Tragedia na Przełęczy Diatłowa (1 luty 1959 r.)

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The morning of January 27 was clouded by Yudin’s sudden sickness, an inflammation of the sciatic nerve.

 

Yudin said he had experienced such bouts earlier – during the 1958 Altai expedition, when Dyatlov was leading the group, and in 1955 when Yuri was hospitalized with rheumatic heart disease.

 

On the current trip, he had caught a chill while traveling in an open-back truck to District 41.

 

Nevertheless, Yudin decided to continue with the group to the abandoned 2nd Northern settlement, 22 km (13 miles) north of District 41.

 

They got lucky that Georgiy Ivanovich Ryazhnev, head of the 1st forest plot of the Energolesokombinat (Energy Forest Works), who lived in District 41, let the group load their backpacks on a horse-driven sleigh, that was going to the 2nd Northern to bring some pipes back.

 

While they were waiting for the sleigh, the group’s common equipment, which Yudin had been carrying, was divided among the remaining hikers to carry in their backpacks.

 

They also bought some food at a local store.

 

One of the local workers made a lasting impression on the group’s members.

 

As Dubinina wrote in her diary:

“I particularly remembered Ognev with his ginger beard and his Beard nickname.

 

Generally, you don’t often meet people like him in such a hole.

 

He is a true romantic, a geologist, and above all, intelligent.”

 

 

At 4 pm the group started on skis along the Lozva River towards the 2nd Northern.

 

Their backpacks were put on a sleigh by one Stanislav Valyukyavichus, a carter of the 2nd Northern logging site.

 

Late in the evening, at around 11 pm, they arrived at the 2nd Northern, where they spent the night in an abandoned log house.

 

 

See all diary entries and photos from January 27, 1959 → https://dyatlovpass.com/diaries#27jan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 28, 1959.

 

Happy moments, break on Lozva river.

 

One of my favorite photos.

 

They are so full of life and laughter.

 

 

See all diary entries and photos from January 28, 1959 →

https://dyatlovpass.com/diaries#28jan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After breakfast on January 28, Yudin, Thibeaux-Brignolle, and Doroshenko inspected a core logging facility, which was an open warehouse of geological samples kept under a shed.

Yudin took several cores with him since he was in the habit of bringing samples of rocks and minerals for the museum of the UPI Geology Department from all his trips.

That was the reason for his trip to the 2nd Northern.

It was time to part with Yudin. Around 10 am, Valyukyavichus departed from the 2nd Northern, taking along the pipes and Yudin’s backpack.

The sleigh would arrive at District 41 at around 3 pm. Yudin bid his final farewell to his comrades.

At the last moment, Dyatlov asked Yudin to warn the Institute of the group’s possible two or three-day delay, given the heavy ice built up on their skis during the passage to the 2nd Northern along the Lozva River, with the route planned along the rivers.

However, Yudin would forget to send a telegram to the UPI sports club with that warning.

Around noon Yudin skied light-handed along the trail of the sleigh riding to District 41, where he would pick up his backpack and spend the night at the same hostel as the day before.

See all diary entries and photos from January 28, 1959 →

https://dyatlovpass.com/diaries#28jan

Morning at the 2nd Northern abandoned geological site.

There is mine is in the 2nd Northern settlement.

Yura Yudin holds a sample core in his hands.

Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolles decided to sit down.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Igor Dyatlov on the left. His backpack looks heavy.

Lyuda Dubinina hugs Yuri Yudin goodbye.

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

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

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

Farewell Yura Yudin with Zina Kolmogorova.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Last photo of 2nd Northern.

Dyatlov group will never be seen alive.

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

This is a controversial photo, read more → https://dyatlovpass.com/in-a-country-of-mysterious-signs...

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

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

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

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

Rustem Slobodin holding a camera.

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

Alexander Kolevatov has tooken off his hat smoothing his hair.

Lyuda Dubinina sits on her backpack.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zina fiddling with the camera.

Semyon Zolotaryov posing for a photo.

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

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

Photo by Krivonischenko.

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

Rustem Slobodin

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

Guys are fooling around while resting.

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

Lyuda Dubinina with a camera, Rustem Slobodin points to another group of guys who stand to the right of the photographer and do not get into the frame, Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolles, and Zina Kolmogorova kneeling.

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

Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolles and Semyon Zolotaryov swapped hats.

Semyon has a camera on him. From the left, Zina Kolmogorova's hand came into the frame.

Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolles and Semyon Zolotaryov swapped hats.

Photo with poor quality but we can still recognize Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolles and Semyon Zolotaryov.

Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolles, Semyon Zolotaryov and the arm of Zina Kolmogorova.

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

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

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

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

Before the lunch break.

A picture of poor quality. Yuri Krivonischenko, Igor Dyatlov, Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles, Lyuda Dubinina and Zina Kolmogorova.

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

In the left hand she holds thin gloves.

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

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

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

Nikolay is cleaning his skis with a knife.

Lunch break.

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

Dyatlov group is getting up after lunch.

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

A photo of poor quality.

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

Photo by Semyon Zolotaryov.

He is behind Zina Kolmogorova and decided to take a picture of the group against the background of Hoy-Ekva 733m.

Krivonischenko is leading the group and taking the photo.

In the distance mountain Hoy-Ekva 733m.

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

In the distance mountain Hoy-Ekva 733m.

Photo of poor quality.

The group goes along the Lozva river, it is difficult to distinguish who is in the photo. In the distance mountain Hoy-Ekva 733m.

Morning at the 2nd Northern abandoned geological site.

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On January 28, 1959, before partying, Lyuda gave a souvenir to Yuri Yudin, a small Teddy Bear.

Until the end of days he kept the fluffy toy.

After his death April 29, 2013, the Teddy Bear was passed to Kuntsevich, head of the Daytlov foundation at the time.

Kuntsevich himself passed away on 11 August 2021.

Read more about Yuri Yudin → https://dyatlovpass.com/yuri-yudin

Did you know that among Dyatlov group possessions were two other bear toys?

They belonged to Slobodin and Krivonischenko.

See Protocol inspection of items found at the scene (Case files 11-20) → https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-11-20

Frame from the feature film "The Secret of the Mountain of the Dead" 2013
http://m.kino-teatr.ru/doc/movie/ros/105975/annot/

Yudin holding the mascot (Teddy Bear) Lyuda gave him on Jan 28, 1959

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

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

They turn on Auspiya river tributary.

The group stopped for lunch at the fourth halt.

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

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

It's Yuri Doroshenko's birthday.

He turned 21.

See all diary entries and photos from January 28, 1959 → https://dyatlovpass.com/diaries#28jan

 

 

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

 

 

Lozva river, in the distance mountain Hoy-Ekva 733m.

 

Break on Lozva.

 

It's cold.

 

Yuri Doroshenko listens to a conversation and smiles.

 

 

Zina barely in the frame, Nikolay, Zolotaryov, Lyuda hidden behind him, last is Slobodin looking at the camera.

 

Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle, Semyon Zolotaryov, Lyuda Dubinina (left), Rustem Slobodin.

 

Photo by Zina Kolmogorova.

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

 

 

Mansi structure to keep their killed game from animals.

 

They call it labaz.

 

 

Mansi labaz.

 

 

 

 

Mansi markings that tell how many hunters passed through the area and their clan.

 

Yuri Doroshenko examining the Mansi signs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On January 30, 1959, Dyatlov group starts at 8:30-9:30 along Auspiya river, Mansi signs, 14:00 lunch break, 17:00 stop for overnight.

Dyatlov group diary

 

30 January 1959
Diary is written in the cold on the go.

Today is a third cold night on the bank of Auspiya river.

We are getting used to it.

The stove does a great job.

Some of us (Thibeaux and Krivonischenko) think we need to build steam heat in the tent.

The curtains in the tent are quite justified.

We get up at 8:30am.

After breakfast we walk along the Auspiya river, but the ice again doesn't allow us to move forward.

We went on the bank on a sledge-deer trail.

In the middle of the road the saw Mansi shed.

Yes, Mansi, Mansi, Mansi.

This word comes up more and more often in our conversations.

Mansi are people of the North.

Small Khanti-Mansi nation located in Salehard with 8 thousand population.

Very interesting and unique people that inhabit the Northern Polar Ural, close to the Tyumen region.

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

30.01.59
Weather: temperature in the morning - 17 С
day - 13 С
night - 26 С.

The wind is strong, south-west, snow begins to fall, heavy clouds, drop in temperature.

The temperature is normal for Northern Ural.

This is a story about the forest.

Mansi signs tell about animals they saw, resting stops and other things.

It is particularly interesting to solve its meaning for the hikers as well as historians.

Deer trail turns into а trodden path, and then ends.

To go without a trail is very hard, snow is 120 cm (4 feet) deep.

The forest gradually thins and trees get smaller.

Lots of dwarf birches and pines.

You can feel the altitude.

It is impossible to walk on the river.

It is not completely frozen, there is ice and water under the snow.

We have to go back on the bank of the river.

The day is over and we have to find a place for bivouac.

That's the stop for the night.

Strong west wind. It blows the snows off the cedar and pine trees, creating the impression of a snow fall.

As usual we quickly start a fire and pitch the tent on fir branches.

We are warmed by the fire and go to sleep.

Unknown diary

 

January 30.

In the morning it was 17° now it is getting colder.

"Volunteers" (S. Kolevatov and K. Tibo are repeating their duties as a punishment for slowing the group yesterday) took a long time to start a fire.

In the evening it was decided that we will leave the tent exactly 8 minutes after waking up.

Therefore, all have been awake and waiting for the command.

But it is useless.

Around 9:30 in the morning we began slowly to rise.

Nick T. is joking about something in the morning.

Everyone is reluctant to get up.

And the weather!

In contrast to the rest of the warm days - today is a sunny cold day.

The sun appears playful.

Today as yesterday were are following the path of Mansi.

Sometimes Mansi writings appear on trees.

In general, all sorts of obscure mysterious characters.

There is slogan for ​​our campaign, "In a country of mysterious signs."

If we knew these letters, it would be possible, without any doubt, to go down the path, confident that it would lead us to the right place.

Here the trail takes us to the shores of the river.

We lose track. In the future, the trail follows the left bank of Auspii river, but the team of deer crossed the river and we are going through the woods.

At the first opportunity we will turn back to the river.

As it is easier to follow it.

At approximately 2 pm we stop for a lunch.

Dried meat, guest crackers, sugar, garlic, coffee, stocked in the morning - that's our lunch.

Good mood.

A couple more hours - and we will stop at 5 pm for the night.

We have been looking for a place, then we returned about 200 meters back.

Charming place.

Deadwood, high pines, in short, everything you need for a good night.

2.

Lyuda quickly got tired and sat down by the fire.

Nick Tibo changed his clothes.

He began to write a diary.

The law is that until all the work is done, do not approach the fire.

And so they had a long argument, of who will sew the tent.

Finally K. Tibo gave up and took a needle.

Lyuda remained seated.

And we sewed the hole (and there were so many that there was enough work for all except two attendants and Lyuda.

Guys are terribly outraged.

Today is the birthday of Sasha Kolevatov *.

Congratulations.

We give him a tangerine, which he immediately divided into 8 pieces (Lyuda went into the tent and did not come out until the end of the dinner).

So another day of our trek went well.

* Aleksander Kolevatov is born on November 16th.

Zinaida Kolmogorova diary

 

30.1.59

We go on Auspiya

cold (ayserm).

Mansi trail ended. Pine forest.

There was sun in the morning, now is cold (ayserm).

All day long we walked along Auspiya.

Will spend the night on a Mansi trail.

Kolya didn't get to be a watchman so me and Rustik will stay on duty today.

Burned mittens 2 and Yurkin's quilted jacket.

He cursed a lot.

Today, probably, we will build a storage.

See all diary entries and photos from January 30, 1959 → https://dyatlovpass.com/diaries1#30jan

 

 

 

The year 1958 must have been carved by somebody else, it is not characteristic for Mansi to write the year.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is a transcript of the diary from the case files that was originally thought to be Kolmogorova's but it is not know to this day who does it belong to.

 

The last entry is from January 30.

 

The last paragraph says:

 

 

Today is the birthday of Sasha Kolevatov *.

Congratulations.

We give him a tangerine, which he immediately divided into 8 pieces (Lyuda went into the tent and did not come out until the end of the dinner).

So another day of our trek went well.

* Aleksander Kolevatov is born on November 16th.

 

 

 

 

What's up with this then?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Уточненнная информация по дню Памяти группы Дятлова (2 февраля 2022 года).

В г. Екатеринбурге состоится конференция памяти группы Дятлова, погибшей в горах Северного Урала 63 года назад.

Обязательным условием вашего участия в мероприятиях является наличие санитарно-защитной маски (нескольких одноразовых/многоразовой) в связи с мерами по борьбе с коронавирусом.

Конференция будет проходить по адресу: ул. Мира, д. 19.

Это главный корпус (ГУК) бывшего УПИ (ныне УРФУ).

Вход в ГУК через здание с правой стороны (подробнее см. на картинке по ссылке: http://vfl.ru/fotos/dd20ec5337795689.html).

В зале Ученого совета (первая римская аудитория - правое крыло, 4 этаж).

Информация про работу гардероба будет дополнена в этом сообщении 31.01.

Официальное начало выступлений в 12-00, приходить можно с 11-30.

Завершение в 16 часов.

При себе необходимо иметь паспорт или иной документ, удостоверяющий личность с фотографией (в здании действует пропускная система).

Также ограничено число участников из-за санитарно-эпидемиологических ограничений.

Традиционно будет перерыв по времени выступлений посередине (на 30 минут).

Планируется каждому пришедшему предоставить по небольшой бутылке воды.

Чай и открытая пища не предусматривается в связи опять же с текущими ограничениями.

Информация про работу столовой будет дополнена в этом сообщении 31.01.

Желающие смогут приобрести прессу по теме (часть по спец. ценам), обозначенную по ссылке: http://fond-dyatlov.livejournal.com/24068.html , а также, очень надеемся, подоспеет к мероприятию из типографии новинка — книга '1079'.

В 17-00 на Михаловском кладбище состоится сбор у мемориала дятловцев, возложение венков.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On the morning of January 31, a new conflict erupted as Nikolay refused to stay on duty and Zina and Rustem, who had to take over, accidentally burnt Krivonischenko's mittens and sweatshirt.

He went into a fit and started screaming and swearing at them, but the group still managed to start relatively early, at about 10 am.

They were moving along the Mansi ski trail, which would frequently disappear, forcing them to feel their way forward.

The sequence of frames in film №1 is questionable.

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

According to the sequence of frames it turns out that Krivonischenko's quilted jacket was burned on the night of January 31 to February 1.

However, it Zina Kolmogorova writes in her diary that the jacket was burned on the night of January 30 to January 31.

There is a contradiction between the sequence of the film frames or entries in the diary, only one of many in this case.

There is also the question about the stove, if it was used on the night of January 31st.

They lit a fire to cook their meal.

Dyatlov's stove was used to heat the tent, not cooking.

Whether they used the stove or not on the night of January 31st is not clear from the diaries, but in this photo taken on the morning of February 1st Yuri Krivonischenko is dusting ashes from the stove, so most likely they used it.

Nothing is definitive on this case.

You have to use your own judgement.

Is Krivonischenko cleaning it because it was used or just putting it away - we will never know.

Dyatlov group diary

 

31 January 1959

Weather today is a bit worse – wind (west), snowing (probably from the pines), since the sky is perfectly clear.

Started relatively early (around 10 am).

Got back on the Mansi trail. (Up to now we are following a Mansi trail on which not so long passed a hunter with deer.)

Yesterday it seems we stumbled upon his resting stop.

Deer didn't go any further.

The hunter took the beaten trail by himself, we are following in his steps.

Had a surprisingly good overnight, air is warm and dry, though it’s -18C to -24C.

Walking is especially hard today.

We can't see the trail, have to grope our way through at times.

Can’t do more than 1.52 km (1 mile) per hour.

Trying out new ways to clear the path.

The first in line drops his backpack, skis forward for five minutes, comes back for a 10-15 minute break, then catches up with the group.

That’s one way to keep laying ski tracks non-stop.

Hard on the second hiker though, who has to follow the new trail with full gear on his back.

We gradually leave the Auspiya valley, it’s upwards all the way but goes rather smoothly.

Thin birch grove replaces firs.

The end of forest is getting closer.

Wind is western, warm, piercing, with speed like the draft from airplanes at take off.

Firn, open spaces.

I can't even think of setting up storage here.

It's nearly 4.

Have to start looking for a place to pitch the tent.

We go south in the Auspiya valley.

Seems this place has the deepest snow.

Wind not strong, snow 1.22 m deep.

We’re exhausted, but start setting up for the night.

Firewood is scarce, mostly damp firs.

We build the campfire on the logs, too tired to dig a fire pit.

Dinner’s in the tent.

Nice and warm.

Can’t imagine such comfort on the ridge, with howling wind outside, hundreds of kilometers away from human settlements.

Dyatlov

We can only speculate about what happened next.

By the evening of January 31, the group was slightly behind schedule: they were supposed to cross over into the valley of the Lozva River that day, but the elements forced them to stay in the valley of the Auspiya.

Did they intend to make up for that lag and make changes to the trek route?

Could it be they didn’t see the situation as critical?

Were they planning to get into higher gear or to continue at their usual pace?

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https://dyatlovpass.com/diaries#31jan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The sequence of frames in film №1 is questionable.

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

According to the sequence of frames it turns out that Krivonischenko's quilted jacket was burned on the night of January 31 to February 1.

However, it Zina Kolmogorova writes in her diary that the jacket was burned on the night of January 30 to January 31.

There is a contradiction between the sequence of the film frames or entries in the diary, only one of many in this case.

There is also the question about the stove, if it was used on the night of January 31st.

They lit a fire to cook their meal.

Dyatlov's stove was used to heat the tent, not cooking.

Whether they used the stove or not on the night of January 31st is not clear from the diaries, but in this photo taken on the morning of February 1st Yuri Krivonischenko is dusting ashes from the stove, so most likely they used it.

Nothing is definitive on this case.

You have to use your own judgement.

Is Krivonischenko cleaning it because it was used or just putting it away - we will never know.

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

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

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

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

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

She has a small backpack on her back.

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

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

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

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

Around the small crooked birches and spruce.

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

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

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

Fir trees are replaced by wispy birch-wood.

We came out of the tree line. Wind is western, warm, penetrating.

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

Firn, open spaces.

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

It's close to 4.

Photo by Yuri Krivonischenko.

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

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

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

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

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

Igor Dyatlov on the left, talking to Semyon Zolotaryov.

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

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

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

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

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

They are cutting wood for the night.

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

Next to him on the ski is Zina Kolmogorova.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This photo captures a key moment.

What happened here?

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

Here everything depended on the further choice of the route.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• go back to Auspiya river for a warm and sheltered campsite
  
• make a storage, leave an extra load


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


• make an ascent to Mt Otorten and set off on the return journey.

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The only thing we know is that on February 1, the group set off from the valley of the Auspiya towards a pass which at that time had no name, but would later come to bear that of their group.

They were not to write down anything further in their diaries, nor would they ever be heard from again.

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

 

We have our own theory of how the tragedy went down published in "1079 - The overwhelming force of Dyatlov Pass" which is FREE in Kindle format from today to Feb 5, 2022.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HKHT8G8/

 

 

The German book is in promotion too.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LT4YTQQ/

The printed edition of the book in Russian is out and it will be introduced at the 63 anniversary conference in Yekaterinburg.

I will publish later how to order.

The book in Spanish will be ready for February 27, 2022, another sad anniversary.

This is when the first bodies were found.

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Doroshenko, Kolmogorova (bent down), Zolotaryov, Dubinina and Krivonischenko holding a bucket rather than dusting the stove.

 

 

Aleksander Kolevatov and Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle laughing at something, possibly the burnt Krivonischenko's jacket that Kolevatov is pointing at.

 

Just for laughs - Slobodin posing with Krivonischenko's burnt quilted jacket

 

 

Morning, Rustem Slobodin posing for a photo in Krivonischenko's burnt quilted jacket.

 

The Dyatlov group on February 1st on their way to 1079

 

The Dyatlov group on February 1st on their way to 1079

Allegedly, the Dyatlov group preparing the tent for their last night alive.

 

Lev Ivanov says that this photo is taken around 3 pm on February 1.

 

 

Allegedly, the Dyatlov group preparing the tent for their last night alive.

 

Lev Ivanov says that this photo is taken around 3 pm on February 1.

 

 

This is a technological shot made in the photo lab before the film was taken out of the camera.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

The original Evening Otorten is unknown.

 

Only a typewritten copy remained in the criminal case file 31.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This was supposed to be the first winter ascent to Mt. Otorten.

 

The peak has been climbed before, and when the search party started looking for the Dyatlov group they first flew to the peak and found the message note left by the previous group that had been there in the summer of 1956.

 

This is how the search party knew the Dyatlov group didn't make it this far.

 

Each group takes the note left by the previous group and sends it to the sports club from the instructions in the note.

 

This was the proof that they have been there.

 

At the top of Mt. Otorten, searchers found a message left by a hiking group from the Department of Chemistry of the Moscow State University.

 

It was left back in 1956.

 

No traces of the Dyatlov group were discovered.

 

 

This was the note found on Otorten.

 

It is left by another group.

 

This is proof that Dyatlov group didn't make it this far.

 

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-volume-2-66

 

 

This was the note found on Otorten.

 

It is left by another group.

 

This is proof that Dyatlov group didn't make it this far.

 

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-volume-2-66

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Конференция памяти группы Дятлова 02.02.2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Сенсация!

 

На фото дятловцев чел с автоматом?

 

 

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At the 63 anniversary conference 2022.02.02 journalist Natalya Varsegova from Komsomolskaya Pravda showed what someone has made out of this scrap of film.

 

The 3D model shows people around a fire, one of them carrying a gun.

 

 

 

See more scraps of the same film: https://dyatlovpass.com/controversy#zolotaryovphotos

 

 

 

See more scraps of the same film: https://dyatlovpass.com/controversy#zolotaryovphotos

 

Flashlight, fire, someone laying with his hands sprawled up and someone carrying a ... rifle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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When I thought I've seen it all.

 

Lyudmila Dubinina is Viktor Nikitin or vice versa

https://dyatlovpass.com/funerals-1959#nikitin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 21 - beginning of the search.

The confusion.

 

The photo above is showing Ural Polytechnic Institute, a photo recovered from Dyatlov hikers camera.

 

Smoke from heating coal is filling up the sky.

 

The mood in UPI is foreboding.

 

The awareness that Dyatlov group was missing was marked by three incidents – only the first links of a long chain of misunderstandings and coincidences which we don’t call cover up. At least not yet.

 

There was confusion.

 

By February 21 UPI was buzzing like a hornets nest.

 

The telephone at the university Sports Club rang constantly. Not just the hikers’ parents and relatives, but the general public too, wanted to hear the details.

 

Women university students sat by the telephone every night to take calls.

 

At the same time, even the BBC broadcasted on radio that a group of hikers had been killed near Sverdlovsk.

 

Hikers families were worried sick and demanded search operations to start immediately.

 

Students were bursting with desire to help their friends.

 

The chairman of UPI sports club was not answering his phone, not because he was busy doing something, but because he was not aware of the situation.

 

Here are the three facts contributing to the confusion:

 

1. Yudin was supposed to relate the fact that the return date is postponed from 12 to 15 of February. This on its own is not a big delay, but the problem is that he told this to a member of Blinov bureau which on its own is a bad coincidence because Blinov group was in the same region at the same time as Dyatlov group. It seems like Blinov was the only one in UPI for some time that knew that they are not the group that is lost and kept calling the city committee to ask for news from Dyatlov.
2. So when UPI sports club chairman Lev Semenovich Gordo said that a telegram came from Vizhay on February 18th informing of group’s delay nobody checked on the fact that this was not from Dyatlov, but Blinov group. Unbelievable, but it’s a fact. There are many unbelievable facts in this whole case which is still not opened, and we will keep posting till the proceedings in 1959 are discontinued.
3. Dyatlov didn’t file a route map. Basically at the time when the search needed a flying start it turn out they didn’t know where to look. The two sides that coincided here were that Dyatlov was headstrong, didn’t like authorities, and perhaps, judging by the place their tent was later on found, he wanted to try a new approach to Mt. Otorten, not the standard one. And he wanted to play it by ear, something that won’t be approved if filed. If you file a plan you need to follow it. The second fact is that the UPI sports club administration actually allowed the group to go without all the required documents for the trip.

 

 

The necessary information began to be feverishly reconstructed from the stories of people who heard about the plans of Dyatlov group.

 

The problem with the missing map was resolved by a member of another Politech sport club - Ignaty Fokich Ryagin, a friend of the Kolevatov family, who discussed extensively with Alexander the forthcoming trek in mid January.

 

Ryagin recalled the route of the group from memory and on February 19 Rimma handed over the map to Colonel Georgy Ortyukov, a tactics instructor from the UPI military department, who led the search for the group in those February days, and subsequently put a lot of effort into clarifying the history of the Dyatlov group.

Yevgeny Zinoviev, the member of Blinov’s hiking group whom Lyuda mentioned in her diary as Zhenya, wrote later in his book Tracks in the Snow:

 

“The whole institute, and then the city itself, was buzzing around like a demolished beehive.

 

Everywhere, there were hundreds of questions.

 

‘Where are the young people?

 

What happened to them?’

 

In some circles there were already rumours about atomic tests in the mountains to the north of Ivdel.

 

People living in northern villages had seen the flash, heard the roar, and felt the blow of the shock wave.

 

On top of this, periodically – for example, once every two weeks – strange fireballs were said to appear in the night sky.

 

Starting in January 1959 many people had observed them on the outskirts of Nizhny Tagil, Serov, and Ivdel.

 

The locals were alarmed and rumors were spreading.

 

The authorities were becoming concerned and took measures to bring the situation under control.”




Kolevatova witness testimony from, , from Dyatlov group case files (page 272)

 

"... The search of the missing group started with great delay.

 

The group was supposed to return in Sverdlovsk on February 14-15, on February 12 they were to send a telegram from Vizhay, their final point along the route.

 

Parents were worried about their children and, of course, they called both the UPI sports club and the city sports club (according to Dubinina and Slobodin's families).

 

I myself called the institute only on February 17, 3 days after the expected return date.

 

I couldn't get hold of UPI sports club chairman Gordo, all my attempts to get through to him were futile.

 

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.

 

Secretary of the UPI party committee Comrade F. P. Zaostrovsky did not check on Gordo's report and did not inform the Director of UPI Comrade Syunov N.S., about the incident.

 

The Director learned about the missing group only after he was phoned by Comrade E. P. Pedchenko from the city party committee (I myself had to go to the city committee with a request to take measures to initiate search of the missing group).

 

There was a telegram though, but from a different group that was in the same area (Blinov's group), so the institute's directorate was not informed about the negligence.

 

The search began only at the insistence of the parents of tourists.

 

When the Polytechnic Institute began organizing the search, it turned out that the sports club did not have a route map which the hikers were supposed to follow in their trek, that is a scheme printed over a map.

 

The deputy chairman of the UPI sports club, Comrade Milman, learned from third parties that I had a map with the route before the group went on their hike, and called my sister Nina Sergeevna Anisimova with a request to provide the map to be used in the search.

 

But my brother Alexander took this map with him on the trek.

 

A map was given to to this brother (Comrade Milman) by Ignaty Fokich Ryagin, deputy head of the trust Gipromedrud (if I'm not mistaken in the name), friend of ours.

 

He knew about the trek because we (me and my brother) talked with him about the forthcoming trek.

 

After the call from the UPI sports club at our request I.F. Ryagin restored from memory the route and drew it on a map, which I personally passed on February 19 to Colonel Ortyukov (who was the first one to fly to find the group).

 

The above fact testifies to the utter indifference and lack of control on behalf of those responsible for organizing the campaign and launching the search groups..."




Organization of the Search, from Dyatlov group case files (page 36)

 

Organization of the Search

Return date of Dyatlov group, registered in Sverdlovsk, was 12.02.59.

 

When Yudin decided to go back due to illness, Dyatlov asked him to relate (without specifying exactly to whom) that the control date is postponed to 15.02.59.

 

On the postponement of the deadline Yudin reported privately to a certain UPI student, in particular member of Blinov bureau.

 

12.02, when the deadline expired, the GK did not know about the delay to 15.02, and the sports club UPI did not have any deadlines at all because the group took the documentation with them.

 

Until 16.02, no one was concerned about Dyatlov group.

 

 

16.02 Blinov rang to GK FK (city committee of the sports club, red) and sports club and understood that there is no telegram from Dyatlov group.

17.02 rang again

18.02 GK FK and sports club called Vinsay (Vizhay, red)

19.02 – received an answer that Dyatlov group hasn't turned up.

20.02 – it was decided to send to Ivdel Blinov and the chairman of the UPI sports club comrade Gordo.

21.02 they flew to Ivdel with a special flight and began circling above the hiking area.




Ivdel hotel where search teams stayed in 1959.


February 16
Yuri Blinov called Ufimtsev in the city committee.

February 17
UPI sports club chairman Gordo could not be reached on the phone.

February 18
Comrade Gordo informed the Party Committee of the Polytechnic Institute that a telegram had been received from Vizhay notifying that the group is delayed on the way.

The City Committee sent official inquiry to Vizhay.

February 19
The answer from Vizhay was that regretfully Dyatlov group hasn't turned up.

 

The City Committee called the airport to allocate an aircraft and helicopter for the search of the missing hikers.

February 20
Yuri Blinov and the UPI sports club chairman Gordo, together with Commander 123 squadron Ivan Emelyanovich Spitsin and senior navigator of the squadron Karpushin, left for Ivdel on Yak-12A plane.

February 21
Yuri Blinov, the engineer Mikhail Timofeevich Dryakhlih, with a commander and navigator took of on Yak-12 to look for traces from Dyatlov group.

 

The plan was to fly to the 2nd Northern, then up the Auspiya river to Otorten, further south along the Vishera river to the Oika-Chakour mountain along the valley of the North Toshemka to the village of North Toshemka.

 

Due to bad weather, they did not reach Otorten.

 

They flew to the middle course of Auspiya and North Toshemka rivers.

 

No traces of Dyatlov group were found.




The first search team loads into helicopter in Ivdel. 1959























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February 26 - first signs of Dyatlov group

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

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

Grebennik rescue group

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

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

Karelin rescue group

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

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

Yaburov, Akselrod and Tipikin, photo by Sergey Sogrin

Moses Akselrod
Tipikin
Sergey Sogrin
Yaburov
Chiglintzev

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slobtsov group split into three divisions.

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

The third division followed the trajectory of the Dyatlov group ski trail up Kholat Syakhl where they found the torn Dyatlov group tent. Boris Slobtsov and Mihail Sharavin, together with Ivan Pashin the Mansi forester, noticed the dark shape of a tent covered by snow and a protruding stovepipe on the slope of the Kholat Syakhl.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The snow had obviously drifted there and was very firm.

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

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

Iput the flashlight down and saw it was switched off.

I switched it on and there was light.

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

There were no bodies near the tent or inside it.

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

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

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

This is where the tragedy started to unfold.

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

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

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

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

A woman was called to help mending his uniform.

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

This changed the course of the investigation entirely.

Forensic analysis confirmed the cuts were indeed made from inside.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tent was suspended on a rope.

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

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

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

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

The cut made by Slobtzov when he found the tent

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

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

This scheme depicts the state of the groups last minutes quiet routine. Everything seems orderly and normal except the pile of shoes in area A.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here is the original and translated Evening Otorten №1.

The entrance of the tent was looking south.

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

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

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

Near the ice axe was lying Dyatlov's jacket. In the pockets was a pocket knife on a carabiner and a pocketbook with Zina Kolmogorova's photo inside.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other footprints were also discovered and photographed.

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

Elevated footprints

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

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

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

Pertinent testimonies from the criminal case files:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slobtsov
”There were footprints of bare feet, but in socks.

Some were from valenki, and occasionally we could make out the tread of a ski boot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Several Mansi natives joined the group.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most took this as a good omen.

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

During dinner Boris Slobtzov raised a toast for the health of his friends and expressed hope that they will be found soon.

Local forester, Ivan Pashin, was less optimistic about finding everyone alive and suggested that they should probably drink for the dead rather than the living.

Students found his words offensive and almost beat him up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The storage seemed undisturbed. (read more)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 27 - the cedar and first bodies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They are both the biggest men in the group.”

Neither Sharavin nor Koptelov were questioned during the investigation.

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

The statement in the criminal files is by Slobtsov:

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Krivonischenko’s right leg has no footwear.

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

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

On the backs of his hands the skin is torn.

Between the fingers there is blood.

The index finger is also torn.

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

There are no more visible injuries on his body.

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

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

Brusnitsin
“Next to the bodies was a fire.

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

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

Some of these were lying next to the fire.

The snow around was trampled.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

We saw around 20 such cut stumps.

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

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

First of all, they are not good for firewood.

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

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

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

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

But we didn’t find the actual clothes themselves.

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

Also, we found some money, eight rubles.”

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

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

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

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

One was cut four or five meters high.

They were thick.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The same day, at a distance of 1100 meters from the tent and 300 meters from the cedar, the body of Igor Dyatlov was found. He was lying on his back, his head in the direction of the tent, with no hat, covered with snow, and with his arm leaning on a small birch sapling.

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

Igor Dyatlov's body partialy cleared from the snow.

Maslennikov
“Dyatlov was lying 300 m away from the cedar towards the tent, next to a birch [sapling] with his face up. His left hand was kind of dragged to his face as if he had tried to protect himself from the wind.

He was dressed better than Doroshenko and Krivonischenko.

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

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

Also, he was without his padded jacket or windbreaker.

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

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

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

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

There are no visible injuries on the body.

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

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

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

The prosecutor and Maslennikov are trying to identify them.”

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

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

The snow was compacted.

There were ice-covered rock craters all around.

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

The corpses were frozen and broken like glass.

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

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

They were anxious to find them and bring help. Initially, the students were very eager; they didn’t eat and worked up a sweat.

Then, once they realized their friends were dead, the tension let up. Silence fell all around.”

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

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

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

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

The team recognized Kolmogorova.”

Tempalov
“There are no trees for seventy meters.

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

The arms are bent under the body.

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

This gives the impression she was climbing.

Her face is covered in blood.

In the small of her back there’s blood.

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

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

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

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

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

The prosecutor called for medical experts to see the bodies.

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

We’ve found Dyatlov’s document bag.”

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

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

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

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

The search produced nothing.

No other footprints or animal tracks were found.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 28 - conspiracy or negligence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These bodies were found next day - 27 February 1959.

Prosecutor Tempalov decision to open a case.

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

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

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

Evgeny Vadimovich Buyanov

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

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

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

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

Decision to extend the investigation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On 26 February she sent a telegram to Nikita Khrushchev.

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

Every hour counts now"

Rimma Kolevatova's telegram to Nikita Khrushchev

The telegram was shown in Kremlin on February 27.

Rimma Kolevatova's in her testimony from April 14 clearly shows her knowledge that a telegram from the hikers sent from Vizhay was expected on February 12 with a notice about their arrival in Sverdlovks.

Kolevatov's sister, in her despair, made up and earlier date of the group’s expected return date to make the facts more ominous.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The searches continue.

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

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

Minister of the Interior of the RSFSR”

Testimony of Vasiliy Popov, Case files sheet 48

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

This is setting a very bad precedent.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 2 - the storage (labaz)

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

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

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

Slobtsov and Kourikov at Dyatlov group labaz

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

In different sources they call the site "labaz".

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

Photo of a Mansi labaz from Krivonischenko's camera

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

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

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

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

Yudin returned on his skis.

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

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

Yudin’s memory isn’t flawless.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dyatlov group labaz the way it was found

The group had one ice axe yet two were found

 

 

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

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

There is a 1 pc of ice axe.

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

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

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

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

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

Inventory protocol of Dyatlov group cache (labaz)

Protocol
inspection the storage (labaz)

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

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

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

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

Sheet 9
- 2 -
upon excavation of the cache the following products were found:

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

Sheet 10
- 3 -
According to Blinov the insulated boots belonged Dyatlov.

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

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

Protocol is read, and written correctly.

Maslennikov (signature)
Slobtsov (signature)
Attorney forensic Jr Counselor of Justice Ivanov (signature)

Possible locations of the cache site (labaz).

To this day we don’t know where exactly the labaz is located.

All we know is 400 m from the rescue camp and many testimonies from search party members where that camp was, but there is no indication in which direction from the rescue camp was the labaz found.

The exact location is important since this is the starting point of Dyatlov group in their last day alive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 4 - first 4 autopsy reports

On March 4, an expert of the Regional Bureau of Forensic Expertise, Boris Alexandrovich Vozrozhdenny and forensic expert of the city of Severouralsk Ivan Ivanovich Laptev, carried out the autopsies of the dead hikers brought to Ivdel.

In order to properly assess the circumstances of what happened on the slope of Kholat Syakhl, we are describing the clothes in which they were delivered for anatomical post mortem examination and basic bodily injuries, noted by the experts in their autopsy reposrt of Yuri Doroshenko, Yuri (Georgy) Krivonischenko, Igor Dyatlov and Zinaida Kolmogorova.

Yuri Doroshenko (21)

 

Yuri Doroshenko post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Yuri Doroshenko was 180 cm tall, most sturdy and tallest member of the group.

The complexion of the deceased has been described as "brown-purple".

He was wearing sleeveless cotton undershirt, short sleeve checkered shirt with two empty breast pockets with all six buttons fastened, shorts and swimming trunks, blue cotton underpants fastened with two buttons - badly ripped on the front of the right side with one large hole 23 cm in length and inside the thigh of the left side 13 cm in length.

He was wearing different set of wool socks on both feet, socks on left foot were burned.

No shoes.

Livor mortis spots were located at the back of the neck, torso and extremities, which was not consistent with the position of the body in which it was found.

This means the body was moved some time after the blood stopped circulating.

Yuri Doroshenko injuries

1. in the hair of the deceased expert found particles of moss and pine needles; hair is burned on the right side of the head
2. ear, nose and lips are covered with blood
3. swollen upper lip with dark red hemorrhage
4. right cheek soft tissue covered with gray foam; gray liquid coming form his open mouth. Most apparent cause is pulmonary edema.
5. ear auricles in bluish-red color; in the right ear lobe and tragus dense patches of brown-red color
6. inner surface of the right shoulder has two abrasions 2x1.5 cm with no bleeding in the tissues, two cuts on the skin
7. right armpit has a bruise 2x1.5 cm
8. brown-red bruises with size 4x1 cm, 2.5x1.5 cm, 5x5 cm in the upper third of right forearm
9. swelling and small abrasions in the rear of the right hand soft tissue
10. bruise with bleeding into the underlying soft tissue on the back of the right hand corresponding to the second metacarpal bone
11. the soft tissues of both hands and fingers tips are especially dark purple; all fingers and toes are severelly frostbitten. If Yuri Doroshenko would have survived, he would have required an amputation of all his toes and fingers.
12. on the inner surface of the left shoulder in the lower third abrasion brown-redcolor
13. on the inner surfaces of the left elbow minor abrasions brownish-red color
14. on the inner surface of the left forearm there is a surface skin wound covered with dried blood
15. similar bruises in pale red color on the shins of both legs

Amount of urine was 150 cm3.

This volume is smaller than what it would be expected in case of death by hypothermia.

The body was still making efforts to fight the freezing at the time of death.

The hypothermic death cases have significantly more urine in the bladder (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov).

The foamy grey fluid that was found on the right cheek of the deceased started the speculations that before death someone or something was pressing on his chest cavity.

This forceful method was common for interrogation by the NKVD (Stalin's Secret Police) and Special Forces.

The cause could also be a nasty fall from a tree.

This aspect was ignored in the final papers, that read cause of death: hypothermia.

Experts described the injuries - bruises and abrasions, as non-life threatening and explained them with Doroshenko hitting himself in rocks and ice, and other surrounding objects, in the state of agony.

Death, according to the file, occurred 6-8 hours after the last meal.

Full autopsy report of Yuri Doroshenko →

Yuri Krivonischenko (23)

 

Yuri Krivonischenko post mortem in Ivdel hospital

His body was discovered under the cedar tree.

He was dressed in a undershirt, long sleeved checkered shirt, swimming pants, long underpants and torn sock on his left foot.

No footwear.

Yuri Krivonischenko injuries

1. bruises on the forehead 0.3x1.8 cm
2. diffuse bleeding in the right temporal and occipital region due to damage to temporalis muscle
3. bruise around left temporal bone
4. tip of the nose is missing, no traces of blood meaning it was bitten most probably by animals post mortem, the deceased was found face up
5. frostbitten ears
6. portion of the epidermis from the right hand is found in the mouth of the deceased
7. back of the right hand is swollen, fingers are brownish-purple
8. tips of the fingers on right hand are dark brown color, minor skin abrasions on the soft tissue
9. palm of the right hand bluish-red color, dark brown skin wound with jagged edges at the base of the thumb
10. in the middle phalanx of the fingers 4-5 cutaneous wound with hard edges and charred surface
11. detachment of the 2 cm epidermis on the back of his left hand
12. abrasion in pale red color on the right side of the chest 7x2 cm and 2x1.2 cm
13. pale red abrasions along middle clavicular line at the edge of the rib of the right hypochondrium
14. dark red abrasions on left wrist, back of the left hand is swollen
15. pink and brown-red bruise on his left buttock 10x3 cm
16. three linear skin lesions with straight edges, sharp corners and depth up to 0.3 cm on the inner side of the upper third of the left thigh
17. three cutaneous wounds with sharp corners on the inner side of the upper third of the left hip
18. dark brown abrasion on the front of the right femur and tibia
19. dark brown-red abrasions on the front-inner left thigh
20. edema on the left leg and foot, burn in the area the size of 31x10 cm on the entire outer surface of the leg
21. patches in area 10x4 cm of brown-red epidermis peeling from the back of the left foot, second toe charred to dark brown color and the tissue is dense to the touch

The amount of urine in the bladder was 500 cm3.

Cause of death: hypothermia.

The presence of skin between his teeth that was torn from his hand might suggest that Krivonischenko tried to stay on the cedar tree as long as he could and tried to awaken his irresponsive hands by biting himself, or he was trying to stifle a cry.

The first two bodies of (Doroshenko and Krivonischenko) that were found from the Dyatlov Pass incident showed an expected pattern of death.

They froze to death.

Their clothes were removed by their friends.

It might sound bad, but this is the reality of Siberia.

If you can't keep yourself warm, you will die quickly.

One of the most common myths that surround these deaths is a theory of so-called "paradoxical undressing".

This theory ignores the fact that the bodies were undressed after they died and it was done by other members with a help of a knife in some cases.

Different articles of clothing were simply cut from the dead bodies or taken off and used by other members of the group.

The sliers clearly showed logical will to live.

There was no state of panic and there were no illogical actions.

Bodies were carefully and respectfully laid side by side and their possessions were divided among the survivors.

Full autopsy report of Yuri Krivonischenko →

Igor Dyatlov (23)

 

Igor Dyatlov post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Igor Dyatlov was found 300 m from the cedar tree, face up, head towards the tent.

Above the snow were visible only his hands clenched into fists folded in front of his chest.

The unbuttoned jacket is unusual for somebody that is freezing to death.

Height 175 cm, the complexion of the deceased has been described as "bluish-red".

He had unbuttoned fur sleeveless vest - outer side blue cotton, inner side dark grey fur (Yudin later recognized this as vest he gave Krivonishenko when they parted), a blue sweater, long sleeve red cotton shirt, in the breats pocket 4 pills Streptocide (anti-inflammatory agent used for wound infection) still in the blister, blue sleeveless cotton singlet, ski pants over his pants.

No shoes.

He had one cotton sock on his left foot, and one woolen sock on his right foot.

It is hard to explain this uneven distribution.

It could be that he had two socks on one foot and later took it off to protect the other bare foot.

It might have been someone's sock who simply gave it away to protect a friend from a certain death.

The watch "Zvezda" (Star) on the his wrist had stopped at 5:31 .

Igor Dyatlov injuries

1. minor abrasions on the forehead
2. minor abrasions on the upper eyelids
3. brown-red abrasions above the left eyebrow
4. minor abrasions on the left cheek
5. brown-red abrasions on both cheeks
6. dried blood on lips
7. lower jaw had a missing incisor, the mucosa was intact that suggest the tooth was lost long before the final trip
8. bruised knees without bleeding into the underlying tissues
9. both ankles had brownish red abrasions, size 1x0.5 cm and 3x2.5 cm with hemorrhage into the underlying tissue
10. single incision 4x2 cm in the lower third of the right tibia
11. many small scratches of dark red color on the lower third of the right forearm and palm surface
12. purple-gray discoloration on back side of the right hand
13. metacarpophalangeal joints on the right hand had brown red bruises. This is common injury in hand to hand fights. To get a better idea of the injuries just make a fist. This is the part of the hand which you use to hit someone.
14. left hand is brown-purple color with brownish-red bruises
15. superficial wounds on the 2nd and 5th finger on the left hand
16. skin wound in the palmar surface of the 2nd 5th finger of left hand

There were no internal injuries.

Amount of urine in the bladder about 1000 cm3.

Cause of death: hypothermia.

Later Yury Yudin will testify that the long sleeved shirt found on the body of Igor Dyatlov was his.

But he gave it to Doroshenko then he was departing.

It would be logical to assume that Dyatlov got it from a frozen body of the Doroshenko after he had died.

Full autopsy report of Igor Dyatlov →

Zinaida Kolmogorova (22)

 

Zinaida Kolmogorova post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Zinaida was found 630 m from the cedar, face down, head towards the tent.

She was better dressed than the bodies under the cedar.

She had two hats, long sleeve undershirt, sweater, checkered shirt and another sweater with torn cuff of the right sleeve.

It was unclear whether she cut them it or it was torn by another person.

Sweaters were inside out which is not unusual for mountaineers when they try to dry clothes by wearing them.

Waist down Zinaida was wearing cotton sport pants, trousers, ski pants with three small holes at the bottom of the right trouser-leg, and three pairs of socks.

Two pairs were thin, then the third pair was woolen with insoles inside.

No footwear.

In her pockets were found 5 rubles and a military style protective mask on the left side of her chest between the top sweater and the checkered shirt underneath.

Zinaida Kolmogorova injuries

1. dark red abrasion on the right frontal eminence
2. pale gray area 3x2 cm above the right eyebrow
3. dark red abrasion on the upper eyelids
4. brown red graze on the bridge and tip of the nose
5. numerous abrasions on the left cheekbone
6. bruised skin on the right side of the face
7. brown-red abrasion on the back of both hands in the area of metacarpal phalangeal and inter-phalangeal joints
8. wound with jagged edges and missing skin on the back of the right hand at the base of the third finger
9. frostbites on the phalanges of fingers
10. a long bright red bruise 29x6 cm in the lumbar region on the right side of the torso. The bruise looks like left from a baton

Amount of urine in bladder is 300 cm3.

Cause of death: hypothermia due to violent accident.

Medical examination shows that Zinaida was not sexually active at the time of her death.

This fact is only relative to (1) asses the nature of the relationship between Zinaida Kolmogorova and Igor Dyatlov, and (2) if escaped prisoners were to blame for the crime it's doubtful that they would have left the girls alone.

Full autopsy report of Zinaida Kolmogorova →

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 5 - the body of Rustem Slobodin is found

Rustem Slobodin’s father, a university professor in Sverdlovsk, was born in Ivdel.

He joined the search party of students coming from Sverdlovsk.

In Ivdel he was granted a permission to go to the search and rescue camp.

Rustem and his father had a special bond, not only as a father-son but they shared the love for the mountains.

In the summer of 1958 Rustem together with his father made a traverse from Frunze (present Bishkek) to Andijan, where Rustem's older brother worked.

This 300-kilometer trek took place in mountainous sparsely populated area of western Tien Shan.

In the less inhabited lands when ethnic Russians travelers meet with Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Uzbeks, Dungans - when there are no witnesses to the encounter, everything is possible.

Nevertheless, both father and son made it through these dangerous mountains.

They relied on their own strength and were ready to stand up for themselves.

This trip establishes Rustem as courageous, hardened, dependable and adventurous.

After spending several days questioning around about sightings of the Dyatlov group, Rustem’s father went back to Sverdlovsk.

The next day, 5 March 1959, Rustem’s body was found.

Rustem Slobodin's body partially cleared by the snow.

Rustem's body was found face down 480 m from the cedar tree covered with 50 cm of snow.

He was in a dynamic pose, with his left hand extended.

Slobodin was the first body (and remained the only one) with an ice (dead) bed underneath.

This is indicative of him being alive (relatively warm) when he fell in the snow.

Since he was the strongest member of the group physically, is not very likely that he would give up walking before anybody else, even Kolmogorova whose body was found on the February 27.

It is probable that Rustem was impaired to walk by something else besides hypothermia and exhaustion.

Akselrod:
“One of his legs, the right one I think, was in a valenki, and his left foot, without a valenki, was under his right foot.

His face was completely calm without any trace of violence.

Under his chest and the rest of the body was a layer of half snow, half ice about 7 cm deep, which gives me reason to think he didn’t die immediately but was alive for some time after he lay down.

His watch had stopped at 8:45.”

Thsi is how the bodies were transported to the airlift pad.

All the bodies found were transported to Ivdel, where they were examined in the prison hospital’s morgue.

The bodies of Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova, and possibly Dyatlov.

Boot Rock today and 1959, where Kolmogorova and Krivonishchenko (and possibly Dyatlov) lay for the rescue helicopter.

Valentin Yakimenko
“We lived in a special Army tent and were all together – students and six people in black padded jackets.

[The men in black jackets] all had pistols with them and were from a special group of the KGB.

There were also about nine invited personnel dressed in white sheepskin bomber jackets with crew cuts, all young.

Every day we worked in deep snow, at least knee deep but often waist deep.

So we worked very slowly and for many hours per day, testing with the three-meter probes.

Sometimes when our probes touched something and we thought that we had found a body, we would dig feverishly with full power, shovels and hands, but the snow would fall back.

Finally, we would find something.

‘Oh shit, it’s a tree trunk.’

We would start again.”

The search team probing the deep snow in the valley of Lozva river.

The army brought some metal detectors, but they didn’t penetrate the snow effectively. In addition, the bodies were half dressed and didn’t have significant amounts of metal on them.

So the search teams primarily used the three-meter-long metal probes.

Line of people - shеrenga in russian

The cost of the search operations was very high.

There is an official letter from Nikolay Klinov, the Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk region, to S.A. Golunskim, the Director of the National Institution of Research in Criminology, which states:
“The enormous expense of the search may keep growing if no new method of searching for the corpses is applied.

We know that your institution planned to create a device for spotting bodies buried underground using ultrasound.

We heard there were some successful results when the device was used in similar situations.

We think it would be reasonable to let us try to use such a device in our current search.”

The institute issued an official reply stating that they didn’t have such a device.

Every night, the radio message sent by the search team reported:

“Nothing new.

We continue searching.”

Note by Lev Ivanov

“Фотографии поисковой группы.

Ширенга людей после шло зондирование - прокол щупами снега через каждые 50 см на всю глубину до земли, а затем щуп закручивали и вытаскивали.

Зацепляли либо кровь, либо одежду, волосы, и иногда был и мусор.
Иванов”

“Photos of the search party.

People line up and start probing puncturing the snow every 50 cm all the way to the ground, then the probe was twisted and pulled out catching either blood, or clothes, hair, sometimes there was garbage.
Ivanov”

Note by Lev Ivanov

“Долина гибели туристов и технология поиска
отдельно сфотографирован мастер спорта Е. П. Масленников - руководитель поисковой группы
подпись (Иванов)”

“The valley of the death of tourists and search technology
separately photographed master of sports E.P. Maslenikov - head of the search party
signature (Ivanov)”

The photos these notes refer to can be seen here →

Till the discovery of Rustem’s body the Search operation was still holding the momentum of a rescue.

The students worked tirelessly hardly remembering to eat.

When the fact that their friends were actually possibly all dead finally sank to their minds the despair hit them bad.

From praising the survival ability of their pals they went 180°.

There was a reporter, Gennady Konstantinovich Grigoriev, present at the search whose recollection describes the mood that settled in the camp.

“All night, yesterday, they spoke about the dead.

About why they broke open the tent, etc. It was said that Dyatlov really was full of himself and loved to issue commands.

One time he told the group to go from one side of a river to the other for no reason.

Simply without reason.

One day everyone became so outraged by his behavior they stopped following his orders.

Then he left them and went on a hunger strike.

When he was part of the rank and file he was good.

[but as a leader] all mistakes were attributed to him.

Two people in particular, who’d been with him before, spoke about this.

They said negative things about him as the leader of a group.

One said it was stupid for the group to have left at three o’clock, when darkness would fall in one-and-a-half to two hours.”

Dyatlov was a hero till now.

The time came when the dead were blamed for their own demise.

This is indication of a crumbling moral, lost hope and a deep and sincere heartbreak.

The search party was running on fumes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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