Tragedia na Przełęczy Diatłowa (1 luty 1959 r.)

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March 8 - autopsy of Rustem Slobodin

Rustem Slobodin post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Rustem's body was found 480 m from the cedar on March 5, the day after the autopsy of the first four bodies, covered with 50 cm of snow, face down, head towards the tent.

He was better dressed that the previously found hikers.

He wore a long sleeve undershirt, shirt, sweater, two pairs of pants, four pairs of socks, and one felt boot (valenka) on his right foot.

His watch stopped at 8:45 am.

On the chest under the sweater were two shoe insoles, in the shirt pocket - 310 rubles and his passport.

In other pockets were found small folding pocket knife (penknife), pencil, pen, comb in a plastic sleeve, box of matches with 48 match sticks, and one cotton sock.

His autopsy was performed on March 8 by Vozrozhdenny alone.

Rustem Slobodin injuries

1. hemorrhages in the temporalis muscles
2. minor brownish red abrasions on the forehead
3. two scratches are 1.5 cm long at the distance of 0.3 cm between them
4. brownish red bruise on the upper eyelid of the right eye with hemorrhage into the underlying tissues
5. traces of blood discharge from the nose
6. swelling and a lot of small abrasions on both sides of the face
7. bruises in the metacarpophalangeal joints on both hands (bruised knuckles). Similar bruises are common in hand to hand fight
8. brown cherry bruises on the medial aspect of the left arm and left palm
9. swollen lips
10. bruises on the left tibia in dimensions at 2.5x1.5 cm (not shown on diagram)
11. epidermis is torn from the right forearm (not shown on diagram)
12. fracture of the frontal bone 6x0.1 cm located 1.5 cm from the sagittal suture (showing on separate skull trauma diagram without numbers)

 

Boris Alekseevich Vozrozhdenny suggested that the fracture in his skull could be done with some blunt object.

Medical autopsy further states that Slobodin probably suffered loss of coordination due to initial shock right after the blow that could speed up his death from hypothermia.

However the conclusion is predictably careful.

Death of Rustem Slobodin is ruled as a result of hypothermia.

All bruises and scratches were blamed on last minute agony.

Although it is still somewhat unclear how did he manage to harm his exterior hands and legs.

When the person falls even in an irrational state it is usually the palms that suffer the most as well as medial aspects of the legs.

Injury to the head are less common, especially bilateral ones.

It is also unusual to harm the face and sides of the skull while the back of the head has no damage.

In case of Slobodin's body we see the opposite.

His injury pattern is a reverse of what we would usually see in injuries suffered by a freezing man in the last minutes of his life.

It looks as if Rustem fell repeatedly on his face as he was walking down the mountain.

And every time he fell he managed to hit the sides of the his head.

This is unusual for a man who was probably in a better physical shape than anyone else in the group.

Even a long ski trip could hardly be responsible for this alleged "clumsiness".

Rustem's body was the only one with icy bed under from the hardening of the thawing snow.

This means that the body fell when relatively still warm and there was a noticeable heat exchange into the environment.

On Doroshenko, Kolmogorova and Slobodin the livor mortis spots were on the top surface of the body.

This allows speculations that the bodies were moved (turned over) after their death.

This finding is controversial.

In "Судебно-медицинское исследование тела Рустема Слободина. Незаданные вопросы и неполученные ответы..." ("Forensic examination of the body of Rustem Slobodin.

Answers not received on questions not asked...") - scroll to the bottom, the author speculates that the medical examiner Vozrozhdenny mistook frostbite erythema for livor mortis.

Article is citing the forensic bible at the time "Forensic medicine" 1953 by M. I. Rayski where there is no mentioning of frostbite erythema but on p. 233 it says that livor mortis in frozen cadavers change color when carried in a warm room from purple to light red, and then darken again.

Same thing happens with frostbite erythema when defrosting a corpse.

So the author of the article says "it is not surprising that the medical examiner Vozrozhdenny thought that he sees livor mortis spots".

Why did Rustem Slobodin die first?

This is a speculative reenactment of the events outside the tent up on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl on Dyatlov group last night alive.

This story is based the following facts:

• sightings of light effects in the sky are common for this latitude ***
• Zolotoryov and Thibeaux-Brignolles were wearing felt boots (valenki)
• the camera found around Zolotoryov's neck
• frame from Zolotoryov's damaged film
• Thibeaux-Brignolles and Krivonischenko’s knives were found in their parkas inside the tent
• Kolevatov's Finish knife was found inside the tent in March
• The black plastic sheath of that same knife was found outside the tent in May when the snow started to melt
• Kolevatov was wearing one felt boot on his right foot
• Dyatlov's jacket was found outside the tent, knife in his pocket
• Dyatlov's flashlight was found on top of the tent
• Slobodin's injuries
• Rustem's body was the only one with icy bed under from the hardening of the thawing snow

 

*** Here is a statement of someone familiar with the region: "I have lived a number of years above the Arctic Circle.

Lights, fireballs, and other strange luminescent events are common.

People in the lower latitudes only know about 'the Northern Lights' but there is a whole range of strange and spectacular things that happen at the higher latitudes.

And it's not all lights either.

Sound events often occur too, with and without lights.

I have heard and seen things that I would think were alien ships whizzing by or crashing if I wasn't an engineer with a physics education.

The amount of energy deflected and channeled by the earth's magnetic field is enormous and causes all sorts of light and sound shows at the higher latitudes.

Everyone wants to treat the fireball events seen around the time of the Dyatlov tragedy as special.

Sorry, that sort of thing is not special at all.

Go spend a couple winters up there and you'll see.

I have.

And I am not impressed at all by the stories.

They are as common as hurricanes in Florida.

Sure, some are bigger than others and some seasons have few and others a lot.

But what was seen was not unique."

Let's read about an incident that happened on March 31, 1959. Sergey Sogrin, 4th year student in UPI, went out of the rescuers tent to relief himself at 4 am and saw a "fireball" (the emergency flight of the R-7 ICBM from Tyuratam to Kur).

He went back to the tent and alarmed Meshteryakov, who was the watchman at that time, and who woke up the rest of the rescuers.

They all went out to look at the fireball the way they were sleeping or else they will miss the show.

They were wearing socks only, and trying to step on branches that were laying around the tent.

Does it ring a bell?

What if Zolotoryov and Thibeaux-Brignolles put their valenki and went out to relief themselves, saw something in the sky, Zolotoryov might have rushed back to the tent to get his camera and called the rest of the hikers to observe whatever was happening in the sky.

I am speculating that whatever got the hikers out of the tent was in the sky and not an immediate threat because they would otherwise try to put on some shoes, clothes, and take their knives.

Dyatlov went out in his jacket and there was a knife in his pocket.

Kolevatov had his Finish knife in a sheath hung on his belt.

They would also have exited the tent through its designated opening, and not cutting through the sides, or else they wouldn't arrange and look up in the sky while Zolotoryov is shooting photos above their heads.

Cutting through the sides of the tent would call for running for their lives which did not happen.

The footprints show walking in the snow, not running.

While they watch the sky something goes terribly wrong.

But they are 9 young and physically fit people, 2 women amongst them.

Behavior analysis says that it is very probable somebody to try to stand up for the group.

If they were threatened with (machine) guns and ordered to strip (Dyatlov's jacket was found outside the tent), Kolevatov must have unbuckled his belt to remove the sheath and throw it in the snow.

If Slobodin snatched the blade from the sheath and try to confront the attackers, he would have been beaten to be incapacitated, not just for intimidation.

He received several heavy blows to the head, capable of knocking anyone out, he had low foot injury (two well-known abrasions remained on the lower third of the left shin), crack in the skull (on the left side) that looks very much like from a butt of an firearm, bilateral hemorrhages in the temporal muscles, abrasions and scratches on the forehead, abrasions on the left cheekbone and eyelid of the right eye.

Rustem had bloody nose too.

These injuries are consistent with boxing or wrestling i.e. hand to hand fight.

Rustem had bruised knuckles and laceration of the skin in the lower part of the right forearm (like Yuri Doroshenko).

Now lets turn our attention to the black plastic sheath that Yuri Yudin and Rimma Kolevatova identified as belonging to Alexander Kolevatov.

The knife was a present from Rimma to her brother and she knew it very well.

The knife was found in the tent, and the sheath was outside the tent.

What is more interesting is why the sheath was without a belt.

The owner had to unbuckle the belt, remove the sheath, and then put the belt back through the loops of the pants - this manipulation itself is rather strange, because a knife suspended in a sheath does not cause inconvenience.

You can quickly get used to it and stop noticing it, you can even sleep with it without any problems.

But Kolevatov for some reason decided to get rid of the sheath.

Apart from this, the knife was removed from the sheath outside the tent.

If Kolevatov really saved his friends from under the snow slump and cut his tent with his "fink" from the inside, the picture should have been the opposite - the empty sheath is in the tent, and the knife is outside it.

That's not the case though.

Something prompted Alexander Kolevatov to remove the knife in its sheath from the belt and throw it into the snow, as if they were unnecessary to him - and this action is completely absurd in the case of any non-criminal scenario of events.

A knife dramatically increases his chances of survival in an uncertain environment.

The logic in removing the sheath from the belt and throwing out the knife can only be in case of forced disarmament, i.e. execution of the team under threat of reprisal.

Another scenario - there is an avalanche and Kolevatov, the only one with his knife on the belt pulls it out, cuts the tent from the inside to secure an escape route, then throws the knife away to help his friends out.

The knife is registered to him and if he loses the "Finn" he can get up to 5 years of imprisonment (Article 182 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR in the redaction of 1926 with additions from 1933 and 1935).

Lets say Kolevatov is not rational.

But why stop outside and make the much more lengthy exercise of removing the empty sheath from his belt?

After Kolevatov put his "Finn" in the sheath on the snow, someone tried to use the knife.

There is no other explanation why the sheath is empty outside the tent. Alexei Rakitin in his article "Why Rustem Slobodin froze first?" ("Почему Рустем Слободин замёрз первым?") in his online edition "Death is not far behind... " (my friend Andrei Andreev contributed this loose translation of "Смерть, идущая по следу…") makes a very good speculative reenactment of the events surrounding the first encounter of the group with their attackers.

Because of Rustem Slobodin's character, background, type of injuries and how he was found - Rakitin believes that Rustem Slobodin was the person who pulled the "Finn" out of the sheath and try to resist.

The moment when he must have tried that would be when he bent to remove his felt boots.

He was found with only one felt boot on his right foot.

Slobodin remained in the same felt-boots: the first he took off himself before grabbing the knife, and after the beating no one began to pull off the second felt from the unconscious body.

The other two hikers wearing felt boots were Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles and Semyon Zolotaryov.

In my scenario they have their boots on because they went out to relief themselves while the rest of the hikers were called out to look at "fireball" in the sky.

Even if the attackers did not care about their boots and marched the hikers down the slope after Rustem caused the commotion, I cannot explain why they didn't "loose" Zolotoryov's camera.

No matter who they were, the perpetrators must have known what a camera was for and that there could be incriminating photos that will survive the ordeal.

In Rakitin's scenario Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles and Semyon Zolotaryov were out when the tent was attacked and they hid or ran in the dark, and joined their friends later on when they were already marching down the slope.

I have it difficult to adhere to this version because the hikers were stalked before the confrontation.

I don't see a way that Thibeaux-Brignolles and Zolotaryov will come out unnoticed.

They couldn't have been out in their felt boots for more than 5-10 mins, and the traces of urine were not far away from the tent.

Nobody goes to pee in the untrampled snow.

The beating of Slobodin was the climax in the scene at the tent.

Suppressed by all seen and heard, not understanding the essence of what is happening, the hikers have already obediently performed the last command of their tormentors: "Get out of here while you can!"

Having picked up Rustem Slobodin, who was not yet fully come to life, the tourists pulled down the slope, intuitively realizing not to go in the direction of the labaz (cache), so their attackers would not vandalize the provisions they have left there.

The hikers did not run, the attackers told them to scram.

Their first reaction to the incident was quite understandable - they were relieved that the extremely shameful, disgusting and senseless scene of their general humiliation and beating had ended.

The weather was relatively warm -5°С to -7°С - and compared to the stress such cold did not seem prohibitive or even dangerous. Very soon - literally a few dozen meters from the tent - the group was joined by the Thibeaux-Brignolles and Zolotaryov.

While going down the slope the reunited group was engaged in a animated discussion of the incident, a discussion that must have been very polemical and even conflicting.

Zolotaryov knew more than others and had the most extensive life experience, it he must have offered a plan, perhaps even imposed it on the rest of the group.

What this action plan was, we will never know and can only guess.

We know that the tracks down the slope converged, then parted, but kept a common direction, and the hikers were always within a earshot.

They certainly talked on the move, adrenaline high, vigorously proving and convincing each other of one thing or another. So, what does it prove?

Objectively, nothing, or rather, just that the hikers descending the slope had the intention of sticking together.

However, for a psychologist this "swarming of the footsteps" ("Human Swarming and the future of Collective Intelligence") there is considerable meaning. Hikers intuitively divided into groups "according to preferences" - when someone suggested a reasonable plan of action, supporters moved closer to him, when another reasonable proposal followed - people went to him.

This does not mean that the hikers ran from one leader to another, this is unconscious movement.

Unfortunately the tracks were not photographed and studied by the investigators.

If this were the case, after the discovery of the corpses, prints on the snow could have been matched to a specific person.

Imagine being able to say: here Lyudmila Dubinina walks for 150 m along with Dyatlov, and then moves closer to Zolotaryov and continues descending beside him; Kolevatov always remains near Semen Zolotaryov; Rustem Slobodin moves a little apart from the rest of the hikers and in a general does not seem to be involved in the conversation ...

We could have followed each of the group members down the slope and their body language could have said a lot about the last hours of their lives, about the clustering from the cedar in particular.

Rustem Slobodin was suffering from the cerebral trauma he received stumbled behind the group.

At a distance of about 1 km from the tent he fell into the snow.

Rustem lost consciousness and the ability to move about 20 mins after the attack.

It is well known that people who have suffered the heaviest knockout and who received a severe closed brain injury can recover and for some time demonstrate satisfactory condition (until the intracranial hemorrhage begins to put pressure on the meninges).

Soccer players can continue the game, the boxer can break into a fight ... well-known video recordings of athletes who received death craniocerebral injuries during the competition, but at the same time show complete self-control and external well-being for a while.

After 10-20 minutes, it ends with a call to the team physician first, and then - the paramedics.

This phenomenon of the seeming vigor of an already actually dying person is sometimes very accurately called "deferred death".

The speed of development of the process is significantly affected by the motor activity of the victim and the temperature of the environment - both slow the growth of hemorrhage.

No one noticed the disappearance of Rustem Slobodin in the dark - the group went ahead leaving their mortally wounded friend lagging behind.

Rustem was the first to die, this is clearly indicated by the high temperature of his body at the time of the fall in the snow.

Underneath was discovered the so-called "bed of the corpse", a layer of melted snow that forms from the warmth of the body.

Such a "bed of the corpse" was present only under Slobodin's body, the rest of the hikers found on the slope and at the cedar were already very cold by the time they fell to the ground.

The icy dead bed under the body of Rustem Slobodin is a strong argument against the sanitisation of the scene.

There are theories of the hikers being killed elsewhere and being brought on the slope of Mt Kholat Syakhl post mortem.

The perpetrators won’t bother to fake a dead bed on only one body, if it is possible to stage a thing like that at all.

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March 9 and 10 - the first 5 funerals

Yuri Doroshenko, Zina Kolmogorova, Igor Dyatlov and Rustem Slobodin found their last peace in Mikhailovskoe cemetery, and Yuri (Georgiy) Krivonischenko was buried in Ivanovskoe cemetery.

Yakimenko, student in UPI and participant in the Search operation:
"I hung up the announcement of the funerals in the foyer of the main building of the UPI.

Half an hour later I was summoned by the Party Committee of the UPI, where the secretary, Kasuhin, reproached me for disturbance and made me remove the flyers.

I refused, but someone took them now anyway.

The reaction of the secretary of the Party Committee is incomprehensible, evidently he is afraid of something.

March 9 - an update: Today will be buried only four people, and Yuri Krivonischenko, for some reason in another, Ivanovskoe cemetery, although his parents did not object to his son being buried with the others.

We hung another announcement about the funerals.

It was immediately taken down by someone.

We are outraged.

Decided everyone to go in their faculty and by course walk around each classroom and inform the students about the hour and place of the funerals."

The authorities surrounded the funerals with lots of fog and omissions, which greatly overshadowed the already unpleasant event.

At first the CPSU tried to persuade the parents of the dead to bury their children in Ivdel quickly and quietly, and the relatives members of the party were reminded of the "party conscience" and unequivocally threatened with reprimand for their obstinacy to bring their dead to Sverdlovks.

When it became clear that all attempts to obtain consent to the funeral in Ivdel did not yield the desired result, the party retreated and allowed funerals in Sverdlovsk.

However, the commies did not manage to gain full control on how the funerals would be organized.

Two flyers manage to escape the censorship, notifying about the place and time of the civil funeral.

Obscuring the funerals detail was done, apparently, in order to limit the number of people who came to attend.

Nevertheless, on March 9, 1959, a crowd of thousands gathered.

When the procession reached Mikhailovskoe cemetery, the funeral procession was not let in through the main gate, but from the adjacent street, for which it was necessary to disassemble the fence.

This is what the boorish attitude of the authorities towards the people came down to.

Thousands of people took part in the funeral procession in Svredlovsk despite the government attempts to hush down the event.

The fact that the Soviet government has behaved with people so shamelessly and disrespectfully should not come as a surprised.

The Soviet Union did not sink ships, aircraft did not fall and rockets did not explode, and only labor achievements heroism were proclaimed.

Any talk about catastrophes, social unrest and mass deaths was regarded by the authorities as "ideological diversion" and was stopped as quickly and harshly as possible.

The authorities were pathologically afraid of any negative information that could at least indirectly cast a shadow on the Soviet government as the best in the world.

Hence the irrational fear of saying or letting the superfluous, which determined the logic of many actions of the Communist Party and Soviet leadership at all levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy in the USSR.

The death of Dyatlov group, it seems, in no way could discredit the CPSU and the Soviet government, however, the authorities themselves did not consider it and tried to organize the funeral processions in March 1959 so that they are less talked about in the city.

It turned out to be not the smartest move, since there were still a lot of talking about the dead hikers in Sverdlovsk, but besides that, it amounted resentment against the unfair attitude of the authorities to the tragedy.

Rustem Slobodin's coffin

Despite, or possibly because of the authorities’ strenuous effort to limit interest in the funerals, the number of mourners was enormous.

The plan was for the procession to stop for a moment at the university where they had all studied.

The police, of course, did not allow this, and the whole crowd was turned away and forced to follow an alternative route.

Yuri Kuntsevitch, the head of the Dyatlov Foundation in Yekaterinburg, said:
“At that time I lived next to the cemetery, and was 12 years old, so I was really interested.

I tried to push through the crowd to see everything, but it was impossible.

I was amazed by some of the people in the crowd.

They were wearing trilby style felt hats and had jodhpurs or motorcycle riding pants.

They were supervising the procession with their faces blank, expressing nothing.

I was standing on a pile of earth at the graveside and I was about eight meters from the bodies.

Their skin had a somewhat brick color, and I saw some of the students helping to lower the coffins to the graves.

It was said they were there despite being forbidden to leave their classes to attend."

Victor Nikitin

Next to the 4 graves of the Dyatlov group at the Mikhailovskoe cemetery, another student of the Sverdlovsk Polytech, named Victor Nikitin, who died of pneumonia, was soon buried.

He studied at the first year of the institute, did not take interest in tourism, and most likely did not even know the members of the Dyatlov group.

Nikitin was a country boy from a very poor family; his family could not pay for the transportation of the body to his hometown, and the weather was bad.

It was decided to buried in Sverdlovsk.

To the history of Dyatlov The death of Victor Nikitin is not related to the Dyatlov Pass history.

That didn’t prevent the conspiracy to involve his death, as anything else that touches Dyatlov Pass incident.

The fact that he was buried next to the 4 graves of Dyatlov group members, and Krivonischenko being buried in another cemetery made him a secret agent.

We keep saying that the Krivonischenko’s burial at Ivanovskoe cemetery has nothing to do with his parents, but what is really certain in this case?

The fact that such a request is not documented on the net doesn’t necessarily mean that it doesn’t exist.

The government’s desire to disperse the interest towards the event may also yield to a consent or even encouragement such move.

Witness testimony of Rimma Kolevatova given on April 14 (Case files pages 270-272).

This is before the body of her brother Alexander Kolevatov was found.

"I was present at all the funerals of the group.

Why were their faces and hands all so dark brown?

How can we explain the fact that the four of them who were beside the fire, they were obviously alive, why didn’t they try to return to the tent?

If they were considerably better dressed, as far as I can see from clothes missing from the tent … if it was a natural disaster, then for sure, after being warmed by the fire, then the guys would have crawled back to the tent.

The whole group wouldn’t have perished from an Arctic storm!"

Recollection of relatives and eyewitnesses at the funeral, given almost fifty years after the tragedy, mention the dark orange color of the skin, reminiscent of the color of bricks.

Though unusual, nothing of this was recorded in the official records of the autopsies.

At that time, all photography was black and white, so there are no color pictures of the dead.

Some say that only the exposed skin was darker in color, that the skin under their clothes what could be seen (it was Zina family member who witnessed this), was not so unnaturally colored.

Here is a thought - what if this orange tinge was a bad mortician job?

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These photos from Rustem Slobodin's funeral on March 10, 1959, were aired for the first time on March 7, 2022, in History Channel show "History's Greatest Mysteries" episode "The Dyatlov Pass Incident" and provided by Lyudmila Morgunova, Rustem Slobodin's sister.

 

https://play.history.com/.../historys.../season-3/episode-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Related to my last post with the new funeral photos from March 10, 1959.

 

This meeting in the photos below took place in 2019.

Kuntsevich passed away on August 11, 2021.

In a movie on the Russian TV called "The mysterious death of the twentieth century - the demise of the Dyatlov hiking group" ("Загадочная гибель ХХ века — смерть тургруппы Дятлова) Lyudmila Morgunova said that she found in a drawer that no one has looked in for over 50 years photos of the funeral of her brother Rustem and the last card he sent from Vizhay dated January 26, 1959.

This is proof that documents and photos can still be found in dark corners.

Some might shed light on the mystery, even give a jolt to the ice cold case.

There is hope I think.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Related to my last post with the meeting of Lyudmila Morgunova with Yuri Kuntsevich when she handed his new photos and this card.

 

 

For first time Lyudmila Morgunova is publishing the post card her brother Rustem Slobodin mailed from Vizhay, 61 year to the day:

Where: Sverdlovsk 9

Malyisheva St ,142 room 71

To: Slobodins

Sender's address: city of Ivdel, Sverdlovsk region

village of Vizhay

26/I-1959 10 am

Hello sedentary citizens of Sverdlovsk!

Yesterday we safely reached the village of Vizhay.

Now we are taking a truck to the starting point - 2nd Northern.

The weather is nice, warm (~ 10-15 °).

Everything is good.

I am sorry I didn't say goodbye - got carried away.

All the best.

R. Slobodin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Clasified order Mansi to be questioned

Yuri Nikolaevich Ahmin

Deputy Prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk Region for Special Cases Yuri Nikolaevich Ahmin gives a secret assignment to the Chief of Ivdel Department of Internal Affairs Militia Major Bizyaev, to carry out investigative measures regarding the Mansi who could have witnessed the incident at Mount Otorten.

In one of his interviews, Korotaev spoke about Mansi being maltreated.

But, apart from his stories, this is not corroborated by anything.

According to Korotaev who recollects years later, that acting on this order, the police detain several people and leave them in the cold, coercing testimonies about what they could have seen or know about the incident, in fact, the police intimidate them.

After a while, making sure that the Mansi don't know anything about the incident, they are released.

Case files vol.2 sheet 12

 

 

Clasified

TO THE CHIEF OF IVDEL DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS MILITIA MAJOR
Comrade BIZYAEV

In addition to the existing assignments in the case of the death of Dyatlov group of hikers, please do the following:

1. Chairman of the Burmantovo village council, Makrushin, spreads a rumor that allegedly Mansi Bahtiyarov Pavel Grigoryevich saw how tourists fell from the mountain and told other Mansi about it 17/II-59
   In this regard, it is necessary:
   a). verify the information;
   B). find out where does citizen P. G. Bahtiyarov live at the moment;
   c). find out where was Bakhtiyarov at the time of death of the hikers.
2. To collaborate that the hikers where attacked by Mansi with religious motives is necessary:
   a). Find out whose camp did the hikers visit and did Mansi known about it.
   B). Did Mansi know that the hikers where headed towards Mt Otorten.
   c). Is Mount Otorten and its surroundings a sacred for Mansi? (i.e. "prayer" place).
   d). Find out which of the Mansi men hunted in the valley of the Auspiya river and in the region of the fourth tributary of Lozva river at the time of death of the hikers.
   e). Find out who was the hunter who left the ski track that the hikers followed. There is an assumption that this is Anyamov.

Make the results of this operational work known to the the prosecutor comrade Tempalov, who is investigating the case.

DEPUTY PROSECUTOR OF THE REGION
FOR SPECIAL CASES
COUNSELOR OF JUSTICE
/AHMIN/

2 copies
1-st address
2-nd case
Ex. Ivanov
written by hand
12/III-59

Topics of interrogations per month

This is a more accurate relationship what are the interrogations about in the months after the tragedy.

These graphs reflect the line of investigations and the increased interest in particular topic or theory.

As we can see, in May, the investigation had already officially gone in the direction of the fire balls.

The investigation is practically not interested in anything else.

“According to the interrogations, the official interest of the investigation to clarify the route begins only after March 10th and its surge falls in April.

Just on time, in my opinion, in order to find a group that has long been found.” - Dr. Galina Sazonova

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"In a country of mysterious signs"

This is an overview of the testimonies of Mansi.

They are contradictory to each other, and don't add up.

The impression is that there are big gaps in between, and then something else is said, not bearing out previous testimony.

Let’s go over the testimonies of Mansi in 1959.

Aleksey Alekseevich Anyamov

Anyamovs clan
Aleksander Prokopyevich
Aleksey Alekseevich (41) father of Andrey Alekseevich
Andrey Alekseevich (21) son of Aleksey Alekseevich
Andrey Alekseevich (58) brother to Aleksey Alekseevich - Маr 23, 1959 (Case files 230-231)
Konstantin Tseskin
Nikolay Pavlovich (23) - Apr 2, 1959 (Case files 261-262)

All the answers start with Answering the questions at hand, but we never see these questions.

Of course judging by the answer one could guess the questions.

Nikolay Pavlovich Anyamov - Apr 2, 1959 (Case files 261-262)

"There are no other people in these areas.

There are no wild tribes in our region.

And Mansi did not meet anyone.

If they had we would have known.

We learned that hikers were missing after the 20th of February 1959."

What other people were they asked about?

Wild tribes?

Thе investigator had some preconception about other indigenous people in the area.

Andrey Aleekseevich Anyamov - Маr 23, 1959 (Case files 230-231)

"I personally never saw in the area another group of five people who are allegedly afraid of Mansi and who did not stay in Ivdel, I haven't heard such from other Mansi either."

The question must have been: who are allegedly afraid of Mansi and who did not stay in Ivdel, I haven't heard such from other Mansi either."

The question must have been: "Have you seen a group of five people, strangers, who d not live in Ivdel, and only passed through the area?"

And what is up with "allegedly afraid of Mansi"?

Why should these rouges be afraid of Mansi?

These means according to the investigators unknown source these vagabonds must have previous confrontations with Mansi?

Where does this information come from?

Mansi were hunters, when away form their yurts they carry their guns.

These strangers are supposedly afraid of the Mansi because they do not have weapons, there is no other reason.

Mansi had to register their weapons in Ivdel.

Any other weapons would have been illegal, and the punishment was severe.

What is interesting here is not the answer but where did the question come from.

Bahtiyarovs clan

Bahtiyarov were first to be questioned because Nikolay Pavlovich had said that at end of January a group of hikers (8 people, including one or two women) stayed overnight at his brother Petr Bahtiyarov’s Yurt.

Yurt Petr Yakimovich Bahtiyarov yourt, 1954.

The yurt stood on the left bank of the Vizhay River, Petr lived there with his wife Nina Vladimirovna.

Photos are from hikers trek category III of difficulty in the Northern Urals.

Route: Moscow-Sverdlovsk-Vizhay-101-100-Yurts in Anchug-mine-Vels river-Vels river-Moscow.

In the Case files are mentioned the following members of the Bahtiyarov family:

Nikita Vladimirovich (30) Case files 82-83, he has sister Nina
Nikolay Yakimovich (29) Case files 84-85
Prokopiy Savelyevich (17) Case files 86-87
Pavel Vasilievich (60) Case files 223
Sergey Savelyevich (21) Case files 224, Sergey and Prokopiy are brothers
Petr Yakimovich (34) Case files 225-226, Nikolay and Petr are brothers

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Krasnobaev is Chief of preparatory work in 8th forestry district, lives in Ivdel region.

He flew on the Feb 26 to Bahtiyarov yurt to question Mansi if they have seen Dyatlov group.

In his testimony on Mar 7, 1959 (Case files 54-55) he mentions the following additional Mansi: Timofey, Alexander, Kiril and Sonya

They are questioned about different matter - prayer stones, shrines and sacred places

Nikita Vladimirovich Bahtiyarov - Mar 10, 1959 (Case files 82-83)

"I heard that they suspect that Mansi scared the hikers and they died.

I don't believe this to be true.

There is not a single case where Mansi attacked Russians, there is no reason for this.

Mansi payer mountain prayer is located near the Bahtiyarovs yurts 30 km in the upper Vizhay river.

On this mountain no one is forbidden to go Russian men and women, same as the Mansi.

This mountain has never been guarded.

There aren't any valuable things there.

How it was before I don't know.

The prayer stones have never been moved, or rather they can not be moved and Mansi go to this mountain, but such religious Mansi are not that many.

There aren't any other sacred Mansi places."

Distance from upper Vizhay river to Lozva and Auspiya upper sources is approximately 50 km.

The notion is conflict between Mansi and Russians in general, not even specifying passing by cross-country skiers.

Nikolay Yakimovich Bahtiyarov - Mar 10, 1959 (Case files 84-85)
"Yesterday, i.e. March 9, 1959 Mansi Nikita Bahtiyarov and I were at the store by the river Orasu Pru and one drunk that I did not know came up to us and said: "hikers are missing probably Mansi killed them".

We told him that's doubtfully the case, since Mansi have never killed anyone and they don't have a reason to kill hikers."

Kurikov clan

Stepan Nikolaevich Kurikov

Kurikov Stepan Nikolaevich - Mansi shaman, leader of a rescue group 23-Feb-1959

Kurikov Grigoriy Nikolaevich - Mansi, deputy of the Ivdel City Council, interpreter in the interrogations, Stepan's brother (Case files 232)

Artemiy Vladimirovich Gorbushin - Mar 20, 1959 (Case files 228-229)

Officer in charge of Ivdel City Police Department, testified what Grigoriy Nikolaevich Kurikov had said about the Ostyaks:

Officer in charge of Ivdel City Police Department, testified what Grigoriy Nikolaevich Kurikov had said about the Ostyaks: "At the beginning of March 1959 I was in the police station and during this time there was a conversation that the hikers were killed.

In the duty room sat one Mansi, I do not know his name, but they said that it was Kurikov, but what was his name - I do not know. Kurikov was asked how the hikers could have died.

Kurikov said that near the holy mountain, where this mountain is located, he didn't say, there live five Ostyaks.

They are like savages, they are not friends with Mansi or with Russian people.

They never come to Ivdel.

And these Ostyaks could kill the hikers because they wanted to ascend the holy mountain or because they thought that hikers could kill their deer and moose, which they feed on.

Kurikov expressed only his own assumptions, but what really happened he, Kurikov, couldn't say. Kurikov saw these savages Ostyakovs some years ago.

Kurikov didn't know where the holy mountain is.

I emphasize that Kurikov expressed his own supposition.

He said this since we had a conversation about the dead hikers and asked Mansi Kurikov how it could have happened.

Kurikov Grigoriy Nikolaevich - Mar 23, 1959 (Case files 232)

"I personally do not think that anyone from Mansi attacked Russian hikers, as this never happened before.

I would still hear from Mansi if anybody attacked the hikers because I keep my ears open.

But there is no reason for Mansi to attack hikers.

Sacred mountain, I know for sure is in the upper sources of the river.

Nobody lives there in neither summer or winter.

The sacred mountain is not guarded by any one.

Russian people are allowed to go there.

About the fact that near the sacred place there live five Mansi or any people, and that they are afraid of Mansi, I personally did not say any such thing, that includes the police.

There are no Mansi people who do not go to Ivdel.

There were no outsiders in the area, that Mansi did not know about.

We would have known about strangers, that is, because Mansi hunt and would have met them.

There are no Mansi in the region that would have treated Russians badly."

So Grigoriy Nikolaevich Kurikov doesn't know where the sacred mountain is in the beginning of March (Gorbushin testimony), but he does on Mar 23. Could it be because Bahtiyarovs said where the sacred mountain is on Mar 10, 1959?

How about the five people?

Grigoriy Nikolaevich denies to have said anything like that.

On one hand we have Deputy of the Ivdel City Council, and on the other hand a Militia officer.

Nobody bothers to follow up on the discrepancies in their testimonies?

Nikolay Pavlovich Anyamov - Apr 2, 1959 (Case files 261-262)

"In early February 1959, we, i.e. I, Andrey Anyamov, and another Andrey Anyamov, went hunting.

We hunted for 9 days in the forest and during that time we saw tracks of narrow skis, which were covered with 15 cm of snow, less in the forest.

We thought that some kind of expedition went to the mountains.

We saw the tracks along the Auspiya river on the 10th of February 1959.

When we came home we said that we saw tracks of skiers.

The hikers themselves we did not see or hear."

Andrey Aleekseevich Anyamov - Маr 23, 1959 (Case files 230-231)

"I clarified that in January-March, in 1959, I never saw hikers anywhere.

And only saw tracks of hikers - on the road there were tracks of narrow skis.

How many people could not be determined.

I saw tracks on the Lozva river 1,5 - 2 km above Auspiya.

The tracks were going towards Auspiya river, and then to the Urals Mountains.

I can not tell the exact date when I saw the tracks, but it was at the end of January or early February 1959.

Tracks were swept up on clear places, and in the forest powdered with snow.

I went skiing, together with me were three more people.

Anyamov Andrey (same name as mine) Alekseevich, my nephew, Anyamov Nikolay Pavlovich, another of my nephews, and Mansi Tseskin Konstantin.

On the hunt, the four of us left the village of Suevat-Paul and hunted in the woods around the Auspiya.

Russian hikers are nowhere to be seen.

When we hunted it was good weather, and also there were bad days."

Two people that were together say different things about where the narrow ski tracks were spotted.

On April 2 tracks along Lozva river are no longer present in the testimony.

Upper Lozva is Otorten → upper Auspiya is Kholat Syakhl (Peak 1079)

It looks like the investigators needed a testimony where Lozva is not mentioned.

Were the testimonies cooked on the go, as the investigation unfolded?

The testimony from Mar 23 is given by 58 old Mansi, who could be called later own confused due to his age.

How could he tell the direction of the tracks is not clear.

Then the young hunter age 23 comes into the picture with a testimony from Apr 2 that says nothing about tracks on Lozva river.

Pavel Vasilyevich Bahtiyarov - Mar 16, 1959 (Case files 223)
"Prayer mountain is 30 km from us in the upper reaches of Vizhay river.

The mountain is visited by all Russian men and women and Mansi.

There is no prohibition whatsoever for the Russians to go to the mountain.

I have never been in the upper reaches of Lozva river and always hunted along the rivers Ivdel and Vizhay."

Why is he mentioning upper Lozva river?

There is nothing in the context of the previous narration unless he was asked for Lozva river.

Boris Efimovich Slobtsov - Apr 15, 1959 (Case files 298-230)
"I was present when we found under same cedar a cloth belt of dark color with tassels at the ends.

I don't know who this item belongs to.

The length of this item is about 80 cm, the width is about 10 cm, looks like a belt or strap, with which the Mansi pull loads, except the object would be not strong enough for this purpose."

Georgiy Ivanovich Ryazhnev - Mar 6, 1959 (Case files 42-43)
Chief of the 1st forestry department of Energo Lesokombinat in 41st district in 1959

Chief of the 1st forestry department of Energo Lesokombinat in 41st district in 1959
"I don't know anything about Mansi having sacred mountains and paying stones in our area, but I have heard from people that they have the sacred pit on Lozva river."

This statement is opening the door for the speculation that Dyatlov group must have passed by a sacred pit with uncle Slava when they were using his horse drawn sleigh to carry their backpacks.

Yudin was still with them, he returned next day.

There is nothing to support that the hikers even knew about the sacred pit they drove by, but this is a theory.

The Sacred Places of the Ural Mountains and Forests (2004) [Rus - Культовые памятники горно-лесного Урала] is a study by archeologist and ethnologist Chernetsov.

The author writes about of Lozvinzkaya, or Sheytan pit.

Women were not allowed in these sacred places.

In Dyatlov group there are two girls.

In the book Chernetsov says that when he was traveling in these places in 1937 he was told that on Ushma river there is a Bahtiyarov clan sanctuary.

Ushma river is tributary to Lozva river south of 2nd Northern.

Left arrow shows the sanctuary, the right arrow shows petroglyphs that some people see Photo taken on Jan 28, 1959 Krivonischenko camera (film 1) frame 2

Bahtiyarov family did not take part in the search for the missing hikers and when questioned about their whereabouts they got confused in their testimonies.

The Bahtiyarovs were considered a respected shamanistic clan.

There is Nikita Yakovlevich Bahtiyarov, born in 1873, who lived in Ivdel district.

In 1938, he was sentenced to five years in prison camps.

The statement on Bahtiyarov’s arrest reads: Bahtiyarov family did not take part in the search for the missing hikers and when questioned about their whereabouts they got confused in their testimonies.

The Bahtiyarovs were considered a respected shamanistic clan.

There is Nikita Yakovlevich Bahtiyarov, born in 1873, who lived in Ivdel district.

In 1938, he was sentenced to five years in prison camps.

The statement on Bahtiyarov’s arrest reads: “He is convicted of being an illegal shaman among the Mansi people, a big kulak who has large herds of deer unknown to the state authorities, on whose pasture he exploits the poor Mansi.

He leads anti-Soviet agitation among Mansi against the unification of Mansi into collective farms, against sedentarism, incites hatred among Russians and the existing Soviet system, claiming that the Russians bring only death to Mansi.

Bahtiyarov annually collects all the Mansi to one of the spurs of the Ural Range, called Vizhay, where he performs sacrifices on the occasion of a religious holiday that lasts up to two weeks.”

Nikita Yakovlevich got out of prison in 1943.

He might still have been around at the time of the events.

Investigating the Mansi could explain the presence of KGB since they were not only responsible for the national security of the state and defending the borders.

Inside the Soviet Union the Committee for State Security was mainly entrusted with anti soviet propaganda, fighting saboteurs and terrorists.

But there is another role too, to subdue any nationalist movements and ethnic hatred.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The date appears as May 4 and May 6 in two different official documents from the case files, but following the context of the Radiograms the date is May 5, 1959.

The Mansi first noticed a trail of pine needles in the snow, then the searchers dug and found a snow bivouac, or as we call it - the den.

But the bodies were not there.

To this day no one can give a reasonable explanation for the state in which the bodies were found.

Clothing, injuries, position, nothing make sense.

Some of the clothes were radioactive.

But why test for radioactivity on the first place?

Ivanov didn't do it with the bodies found in February.

What did he find out during his investigation?

Read more → https://dyatlovpass.com/the-den

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The Den

When in May the snow started melting a Mansi native Kourikov with his dog noticed some cut branches that were forming sort of trail which they followed and 50 m from the cedar they found black cotton sweat pants, the right leg cut off with a knife.

Cedar branches, a young fir tree was missing its top, another piece of clothing was found - the left half of the women's light-brown wool sweater, right half and sleeves cut off.

Sweater was presumed to belong to Lyudmila Dubinina.

The area was previously searched with avalanche probes but the snow then was deeper than expected.

Vladimir Askinadzi and Boris Suvorov, both UPI students, were key players in the rescue team.

Kurikov followed some small fir tree branches in the snow till 50 m down from the cedar they led into the snowdrift.

Rescuers began to dig and at a depth of 3.5 m they found cut branches covered with clothes.

The bed of branches consisted of 14 fir tree branches and one birch, and on top were belongings and clothes.

The clothes on a bed of cut branches made 4 seats

The clothes included:
- One leg of a pair of black ski trousers;
- A thick brown woolen sweater;
- A white woolen jumper, made in China; and
- A pair of brown trousers tied at the ankles but flared open with a tear to widen them.

15 m up the bank from the stream, they found half of a beige sweater and the other half of the ski trousers.

15 m from the den, they found a spoon and a knife sheath.

From the Official criminal investigation, Decision to dismiss criminal case:

“The bodies were found few meters away from the clothes found of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko - pants, sweater.

All clothes had been cut when they were taken from the bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko.

Bodies of Thibeaux-Brignolle and Zolotaryov were better dressed, Dubinina’s fur jacket and hat were found on Zolotaryov, her leg was wrapped in woolen trousers that belong to Krivonischenko.

Krivonischenko’s knife was found close to the bodies, it was used to cut off branches of young fir trees.”

Here is a very strange fact – knife was never found in the area, only a knife sheath.

Lead investigator Lev Ivanov could not have mistaken a sheath for a knife.

The branches were cut with tool, that could not be misinterpreted, but the absence of this tool could not be explained without having somebody taken the knife from the crime scene, and that meant that the case could be closed as a “calamity or overwhelming force”.

Dying place of Lyudmila Dubinina

20 m from the den, a probe 4 m deep came out with a fragment of flesh.

They started to dig. Dubinina's body was found in the ravine on may 5th, 1959.

From the official record of the discovery of the bodies:

“On the northwest slope of Peak 880, about 50 m from the cedar, in the stream, we have discovered four bodies: three men and one woman.

The body of the woman has been identified as Lyudmila Dubinina.

The bodies of the men cannot be identified without removing them from the water.

They are buried in snow 2.5 m deep.

The men are lying with their heads facing north and downstream, and the body of the woman is lying facing upstream.

She is dressed in a small skullcap and a yellow sleeveless shirt.

Then a flannel shirt; two sweaters, one gray the other dark; and on her legs are leggings and brown ski trousers.

On one foot are two woolen socks and, on her right foot is bound half of a beige sweater.

On the back of her head and on her back there are traces of damage from our probe.

Her body is decaying.

The first man is dressed in a khaki-colored windbreaker, and on his wrist he has two watches, one a Pobeda and the other a Sportif.

The Pobeda had stopped at 8:38, and the Sportif showed 8:15.

It is not possible to see the head and legs of this body, because he is not completely exposed.

The other two bodies lie in a kind of hug, both with nothing on their heads, and some their hair missing.

They are both dressed in windbreakers, but it is hard to say what else, and it will have to wait until we get them out of the stream.

The bodies are decaying and we have photographed them.

They need to be taken out of the stream immediately because they are decaying fast and will soon be lost in the stream, which is very fast.”

It was Vladimir Askinadzi’s probe that damaged Dubinina’s body. In 2013 Askinadzi published a letter in Ural Pathfinder magazine, in which he recalls that the distance between all the heads of those found in the brook was about 30 cm (about 11.5 “) – they were all very close to each other.

As for Dubinina, he says her head was laying down on a kind of a natural ledge with water rolling over it.

Her mouth was open.

There are claims that the tongue was ripped, or eaten, or whatnot.

The medical records simply that "the tongue is missing".

Vozrozhdenny describes missing hypoglossal muscle as well as muscles of the floor of the mouth.

Kolevatov's body (upper left) was found right next to Zolotariov's as if the latter was carrying or protecting him. Tibo's body was positioned 30 cm lower downstream.

When they tried to pull them out, they saw that Zolotaryov had a notebook in one hand and a pen in the other. Ortyukov saw this, grabbed the book, read it and immediately said scornfully: ‘He’s written nothing.’

Georgy Ortyukov, the Army Colonel in charge of logistics and helicopter support, was the only one who saw the notebook in Zolotoryov’s hand.

Vladimir Askinadzi recalls that it was hard to identify the bodies as they found them, and it was Colonel Ortyukov who was ordaining who was who.

We were surprised,’ Askinadzi said, ‘because it was really hard to see, and no one could object or disagree.’

Askinadzy also mentioned that while he was present during that period, he felt very strongly that those in charge were not really interested in a proper investigation.

He remembers that the lead investigator Lev Ivanov ‘did not even approach the pad of branches, didn’t take pictures, it seemed they already had a theory’.

Askinadzy extends this accusation to Ortyukov, who was in charge of the whole rescue operation.

He wrote: ‘If it was really so important to get this right, why didn’t they call for Yuri Yudin?

He was the only one that knew them all, and could say for sure.

I only knew Zina.’

The whole search operation was rushed.

This pressure was from someone above – from Moscow, Sverdlovsk, or Ivdel.

The atmosphere was very tense.

Everyone was anxious for answers and awaiting for news.

Ortyukov and some soldiers took all the bodies from the stream, carried them up the bank and placed them on special stretchers to drag them across the snow, then took them up to the pass to the helipad.

It was hard work, and they repeated the same process four times.

A helicopter met them on the pass, but the pilots refused to take the bodies on board, complaining this was outside their official duties.

It has been said that the pilots knew the bodies were poisoned with radiation and, for this reason, didn’t want them in the aircraft.

Ortyukov sent the following radiogram:

This is a scandal!

I and fourteen other people brought these bodies on our shoulders and they refused to take the bodies in spite of me insisting.

As a Communist I am outraged by the behavior of the crew and ask you to inform the Communist Party leader about it.

And I have to mention to you for clarity, these bodies are frozen.

We packed them for transportation and there was no reason to refuse to take them.

The medical expert refused to examine or to cut the bodies here on site.

It is absolutely not dangerous from the point of hygiene.

They are folded and covered in special impervious material.

The crew said they would not transport them until they are in Zinc coffins.

At this point Colonel Ortyukov reached the limits of his desperation.

He took out his pistol and threatened the crew.

Vladimir Askinadzi intervened, after which the medical expert reorganized how the bodies should be packed for transportation, and they were finally airlifted for transportation to Ivdel.

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May 9 - last 4 autopsy reports

The header image is from “Dyatlov Pass - end of story” where Eduard Tumanov - modern times forensic pathologist in Russia who revised the post mortem analyses of the last four bodies.

In this movie Tumanov says:

“In Sverdlovsk, there is one of the best and largest Forensic Bureau in the former Soviet Union, having some of the high-level experts at the time.

I would say this is true even nowadays.

And then, you see, whyt prevents the head of the bureau or his deputy from the expertise division to assign a forensic physician.

And fly to Ivdel with two experts already.

Vozrozhdenny could have helped them with the autopsy, gather some experience.

Why was everybody satisfied with a young forensic doctor with only 2 years of experience.

Another strange thing was that the operations in the Ivdel morgue were carried out under personal control of the district prosecutor Nikolay Klinov.

He was not only supervising but also signing the autopsy reports.

This is unheard of.

The head prosecutor of the region leaves everything to supervise the autopsies.

Vozrozhdenny at the time has been tried for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda and then given amnesty.

You understand that in those years an amnesty is conditional and uncertain.

Most likely they needed to be able to control him.”

Lyudmila Dubinina (20)

 

Lyudmila Dubinina post mortem in Ivdel hospital

Lyudmila wore a short sleeve shirt, long sleeve shirt, and two sweaters.

The brown sweater belonged to Krivonischenko - one of the two found beneath the cedar, and lately tested radioactive.

The body was dressed with underwear, long socks, two pairs of pants.

External pair was badly damaged by fire and subsequently ripped.

She also wore a small hat and two pairs of warm sock.

A third sock was not paired. Lyudmila apparently in the last attempt to preserve her feet took off her sweater and cut it in two pieces.

One half she rapped around her left foot.

Another half she left or dropped unintentionally on the snow.

Lyudmila Dubinina injuries

1. soft tissues are missing around eyes, eyebrows, nose bridge and left cheek bone is partially exposed
2. damaged tissues around left temporal bone, size 4x4 cm
3. eye sockets are empty, eyeballs are missing
4. nose cartilages are broken and flattened
5. soft tissues of the upper lip are missing, teeth and and upper jaw is exposed
6. tongue is missing
7. ribs 2, 3, 4, 5 are broken on the right side, two fracture lines are visible
8. ribs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 are broken on the left side, two fracture lines are visible
9. massive hemorrhage in the heart's right atrium
10. bruise in the middle left thigh, size 10x5 cm (not shown on diagram)

Dubinina was laying on a kind of a natural ledge with water rolling over it.

Her mouth was open.

There are claims that the tongue was ripped, or eaten, or whatnot.

The medical records simply that "the tongue is missing".

Vozrozhdenny describes missing hypoglossal muscle as well as muscles of the floor of the mouth.

It looks weird especially given the fact previous bodies had more detailed autopsies.

There is no credible explanation for this vague statement.

Although it is mentioned that the stomach contained about 100 g of coagulated blood.

It is used by some as an indication that the heart was beating and the blood was flowing when tongue was removed from a mouth.

The cause of death is stated as hemorrhage into right atrium of the heart, multiple fractured ribs and internal bleeding.

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

This fact is only relative to the fact that whoever did the crime did not sexually assault the girls, or the men as a matter of fact.

Semyon Zolotaryov (37)

 

Semyon Zolotaryov post mortem in Ivdel hospital

The body of Semyon Zolotaryov was found at the Dyatlov Pass with two hats, scarf, short, long sleeve shirt, black sweater and a coat with two upper buttons unbuttoned.

It was fairly clear that the guy didn't die from the cold.

On the contrary the den was pretty warm place for him.

His lower part of the body was protected by underwear, two pairs of pants and a pair of skiing pants.

He had a copy of newspapers, several coins, compass, and other few items.

His legs were protected by a pair of socks and a pair of warm leather hand made shoes known as "burka".

They probably couldn't keep him warm for a long time, but in the den it was sufficient in keeping the man alive.

Semyon Zolotaryov injuries

1. eye balls are missing
2. missing soft tissues around left eye brow, size 7x6 cm, bone is exposed
3. open wound on the right side of the skull with exposed bone, 8x6 cm in size
4. flail chest, broken ribs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on the right side, two fracture lines

Additionally the body of Zolotaryov had a camera around his neck as it is clearly seen on the pictures.

According to hearsay that this camera became a complete surprise to Yuri Yudin.

That he assumed the group had only four cameras that were found in the tent.

And all of a sudden a fifth camera turned out on the body.

Unfortunately melting water damaged the film.

But the question still lingers.

Why did Zolotaryov left the tent with the camera and why did he take two cameras to the trip?

One was used on daily basis and everyone saw it.

It was left in the tent and discovered there by the search party, but another was hidden throughout the journey and was found only after Semen Zolotarev have died.

The film was damaged by water so the question remains: "What was so important that he captured on the slope of the mountain that day?"

He was also found holding a pen in one hand and a small notepad in the other.

Vladimir Askinadzi recalls that Colonel Ortyukov grabbed the notepad, looked at it, cursed and said: "He’s written nothing."

He seems to be the only one that has seen the notepad.

The whereabouts of this notepad is unknown, it was never filed in evidence or seen by anyone else.

On the other hand we hear only from Askinadzi about the whole episode with the pen, notepad and Colonel Ortyukov, and that 59 years after the fact in a recent letter of Askinadzi to Ural Pathfinder magazine.

Both Zolotarev and Dubinina have an interesting pattern of injuries.

They are very similar in direction and force despite difference in shape, height and body composition of the two.

This would suggest that whatever caused these injuries was not a single uniform event.

Еxcerpt from the interrogation of forensic expert of the Regional Forensic Investigation Bureau Boris Vozrozhdenny led by Junior Counselor of Justice and Criminal Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk region, Lev Ivanov, on May 28, 1959:

How is it possible to explain the cause of the damage to Dubinina and Zolotaryov?

Is it possible to combine them into one cause?

I think the character of the wounds on Dubinina and Zolotaryov – a multi-splintered fracture of the ribs – on Dubinina were bilateral and symmetrical, and on Zolotaryov were one-sided.

Both had hemorrhaging into the cardiac muscle with hemorrhaging into the pleural cavity, which is evidence of them being alive [when injured] and is the result of the action of a large force, similar to the example used for Tibo.

These wounds, especially appearing in such a way without any damage to the soft tissue of the chest, are very similar to the type of trauma that results from the shock wave of a bomb.

How long could Dubinina and Zolotaryov have lived?

Dubinina died 10-20 minutes after the trauma.

She could have been conscious.

Sometimes it happens that a person with a wound to the heart (for example, a serious knife wound) can talk, run and ask for help.

Dubinina’s situation was one of complicated traumatic shock resulting from the bilateral rib fracture, with subsequent internal hemorrhaging into the pleural cavity.

Zolotaryov could have lived longer.

It needs to be taken into account that they were all trained, physically fit, and strong people.

Alexander Kolevatov (24)

The body of Aleksander Kolevatov was well insulated, but he was missing a hat and shoes.

His upper torso was protected by a sleeveless shirt, long sleeved shirt, sweater, fleece sweater and ski jacket with a zipper and buttons.

Ski jacket was damaged.

A big hole on the left sleeve had burnt edges and measured 25x12x13 cm.

His right sleeve was also damaged.

Several tears 7-8 cm were found.

The jacket was unbuttoned and unzipped.

A strange finding for person who was supposedly dying from cold and hypothermia.

During autopsy following objects were retrieved from his pockets: key, safety pin, some blank paper (probably to keep a record of his thoughts or events) and two packages of pills (soda and codeine).

The lower part of the body had shorts, light pants, ski pants and another pair of canvas pants.

From the right pocket doctors retrieved a box of matches that was soaked wet.

His feet as it was mentioned had no shoes, but they were protected by home knitted woolen socks with sights of fire damage.

His right foot was also protected by a light sock underneath a woolen one.

His left foot had similar three socks.

Additionally a bandage was discovered on the left ankle, but it was probably put before the Dyatlov Pass Incident since the group left their first aid kit in the tent.

The waistband of his sweater and the lower parts of his trousers later tested radioactive.

Aleksander Kolevatov injuries

1. lack of soft tissues around eyes, eyebrows are missing, skull bones are exposed
2. broken nose
3. open wound behind ear, size 3x1.5 cm
4. deformed neck
5. diffuse bleeding in the underlying tissues of the left knee (not shown on diagram)
6. softened and whitened skin (maceration) of the fingers and feet, sign consisted with putrefaction in a wet environment
7. overall skin had a gray green color with a tinge of purple

This autopsy had similar strange silence about the injuries of the victim.

Broken nose, open wound behind the ear and deformed neck might be the result of a fight and be cause of death.

On the other hand it could have been caused by natural elements since the body was exposed to nature for three whole months.

Yet the doctor ignores this matter and doesn't try to explain the reason for these strange injuries.

We should probably add that snapped neck and blow behind the ear is a common sign of killing performed by special forces.

However we can't be sure about this since the autopsy report didn't specify any more details about the body.

We are left guessing on the nature and origin of these injuries.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolle (23)

Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle was well protected against coldness of Siberian winter.

It was suggested that he and Zolotarev might have been outside of the tent at the time mysterious threat struck them.

This explains why both tourists wore shoes and were covered by several layers of clothes.

Both men were much better prepared than the rest of the group when they were forced to abandon their tent.

Nikolay wore a canvas fur hat and home knitted woolen hat.

Upper body was protected from coldness by shirt, wool sweater worn inside out and a fur jacket on a sheepskin.

Woolen gloves were found in the right pocket along with three coins, comb and several pieces of paper.

Lower part of the body was protected by underwear, sweat pants, cotton pants and ski pants.

On his feet he wore hand-knitted woolen socks and a pair of felt boots (valenki), Russian winter shoes perfect for Siberian coldness.

Additionally Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle wore two watches on his left arm.

One stopped at 8:14 and another at 8:39.

Cadaveric spots were discovered on the back of the upper body, neck and upper extremities.

Face hair length up to 1cm.

Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolle injuries

1. multiple fractures to the temporal bone, with extensions to the frontal and sphenoid bones, the close up of the fractures to the skull is shown on the picture
2. bruise on the upper lip on the left side
3. hemorrhage on the lower forearm, size 10x12 cm

Vozrozhdenny, who undertook the autopsy, excluded accidental fall on the rock as a possible cause for such a massive and unusual fracture.

From what kind of force could Tibo have received such damage?
In the conclusion, it’s shown the damage to Tibo’s head could have been the result of the throwing, fall or jettisoning of the body.

I don’t believe these wounds could have been the result of Tibo simply falling from the level of his own height, i.e. falling and hitting his head.

The extensive, depressed, multi-splintered (broken fornix and base of the skull) fracture could be the result of an impact of an automobile moving at high speed.

This kind of trauma could have occurred if Tibo had been thrown and fallen and hit his head against rocks, ice, etc., by a gust of strong wind.

Is it possible that Tibo was hit by a rock that was in someone’s hands?
In this case, there would have been damage to the soft tissue, and this was not evident.

How long could Tibo have lived after the trauma.

Could he have moved on his own, talked, etc.?
After this trauma, Tibo would have had a severe concussion; that is, he would have been in an unconscious state.

Moving him would have been difficult and, close to the end, movement would not have been possible.

I believe he would not have been able to move even if he had been helped.

He could only have been carried or dragged.

He could have shown signs of life for 2-3 hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 12 - the last 4 funerals

On May 12 Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexander Kolevatov and Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolle were buried in Mikhailovskoe Cemetery, in a plot designated to UPI.

Semyon Zolotaryov's funeral was a few days after May 12.

It was delayed so his mother could attend.

She had to travel from Krasnodar to Sverdlovsk.

Semyon Zolotaryov, since he was not a UPI contingent, was buried in Ivanovskoe cemetery where Yuri Krivonischenko was rested in peace on March 9.

Funerals 12 May 1959, relatives behind Alexander Kolevatov coffin

Alexander Kolevatov wreath in front at 12 May 1959 funerals

Alexander Kolevatov funeral 12 May 1959

Zolotaryov had no relatives or friends in Sverdlovsk, and it was Sogrin who identified his belongings.

Before joining Dyatlov group Zolotaryov enlisted in Sogrin group for a trek to Circumpolar Ural that would have lasted 25 days.

Zolotaryov needed the title Master of Sports which would have reflected his pay and this trek could have given him the qualification.

Sogrin describes him as a very open, outgoing, polite, with good communication skills which is expected for a guide.

Semyon explained to Sogrin that he found a shorter trek (15 days) and that Igor Dyatlov accepted him n the group.

Semyon apologized for the situation and explained that he has family reason - he wanted to take his mom to Caucasus before the begging of the touristic season when he will be busy.

Zolotaryov’s mother came from Krasnodar to Sverdlovsk to collect his belongings in April, as she was told to, before her son was found.

It’s known she was not in Sverdlovsk in May when the bodies arrived.

It’s likely that the authorities guessed the body was that of Zolotaryov by the process of elimination.

I have to mention that all the known photographs of Zolotaryov that can be used for superimposition are since 1943 i.e. after the war.

Recent exhumation of Zolotaryov's body on 12 April 2018 was preceded by 1 year effort to obtain a permit since there was no record of Semyon Zolotaryov being ever buried in Ivanovskoe cemetery, or anywhere else in Sverdlovsk.

So it is hard to say when exactly was his funeral, but witnesses remember that it was a few days after May 12.

Semyon Zolotaryov grave when he was buried in May 1959

This time no one called Yudin to identify the bodies.

The secrecy grew tremendously.

Yuri Yudin, according to his words, was told 40 years later about the terrible internal injuries some of his friends had.

There is a controversy about the non-disclosure.

Even if there was a non-disclosure why nobody say anything earlier.

On the other hand, there is undercurrent that KGB was warning that bad things are going to happen to people that try.

• Korotaev in a interview says that he and everybody present on the pass had to sign a non-disclosure for 25 years. But the fact is that he was never on the pass. He gave a lot of information that can not be verified. Here is an audio link with his voice.
• Gushtin book "The price of a Govsecret - 9 lives"

The last 4 bodies found in May were buried in closed coffins, unlike the ones found in February, which were buried in open coffins as is the usual practice in Russia to this day, except for military deaths.

Many years later, in the 1990s, Lev Ivanov, the official investigator for the case, apologized for preventing the parents from dealing with their loved ones in a proper way, not even being allowed to see the faces of their children.

But the reasons for his decision are not just based in secrecy.

In an interview given to a Kazakh newspaper in the 1990s, after his retirement, Lev Ivanov said he had made one exception for Alexander Nikolaevich, the father of Lyudmila Dubinina.

While she was in the coffin in the morgue, he let her father enter, and permitted someone to open the lid so that he could see her.

When he saw his daughter’s corpse, he fainted.

Witness testimony of Alexander Dubinin given on April 14 (Case files pages 284-287).

This is before the body of his daughter was found.

"Till the day I still can believe that this could happened in the Soviet Union, that in this large industrial and cultural center of the country, could exist such a criminal disregard for preserving the lives of a whole group of people...

Those heartless leaders were never concerned that eight days after the planned return date at Vizhay, there was no contact, yet nobody did anything and search was rescue operations started on the 21 February."

In 1962, next to their graves in Mikhailovskoe Cemetery, a monument was erected with pictures of all nine members of the group.

Dyatlov group monument erected in 1962 in Mikhailovskoe Cemetery, Sverdlovsk

Also in 1962, on that pass on Kholat Syakhl mountain, a group led by Valentin Yakimienko set a memorial plaque saying.

Dyatlov group memorial plaque on Kholat Syakhl mountain, Northern Urals

“In memory of those who left and did not return, we name this pass on Dyatlov group”

Dyatlov group memorial plaque on Kholat Syakhl mountain, Northern Urals

The pass has been called Dyatlov Pass ever since.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lyudmila Dubinina's premonition of her tragic death

Author Aleks Kandr and Sabine Lechtenfeld

If in other instances of telepathic communication both parties participated, clearly aware of their involvement in what is happening, then in the following example of telepathic contact between unfamiliar people, the power of telepathic influence is not so obvious, causing only a premonition and vague guesses of something fatal.

It will be about the premonition of Lyudmila Dubinina of her tragic death, signs of which, one way or another, appear in the records of her personal diary and in the peculiarities of her behavior during and after Dyatlov group pass through Vizhay.

Many authors of criminal versions of the death of Dyatlov’s group note the fact that the hikers were killed with extreme cruelty, as indicated by the nature of the injuries on the bodies of hikers discovered by search and rescue in a ravine in early May 1959.

This in turn suggests that the murder was committed based on the hatred of the murderers personally to those of the hikers who suffered more.

Only two members of the Dyatlov group were mutilated by the murderers with extreme cruelty: Alexander (Semyon) Zolotarev and Lyudmila Dubinina.

However, Lyudmila Dubinina had more severe injuries - in addition to numerous rib fractures on both sides of the chest, she had not only eyeballs, but also no tongue, according to the autopsy report.

Consequently, there are good reasons to assume that the main object of hatred and revenge for the murderers among all the hikers was exactly Lyudmila Dubinina.

Therefore, any researcher investigating the death of the Dyatlov group in the framework of the criminal version of a premeditated murder, taking into account the data of the autopsy report of Lyudmila Dubinina, should first of all examine all the materials of the criminal case relating to this girl in order to identify possible conflict situations with her participation, and this is primarily from the hikers diaries.

The version of the mystery of the murder of Dyatlov group is currently the only of all criminal versions, which has a documentary rationale for the possibility of a conflict between Lyudmila Dubinina and one of the employees of colony No. 64 under USh / 349-Ivdellag during the stay of the Dyatlov group in the village of Vizhay.

Dyatlov group arrived in Vizhay together with another group led by Blinov, and decided to stay for one night, as a result of which they spent in the the village almost a day from 14:00 on January 25, left for a ride only at 13:10 on January 26.

It is possible that the atmosphere of psychological discomfort that prevailed in the village.

Vizhay, had a depressing effect on hikers, which Lyudmila Dubinina partly reproduces in her diary: "We had a tearful goodbye with Blinov group.

The mood sank. ...

In general, I am very, very sad".

In addition to this can be an entry in the personal diary of Zina Kolmogorova, who described the movement of the group from the village club to the hotel in Vizhay, carefully provided to the hikers by someone from the leadership of the settlement-colony.

Such participation in the fate of a group of hikers by the colony’s leadership is explained by the fact that Igor Dyatlov has a travel certificate and a trade union voucher, in which he addressed the leaders of Soviet, party and public organizations, “to render all possible assistance” in providing the Dyatlov group of hikers campaign XXI Congress of the CPSU, the opening of which was scheduled for January 28, 1959.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that Zina Kolmogorova formulated this movement as follows: "25.1.59…

We arrived in Vizhay.

First we stopped at the same club where we were 2 years ago.

Then we were taken to the hotel".

Even Zina's use of the words "taken away" instead of "invited to move", "offered to move" or something like that, in these parts at that time had a very specific tint, meaning, as an addition, "under escort" to the word "taken".

But this is only a touch to a very specific psychological atmosphere of the village.

Vizhay, whose inhabitants provided jobs for the colony at that time.

This specific atmosphere for this area influenced on a subconscious level, forcing to choose specific words corresponding to its environment. ("we were taken"), and not just words.

Continuing on, Zina notes in her diary a certain peculiarity of the influence of this place on herself: "I talked a lot about things which are completely unfamiliar to me and I scarcely do, but I tried, sincerely.

But this is all nonsense.".

It is unlikely that we will find out what is sincere and unusual for her earlier, Zina spoke at the hotel of the settlement-colony Vizhay.

Dyatlov group would be better to stay overnight "In the same club where they were 2 years ago", rather than agree to "be taken" to the hotel, Judging by the non-forest review of her in the general diary of the group on the morning of January 26: "Slept in the so-called hotel, some bundling 2 people on a bed, and Sasha K. and Krivo even on the floor between the beds".

The canteen in Vizhay. Igor Dyatlov said with a smile: "If the tea is cold, then go out and drink it on the street, it will be hot."

That is, the group was clearly not happy with "so-called hotel", I think, not only due to the fact that her hotel service did not provide for the availability of a sufficient number of beds for all hotel guests.

The fact is that the hikers who returned in high spirits from the club after watching a movie "Symphony in Gold"

On the evening of January 25, they encountered serious difficulties in preparing a hot dinner due to raw wood for the stove, as a result of which the cooking process took "a lot of time".

From the diary of Lyudmila Dubinina:

"We are on duty with Yuri today.

We decided to cook noodles on the stove.

But it was very difficult to heat the stove with such raw firewood, so it took a lot of time.

Finally we began to eat.".

Yuri Krivonischenko, who was on duty this evening with Lyudmila, wrote in the diary of the group the next morning: "We did not boil water in the morning, wood was damp.

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

Such problems in preparing a hot dinner for experienced hikers, even in remote taiga, were extremely rare, as follows from the entry in the group’s diary for January 30: "As usual we quickly start a fire".

Even if we take into account the possible exaggeration in the assessment of time – "6 hours", spent on the kindling of the stove, then the difficulties that arose in the "so-called hotel" Vizhay could ruffle any experienced hikers for whom it was not difficult to quickly make a fire even in the forest.

And given the difficult mental state of Lyudmila Dubinina these days, it can be assumed that the difficulties encountered in the "so-called hotel" she could be completely out of balance, causing a flush of fair anger and anger on conditions "hotel service", to put it in modern language.

Therefore, she could express everything she thinks about this in the most harsh terms to anyone responsible for this “hotel service” person, regardless of her rank and position.

This is in complete agreement with the opinion of O. Arhipov: "Well, it is known that Lyudmila Aleksandrovna was sharp on the tongue and principled.

She would not keep her mouth shut.".

This peculiarity of Lyudmila’s character is confirmed in her personal diary the day before the hikers arrive in the village of Vizhay: "January 24th ...

Yes, and I generally like to add fuel to the fire, damn me".

The negative superstitious potential of such a phrase, recorded on paper, could in some way “program” its further actions, determined by this striking feature of its character.

Confirmation of the inflated state of the psyche of Ludmila we find in her notes in her personal diary the day after her ordeals as an attendant in the "so-called hotel" in village of Vizahy:

"January 26...

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

Evil as hell".

I.e. even the next day, Lyudmila felt a sense of anger, the degree of which she so uncompromisingly marked: "as hell".

Her expectations of improving her mood in two days obviously did not happen, but despite this, she nevertheless continued to keep her personal diary for two days.

Judging by the fact that from January 28, Lyudmila ceased to keep a personal diary at all, having previously recorded in her impressions of the hike, her mood two days after being in Vizhay not only did not improve, but was also aggravated by some kind of depression, fading interest in everyday trivialities of hiking life, which earlier made up the majority of her personal diary entries.

After visiting the village of Vizhay Lyudmila's psychological state deteriorated quite sharply, aggravating day by day, which is confirmed by the peculiarities of her behavior from January 26 to January 30, which are known to us from her personal diary and Zina Kolmogorova's notes in her diary.

In Ludmila’s personal diary, even on January 27, the first sign of some unconscious doom, expressed by the negative potential of the phrase, is encountered: "the last time", referring to the whole group:

"January 27...

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

It seems this is the last time we heard so many good new songs.

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

"This is the last time we heard..."

And how can you not become superstitious, listening to popular wisdom not to use this phrase, so as not to incur the misfortune.

It should be noted that on January 27th Lyudmila uses the word "it seems" before the key phrase: "this is the last time we heard", i.e. although she was under the impression of her forebodings, they still didn’t have that fatal doom which followed the next day, January 28, when Lyudmila completely stopped writing her impressions of the everyday life in her diary.

Only the presentiment of something fatal could have suppressed the long-term habit of an experienced hikers to keep his personal diary during a hike.

The possibility of perceiving other people's thoughts or feelings directed at the subject of perception has long been a subject of study - telepathy, finding confirmation from persons endowed with such an ability that it is not uncommon.

Therefore, at the heart of Ludmila Dubinina’s foreboding of her fatal doom, her ability to perceive her feelings of revenge related to her personally, rather than feelings of hatred, filled with negative emotions, fueled by the willingness to materialize them with a picture of the upcoming murder.

Considering that on January 28th Lyudmila completely stopped recording in her personal diary, it can be assumed that on this day the person who ordered the murder made the final decision to deal with the hikers, using associates from his inner circle, staging the killing of group members as an accident caused by the "overwhelming force" on Ural mountain ridge, with reference to the words of forester Rempel I. D. about the potential dangers lurking there for hikers.

It was on that day that Lyudmila Dubinina, previously so verbose in the records of her personal diary, completely stopped writing in it, apparently vaguely anticipating all the fatalism of the deadly threat hanging over her.

It is not excluded that Lyudmila Dubinina’s short but brief conflict with someone from the staff of the colony settlement of Vizhay over raw wood for the stove had its continuation already at the telepathic level of communication between the parties to the conflict, as is almost the case in life when the parties of an emotional conflict continue to mentally express to the offender everything that has boiled over.

I think anyone can remember from their own experience an episode of their emotional involvement in an imaginary continuation of a conflict situation after the abuser has long disappeared from sight.

As a rule, the conflict situation continues at the telepathic level of communication until it energetically disrupts itself in one way or another.

As we can see, even the next day, Lyudmila experienced a feeling of anger - "evil as hell", and this emotional negative could feed the energetics of her telepathic communication with those whom she clearly said too much (cut out her tongue) under the influence of her complex emotional state, known to us from her diary.

She was clearly unlucky because she dealt with a professional killer who had served for many years in the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs).

With each day, Lyudmila Dubinina increasingly "went into herself", plunging into the foreboding of something fatal, apparently already fearful from the thought of presenting her fears in her personal diary, much less sharing them with her friends.

A possible culmination of this depressed state was a sharp, outwardly unreasonable, change in her behavior on the evening of January 30, which outraged the whole group.

As follows from Zina Kolmogorova’s diary entries, it was in the evening of January 30th that Lyudmila Dubinina lost interest in working together on patching up the holes of a dilapidated tent, apparently, already immersed in a stupor from the suddenly increased premonition of her fatal doom:

"January 30...

Lyuda quickly got tired and sat down by the fire. Nick Thibault changed his clothes.

He began to write a diary.

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

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

Finally K. Tibo gave up and took a needle.

Lyuda remained seated.

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

Guys are terribly outraged.

Today is the birthday of Sasha Kolevatov*.

Congratulations.

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

A possible reason for such a sudden change in the behavior of Lyudmila on the evening of January 30 is the described in the investigation section of the Killers' Ski Route to the upper sources of Auspiya.

It is possible that the three murderers, having gone early in the morning of January 29 from 2nd Northern to the upper sources of Auspiya "took a shortcut on one of our forest paths" (words of forester I. D. Rempel), by the evening of January 30, they could have already achieved their intended destination, settling for the night in the headwaters of Auspiya.

For this reason, on the evening of January 30, they could mentally withdraw from the two previous days of a ski trip to the upper sources of Auspiya, focusing their attention on waiting for the hikers to arrive and discussing the details of their plan.

This may well explain such a dramatic change in the behavior of Lyudmila in the evening of January 30, because she was the main object of revenge, which riveted the thoughts of the murderers to her more than her comrades, judging by the severity of injuries inflicted on her later.

Mention Lyudmila in his personal diary "evil spirits" - "evil as hell", and to some extent "calling out" to her - "damn me", give the tragic death of Dyatlov's group some kind of ominous mystical connotation that actualizes the significance of domestic superstition:

January 24... Yes, and I generally like to add fuel to the fire, damn me to hell.
January 25... The mood sank. In general, I am very, very sad.
January 26... Mood is bad and probably will be for two more days. Evil as hell.

What can cause such changes in Lyudmila's behavior from January 26 to 30, which later became the victim of revenge in Dyatlov group murders (..., cut the tongue)?

The only plausible explanation for such dramatic changes in Lyudmila’s behavior can only be her premonition of an impending mortal threat, due to her ability at the telepathic level, to vaguely perceive the terrible picture of her plans being visualized by the murderers, which she simply could not want to believe, but the oppressive negative of this premonition had its influence on her thoughts and actions.

In any case, the diary notes of Lyudmila Dubinina and the peculiarities of her behavior shortly before and after the visit of Dyatlov group to the village of Vizhay can hardly be explained only rationally, consistent with the beginnings of common sense, without attracting the irrational component of human existence, bringing something ominously mystical to the tragic death of the Dyatlov group.

End of article

I have solicited an opinion from Sabine Lechtenfeld, forensic psychologist from Hannover, Germany on the subject.

What was tormenting Lyuda's mind in the days before the tragedy, was she feeling the impending doom or was she just a troubled soul?

Here is her opinion.

I thought long and hard about what kind of assessment of Lyuda's behavior prior to her death I could put together.

I decided that there is just not enough reliable material for a proper scientific expertise.

I don't want to go down the path of many others and pull an imaginary rabbit out of my hat, although it's very tempting.

However I will give you an assortment of my subjective impressions and tentative conclusions.

Let me start with the idea that some of Lyuda's behavior and her last diary entries may have been out-of-character and hint at the possibility that she had a premonition of the tragedy, or - as the article you sent me seems to suggest - may even have been in telepathic contact with her future killer.

If we are looking at a suspicious death, it's standard procedure to scrutinize the behavior of the victims shortly before their death and look for changes and unusual behavior.

But you have to adopt a pre-mortem perspective in order to avoid the fallacies of confirmation bias.

This is the key question: could we say that Lyuda's behavior and her diary entries are strange and different from her usual behavior - even if we don't know the fate of the group?

Unfortunately there's not a lot of material available for answering that question accurately.

Let's first look at the fact that she stopped to write her diary and that she decided not to help with some daily chores like mending the tent and that she isolated herself from the other members shortly before they all perished.

From the little we do know from her curriculum vitae and the various diary entries, I conclude that she was an intelligent and well- educated girl who was introverted and did not socialize easily.

She seems to have been well organized and honest to a fault.

Since she was the treasurer of the expedition this would've served her well.

And according to her own assessment she could not hold her tongue and didn't hesitate to speak her mind, which she regretted sometimes.

She also scolded herself for being socially awkward.

I looked at all available pictures of Lyuda and concluded that she was a serious and rather introverted person and did not smile easily.

I saw her most engaging and beautiful smile when she looked at her little brother.

I sense a bit of reservation in the pictures where she has physical contact - like a hug - with other expedition members.

Compared to the other members of the group her body language comes across as a bit reserved - although I have to attach the important caveat that she may simply not have been totally relaxed and comfortable in front of a camera.

That she stopped to update her expedition diary is indeed concerning, since keeping a personal diary on a daily basis was considered to be one of the essential duties during these expeditions.

But in order to assess if her neglect was totally out-of-character, we would need to know if she has ever failed to update her diary on a daily basis on previous expeditions.

That she failed to assist in some daily chores like mending the tent, also seems to be not compatible with what we know about her, and her attitude is duly noted by the other members in their diary entries.

But it's only a short notice and no one seems to have made a huge song and dance about it or kicked up a fuss because of her apparent moodiness.

Therefore it's difficult to say if this was a very unusual behavior for Lyuda, or if those members who knew her better were used to her having certain mood swings now and then.

If it is correct that Lyuda had been prone to mood swings, her behavior during the last days of her life may not have been out-of-character at all.

But the big question remains: what caused her bad mood?

Let's Look at her diary entries which many consider to be a premonition of the tragedy.

She wrote:

"Everybody felt really tired after the movie and wanted to sleep.

Zina and I lay on a mesh-work bed.

It's a dream.

The lads rested right on the floor.

The mood is evil (horrible).

Seems it's going to be evil (horrible) for about two more days.

I'm mad as hell (as a devil)".

I included alternative translation possibilities in brackets ,since there are different possibilities to translate the origial Russian text.

The English word "evil" which seems to stick out here, has a different and more emotionally loaded connotation than the word "horrible".

What's really odd about these few sentences is, that Lyuda doesn't seem to give us the slightest hint, why her mood is so bad.

And this self-assessment of her mood seems to come totally out of the blue.

Before she wrote this down she told in a spirited and positive way about what the group has been up to during the day, and she and the others seemed to have enjoyed themselves.

Even the sleeping arrangements (she and Zina are sharing the only available bed) seemed to have agreed with her - if we interpret the sentence "it's a dream" in a positive way.

So, everything seems to be fine - and then she writes without any explanation whatsoever that her mood is horrible/evil and that she is mad!

Even without the benefit of hindsight this is somewhat odd.

But then she writes that her mood will be horrible/evil for about two more days.

This is very interesting insofar as she seems to know quite well what's the cause of her bad mood and when it will end, although she doesn't spell it out explicitly.

It has been suggested that she may have had her period or that she was in her pre-menstrual phase.

This is a very plausible idea since it would explain why she seems to know quite well, when her bad mood will end, and it would be such a private but banal and recurrent event that she doesn't bother to explain it.

Another possibility is that she is very discontent/annoyed with the current situation before the group starts to embark on their ski-hiking trip, and that she expects that her mood will improve once they start skiing and leave behind their current location and their people.

The following sentence "I'm mad as hell/as the devil" is also hard to assess, since she doesn't bother to explain.

Does she feel always mad/angry in connection with her period or other inconvenient situations, or is there something else which goes through her head while she's lying on her bed which angers or upsets her greatly?

Frankly, this sentence doesn't seem to be a vague premonition of doom, which she cannot figure out.

To me it seems that she knows quite well what exactly is upsetting her.

Unfortunately we will never know what it was.

Therefore my next thoughts are purely speculative:

Is it possible that she spotted something in her current location and situation which struck her in a very negative way?

Did she notice something which struck her as being bad and not ok, but she hesitates to put it down in writing?

If this continued to bother her while she mulled it over, it could explain why she was so occupied with these thoughts that she didn't even continue to use her diary.

She may literally have stopped speaking her mind.

Since she anticipates that her mood will be better within two days I conclude that her bad mood had probably nothing to do with the upcoming ski-hiking expedition and/or any specific members of her group.

But could Lyuda have noticed something which may have had a connection or even led to the terrible fate of the expedition?

She strikes me as a perceptive and honest person.

If she noticed something going on which wasn't right in her opinion she certainly might get mad and be in and "evil" or "horrible" mood.

But do we even have the slightest factual hint in that direction?

This depends largely on the correct assessment of the autopsy protocols.

Lyuda's pre- and postmortem injuries were more horrific than the injuries of all the other group members.

She didn't only suffer the most, but her eyes were mutilated and her tongue was missing.

If the missing facial organs have any significance for the case depends largely on this: were natural decay and small animals responsible - or was Lyuda deliberately mutilated?

Since the original investigation concluded (or was forced to conclude) that the Dyatlov Pass deaths were not the result of a crime, they officially concluded that the facial injuries were the result of natural decay and /or scavenging animals.

Some experts came later to a different conclusion.

But most experts seem to agree on one point: these facial injuries happened after Lyuda's death.

If this was deliberate but postmortem, then these mutilations were not the result of torture while she was still alive.

Since I'm not a pathologist I cannot decide which conclusion is correct.

But let's assume for a moment that the mutilations happened deliberately after Lyuda had perished.

What exactly would that tell us?

We could for starters conclude that the assailants stuck around until she died.

This is a very important conclusion because it would exclude all scenarios where after an initial wave of attacks all injured victims were left alone and then died without their attackers being around.

If Lyuda was mutilated after her death at least some killers stuck around and made sure that Lyuda (and probably the other students, too) would be dead or die shortly.

In a scenario of deliberate postmortem mutilations we further have to ask why this was done.

It has been suggested that Lyuda may have been the primary victim.

Personally I have big problems with the idea that all killings have been committed because someone was targeting Lyuda specifically in a personal vendetta, and that the other group members were just collateral victims.

Nothing we know about Lyuda's short life hints into such a direction, and to me it seems to be totally over-the-top and excessive that a personal enemy would take on such a great risk and kill all those other people just in order to get back at Lyuda.

It's also highly unlikely that the killings were the work of only one assailant.

But is it really plausible to assume that a personal enemy of Lyuda deliberately would recruit helpers in order to wipe out the whole group?

I don't think that this is a very likely scenario.

The reason that her injuries were more horrific than the injuries of the others could simply be due to the fact that she may have been more resilient, and therefore she enraged the killers.

Therefore she may have been savagely attacked in a final attempt to finish her off without using a weapon.

Also, the nature of Lyuda's postmortem facial mutilations are not typical tell-tale signs for someone having a personal grudge.

A totally smashed face and the mutilations of breasts and the sexual organs are far more typical mutilations if someone acted out because of a personal grievance. However, the deliberate removal of tongue and eyes are a very typical icon since ancient times that the mutilated victim may have seen too much and was suspected to have talked about it.

It also could be a symbol that the mutilated victim will never again be able to talk.

Very recently the famous mobster Whitey Bulger has been killed by his prison inmates, and his tongue and eyes have been mutilated after he died, most likely because he had a long history as a police informer.

I don't want to imply at all that Lyuda was a snitch.

She strikes me as a person of great integrity who always tried to do the right thing.

But if her facial mutilations were not the result of natural decay and small animals, but the deliberate postmortem work of the killers, then we should contemplate if this is a tell-tale sign that she had seen something which she shouldn't have seen and which she and the rest of the students shouldn't talk about.

I don't reject the possibility completely that Lyuda had a premonition of impending doom, but we don't have any proof whatsoever that she was indeed psychic.

And since she seemed to think that her bad mood would become better in a matter of two days, I personally would exclude the idea that Lyuda had a true premonition.

I prefer a more rational explanation and think it's at least possible that Lyuda consciously noticed something going on in her immediate surroundings before the skiing stated, which bothered her greatly and caused her to be in a "horrible" or "evil" mood.

If she continued to mull it over, it could've continued to occupy her mind after they had started their ski-hiking trip, and she may have become edgy and withdrawn to the point where she didn't even bother to keep up with her expedition diary.

If she noticed something which greatly upset her, she and her fellow members may have been perceived as a potential danger for someone or a group of people.

In this case they may have been followed by their eventual killers.

If the ski-hikers noticed something, this may well have sparked their jests about the existence of yetis.

The last paragraph may seem to pull an imaginary rabbit out of my hat - or rather my brain - after all.

But it is a chain of arguments which is based on the assumption that Lyuda's facial disfiguration were the work of perpetrators who mutilated her face deliberately after she died.

If this assumption is correct it has great implications for the case. However, if Lyuda's facial disfiguration were the result of natural decay and/or scavenging animals, the whole chain of argumentation is mute.

Personally I don't readily believe in telepathy without additional proof (although I don't completely exclude it from my world views) and it's not my first choice for explaining Lyuda's diary entries.

I believe in premonitions only insofar as they may be the result of subtle or less subtle hints which our brain has picked up and then subconsciously processed.

Our brain continues to work even when we are not aware of it - even when we sleep.

Great scientists often experienced solutions for their theories in their dreams, and the results of these subconscious processes can be very valuable.

But it was only possible because all necessary knowledge and information were already there.

Many gifted seers and clairvoyants work by picking up subtle clues.

But that's not what I would call a true premonition.

A true premonition would be if there were no informations and no hints at all available, but a person would have an awareness of things to come nevertheless.

While I don't completely reject the idea that telepatic communication and true premonitions are possible, I prefer to assume that Lyuda's bad mood had either nothing to do with the subsequent tragedy, or that she consciously or subconscioulsy processed hints and observed facts.

That may have led to Lyuda's so-called demons.

And I believe that her facial mutilations may be a hint into that direction - if they were indeed the deliberate work of the killers.

Unfortunately we probably will never know that for sure...

Ed. note: On Jan 27, 1959 while at the 41st logging site Dyatlov group learn some Mansi words.

Zina, Lyuda and Rustem make similar notes in their diaries.

The first word they write is "Я - ручей" which in Russian sounds like "I am a river" or with the dash "I am in the river".

Something that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when you think where was Lyuda found.

Dubinina was found in a creek by Askinadzi metal probe on May 5th 1959

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On May 12, 1959 all the bodies lay in the ground, but they won't have peace until the case is solved.

 

In 1962, next to their graves in Mikhailovskoe cemetery, a monument was erected with pictures of all nine members of the group.

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In August 1963, on the pass on Kholat Syakhl mountain, a group led by Valentin Yakimienko set a memorial plaque saying:

 

"In memory of those who left and did not return, we name this pass after the Dyatlov group."

The Pass has been called Dyatlov Pass ever since.

 

 

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May 18 - testing for radiation

Lev Ivanov, lead investigator of Dyatlov case, decides on this date to order a physical and technical expertise on the radioactive contamination of the clothing and parts of bodies of the deceased tourists.

Resolution for radiation contamination testing

Ivanov appoints the chief radiologist of Sverdlovsk Levashov to conduct the tests.

All clothing of Semyon Zolotaryov, Lyudmila Dubinina, Aleksander Kolevatov and Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolle, as well as parts of their bodies were sent for testing.

Radiometric measurements were carried out with the help of the Tiss device without ashing in a lead house with cassette counters STS-6 in number of 4 pieces.

"Tiss" universal device

"Tiss" universal device, measures alpha with an energy of radiation more than 3 MeV, beta and gamma with an energy of radiation more than 0.600 MeV.

Measuring range: 2 - 700 rpm * cm2.

Тhe device is measuring the contamination of clothing, hands and work surfaces with alpha or beta-active substances, receives a signal that the amount of contamination exceeds the permissible level, the value of which can be set by the operator.

Later, with radiometric measurements without ashing in a lead house with cassette counters STS-6 in the amount of 4 pieces, maximum contamination was established in some sections.

Basic technical specification: The device is designed to work in the temperature range of ambient air from +5 to +35 ° C and relative humidity up to 85% (at + 20°C) Power - from the AC 110/127/220 V network with a frequency of 50 Hz.

According to the direct-reading device, it is possible to measure the average pulse arrival rate in the range of 60-100 000 cpm.

The entire range is divided into 6 subbands: 300 pulses / min - 100 000 imp / min.

The TU block has a working surface of 150 cm2.

The device's own background is 20 pulses/min.

With the TI block it is possible to work in gamma fields with an intensity of not more than 500 micro/sec.

The block is sensitive to magnetic fields.

The instrument measures contamination of surfaces with beta-active substances complete with a block of PM.

The working surface of the sensor is 130 cm2.

The measuring range is up to 100 000 rpm.

The device provides automatic compensation of the external gamma background, provided that the background value does not exceed the nominal value of the scale at which the measurements are made.

The studies were performed in Sverdlovsk radiological laboratory from 18 - 25 May 59.

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Case files volumes 1 & 2 now completed with indexes in both languages for ease of navigation and search.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Resolution to close the case

I APPROVE:
PROSECUTOR OF THE SVERDLOVSK REGION
STATE ADVISER OF JUSTICE OF THE III CLASS
(N. KLINOV)
May 28, 1959

Nikolay Ivanovich Klinov - Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk region

RESOLUTION.

May 28, 1959
city of Sverdlovsk

Prosecutor criminologist of the Sverdlovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office Jr. Justice Counselor Ivanov, having examined the criminal case instituted on the occasion of the death of 9 tourists in the Ivdel district of the Sverdlovsk region,

Case file page 384

Rulled:

January 23, 1959 a group of amateur tourists in the amount of 10 people went on a ski trip along the route: city of Sverdlovsk - city of Ivdel - 2nd Northern district - Mt. Otorten - Oika-Chakour mountain - North Toschemka river - Vizhay settlement - city of Ivdel - city of Sverdlovsk.

The group consisted of: Igor Dyatlov - a student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, leader of the expedition; Dubinina L.A., Kolmogorova Z.A., Kolevatov A.S., Yudin Y.E., Doroshenko Y.N. - UPI students; Zolotaryov A.A. - Instructor of the Kourovka Tourist Base, Slobodin R.V., Krivonischenko Y.G., Thibeaux-Brignolle N.V. - engineers of enterprises in Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk.

All the participants of the expedition had good hiking training and could participate in a trek of III category of difficulty.

The group was supplied with the necessary equipment and food, the trade union committee of the Ural Polytechnic Institute financed the expedition.

Arriving safely to the place of the beginning of the trek - the 2nd Northern Ivdels district on 28.I.59 the group started the hike.

One tourist - Yudin Y.S. returned home from the site of the 2nd Northern, as he could not continue the trek due to illness.

From diary entries, sketches of the route and developed photographic films of the tourists it is determined that on 28 May 1959 the group went upstream Lozva river, 30.I.59 the group continued its movement, 31.I.59 the tourists reached Auspiya river and tried to go over the pass to the valley of Lozva river, but because of the low temperature and strong wind they had to go back down and stopped for overnight.

On I.II.59 tourists built a storage in the upper reaches of Auspiya river in which they left supplies of food and all unnecessary equipment.

On 31.I.59 going back in the valley of Auspiya river and knowing about the difficult conditions of the relief of the height "1079", where the ascent was supposed to be, Dyatlov, as the leader of the group, made a gross mistake allowing the group to begin the ascent on 1.II.59, only at 15-00.

Case file page 385

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

This was Dyatlov's second mistake.

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

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

Considering that this frame was shot with an exposure of I/25 seconds, with a diaphragm of 5.6 at a film sensitivity of 65 Un. GOST, and taking into account the density of the frame, we can assume that the tourists started the installation of the tent around 5 pm 1.II.59.

A similar picture was taken with another camera.

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

According to the protocol of the route committee, the group leader, Igor Dyatlov, 12.II.59, was to telegraphically inform the sports club of the UPI and the Committee of Physical Education (comrade Ufimtsev) on arrival of the group in the village of Vizhay.

Since the deadline of 12.II.59 passed, and no information was received from the group, the tourists who knew Dyatlov closely demanded a search to start, and on 20.II.59 the Institute's leadership on the Dyatlov route sent a search team, and then several more groups.

Subsequently, soldiers and officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, planes and helicopters of civil and military aviation joined the search operation.

On February 26, 1959, on the eastern slope of the peak "1079" the group's tent was found with all the equipment and food in it.

The tent and all that was in it were well preserved.

Inspection of the tent showed that it was set correctly and provided accommodation for the hikers.

In the tent there were 2 blankets, backpacks, storm jackets and trousers.

The rest of the blankets were crumpled and frozen.

On the blanket were found several loin pieces.

Location and availability of items in the tent (almost all shoes, all outer clothing, personal belongings and diaries) indicated that the tent was abandoned suddenly by all tourists at the same time, and, as it was established in the subsequent forensic expertise, the lee side of the tent, where tourists usually laid their heads, it was cut from the inside in two places providing a free exit of the person through these cuts.

Case file page 386

Below the tent, for up to 500 meters in the snow, traces of people walking from the tent to the valley and into the forest have been preserved.

The traces were well preserved and there were 8-9 pairs.

Inspection of the tracks showed that some of them were almost barefoot (for example, in one cotton sock), others had a typical footprint of felt boots, legs covered in a soft sock, etc.

Prints of tracks were located close to each other, converging and again separated one from another.

Closer to the border of the forest, the footprints were covered with snow and disappeared.

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

26.II.59 in 1500 meters from the tent, at the forest boundary, the remains of a fire are found, and near it were the bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, stripped to the underwear.

At 300 meters from the makeshift fire, in the direction of the tent, was found the body of Dyatlov, 180 meters away from him - the body of Slobodin, and 150 meters from Slobodin - Kolmogorova body.

The last three bodies were located on a straight line from the fire to the tent.

Dyatlov lay on his backs, his head in the direction of the tent, his hands clasping the trunk of a small birch.

Slobodin and Kolmogorov lay face down, their pose testified that they were crawling to the tent.

Money and personal effects (pens, pencils, etc.) were found in the pockets of Kolmogorova, Dyatlov and Slobodin.

On his left hand pointing outwards Slobodin was wearing a watch that stopped at 8:45.

Dyatlov's watch showed 5:31.

Forensic medical examination found that Dyatlov, Doroshenko, Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova died from exposure to low temperature (frozen), none of them had physical injuries, not counting minor scratches and abrasions.

Slobodin had a crack in the skull 6 cm long, which had spread to 0.1 cm, but Slobodin died from freezing.

May 4, 1959, 75 meters from the campfire, in the direction of the valley of the fourth tributary of Lozva, i.e. perpendicular to the way of tourists from the tent, under a layer of snow 4-4.5 meters, the bodies of Dubinina, Zolotaryov, Thibeaux-Brignolle and Kolevatov were found.

On the bodies, as well as a few meters from them, Krivonischenko and Doroshenko's clothes were found - trousers, sweaters.

All clothing has traces of smooth cuts, as already photographed with the bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko.

The dead Thibeaux Brignolle and Zolotaryov were found well-dressed, worse dressed Dubinina - her jacket made of artificial fur and a cap were found on Zolotaryov, Dubinina's naked leg was wrapped in Krivonischenko's woolen pants.

Near the bodies, Krivonischenko's knife was found, which cut off the young firs near the fire.

On the hand of Thibeaux-Brignolle were two watches - one of them shows 8:14, and the second - 8:39.

Forensic evidence of bodies revealed that Kolevatov's death had come from the effect of low temperature (frozen), Kolevatov had no physical injuries.

The death of Dubinina, Thibeaux-Brignolle and Zolotaryov was the result of multiple physical injuries.

Dubinina has a semimetric fracture of the ribs: on the right 2, 3, 4, 5 and left 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

In addition she has extensive hemorrhage in the heart.

Case file page 387

Thibeaux-Brignolle has an extensive hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle - corresponding to him - a crushed fracture of the skull bones measuring 3x7 cm, with a bone defect 3x2 cm.

Zolotaryov has a broken ribs on the right 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 along the parasternal and midaxillary lines, which caused his death.

The investigation did not establish the presence of other people on February 1 or February 2, 1959 in the area of ​​the height "1079", except the tourists from Dyatlov group.

It is also established that the population of the Mansi people, living in 80-100 km from this place, is Russian friendly, offers tourists accommodation, assistance etc.

The place where the group died is considered to be unfit for hunting and reindeer breeding in the winter.

Considering the absence of external injuries to the bodies or signs of a fight, the presence of all the valuables of the group, and also taking into account the conclusion of the medical examinations for the causes of the deaths of the tourists, it is concluded that the cause of their demise was overwhelming force, which the tourists were not able to overcome.

For the shortcomings in the organization of tourist work and weak control of the bureau of the Sverdlovsk GC the CPSU punished in party terms: the director of the Ural Polytechnic Institute Siunov, the secretary of the party bureau Zaostrovsky, the chairman of the trade union UPK Slobodin, the chairman of the city union of voluntary sports societies Kurochkin and the inspector of the union Ufimtsev.

The chairman of the board of the sports club of the Gordo Institute has been removed from work.

Given that between the actions of the above-mentioned persons who have committed shortcomings in the formulation of sports work and the death of tourists there is no causal connection and, not seeing in this case the corpus delicti, guided by paragraph 5 of Article 4 of the RSFSR Code of Criminal Procedure,

Ruled:

The criminal case on the death of the group of tourists and further proceedings are to be terminated.

PROSECUTOR CRIMINALIST
JR. ADVISER OF JUSTICE (IVANOV)

AGREED:
DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE INVESTIGATIVE DEPARTMENT
ADVISER OF JUSTICE (LUKIN)

Andrey Pavlovich Kirilenko - First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lev Ivanov continues to ask questions to Vozrozhdenny the day the case is closed

The Dyatlov case was closed, but investigator Lev Ivanov asked forensic medical examiner expert Vozrozhdenny, additional questions about the autopsy reports, and received some interesting information:

1. From what kind of force could Thibeaux-Brignolle have received such injury?
   Answer: In the conclusion, it’s shown the damage to Thibeaux-Brignolle’s head could have been the result of the throwing, fall or jettisoning of the body. I don’t believe these wounds could have been the result of Thibeaux-Brignolle simply falling from the level of his own height, i.e. falling and hitting his head. The extensive, depressed, multi-splintered (broken fornix and base of the skull) fracture could be the result of an impact of an automobile moving at high speed. This kind of trauma could have occurred if Thibeaux-Brignolle had been thrown and fallen and hit his head against rocks, ice, etc., by a gust of strong wind.
2. Is it possible that Thibeaux-Brignolle was hit by a rock that was in someone’s hand?
   Answer: In this case, there would have been damage to the soft tissue, and this was not evident.
3. How long could Thibeaux-Brignolle have lived after the trauma. Could he have moved on his own, talked, etc.?
   Answer: After this trauma, Thibeaux-Brignolle would have had a severe concussion; that is, he would have been in an unconscious state. Moving him would have been difficult and, close to the end, movement would not have been possible. I believe he would not have been able to move even if he had been helped. He could only have been carried or dragged. He could have shown signs of life for 2-3 hours.
4. How is it possible to explain the cause of the damage to Dubinina and Zolotaryov? Is it possible to combine them into one cause.
   Answer: I think the character of the injuries on Dubinina and Zolotaryov – a multiple fracture of the ribs – on Dubinina were bilateral and symmetrical, and on Zolotaryov were one-sided. Both had hemorrhaging into the cardiac muscle with hemorrhaging into the pleural cavity, which is evidence of them being alive [when injured] and is the result of the action of a large force, similar to the example used for Thibeaux-Brignolle. These injuries, especially appearing in such a way without any damage to the soft tissue of the chest, are very similar to the type of trauma that results from the shock wave of a bomb.
5. How long could Dubinina and Zolotaryov have lived?
   Answer: Dubinina died 10-20 minutes after the trauma. She could have been conscious. Sometimes it happens that a person with a wound to the heart (for example, a serious knife wound) can talk, run and ask for help. Dubinina’s situation was one of complicated traumatic shock resulting from the bilateral rib fracture, followed by internal hemorrhaging into the pleural cavity. Zolotaryov could have lived longer. It needs to be taken into account that they were all trained, physically fit, and strong people.

Regional bureau forensic pathologist Vozrozhdenny (signature) 05/29/1959

Boris Alexandrovich Vozrozhdenny - forensic medical expert of the Regional forensic bureau

Vozrozhdenny Boris Alexandrovich (born 1922) - forensic expert (since 1954) of the Regional forensic medical bureau.

Together with forensic expert Ganz, he carried out the autopsy and the description of the corpses found on the slope of the Kholat Syakhl mountain in March-May 1959.

He prepared the conclusions given in the autopsy reports.

The autopsy reports, signed by the Vozrozhdenny, are in the criminal case about the death of tourists of the Dyatlov group. In May 1959, Vozrozhdenny flew in a helicopter to the place of discovery of the last four bodies.

With regard to the autopsies, opinions were divided.

Some researchers believe that Vozrozhdenny has deliberately omitted some details pointing to the radiological reason for the death of the Dyatlov group, while others recall that it was precisely from the autopsy reports - undoubtedly the most valuable documents in this case - that it became known that there were serious bodily injuries, incompatible with life, on Slobodin, Dubinina, Thibeaux-Brignolle and Zolotaryov.

In addition, the documents indicate that Lyudmila Dubinina was missing her tongue.

There are testimonies of eyewitnesses that after each autopsy, experts and witnesses "from the authorities" dipped into a barrel of alcohol, so as not to get infected.

When they finished investigating the bodies of the first five and brought out the verdict of hypothermia as the cause of death, the whole team got drunk.

This is the moment portrayed in the header image from “Dyatlov Pass - end of story” movie.

Some modern researchers interpret these facts differently - some believe that the autopsies were conducted in a state of intoxication.

Activists of the Dyatlov case have been persistently calling for the exhumation of the corpses and conducting a second investigation.

They may just have recently gotten their wish.

On April 12, 2018 Komsomolskaya Pravda, per request of the relatives, exhumed the body of Semyon Zolotaryov at Ivanovskoe Cemetery in Yekaterinburg for the purpose of identification.

The superimposition performed by expert Sergey Nikitin at the cemetery comparing the skull with a known post war photograph of Semyon Zoltaryov shows perfect match (more information).

The first DNA test results aired by Russian Channel 1 on May 16, 2018 exclude kinship of the person laying in Zolotaryov’s grave with Zolotaryov’s niece Tatyana Skulbeda, daughter of Semyon’s sister (more information).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 29 - Histological Analyses

The case was terminated before all test came out.

 

Histological Analysis №66/602

Case file page 358 dated 29/V 1959

Under the order of Forensic medical expert Vozrozhdenny an examination was carried out in the histological department of the Sverdlovsk Region of pieces of skin, bones and internal organs from the body of of Thibeaux-Brignolle N.V., 23 years old, to resolve the issue of hemorrhages.

Hematoxylin and Eosin, and Wright-Giemsa staining.

Microscopic examination
The sternum with the surrounding soft tissues - In soft tissues hemorrhages are not visible, red bone marrow in a state of putrefaction.

Rib - Blood between the bone beams in the state of putrefaction.

Skin - Epidermis is absent, in the dermis of hemorrhage with the presence of brown pigment.

Thyroid gland with surrounding muscles - In soft tissues hemorrhages are not visible, iron in a state of putrefaction.

Conclusion Hemorrhage in the skin (in the dermis).

29/V 1959 Forensic medical expert Ganz

Histological Analysis №64/600

Case file page 359 dated 29/V 1959

Under the order of Forensic medical expert Vozrozhdenny an examination was carried out in the histological department of the Sverdlovsk Region of pieces of skin, bones and internal organs from the body of Kolevatov A.S., 24 years old, to resolve the issue of the presence of hemorrhages.

Hematoxylin and Eosin, and Wright-Giemsa staining.

Microscopic examination
Part of the costal bone with surrounding soft tissues - Bone is an ordinary structure, hemorrhages are not visible in surrounding soft tissues, pronounced putrefaction.

Skin - The epidermis is flattened, visible only along the edges of the drug, in the derma of hemorrhages it is not visible.

Kidney - Putrid changes.

Heart - Presence of gaps between myocardial fibers

Conclusion In the sent pieces of skin, bones and internal organs from the body of Kolevatov, hemorrhages were not detected.

29/V 1959 Forensic medical expert Ganz

Histological Analysis №65/601

Case file page 360

Under the order of Forensic medical expert Vozrozhdenny an examination was carried out in the histological department of the Sverdlovsk Region of pieces of skin, bones and internal organs from the body of A. Zolotaryov A.A., 37 years old, to resolve the issue of the presence of hemorrhages.

Hematoxylin and Eosin, and Wright-Giemsa staining.

Microscopic examination
Part of the sternum with surrounding soft tissues - Hemorrhages are not visible.

Part of the edge with the surrounding soft tissues - Putrefactive changes, in the soft tissues bone fragments and hemorrhages are visible, there is no cellular reaction.

Skin - Absence of superficial layers of the epidermis, in places its complete absence, in the dermis of hemorrhage with the presence of brown pigment and shadows of cells, putrefactive changes.

Muscle - Putrid changes.

Heart - Cracks between myocardial fibers, plethora of blood vessels, diapedemic hemorrhages.

The back of Case file page 360 dated 29/V 1959

ConclusionHemorrhages in the skin (in the dermis), heart muscle and soft tissues, in the region of the rib fracture without a cellular reaction.

29/V 1959 Forensic medical expert Ganz

Histological Analysis №67/603

Case file page 361 dated 29/V 1959

Under the order of Forensic medical expert Vozrozhdenny an examination was carried out in the histological department of the Sverdlovsk Region of pieces of skin, bones and internal organs from the body of Dubinina L.A., 21, to solve the question of the presence of hemorrhages.

Hematoxylin and Eosin, and Wright-Giemsa staining.

Microscopic examination
Rib - A transverse fracture of the rib with a hemorrhage at the site of the fracture, without a cellular reaction.

Hyoid bone - Hemorrhages are not visible

Skin - The epidermis is completely absent in places, hemorrhages with presence of brown pigment and shadows of cells are visible in the dermis.

Heart - The gap between the fibers of the myocardium, small hemorrhages in the myocardium.

Conclusion Hemorrhages in the skin (in the dermis), hemorrhage at the site of the rib fracture without a cellular reaction, small hemorrhages in the myocardium.

29/V 1959 Forensic medical expert Ganz

* Header image is from “Dyatlov Pass - end of story” movie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lev Ivanov continues to ask questions to Levashov after the case is closed

After the Dyatlov case was closed, the investigator Lev Ivanov asked the expert chief radiologist of Sverdlovsk Levashov additional questions about his radiological examination:

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS TO THE EXPERT:

1. Should there be (can it be) increased contamination of clothing with radioactive substances under normal conditions, i.e. without being in a radioactively contaminated environment or place?
   Answer: Definitely not.
2. Was there any contamination of the objects you are researching?
   Answer: As stated in the conclusion, there is a contamination of radioactive substances (substance) by the beta emitters of individual, selectable areas of clothing, sent samples. Thus, for example, the cut from №4 - the brown sweater at the time of the study had 9900 beta-particles decays per minute at 150 cm2, and after washing (for 3 hours in our room), he gave 5,200 decays per minute of beta particles with 150 cm2. For example, according to the sanitary rules that exist in our country, the contamination in beta particles from 150 square centimeters per minute should not exceed 5000 cleavages (washing), and after cleaning (washing) there should be a natural background, e. as much as it gives cosmic radiation to all people and all objects in a given locality, this is the norm for workers with radioactive substances. Piece from №1 - the waistband of the sweater shows up to wash 5600 decays, and after washing - 2700. The bottom of the trousers from №1 shows 5000 decays before washing and 2600 after washing. In your data it is indicated that all these objects were in the flowing water for a long time before the study, i.e. have already been washed.
3. Is it possible to consider that this clothing is contaminated with radioactive dust?
   Answer: Yes, clothes are contaminated or radioactive dust dropped from the atmosphere, or this garment has been exposed to contamination when working with radioactive substances, or on contact. This pollution exceeds, as I have already indicated, the norm for persons working with radioactive substances.
4. What do you think, what could be the degree of contamination of individual objects, if you take into account that prior to research they had been in the running water for about 15 days.
   Answer: It can be assumed that the contamination of individual garments was many times greater, but here one must take into account that clothes could be washed unevenly, that is, with varying degrees of intensity

Expert: chief radiologist of the city of Levashov (signed) 05/29/1959

In order to determine whether the radiological contamination of clothes was beta-particles, compare the indices of its contamination with the data of the sanitary and radiation survey conducted on June 25, 1959 in the village of Tatar Karabolka, which is located only 30-40 kilometers from the Mayak enterprise, and which September 29, 1957, the first was on the way of a deadly cloud from a radiation explosion.

In 1959, secret order № 546SS syas that residents of Tatar Karabolka must be urgently resettled because of dangerous radiation contamination.

In this area in 1959 there was an increased level of radiation, measurements of contamination of household items as follows:

The indicators of contamination with beta particles of clothes of Dyatlov group members exceeded the maximum indices of β-removable pollution of household items in the polluted by radiation emissions of the village of Tatar Karabolka up to 50 times! Why?

Considering the fact that the clothes with β-contamination were washed in the flowing water of the stream for 3 months, these are high radioactivity values for the terrain where radioactivity is not present - the mountainous terrain far from pollution sites.

In addition to clothing, radiometric measurements of solid biosubstrates (bodies of the dead) were conducted using a B-2 (№ 2554) installation in a lead house with a BFA-25 meter.

The unit was calibrated according to the strontium preparation with activity:
1) 7000 rpm
2) 2000 rpm

Set conversion ratio = 5.5

Forensic medical expert Vozrozhdenny obtained control samples of tissues of a person who died in motor vehicle accident in Sverdlovsk.

The presence of the natural radiological element of potassium-40 was in approximately the same amounts Table №3 as in the bodies of dead tourists Table №1.

However, it has to be taken in consideration that:

1. Control samples were biosubstrates of the lung, and in the samples of dead tourists this organ was absent. The lungs, like other respiratory organs, obviously did not examine, and it is in the lungs, the trachea, the bronchi and the nasopharynx that radioactive particles are deposited.
   
   Radioactive particles when inhaled are usually localized at different levels of the respiratory tract, depending on the particle size. Particles from 0 3 to 0 micron are retained in the alveoli, about 6-20 microns in bronchioles, 20-60 microns in the bronchi, and particles larger than 60 microns in the upper respiratory tract.
2. In addition to the lungs, the dead had not been examined yet a very important organ - the thyroid gland.
   
   The thyroid gland is a very important organ that suffers first of all during the radioactive irradiation of the human body 131J.
   Iodine, as a substance, is extremely selectively deposited in the thyroid gland.
   After ingress of 131J into the human body, the radioactivity of the thyroid gland can exceed the radioactivity of all other tissues by more than 200 times! Acute radiation injuries of a severe, moderate and mild degree in an adult can be expected with oral intake of 131J in an amount of 55, 18 and 5 MBq / kg body weight. The toxicity of the radionuclide with inhalation intake is approximately two times higher, which is associated with a larger area of ​​contact beta radiation.
   
   All organs and systems are involved in the pathological process, but especially severe damages occur in the thyroid gland, where the highest doses are formed.
   
   The thyroid gland of the victims who died during the examination was not investigated, but as noted above, the expert Vozrozhdenny recorded in the autopsy reports that the aorta passing into the thyroid gland of the dead was greatly expanded.

Due to the fact that the biosubstrates of the lung and the thyroid gland of the dead for any reason were not given to the radiologist Levashov, on the basis of the incomplete data provided to him, he conducted an examination and made the following conclusion:

1. The content of radioactive materials in analyzed solid biosubstartes is within the natural level (and is due to the presence of isotope K-40).
2. The analyzed samples of clothing carry slightly excessive amounts of radioactive substances being the source of Beta-emission.
3. The detected radioactive materials or radioactive substance show a tendency to washing-off in the course of clothing samples washing, i.e., they are not due to a neutron flux or induced radiation, but rather to radioactive contamination of Beta-particles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

Why was Solter counting 11 bodies?

 

 

 

 

Many have tried to explain what she constantly throughout her life claimed to be true, beginning long before she became old and forgetful.

 

The prevailing explanation of the inexplicable is that she never actually saw all the bodies at the same time, so she must have confused her encounter with the bodies in the number and chronology.

I am claiming the Dyatlov group to be "the perfect storm" in forensics. Not only did the bodies come 3 months apart, but they were also examined in different morgues and by different coroners.

The coroner who wrote the official autopsy reports in the case files is Vozrozhdenniy.

The bodies Solter washed and prepared for burial were examined only externally by the coroner who worked in the Ivdel hospital - Prudkov.

On Feb 26, after the tent was found, prosecutor Vasiliy Tempalov opened an official investigation.

On Feb 27 the first bodies were found and the investigators found it necessary to bring Vozrozhdenniy from Sverdlovsk.

Since there is no record of any bodies being examined in the morgue in February, but there were rumors circulating of hikers in distress, the explanation we are offering in "1079" is that in the height of the 21st Party Congress, Jan 27 - Feb 5 (Dyatlov group died Feb 1st and were not found until Feb 27, which is highly improbable since the area was buzzing with activity in the name of that same 21st Party Congress, as you will see from my next publication tomorrow July 13), the bodies that nurse Solter remembered washing were returned to the pass.

The people that could have pulled this off had to be in top positions in Ivdel.

This is very important - everyone is looking for orders from higher up, but this botched coverup was concocted in Ivdel.

The bottom line is that if 6 bodies were brought to the Ivdel morgue in early February and examined by Prudkov, then disappeared (we say they were brought back to the pass), and then the official search brought the first group of 5 bodies examined by Vozrozhdenniy, then the body count is 11.

No one who saw the 6 bodies was allowed to see Krivonischneko, Doroshenko, Dyatlov, Kolmogorova and Slobodin, which were under "special" investigation.

It was "special" because no one knew what's going on, with Krivonischneko quitting his job at Chelyabinsk 40 a secret nuclear facility, and allegedly Kolevatov being a recruit for a KGB agent.

Who knows what the deal was with Zolotaryov?

The Communist Party didn't like things to be out of their control. If the Dyatlov group was killed on their orders they knew how to cover their tracks.

The fact that we have so much information and the lead investigator was allowed to show pictures and diaries without even keeping a record of it, is indicative of negligence, at least at the beginning.

When it became clear that something very strange was going on, the case was abruptly closed.

In our version of events described in "1079" 6 of the bodies were brought to Ivdel twice.

It sounds crazy, right?

But if this case is not crazy, then why are we still debating after 63 years and getting more and more tied into knots by the facts?

Read the 2008 interview with Solter → https://dyatlovpass.com/interview-solter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February - 6 bodies - - nurse Solter, examiner Prudkov (see drawing with colors and interview)

March - 5 bodies - - examiner Vozrozhdenniy

May - 4 bodies - - examiner Vozrozhdenniy

The reports in March clearly state "in the morgue of the central department hospital, N-240" (see end of first paragraph in autopsy reports)

In Russian: "в помещении морга центральной больницы управления п/я Н-240"

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Autopsy report of Yuri Doroshenko

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-104-111

Autopsy report of Georgiy Krivonischenko

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-112-119

Autopsy report of Igor Dyatlov

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-120-126

Autopsy report of Zina Kolmogorova

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-127-134

Autopsy report of Rustem Slobodin

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-95-103

The reports from May say "in the morgue of the N-240 infirmary" which is the Ivdellag morgue (see end of first paragraph in autopsy reports)

In Russian: "в помещении морга санчасти п/я 240"

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Autopsy report of Aleksander Kolevatov

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-345-348

Autopsy report of Semyon Zolotaryov

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-349-351

Autopsy report of Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-352-354

Autopsy report of Lyudmila Dubinina

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-355-357

See the drawing in the context of the 2008 interview with Solter → https://dyatlovpass.com/interview-solter#7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

There are two ways to Otorten.

 

The planned route is through the forest, no wind, plenty of firewood and water.

 

But the Dyatlov group seem to have intended to take the higher route on the ridge where the wind is brutal and there is no wood and water.

 

Why would they decide to do that and what went so terribly wrong that they had to run for cover... wait, they didn't run.

 

Why didn't they run if it was so scary that they had to cut open their tent from the inside thus rendering it useless for shelter?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

I re-entered civilization today.

 

The 13th expedition of the Dyatlov Foundation was by all accounts the most resourceful one.

 

We paid our respects but we also found tangible artifacts and located places.

 

The participants in the expedition will report about their findings when ready.

 

I will be dreaming about the Northern Ural.

 

I slept near the cedar and got these pinecones to breathe the taiga for a little longer.

 

Need to make the clarification that the cedar and creek where the bodies were found are off limits for camping.

 

No one does it, there is a strong convention among researchers about this.

 

I don't have to spell out how much damage the traffic can do.

 

The kern on the photo is from a huge dead cedar near the live cedar.

 

It was there the whole time, just no one was looking for it.

 

There is more, I will tell you in time when I wrap my mind around the significance of the finding.

 

I need to examine it first to be sure.

 

And last but not least I found friends for life.

 

I don't remember ever being with such a bright bunch of explorers.

 

Wonderful people, all of them.

 

This includes some of them who blew themselves last year.

 

This year the mountain was friendly and people were happier.

 

Their words.

 

 

The Dyatlov Pass Expedition 2022 with Sasha and Vanya Kuntsevich (son and grandson of Yuri Kuntsevich)

 

Yuri Kutsevich's memorial plaque on his usual campsite which may or may not coincide with the winter rescue campsite in 1959.

 

The cedar, some of us spend the night nearby.

 

Cedar pinecones from the trees around the cedar and a kern from a huge fallen cedar rights where the fire and the two Yuri's were found.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[fortyck]

Since I wasn't able to post from Russia I will start dumping photos per batch hoping that till I reach the day of discovery I will have some more information to share with you.

 

The artifact we found (per my idea so I have it) could be nothing or could turn this case upside down literally and prove at least the first part of my theory.

 

That is that the tent was in the area of the cedar tree when the incident happened.

 

I ask again for patience.

 

 

 

More photos: https://www.facebook.com/dyatlovpass9/photos/pcb.2892825461013377/2892815901014333

 

 

Arriving at Yekaterinburg 28-07-2022

 

Koltsovo Airport Yekaterinburg 28-07-2022

 

Yekaterinburg

 

Book store in Yekaterinburg

 

Mikhaylovskoye Kladbishche, Ulitsa Gagarina, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovskaya oblast'

 

 

Yuri Yudin

 

Yuri Yudin

 

Mariya Savasyanovna Budina (Мария Сaвaсьяновна Budina) https://dyatlovpass.com/whois#budina

 

 

 

Тибо-Бриньоль Николай Владимирович 1935-1959 (Thibeaux-Brignolle Nikolay Vladimirovich)

 

Колеватов Александр Сергеевич 1934-1959 (Kolevatov Aleksander Sergeevich)

 

Дубинина Людмила Александровна 1938-1959 (Dubinina Lyudmila Aleksandrovna)

 

Никитин Виктор Алексеевич 1938-1959 (Victor Alekseevich Nikitin) https://dyatlovpass.com/whois#nikitin

 

Слободин Рустем Владимирович 1936-1959 (Slobodin Rustem Vladimirovich)

 

Колмогорова Зинаида Алексеевна 1937-1959 (Kolmogorova Zinaida Alekseevna)

 

Дорошенко Юрий Николаевич 1938-1959 (Doroshenko Yuri Nikolaevich)

 

Дятлов Игорь Алексеевич 1936-1959 (Dyatlov Igor Nikolaevich)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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