIERNIKA 2020

 

This is the opinion of lawyers who carefully studied the documents of the investigation during the prosecutor's check.

All rights belong to Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Authors Nikolay Varsegov and Natalya Varsegova

The criminal case on the death of hikers is a puzzle that not a single researcher could solve.

In the winter of 1959, nine hikers disappeared in the mountains of the Northern Urals.

They were participating in a trek led by Igor Dyatlov, a fifth-year student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute.

For 18 days, the group had to ski 300 kilometers in the north of the Sverdlovsk region, ascending two peaks.

The hike was of the highest category of difficulty according to the 1950s classification.

A month after the group went missing, rescuers found their tent cut open and five frozen bodies within a radius of one and a half kilometers on the slope of an unnamed pass.

The corpses of the rest were found only in May.

The investigation found that some of the hikers died from the cold, but some of them had fatal injuries of unknown origin.

What exactly happened to the Dyatlov group is still unknown.

The criminal case on the death of the hikers is a puzzle that not a single researcher could solve.

It seems to be specially poorly stitched together so that no one would guess about the true cause of death of nine young and healthy people.

Or it was led by very careless investigators who wanted to spit on many procedural nuances.

In the case, for example, there are no orders to conduct a forensic medical examination of the corpses.

The histology results of five dead hikers are nowhere to be found.

It is not clear who is investigating the tragedy: the prosecutor of Ivdel Vasiliy Tempalov or the prosecutor-criminalist from the regional prosecutor's office Lev Ivanov?

For some reason, there is no good operational photography.

All photos are like from an amateur photo album.

And where did the interrogation of February 6 come from, if the investigation itself began on February 26?

And there is more.

28 January, 1959, 2nd Northern

To understand the peculiarities of the investigative actions of 1959, it was necessary to compare the case of the Dyatlov group with other criminal cases of that period.

This was done last year during an official check, which was carried out by the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region at the request of Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Three experts from the Ural State Law University tried to answer the following questions:

• Was the criminal investigation into the death of the hikers been carried out in accordance with the requirements of the criminal procedure legislation and the rules of investigative actions at the beginning of 1959?
• Were there any violations during the investigation, rendering the evidence collected in the case inadmissible?
• Is the level of investigation in this case comparable to that of other cases in the same period?

FACTS ONLY

The case on the death of Igor Dyatlov's group was initiated on February 26, 1959 and terminated on May 28, 1959.

The investigation period is 3 months.

Carried out were: 5 inspections of the scene of the incident, compiled a map of the area and sketches of the campsite of the group.

Including: photographing the scene of the incident and where the bodies were found, 9 forensic medical examinations, forensic and physical-technical expertise.

49 witnesses and an expert were questioned.

The place of death of the Dyatlov group

VIOLATIONS

• Some protocols of investigative actions were not signed by the attesting witnesses who were present during these procedures. For example, the act of the forensic medical examination of Slobodin's body was not signed by the witness S.V. Gordo, the acts on Kolevatov, Zolotaryov, Thibeaux-Brignolle and Dubinina were not signed by the forensic expert Churkina.
• Numerous reservations, amendments, erasures of interrogation protocols and other investigative actions in the protocols are not confirmed by the signatures of the respondents.
• The material evidence was not described in detail and was not attached to the case by a special decree. In addition, the fate of material evidence is not determined in the decision to terminate the case.
• The investigation period was extended to three months on April 30, 1959, while the two-month investigation period expired on April 28, 1959.
• The protocols of the examination of the corpses found under the cedar do not indicate the time of the examination and the temperature of the ambient air.
• The description of the situation at the scene of the incident is inconsistent, which "does not contribute to the formation of a correct idea of the location of the inspection and what happened there".
• The protocol of the inspection of the place under the cedar does not describe all the objects and items found there.
• Interrogation records are not detailed enough.
• The acts of forensic medical examination are short and not informative.
• There was no planning of the preliminary investigation, different versions of the development of the event were not checked.

The case of the death of the Dyatlov group was initiated on February 26, 1959 and terminated on May 28, 1959.

INVESTIGATIVE ERROR IN OTHER CASES

For comparison, the experts studied other criminal cases of 1958-1960 in order to understand whether the flaws in the Dyatlov group case were typical for that period or not.

Here are the findings:

• In the criminal case of July 21, 1960 on the MI-4 helicopter crash in the region of Ivdel, there are no signatures of the investigator and attesting witnesses under the act of forensic medical examination. Material evidence is not attached to the case by a special decree.
• In the criminal case of September 2, 1960, on the fatal injury of three people at the Yasashnaya station, the acts of the forensic medical examination are not very informative and are written by hand on notebook sheets. The decision to dismiss the case was not signed by the investigator and not approved by the prosecutor.
• In a rather weighty criminal case of October 29, 1959, into the disappearance of citizen Krutikov (two volumes in 236 and 117 pages), three witnesses were questioned after the case was closed. The decision itself to terminate a year later was canceled by the resumption of the case, but without the sanction of the prosecutor.
• In the criminal case of October 6, 1959, on the murder of citizen Glinskih, there is no order to extend the investigation, and the act of the forensic medical examination was not signed by the attesting witnesses.
• In the criminal case of September 29, 1958, on the abuse by the accountants of the Klyuchevskoy Sawmill, all investigative actions were carried out outside the time frame for the investigation, except for the interrogation of two witnesses. One of the protocols did not even have a date.
• On February 6, 1958, an investigation into the fire in the village of Koshay began. It was established that it was arson. But they did not try to find who's responsible. They just closed the case without any explanation.
• In the criminal case of September 10, 1958, on the death of Lyubyakin in the village of Bulanash, the decision to terminate the proceedings was made outside the investigation period. The seized weapon has not been examined, it has not been attached as material evidence, its further fate has not been decided. A forensic examination of the corpse was carried out on April 30, 1959, although the investigation was completed on December 31, 1958. From the authors: how long did the corpse lie in the morgue - 8 months? Or the examination was carried out in September, and only the protocol was signed at the end of April?

CONCLUSION

Quote the experts: "It should be noted that all versions of the circumstances of the death of the hiker's group were not thoroughly examined.

Thus, the investigating authorities fully worked out the version of the murder by the Mansi people, but other versions, in particular of an avalanche, a hurricane in the area of ​​the violated camp, and others, were actually not fully verified.

According to the results of a preliminary investigation, it was established that the death of the hikers was caused by hypothermia, and not as a result of someone's criminal actions.

However, all the reasons and circumstances of the incident were not established.

The decision to terminate the criminal case was made prematurely."

FROM THE AUTHORS

Investigative negligence, mistakes of investigators quite often happen in our time.

There are plenty of examples of this.

However, it is surprising that if one or two violations were revealed in other cases of the 50s, then there are too many of them in the case of the death of the hikers.

And this despite the fact that the case was under the control of the RSFSR prosecutor's office and even the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Did they treat this case from above with the same negligence, or did they the intention to create a puzzle to confuse everyone?

LAWYER’S OPINIONS

Lawyer Anton Sokolov: "It is strange that in this so-called examination there is no data on specialists confirming their competence in the issue under study - diplomas of relevant education, information about their work experience, and, most importantly, about their specialization are not attached - the question of whether they are specialists in areas of criminal procedure and criminal law.

In addition, this document cannot be called an examination, which, as a rule, is assigned only within the framework of a criminal case.

In our case, this is a study and, according to the law, experts are not responsible for the reliability of the conclusions within the framework of criminal law. Just the opinion of three experts about one investigated case.

Moreover, on some issues their opinion is rather controversial.

For example, the two-month period of preliminary investigation into the death of Dyatlov's tourist group expired on April 28, 1959.

The investigation was extended for up to three months on April 30, 1959, that is, in fact, "retroactively", which is a gross violation, entailing the recognition of evidence collected outside the time frame of the investigation - inadmissible.

But experts do not attach any importance to this."

Lawyer Olga Desyatova: "What is inadmissible evidence?

This is evidence that cannot be cited in a criminal case.

But this fact is practically ignored by experts.

However, on the other hand, they indicate that the case is not fully investigated.

Not considered all versions, etc.

Today we can say that in fact, all those violations, which are written about in the examination, can serve as a basis for canceling the decision to terminate the case."

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Перевал Дятлова (Трейлер)

 

 

Загадка трагической гибели девяти туристов на Урале в ночь с 1 на 2 февраля 1959 года не даёт покоя исследователям и по сей день.

 

В центре нового 8-серийного сериала – реальные люди, чьи биографии воссозданы с документальной точностью.

 

Вымышленными являются лишь главный герой, майор КГБ Олег Костин в исполнении Петра Фёдорова, и двое его приближённых.

 

Действие развивается в двух временных пластах: нечётные серии рассказывают о работе следствия, чётные раскрывают историю последнего похода Дятлова.

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Could Zolotaryov be a saboteur?

Dyatlov Pass wtorek, 27 PAŻDZIERNIKA 2020

Kp.ru special correspondents have studied the archival military documents of the front line soldier Semyon Zolotaryоv

All copyrights belong to Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Authors Nikolay Varsegov и Natalya Varsegova

Semyon Zolotaryov. Experienced hiker, instructor of the Kourovka tourbase. Front line soldier. His personality is controversial. His biography is not all clear.

In the winter of 1959, nine ski hikers went missing in the mountains of the Northern Urals.

Leader of the group was Igor Dyatlov. A month later rescuers found their tent cut open.

Within a mile were discovered five frozen bodies.

The rest were found only in May.

The hikers died in a strange barely clad state.

Some had fatal injuries.

It is still not clear why the group fled into the severe frost and to their death.

Among the dead is 37-year-old Semyon Zolotaryov.

Experienced hiker, instructor of the Kourovka tour base.

Front line soldier.

According to some reports, he went to Otorten with the Dyatlov group to be eligible for the third category in sports tourism.

According to other testimonies, this journey should have been a significant event for him.

“The whole world will start talking about this expedition,” he said before leaving for the mountains to his students.

The words were prophetic.

More than 60 years later, no one knows the truth about the mysterious death of the hikers.

And the very personality of Semyon is very controversial.

His biography is not all clear.

He asked to be call Aleksander, not Semyon.

In the documents he sometimes wrote he was born on February 1, and at other times on February 2, 1921.

According to the registry of Udobnoy, his native village, his birthday is March 1.

In addition, there were discrepancies in the number of siblings he had.

In one questionnaire he stated that he had only two sisters, in the other - a sister and a brother.

Although, in fact, the family of paramedic Aleksey Zolotaryov had 5 children - Nikolay, Anna, Katerina, Maria and the youngest Semyon.

And during admission to the party in 1949, he impudently lied about military awards, saying that he had the Order of the Red Star and the medal For Courage.

But in his service record, in addition to the order, there were medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the capture of Königsberg" and "For the victory over Germany".

But "For Courage" is not on the list.

In the winter of 1959, nine ski hikers went missing in the mountains of the Northern Urals. Leader of the group was Igor Dyatlov.

There is an opinion that the military biography of Semyon has many holes.

We decided to check that biography against the archival documents of the Ministry of Defense.

Here are the results.

PERSONAL DATA

The beginning of the combat path of Semyon Alekseevich Zolotaryоv is described in the autobiography of his personal file in 1944 as a candidate for the CPSU, which we managed to find in the archives of the Ministry of Defense.

According to the custodian of the fund, since 1944 we are the only ones who requested these documents.

Semyon wrote in neat calligraphic handwriting: “In 1941, on October 18, the Udobnenskiy military registration and enlistment office was mobilized into the Red Army.

When I arrived at the unit, I was sent to study at the school for junior commanders.

I studied at the school for two months.

There I was awarded the rank of "junior sergeant" and sent to the unit as a squad leader.

With this unit, I participated in strengthening the defense of Rostov from February to March 1942...".

March 1942 Make a note of this date.

Then Zolotaryov writes: “In May 1942 I participated in the battle near Kharkov.

(In this battle, according to the recollections of junior sergeant Avetikyan, almost the entire battalion was killed. 20 people out of 450 survived.

Zolotaryov, as you know, went through the whole war without injuries, - Author).

From July to December 1942 he took part in the defense of Stalingrad.

On July 2, 1943 he arrived at the 104th battalion."

In the registration party form for Semyon Zolotaryov we read the following information:

• From October 1941 to August 1942 he served as a squad commander on the Southwestern and Don fronts in the 1570 separate sapper battalion (hereinafter referred to as 1570 SSB).
• From December 1942 to July 1943 - 11th Mobile Floating Assault brigade(hereinafter referred to as 11 MFAB).
• From July 1943 to April 1945 - 104th Separate Pontoon Bridge battalion (hereinafter referred to as 104 SPBB).
• From April 1945 to May 1945 - 13th Pontoon Engineering Regiment.
• From May 1945 to April 1946 - a cadet of the Moscow Military Engineering School.
• From April 1946 to August 1946 he was a cadet at the Zhdanov Leningrad Military Engineering School.

Next, we will present extracts from documents on military units in which Zolotaryov fought, according to his testimony.

1570 SSB

The order for the formation of this battalion was given on November 3, 1941 by the commander of the 24th sapper brigade, Colonel Bazhenov:

"The sapper battalions of the brigade shall be assigned numbers 1562-1580 in accordance with the order of the North Caucasus Military District №00421 dated October 21, 1941."

On 5 November, interim battalion commanders are appointed.

1570 OSB is headed by political instructor V.A.Stateikin, and political instructor Y.M. Kurt becomes the military commissar.

On December 2, by order of the brigade commander, Stateikin was replaced by captain M.V. Zaitsev.

On November 30, 1941, the staff of the 24th sapper brigade, according to the summary combat note, was 9122 people.

Each battalion has approximately 450 soldiers.

The list of the battalions at that time was not preserved.

There is only a list of the brigade headquarters.

Therefore, it is impossible to reliably either assert or deny that Semyon served in 1570 OSB.

The training battalion did exist then.

This is confirmed by an order dated December 1, 1941:

"On 30.11.41, cadet Semisenko was killed by cadet Zhurakovskiy by a rifle shot as a result of careless handling of weapons by the daytime training battalion, and cadet Nikolaev was seriously wounded.

The cadets Oleynikov and Zhurakovskiy appointed to the outfit, instead of clearly fulfilling their duties at the post, allowed themselves, in their own words, to "play" with the rifle, doing various kinds of techniques and moving the safety platoon.

The case should be transferred to the investigating authorities in order to bring the perpetrators to justice."

On January 22, 1942, another incident occurred in the 24th engineer brigade, which is shocking even now.

Around 1 am a fire broke out in the barracks of the 1562 battalion.

134 people died.

An excerpt from the order of the brigade commander: "This outrageous case was the result of criminal negligence on the part of the battalion command, which was absolutely ignorant of the fire safety issues.

This is evidenced by the panic and confusion that took place during the fire.

The preliminary investigation established that the battalion command, knew that the building was very hazardous in terms of fire, but did not take any fire-fighting measures.

There were no barrels of water, buckets, boxes of sand in the room.

The attendants on duty were not instructed on these issues."

20 MЕB

From the combat log: "On January 1, 1942, the 1570 battalion was transferred as part of the 64th brigade to the area of the 56th Army near Rostov in the Sala region, where it began to set up battery areas and an anti-tank ditch.

On March 25, the battalion, which has the best performance in its work, is assigned to a separate sapper battalion of the 28th Reserve Army and is deployed in Starobelsk (80 km or 50 miles north of Luhansk - Author)."

Order dated March 26, 1942:

"From this date the 1570 sapper battalion will be entirely at the disposal of Colonel Savich in Starobelsk to carry out a special assignment.

Reason: directive of the headquarters of the 8th sapper army №01003 of March 20."

On April 14, 1942, the battalion was excluded from the 24th sapper brigade.

From the political reports of the neighboring 12th Engineering Battalion, it is known that Colonel Savich is the deputy commander of the engineering troops of the 4th Panzer Army.

And about the battalion's special mission is written in the battalion's combat log:

"On April 10, the battalion was building a bridge across the Burluk River (near Kharkov, - Author) for the tanks.

From 12 to 25 April it was conducting training of personnel.

April 26-28 it was building a bridge across the Severny Donets River near the village of Hotnya.

From May 5 to June 10, it served 6 bridges on the Severny Donets River in the Pisarevka area.

In addition, the battalion carried out its own engineering structures, the construction of barbed wire and mining of fields."

But on June 10, the Germans break through our defenses.

The battalion command decides to block the enemy's path and hold the crossings until the rifle sub units approach.

For more than a day, sappers held back the enemy's onslaught, losing 30 people killed.

And at this moment and further, the battalion withdrew last, covering the retreat of the Soviet troops.

Often, instead of bread, fighters are given flour and dry rations, the cavalry вас not provided with fodder, which led to the depletion of the latter."

In such difficult, to put it mildly, conditions, our fighters performed real feats.

In Semyon's party application form, we recall that from August 1942 to December 1942 he served in the 20th motor-engineering battalion.

In fact, the 20th МЕB was formed on September 1, 1942.

Perhaps the discrepancy in one month is not important, given that it was wartime, but there is a more serious disparity.

11 MFAB

Zolotaryov wrote that he served in the 20th battalion until December 1942. However, the combat log contains an order to disband this battalion as early as October 1, 1942:

"By order 0052 dated October 1, 1942, the 12th separate engineer battalion, the 1414th separate engineer battalion, and the 20th motorcycle-engineering battalion (20 MEB) were disbanded.

Form 323 separate army engineering battalions from the disbanded battalions.”

The commander of the new battalion was appointed Major Spinul, the commander of the 20 MEB, and the military commissar - the battalion commissar Golubev, who was also the military commissar of the 20 MEB.

Even if Semyon forgot the date of the disbandment of his battalion, it should be indicated in his army book.

But the most curious thing is that Major Spinul on October 8 issues a 15-page order on the staff list of the new battalion.

And the squad leader Semyon Alekseevich Zolotaryov is not in it.

In his personal file to become member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Semyon skips the 20th battalion altogether, indicating that since September 1942 he has been serving as a squad leader in the 11 easy-crossing park.

On November 10, 1942, the 11th Mobile Floating Assault brigade is part of the engineering forces of the Don Front.

And on November 20, it is subordinate to the 24th army.

We couldn't find in the archives a single document related to the 11th MFAB, nor in the inventory of the engineering troops of the Don Front, nor in the 24th army, to which the "ghost" of the 11th MFAB was later transferred.

104 SPBB

The sapper Semyon Zolotarъоv is assigned to this pontoon battalion from the 11th brigade on July 3, 1943.

Тhis coincides with the data from the party application.

Moreover, the 104th battalion is formed from the best fighters of other units. For example, here is an order to the commander of the 50th pontoon-bridge battalion:

Of the 11 MFAB, the 104th battalion takes the 6 best junior commanders and 33 best Red Army men.

Among them (finally!) Is junior sergeant Zolotaryov Semyon Alekseevich.

So, since the beginning of the war, his name was first mentioned in military documents only on July 3, 1943.

Around that time, in Kuban liberated from the Nazis, the tribunal tried his older brother, Nikolay, accused of collaborating with the German invaders.

And on July 8, 1943, Nikolay was sentenced to death.

Such a strange coincidence.

On August 1, the battalion commander, Major Amelchenkov, asks to approve the list of servicemen who arrived from other units to issue medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad".

Major writes to the Chief of Engineering Troops of the Central Front:

"Presenting at the same time a personal list for the replenishment of privates, sergeants and officers who arrived in the battalion from other units, I report that the servicemen named in the list stated that they were participants in the defense of the city of Stalingrad, but they do not have certificates on hand and other documents confirming their participation in the defense of the specified city."

Among the other fighters in the alphabetical list is the pontooner Zolotaryov Semyon Alekseevich, who for some reason, becomes an anti-aircraft gunner and serves in an anti-aircraft machine gun platoon.

Chief Lieutenant Colonel Dudanov does not approve the list, demanding from Major Amelchenkov to issue it as expected - with signatures and seals.

The major duplicates the document, but this time Zolotaryov is at the very bottom of the list.

As if the clerk made a mistake and accidentally missed the fighter's surname, and then caught himself and wrote in.

The same situation is in the order of December 31, 1944 on awarding Zolotaryov the rank of senior sergeant.

Again, our hero is at the end of the list, and even in a different font.

Why is that?

CANDIDATE OF All-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOLSHEVIKS

In September 1944, Komsomol member Zolotaryov became a candidate for the party.

A delicate matter of seven sheets is wrapped in the newspaper "Word of the Fighter".

In it Semyon says: "I want to defeat the fascist gang as a communist."

Characteristics of fellow servicemen: "I have known Zolotaryov since July 1943 because we were serving together in the 104th battalion.

A disciplined commander, morally stable, demanding of himself and his subordinates."

And an autobiography, in which Semyon writes that he was born on February 1, 1921.

He has a brother and two sisters.

His brother was mobilized into the Red Army, and no one in the family was ever convicted.

Of course, in 1944, Zolotaryov might not have known anything about his brother's fate.

But how did he managed to forget about the third sister he had is not clear.

13 ENGINEERING PONTOON REGIMENT

In April 1945, the 104th battalion was transferred to the regiment.

This also coincides with the data of Semyon's party application.

In the same month he accomplishes the feat.

"Senior sergeant Zolotaryov, under enemy artillery and mortar fire, transported 9 people on the night of April 21-22, 1945, pontoons with a topside on one 50-ton ferry.

Arriving at the place where the ferry was being assembled, Comrade Zolotaryov quickly and skillfully began to assemble the ferry.

The enemy began shelling this place with guns, mortars and machine guns.

One soldier was wounded, but senior sergeant Zolotaryov did not stop work, but he took the place of the wounded soldier and, with his example of fearlessness, inspired the soldiers to complete the task as soon as possible.

The same shell broke two girders and the flooring.

In about 300 meters in the swamp lay the platform from the broken ferry, then Zolotaryov got it up to his waist in water.

The Red Army soldier Korneev, without orders, went behind senior sergeant Zolotaryov and together drove the girders to the ferry being assembled.

The task was completed on time and the ferry was brought into the line of the bridge.

For the skillful command of the squad, for the courage and heroism shown, he deserves a government award."

By order of May 15, 1945, senior sergeant Zolotaryov was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

SCHOOL

Semyon wrote that since May 1945 he has been a cadet at the Moscow Military Engineering School.

But according to the data of the school itself, he arrives there on July 6, 1945.

Again, it is not clear why Semyon was wrong about the dates.

From the staff files of the 13th engineering pontoon regiment we see that he was sent to study in Moscow only on June 29.

In April 1946, cadet Zolotaryov was transferred to the Leningrad Military Engineering School, from where he was demobilized in August of the same year, having received a pass certificate to the Kuban to the village of Udobnoy.

According to the laws of that post-war period, he had to register at the military registration and enlistment office and get a passport in order to live peacefully in civilian life.

However, Semyon unexpectedly goes to Minsk and enters the first year of the Institute of Physical Education. However, this is a completely different story.

FROM THE AUTHORS

The first thing that catches your eye when analyzing archival documents is the scope of Semyon Zolotaryov's specialties.

In the rank of squad leader, he serves as a sapper, pontooner, anti-aircraft gunner, and again as a pontooner.

This is a strange career, considering that all the years he was a squad leader and could "keep" a specialization.

Second, Semyon's military autobiography does not coincide with the archival data of a number of units.

And this does not exclude the fact that Semyon might not have been there, as if he was absent for a while.

The third is the lists in which Semyon's name does not appear alphabetically.

As if they were creating some kind of coverup for him.

But why?

There is a theory that in the first years of the war, the 1570 battalion was part of the 8 engineer army, from where the famous scout-saboteur Ilya Starinov recruited fighters.

He is also the organizer of the partisan movement.

For reference, Ilya Starinov is the deputy chief of staff of the engineering troops of the Red Army.

At the end of 1941, he was the head of the operational engineering group on the Southern Front.

In the spring of 1942 he was the commander of the 5th separate engineering brigade for special purposes.

A little later - the head of the High Operational School of Special Purpose of the Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement, where scouts-saboteurs were trained.

And here, attention, in the affairs of the 8th engineer army we find an order: "On March 20, 1942, the chief of staff ordered:

23 and 25 Sapper brigades to allocate three vehicles and one soldier for each vehicle at the disposal of Colonel Comrade Starinov.

Submit the allocated cars to Rostov-on-Don at the corner of Budennovsky and St. Maxim Gorky by 9 o'clock on March 21, 1942.

Cars vehicles must be equipped for the transportation of mines."

We will remind you that Semyon wrote that he was helping the defense of Rostov from February to March.

But what if in March 1942 Semyon Zolotaryov ends up with Colonel Starinov and goes through a sabotage school?

Hero behind enemy lines until mid-1943?

Then for some reason he returns to the pontoon boats.

But acquaintance with Starinov ties Zolotaryov to the special services.

This could explain why he never talked about the war, how and where he learned to skillfully throw knives.

Indeed, for a pontooner and an anti-aircraft gunner, this is not the most required skill.

He is not opressed because of the betrayal of his brother, he is allowed to join the party.

They turn a blind eye to all his mischiefs, and when it comes to giving a bribe in the city of Lermontov, he was mildly reproached that if he does not change his ways he might also answer for his brother.

We, as always, are waiting for the reader's thoughts on the forum on this topic.

EXPERT OPINION

Senior Researcher, Research Institute of Military History Vladimir Fesenko:

"I got interested in the Dyatlov Pass at some point of time.

Semyon Zolotaryov surprised me with his participation in this expedition.

He did not belong by interests, or by age, or by experience with these young hikers.

But as far as the documents from archives and personal stories about the Great Patriotic War, there were not such inconsistencies in the biographies of the fighters.

The reason for this is the low level of office work.

Plus our carelessness.

Therefore, I would not pay much attention to timing mismatches.

In the early years of the war, it often happened that battalions were disbanded, and documents about this came from headquarters retroactively.

Zolotaryov's various specialization does not look out of the ordinary for me.

He was just the squad leader where he was sent, and served there.

Now, if he was an officer, then there would be a reason for discussion.

But the discrepancies in the questionnaires and autobiographies raise questions.

On the one hand, he could deviate from his real life in order to embellish himself or make the document convenient for certain purposes. Joining a party, for example.

On the other hand, how can you not remember how many brothers and sisters there are in the family?

It is also pointless to lie about it.

As for the brother, I agree that he might not have known about his fate.

But in 1944, such things were monitored and it was clearly brought to the attention of SMERSH battalion or special department.

And then he is calmly accepted as a candidate of the CPSU.

It's also strange.

But most of all in this story I am confused by the moment with the addition of his last name.

It can be seen from the document that it is added later with the same typewriter.

And his name stands out clearly.

And it is not in just one instance.

For a discussion of the historical background of those years, the material is very interesting.

But I would not begin to bring the whole base under the possible participation of Semyon in the sabotage operations of Ilya Starinov.

This version, of course, has the right to exist, but with a stretch."

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THE PROSECUTOR DID NOT OVERCOME THE DYATLOV PASS

Andrey Kuryakov, Photo: Vladislav Lonshakov / Kommersant

The initiator of the investigation into the death of Dyatlov group in the Urals was dismissed from the Prosecutor General's Office

 

Источник Kommersant Nov 2, 2020. Author Tatyana Drogaeva, Yekaterinburg

As it became known to Kommersant, the deputy head of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District, Andrey Kuryakov, who was involved in checking the death of Dyatlov's group, was dismissed from the supervisory department.

The reason was a warning about incomplete official compliance from Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.

It was issued after a press conference at which Mr. Kuryakov announced the completion of the check on the death of the hikers.

Later it turned out that these statements were not coordinated with the Prosecutor General's Office, but were made for personal purposes - to prepare a dissertation.

The Kommersant source calls the main reason for the dismissal of Andrey Kuryakov his intention to promote his wife, who was the deputy prosecutor, to the post of prosecutor of Yekaterinburg.

She is now also fired.

Andrey Kuryakov left the office of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District in October, a source in the department told Kommersant.

Prior to that, Mr. Kuryakov received a warning about incomplete official compliance from Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.

The reason for this was a press conference dedicated to the results of checking the death of Igor Dyatlov's group, who died in the mountains in the north of the Sverdlovsk region in 1959.

On it, Andrey Kuryakov said that the avalanche was the cause of the death of the hikers and that this version was fully confirmed.

As it turned out later, he did not make these statements on behalf of the GP, but to prepare a dissertation for the degree of candidate of legal sciences, follows from the document.

Igor Krasnov called it a disciplinary offense in the form of improper performance by Andrey Kuryanov of his official duties.

Andrey Kuryakov has worked in the department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District since November 2019.

Prior to that, since 2011, he headed the Department for Supervision over the Execution of Federal Laws of the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region.

It is believed that it was thanks to him that the Prosecutor General's Office initiated the check into the Dyatlov's death.

The interlocutor of Kommersant said that although holding a press conference on behalf of prosecutors was a serious offense for Mr. Kuryakov, one of the main complaints about his work was the use of official powers.

"He tried to influence the change of the prosecutor of Yekaterinburg by promoting his wife Venera Kuryakova to this position, who served as the deputy prosecutor of the city."— told the source.

Venera Kuryakova was also dismissed from the city prosecutor's office.

Now the relatives of the dead hikers are seeking from the General prosecutor to officially refute the conclusions of the tragedy, which was voiced by Andrey Kuryakov.

In addition, Igor Dyatlov's sister Tatyana Perminova asked the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region to acquaint her with the results of the check, but she was refused.

The lawyer of the relatives, Evgeniy Chernousov, said that they would seek to initiate a criminal case under §a of Part 2 of Art.105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (premeditated murder of two or more persons).

Relatives insist that the cause of the death of the hikers was a man-made disaster during the launch of a rocket.

Recall that a group of nine hikers from the Ural Polytechnic Institute led by Igor Dyatlov died during a hike in February 1959.

For 16 days of the hike, they had to ski more than 350 km and climb the mountains Otorten and Oyko-Chakur. However, they did not get in touch at the appointed time.

According to the prosecutor's office, the search operation began on February 20, during which the bodies of the hikers barely clad were found near the cut tent.

On February 26, 1959, a criminal case was opened.

During the investigation, it was found that the tent was abandoned suddenly and simultaneously by all the hikers.

There were no bodily injuries or signs of struggle on the corpses, all valuables remained intact.

 

 

 

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January 23, 1959

The area through which the hike route passed was not sufficiently studied.

There are no detailed public maps of this area.

Igor appeals for help to a familiar geologist and pilot.

The geologist helps Dyatlov develop an optimal route.

The tourist club did not even have a map of the area where Dyatlov led his group.

It turned out that Dyatlov did not agree with anyone about the exact route of the group.

A route book was left without a route and a map showing the route of the group.

Dyatlov Group discussed various options for the route and Igor to send the final version for approval, but he did not.

On January 23, 1959, at about 9 pm, the Dyatlov Group consisting of 10 hikers, took train No.43 from Sverdlovsk to the city of Serov.

Lyuda Dubinina diary

 

23 january.

It’s the last day of preparations and everything has been quite hectic.

From eleven in the morning I was scampering between stores buying different bits and pieces.

And I was silly enough to buy five meters of cambric which cost 200 rubles.

I was packing in such a rush and of course I’ve forgotten at home my sweater.

Everyone was busy with something, and we had so many things to do.

Just before our departure, those who wanted to say goodbye came to meet us.

We were really short of time, but arrived at the railway station with seconds to spare.

Then we had to say goodbye to everyone.

Before leaving we sang a few songs, but in the cart Blinov group joined and we continue singing together.

Among all the most notable is Krotov's bass.

This time there were a lot of very new songs that we were writing down with the help of an instructor A Zolotaryov, who came with us on the trek.

At first nobody wanted this Zolotaryov, for he is a stranger, but then we all agreed, because you can't refuse.

Thus, as we were ten, and remained ten, for Slavka was not released by the faculty bureau.

Dyatlov Group diary

 

January 23
We're on the road again! We are now sitting in room 531, or rather of course not sitting but frantically shoving into backpacks oatmeal, cans, canned meat

The head of provision distribution (zavhoz) is overseeing that everybody gets everything.

Where are my felt boots?

Y. K. (Yuri Krivonischenko) Can we play mandolin on the train?

Of course!

We forgot the salt! 3kg

Igor!

Where are you?

Where is Doroshenko?

Why didn't he take 20 packs?

Give me 15 kopeks (cents) to call.

The scales, where are the scales?

It doesn't fit, dam it.

Who has the knife?

Yuri take this to the station.

Slav Khalizov just got here.

Hello, hello!

Can I get 15 cents?

Lyuda is counting the money, lots of money.

The room is an artistic mess.

And here we are on the train.

We sang all the songs that we know, learned new ones, everyone goes to sleep at 3 (am).

I wonder what awaits us on this trip?

What will we encounter?

The boys solemnly swore not to smoke the entire trip.

I wonder how much will power they have to get by without cigarettes?

Everybody is falling asleep, and behind the window Ural taiga is spreading in all directions.

Z. Kolmogorova

Route of the trek by days

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January 24, 1959

January 24, 1959 In the city of Serov from 7-8 am until 18:30.

The train station, the incident - the detention of Yuri Krivonischenko, the 41st school, the story of tourism to schoolchildren of 1st and 2nd grade.

By train to Ivdel. Incident in a train with a drunk passenger*.

*On the train from Serov to Ivdel, a drunken passenger came to the group, stating that they had stolen a bottle of vodka from him and demanded to return it.

He was simply ignored, although the physically fit hikers could have easily confronted him.

The drunken passenger insisted on his rights and initiated a scandal.

As a result, the conductor had to take the loaded citizen causing the disturbance to the police at the station.

This incident is interesting not only for what was noted in the diaries, but also for the record that the Dyatlov himself made when preparing list of provisions for the trek.

Yuri Yudin could not get alcohol and Igor made a record; vodka, indian tea (illegible) matches.

If for some reason the hikers did not buy vodka, then it is possible that one of them could actually have stolen from the drunk passenger.

This is just a speculation.

City of Serov - Palace of Culture of Metallurgist

Monument of Serov, Alexander Kolevatov

Dyatlov Group diaryYuri Yudin writing in Dyat

 

January 24
7.00 (am) We arrived in Serov (town).

We traveled with a Blinov's group.

They have... things for hunting and other accessories.

At the station we were met with hell of a hospitality.

They didn't allow us into the building.

The policeman stares at us suspiciously.

There is no crime or vandalism in the city, as it suppose to be in times of communism.

And then Yuri Krivo started a song, the cops grabbed him and took him away.

At the attention of citizen Krivonischenko, sergeant explained that the rules of §3 prohibited all activity that would disturb the peace of passengers.

It is perhaps the only train station where the songs are forbidden, so we stayed without singing.

Finally everything is settled by end fo the day.

We are leaving Serov to Ivdel at 6:30 pm.

We were welcomed warmly in the school near the railway station.

The steward (she is also a janitor) boiled some water, and helped us with everything we needed for the preparation for the trek.

We have the whole day free.

We want to go to the city, to visit the nature museum or take a trip to a factory, but too much time is passed in distribution of equipment and cleaning it.

12.00 In the interval between 1st and 2nd shifts in school we organized meeting with pupils.

The room crammed with so many curious children.

Zolotoryov: "Kids, I will tell you now...

Tourism is, enables you to..."

Everyone is still, quiet, engaged.

Z. Kolmogorova: Tra- ta- ta- ta, what's your name, you went where, owesome, you have been camping, she went on and on...

Questions didn't end.

We had to explain and show to every kid everything, from torches to tents.

It took us 2 hours, and kids didn't want to let us go.

They sang songs to each other.

The whole school saw us at the station.

Everything ended as expected, when we were leaving, the kids yelled and cried, asking Zina to stay with them.

They promised to behave and study well.

In the train cart a young drunk accused us of stealing his booze from his pocket.

For the second time this day the cops were involved.

Discussion about love provoked by Z. Kolmogorova.

Songs, reassessment, Dubinina under the seats, garlic with bread and no water, and we arrived in Ivdel around 12 am.

Large waiting room.

Total freedom of action.

We took shifts to watch over our stuff all night long.

Bus to Vizhay leaves early in the morning.

Yudin

Juri Yudin writing in Dyatlov Group diary

Unknown diary (could be Zolotoryov's)

 

January 24, 1959
Last night, about 9-00 we boarded the train №43.

At last.

There is 10 of us.

Bienko Slavik did not go, they did not let him.

We are going with a Blinov group.

Fun.

Songs.

Around 8 am we arrived in Serov.

We were not allowed to stay on the train station, the train to Ivdel is at 6-30 pm.

We are looking for a room.

We are trying to get into the club (to the right of the dining room of the station) and school, but fail.

Finally he (? not sure about the identity) finds school number 41 (about 200 meters from the train station), where we were very well received.

Semyon Zolotaryov with a bag of provisions

Lyudmila Dubinina diary

 

24 january went to bed We arrived in Serov very early.

We were not allowed in the station with the backpacks.

We settled nearby the station.

The boys cross the overseer, that's me, with accusations of stinginess and greed.

Alas, the canteen at this point is a great luxury for us.

There was one small incident - Yurka K. was taken by the police charging him with deception.

Our hero decided to walk around the station handing a cap for change after singing a song.

Yuri had to be rescued.

Then we managed to move to the elementary school together with Blinov group.

After lunch we began to prepare the equipment.

Decided to read talk to the children in 1st and 2nd grades about tourism.

They liked our stories and things very much, and they became very attached to us.

Time flew by till 6 pm in the company of our new young friends.

The children bonded so much, especially to Zina, that they parted with tears.

In the train we all sang songs accompanied with a mandolin and just like that.

Then out of the blue a young alcoholic came to the boys and accused them of stealing a bottle of vodka.

He demanded her return and promised to punch them in the teeth. In the end, he did not prove or get anything and got lost.

Yurka came and sang with us for a while and left.

We sang and sang, and no one even noticed how we started to discuss love issues, talking about kisses in particular.

We talked all kinds of nonsense, of course; everyone was interested, everyone wanted to speak out, eventually trying to out-shout each other and prove their own opinion.

Sasha Kolevatov was the best in our debates.

Probably he expressed not only his own thoughts but, anyway, he obviously won.

We arrived at night in Ivdel and bunked at the station.

We settled in the corner, spreading the tent, and laid down to sleep at once.

I stayed watch.

I used the time to sew overshoes and copy songs.

Yurkina Olva from time to time shouted probably from boredom and hunger.

I lasted till 3 am.

At that time I lay down, only Borya continue to sew something for a long time, but he finally retire.

Zhenya (Yevgeny Zinoviev) often picks on me, sometimes he even says offensive things.

He seem to consider me foolish.

It's my fault that I like to add fuel to the fire, damn me.

Serov, 41st school, the group is preparing for the trek. Zina Kolmogorova is holding a piece of felt.

Zinaida Kolmogorova diary

 

24.1.59
Here we are on a trek again.

Now in Serov.

The entire evening yesturday till 3 AM we sang songs.

With us is sr. instructor of the Kaurov sport base Alexander Zolotaryov.

He knows a lot of songs, it's just happy somehow that we are learning new songs.

Especially some the Zumba and others.

Today I feel little sad.

But it's nothing.

We are on duty with Rustik.

We went and talked to the schoolchildren, then they all saw us off, even burst into tears, didn't want to let us go.

Serov, 41-th school, Zina is cutting sheepskin insoles with felt scissors.

Zina Kolmogorova letter

 

The letter is written on Jan 24th 1959 in city of Serov and sent on Jan 26 from Vizhay.

Hi, my dear mom, dad, Tom, Galya and Lusya!

Greetings to you from Zina.

Well, I'm away from you again, now we are in Serov.

We have a transfer here and I am writing to you.

Well, how is life?

Anything new?

We are going camping, a group of 10 people.

The group is good.

At the plant, everything is ok, they let me go.

I have all the clothes I need, so do not worry about me.

How do you live?

Write to me in Vizhay, I am looking forward to it.

Has the cow calved yet?

I love milk.

How's mom work?

How is the dad's health?

Moms?

How are Galya and Lusya doing at school?

Lusya, try not to have Cs this semester.

And Galya turn Ds in sports to Cs. Spend more time on the skis and you need to run more.

See you soon and goodbye.

Big kisses to you all

Your Zina.

Write to me, I am looking forward to it.

Ok?

26 I 59

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January 25, 1959

The night of January 25 Dyatlov Group arrives in Ivdel located 340 km North of their starting point.

Leaving early in the morning in bus Gas-51 with Blinov group.

14:00 Vizhay.

Stayed at a guest house.

Parting with Blinov group, watch movie "Symphonie in Gold"

Bus from Ivdel to Vizhay - Doroshenko, Zina, Krivonishenko (center), Zolotaryov

Dyatlov Group diary

 

25 january 1959.
We got up at half past five, quickly gathered and left for the city of Ivdel with the first bus.

After an hour of waiting, we managed to grab a bus (such as GAZ-51).

The twenty-five-seater bus was forced to accommodate a full twenty-five plus twenty backpacks packed to capacity and as many pairs of skis.

We were full up to the ceiling.

First layer passengers sat on the seats, on a pile of skis, on backpacks.

Second layer passengers sat on the backs of the seats, finding a place for legs on the shoulders of comrades.

It was not so tight, however, as not to sing, so we did it almost all the way to Vizhay.

The trip was not uneventful.

The bus made a small detour away from the highway, in the village of Shipichnoe, and we were given the chance to step out, which we did with pleasure.

Four of the most agile went far ahead to the settlement of Talitsa to see the power station.

Suddenly the heard: "The bus."

We rush out the door, but, alas, it was too late.

The bus passed by and we were forced to chance after it as fast as we can, hoping fate would be merciful and, perhaps, we would catch up with it (I am part of the "agile" four).

However, the first hundred meters clearly demonstrated the advantages of a fifty horse power engine.

Our heels flashed far behind the bus, and the gap widened.

The prospect to walk about thirty kilometers on the highway with no breakfast and lunch already seemed quite real, when suddenly ...

I mentioned that fate is merciful.

The mercy came in the form of a girl going to Vizhay that hailed the bus and stopped the object of our persecution.

A minute later we were already safely sitting on the second floor of the seats and traveling to Vizhay.

We arrived in Vizhay about two pm.

It turned out that we can continue our automobile journey in the next morning.

Warmly said goodbye to Blinov's group, who went further (to the west of Vizhay in the deep forest area).

After dinner, which was held in a warm "friendly atmosphere," we moved to the "hotel", which was the usual hut with three windows.

We went to the cinema, leaving "home" Doroshenko and Kolevatov.

We watched the "Symphonie in Gold", came back in "musical mood".

Now we are busy getting ready the equipment.

Tonight, according to the local commandant, we will leave on.

Kolevatov.

Zinaida Kolmogorova diary

25.1.59 arrived in Ivdel at midnight, spent the night at the train station pitching a tent on the floor.

Yes, we have already been spotted 2 times by the police.

Once Yuri Kriv was taken to the police station.

He wanted to raise money for candy.

It was funny.

Then on the train Serov-Ivdel reached Ivdel, spent the night at the station, in the morning got on a bus, drove to a hotel in Ivdel.

Then we took the bus and drove off.

We are 20 people, backpacks and skis.

Had to pile up on 3 levels, but we sang songs all the way. Arrived in Vizhay.

First we stopped at the same club where we were 2 years ago.

Then we were taken to the hotel.

The whole evening there was a discussion about love about friendship, about dances and other things, etc. 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.

But again the words of Volt come to mind.

How well did he say it.

We went to see "Symphonie in Gold" so powerful!

So great!

Lyudmila Dubinina diary

25 january

 

We woke up, without really to have slept much.

 

I told Rustic that I won't wash up due to lack of conditions.

 

He agreed.

 

The bus came right away, we climbed quickly.

 

Had to travel on 3 levels.

 

Kolka Tibo (Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles) had to push his body to the ceiling, Olva first stood in (illegible word) position, but soon she couldn't stand it anymore and got down on her knees.

 

We sang again, of course.

I totally lost my voice.

Zhenka was bickering again.

He goes on and on.

Things stated to make sence, it wasn't really a knew, but it is now clearer and better.

But despite this, Yurka is still a good-natured person, at least, judging by his behavior.

I'm still true to myself.

Zhenka and Zina sang "If you eyes hadn't been blue..." ("Если б были глаза твои не такие синие...")

When we arrived at а turn the bus went to a village and had to return for us in an hour.

We continue on foot.

It was so nice to walk along the road in such good weather.

We went a little nuts and roll in the snow.

During our walk there was an incident - a car coming from the forest got stuck in the opposite direction.

Our guys rushed to the rescue.

Finally they pulled it out in half.

Then our bus came up and we hopped on it.

The discussion now was about happiness.

Basically our guys were the most active.

They tried to give a definition of happiness, but everyone had it its own way.

Arrived in Vizhay at four two.

Blinov group is going further to settlement 41, and we stay to spend the night.

We had a tearful goodbye with Blinov group.

The mood sank.

At parting, we sang with Zina and Zhenya: "If you eyes hadn't ..."

In general I am very very sad.

We are extremely lucky!

The Symphonie in Gold was showing.

We left all our things and packs at the hotel and went to the club.

The image was a bit fuzzy, but it didn’t overshadow the pleasure at all. Yurka Krivo,
sitting next to me, was smacking his lips and oohing with delight.

This is real happiness, so difficult to describe with words.

The music is just fabulous!

The mood after the movie greatly improved.

Igor Dyatlov was unrecognizable.

He tried to dance, and even started singing: "O Jackie Joe"

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.

During the meal, a discussion arose about the rights of boys and girls to freedom, etc. In my opinion, such discussions lead nowhere.

But we are doing it anyway, to vent the soul.

We went to bed late.

Had to lay down in beds by two, only Yurka Krivo and Sasha slept on the floor between the beds.

Vizhay

Dyatlov group is helping Blinov group to mount a bus to 41st district - Doroshenko in motion blur

Blinov group is loading a truck. Dyatlov group is seeing them off

Memento of Dyatlov and Blinov groups together before their ways part

Collective photo of Dyatlov and Blinov groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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