Tragedia na Przełęczy Diatłowa (1 luty 1959 r.)

While Maslennikov is on the pass leading the search someone radiograms from Ivdel: 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. (underlined with red on the page from Maslennikov notebook 2)

Maslennikov did not see the leaflet in the tent himself.

The radiogram is also not in the case files.

#dyatlovpass #1079book

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**fortyck** · 14 Lutego 2023

EXPEDITION UNKNOWN through the lens of EVAN B. STONE

Ushma #stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

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**fortyck** · 15 Lutego 2023

EXPEDITION UNKNOWN through the lens of EVAN B. STONE

#stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

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**fortyck** · 16 Lutego 2023

The groups of Karelin and Dyatlov had a common point in their routes - the top of Oyko Chakur, however, on February 16, while climbing it, Karelin did not find any traces of the Dyatlov group.

Please take a look at the planned route of the Dyatlov group on the map below.

See how far south Oyko Chakur is.

Now think about where would you leave a cache with supplies (labaz).

Where do routes to and from Otorten intersect?

That's right, where the tent will be found on February 26.

Food for thought.

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**fortyck** · 16 Lutego 2023

EXPEDITION UNKNOWN through the lens of EVAN B. STONE

Shoot @ the Dyatlov Pass February 2019, Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates

Teddy's archive #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

Aiden #stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

Mike Curtis, Evan B. Stone and Brian C. Weed #stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

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Josh Gates, Teodora Hadjiyska and Mike Libecki #stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

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Josh Gates #stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

#stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

In the center Teodora Hadjiyska, Josh Gates and Mike Libecki #stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

#stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

Josh Gates. Brian C. Weed and Evan B. Stone #stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

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Evan B. Stone #stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

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**fortyck** · 16 Lutego 2023

This is the Dyatlov Pass

#stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

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**fortyck** · 17 Lutego 2023

The bears are out of the bag.

I didn't dare showing them on the way to the pass fearing they will be left behind (in the labaz).

You can see that this expedition had a life altering effect on me.

Photo by Evan B. Stone

#stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

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**fortyck** · 17 Lutego 2023

Worried by the absence of his son, Vladimir Mihaylovich Slobodin, the father of Rustem Slobodin, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, head of the department of the Ural Research Institute of Agriculture, telephoned the UPI sports club.

He was told that the return of the Dyatlov group might be delayed until February 16.

Most likely, such an answer was based on Blinov’s assumptions.

On February 15, the UPI students Galina Radosteva, who was a member of the routing commission of the UPI sports club, and Igor Krivonischenko, the brother of Georgiy Krivonischenko, requested that the UPI labor union committee should send an official inquiry to the Vizhay settlement – the final destination of the Dyatlov group.

On February 16, alarmed by the lack of information about the Dyatlov group, Yuri Blinov and Lev Gordo, board chairman of the UPI sports club, initiated an inquiry.

Blinov telephoned Valerian Ufimtsev, inspector of the city committee.

It was ascertained that no telegram confirming the completion of the route had been received from the Dyatlov group.

The UPI sports club requested a long-distance call with Vizhay.

Late in the evening, they were put in touch with Zakiy Hakimov, the head of the Vizhay corrective labor camp branch, who reported that the Dyatlov group had not returned to Vizhay and that they had not planned to return before February 15.

On February 17 in Sverdlovsk, there was a mounting concern.

Blinov telephoned Ufimtsev for the second time.

Rimma Kolevatova, the sister of Aleksander Kolevatov, also called the City sports committee.

There had not yet been any telegram from the group, however, Ufimtsev felt certain that there was nothing to worry about.

Kolevatova was trying to reach Lev Gordo, but the latter was absent from his office.

Later, Gordo would explain that at the time he was trying to arrange for the allocation of an aircraft for the group’s search.

Fast forward, Gordo was fired for his role in the Dyatov case.

Among the 5 people who were reprimanded upon closing the case he was the one most severely punished.

The other four were Siunov, Zaostrovskiy, Slobodin, and Kurochkin.

(Case files 384-387 https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-384-387)

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**fortyck** · 17 Lutego 2023

EXPEDITION UNKNOWN through the lens of EVAN B. STONE

Back to civilization.

#stonefilmsearth #joshgates #expeditionunknown #dyatlovpass

Zina Kolmogorova's diary https://dyatlovpass.com/zinaida-kolmogorova-diary
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**fortyck** · 18 Lutego 2023

𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟭𝟴, 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵

On February 18, Gordo informed the UPI party committee of the situation with the missing group and asked to file a request for an air search with the 123rd flight detachment.

Dyatlov's sister came to the party committee meeting with a request to begin the search.

For some reason, the information was not brought to the attention of Nikolay Siunov, the Rector of the Institute.

As a result, the application was most likely issued on behalf of the UPI sports club.

The city committee telegraphed an official request to Vizhay.

At the same time, Gordo was calling Vizhay again.

He was informed that a group of locals was preparing for the search and that recently someone had seen a group of hikers.

Probably that was the Dyatlov group and everything was OK with them.

This gave Ufimtsev a reason to tell the parents of Dubinina, who by that time had managed to put through a call to the city committee, that there was no reason to fret.

The desperate relatives of the missing hikers had nothing left but to turn to the authorities for help.

Aleksander Dubinin appealed to the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU to bring the situation to the attention of Afanasiy Eshtokin, the Secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU.

Rimma Kolevatova called the city committee of the CPSU.

Appeals to party authorities had provoked counter-moves by the authorities.

It is possible that the professional standing of some of the parents of the missing hikers had something to do with it.

Aleksander Dubinin was a senior engineer at the Office of the Timber Industry Sovnarhoz.

His wife was the secretary of Nikolay Semihatov, the director of the Sverdlovsk Research Institute of Automatics, which was developing missile control systems.

It appears that an appeal from Georgiy’s (Yuri) father– Aleksey Krivonischenko – could have been the most efficient.

He had the rank of Major General of the Engineering Corps, serving as the head of the Urals Power Construction Mechanization which was building the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant.

However, his career was not all roses: soon after the death of his son he would be laid off for mishandling his job, and in the spring of that same 1959 he would be transferred to the city of Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR, to serve as head of construction management office of the Yermakovskaya State Hydroelectric Power Plant.

According to the reminiscences of the relatives, after his appeal, Krivonischenko was summoned to the Sverdlovsk regional or city party committee.

After that, there were no more complaints or appeals.

#dyatlovpass #1079book

Nikolay Sergeevich Siunov - Director of the Ural Polytechnic Institute #dyatlovpass #1079book

Lev Semyonovich Gordo - UPI sports club chairman, he was blamed for the money shortage and poor organization of the expedition #dyatlovpass #1079book

Afanasiy Fyodorovich Eshtokin - Second Secretary of Regional Committee, Kirilenko's adviser #dyatlovpass #1079book

Valerian Mihaylovich Ufimtsev - Member of the Route Commission and Inspector of the City Union of Voluntary Sports Societies https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-268-269 #dyatlovpass #1079book

Aleksander Dubinin - Lyudmila Dubinina's father #dyatlovpass #1079book

Testimony of Aleksey Krivonischenko, father of Georgiy (Yuri) Krivonischenko #dyatlovpass #1079bookhttps://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-273-274

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**fortyck** · 19 Lutego 2023

𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟭𝟵, 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵

Local party authorities opened an internal investigation, which was followed by telephone calls to the city committee and the UPI.

Ufimtsev had to inform Boris Zhuravlyov, then an instructor of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU, about the missing group.

Ufimtsev would later say that he informed the regional committee on his initiative.

Nikolay Siunov, the UPI rector, was forced to give an account to E.P. Fedchenko, a representative of the Investigating Committee.

Later, the bureaucratic machine transformed this into the following message: "On February 19, the Institute turned to the local party and Soviet authorities with a request for assistance in the search for the missing students."

Due to the attention to the situation on the part of the city and regional CPSU committees, the UPI was forced to start the search.

Aleksander Kondratyev and Georgiy Ortyukov, the professors at the UPI reserve-officer training department, were called in to assist with the organization.

An agreement was reached with the 123rd flight detachment on detailing an aircraft and a helicopter for the search right at the Ivdel district.

We cannot disregard the possibility of preliminary negotiations with Dmitriy Lelyushenko, a four-star General of the Army, then the commander of the Ural Military District, on assistance in conducting the search.

The UPI Department of Radio Engineering collaborated with the Ural Military District in 1957 58 by taking part in the development of the new radio reconnaissance systems ("Eye" scientific research project), as well as the systems for creating aimed jamming systems ("Smoke" scientific research project).

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pervago, the head of the Ural Geological Office, had given assurances of assistance in the search for the group from the Northern Geological Expedition based in Ivdel.

Probably that was facilitated by the fact that the children of Pervago studied at the school where Rimma Kolevatova worked.

Vladimir Pervago was transferred to Sverdlovsk in 1958, and before that, he had worked in the Far East and South Yakutia.

It was decided that the first search group would fly to Ivdel.

The UPI sports club was in charge of the logistics.

Gordo was responsible for the material support.

Blinov, who had taken part in the preparation of the Dyatlov group trek, was to organize the ground search.

Suddenly it turned out that the UPI sports club did not have the Dyatlov group route plan.

Lev Milman, an instructor at the UPI and deputy board chairman of the sports club, turned to Nina Anisimova, Aleksander Kolevatov's sister, who worked as a radiologist at the UPI hospital.

Nina and Rimma had no map, Aleksander had taken it along with him on the trek.

At the sisters' request, Ryagin reconstructed the route from memory and mapped it out.

Rimma Kolevatova handed the map in person to Colonel Ortyukov.

#dyatlovpass #1079book

Aleksander Vasilyevich Kondratyev - Major General of Tank Forces, head of the military department of the UPI (special department). #dyatlovpass #1079book

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pervago - head of the Ural Geological Department (Sverdlovsk) #dyatlovpass #1079book

Colonel Georgiy Semyonovich Ortyukov - lecturer at the special department of the UPI. Joined the search operational team on Mar 13, upon resolution of the Regional Executive Committee. #dyatlovpass #1079book

Colonel General Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko - Army General since May 8, 1959, Commander of the Ural Military District. #dyatlovpass #1079book

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**fortyck** · 19 Lutego 2023

Meanwhile, Yudin returned to Sverdlovsk from his native village, Emelyashevka.

He was welcomed and quickly barraged with questions, "At last! Is everything OK with the group?"

"Were you delayed along the route?"

At first, Yuri didn't understand the reason for all the questions.

When it dawned on him that his comrades were missing, he fell into a state of shock.

For the rest of his life, Yuri Yudin would treasure a small souvenir teddy bear, which Lyuda Dubinina had given him when they bid farewell at the 2nd Northern.

Until his death in 2013, Yuri Yudin would be unable to give a coherent account of what happened with him in the first days upon his return to Sverdlovsk, except for a vague memory of his meeting with Andrey Kirilenko, the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU.

"Kirilenko had summoned me and Siunov, the Institute’s Rector.

The latter was all a tremble while walking into his office ahead of me.

Kirilenko came in and hugged me.

He wanted to take a look at me.

Why would he want to take a look at an obscure student?"

#dyatlovpass #1079book

https://dyatlovpass.com/yuri-yudin?fbclid=IwAR2qxaVMBMQ5DDMxEx0sO4wT4KrHyQBNv0mcdJNwoxvuAzw3aY2__Vw2Mvo

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**fortyck** · 20 Lutego 2023

𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟬, 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵

On February 20, Vladimir Slobodin made another call to the UPI sports club, where he was told that a plane had been sent on a search for the missing group.

Gordo and Blinov flew to Ivdel from Uktus in a Yak 12 of the 123rd flight detachment.

Following the interference of the party authorities, the pilots could no longer question the mission.

The aircraft was personally flown by Ilya Spitsyn and Georgiy Karpushin, the commander and senior navigator of the 123rd flight detachment.

At around 3 PM, there was a telephone call between Ufimtsev and Maslennikov, the chairman of the Region’s Federation for Tourism and a member of the Routing Commission.

They decided that the search should be organized by the UPI.

It did not take much time for the sports officials to obtain approval from the authorities.

The executive committee of the regional soviet was to be responsible for the general oversight.

A telegraph notification of the disappearance of the group was sent to all the chairmen of the city, settlement, and village Soviets in the name of Vasiliy Alekseevich Pavlov, the deputy chairman of the Sverdlovsk regional executive committee.

The UPI was officially made responsible for the search.

Its Rectorate, party, labor union organizations, and sports club were involved.

The search headquarters was organized.

The UPI tourist section was urgently convening a meeting under the slogan "Dyatlov group emergency".

Its participants included Boris Martyushev, the chairman of the tourist section, V.E. Slobodin, the chairman of the union committee, and Andrey Vishnevskiy, head of the Department of Physical Education.

Soon they managed to organize around-the-clock telephone communication with Ivdel.

They learned that Gordo and Blinov had landed safely, that the flight had taken three hours.

Then Spitsyn and Karpushin got to studying the maps of the area, weather conditions, and information on the movement of the Dyatlov group.

According to the most recent information, the group had taken a logging truck to the village of Burmantovo and then left, moving along the winter trail.

Local geologists promised to help with recruiting for the search local Mansi hunters, who were familiar with the terrain.

The organization of the first UPI search group began under the supervision of Andrey Vishnevskiy.

The selection procedure was not quite clear.

On the one hand, the senior students' winter recess had begun a month earlier than the one of the junior students: the former, starting in late January, ended in late February, when junior students were to go on vacation.

From the materials of the UPI small newspaper, For Industrial Personnel, we know that the winter term exams for 5th year students had been over by mid-January, with the work on final papers to begin.

4th year students were to complete their examination term by late January.

For the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students, the winter term examination period lasted from early to late February, with the winter recess of only a single week.

The day before, on February 19, 3rd year students of the UPI Department of Radio Engineering had their last exam.

Hence it was logical to expect volunteers from among junior students in the search group; however, that was not the case: there was a sufficient number of senior students in the search group, including some who had recently returned from the Blinov group trek.

We cannot rule out that participation in the search brought some benefits, such as being granted academic leaves, leniency during pass-fail tests, exams, and final papers.

According to the recollections of Vladimir Lebedev, a participant in the search, he was supposed to lead a 2nd category of difficulty trek to Konzhakovskiy and Denezhkin Kamen.

All equipment was ready, except for the skis and the tent, which he had to get from the Dyatlov group.

As soon as it became known that Dyatlov group went missing, the inexperienced rookies were removed from the Lebedev group, and the rest became part of the first search group.

Vadim Brusnitsyn, who had taken part in the search, recalled that the labor union committee had to organize the first search group on short notice.

Hence, the participants were recruited at random, and they virtually did not know each other.

Boris Slobtsov was appointed the group’s leader since he was the first to enlist into the search group.

Brusnitsyn was the second to sign up.

This partly explains why it was Slobtsov who was appointed the leader of the search group even though the group included more experienced hikers, for instance, Brusnitsyn, who had earlier led the groups, of which Slobtsov was a rank-and-file member.

However, the most realistic explanation is different: Boris was the son of Efim Timofeevich Slobtsov, the head of the Non-Ferrous Metals Directorate under the Middle Urals Council of People’s Economy (Sovnarhoz).

He was the kind of man to be entrusted with an assignment, which should be carried under the aegis of party authorities.

At the very last moment, the composition of the group changed somewhat.

Yuri Koptelov replaced Valentin Yakimenko, a sophomore student, who was supposed to lead a group of 2nd and 3rd year students in a ski trek of the 1st category of difficulty along the Chusovaya River.

It was decided not to cancel the trek, with Yakimenko removed from the Slobtsov search group.

The Yakimenko group would start on February 23 to return to Sverdlovsk only on March 3.

From among the search group, Koptelov was acquainted only with Slobtsov and Brusnitsyn.

He did not know the members of the Dyatlov group either.

The UPI amateur film studio "BOKS-film" suggested sending a two or three member film crew along with the search group, but they were denied.

#dyatlovpass #1079book

Andrey Mihaylovich Vishnevskiy - Head of the department of physical training in UPI #dyatlovpass #1079book

Boris Efimovich Slobtsov - UPI student, leader of a rescue group Feb 23, 1959 dropped off on Pumsalnel near Otorten #dyatlovpass #1079book

Boris Vladimirovich Martyushev - UPI student, chairman of the Mountaineering Section of UPI Sports Club, leader of a rescue group Apr 6, 1959. (1938–1969) Pioneer of the Urals Alps. Died in Dalar, West Caucasus during route 4A difficulty. Buried in Kamensk-Urals. #dyatlovpass #1079book

Evgeniy Polikarpovich Maslennikov - Master of Sports, head of the regional hiking club #dyatlovpass #1079book

Georgiy Aleksandrovich Karpushin - Pilot of Yak-12 and navigator on An-2, board number 55-84, with commander Pyotr Gladyrev https://dyatlovpass.com/interview-karpushin #dyatlovpass #1079book

Vasiliy Alekseevich Pavlov - Deputy Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Regional Executive Committee #dyatlovpass #1079book

Vadim Dmitrievich Brusnitsyn - UPI student, member of Slobtsov rescue group 23.II.1959 dropped off on Pumsalnel near Otorten https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-362-369 #dyatlovpass #1079book

Valentin Gerasimovich Yakimenko - UPI student, member of Sogrin rescue group Mar 25, 1959 #dyatlovpass #1079book

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lebedev - UPI student, member of Slobtsov rescue group Feb 23, 1959 dropped off on Pumsalnel near Otorten #dyatlovpass #1079book

Yuri Evtihievich Koptelov - UPI student, member of Slobtsov rescue group Feb 23, 1959 dropped off on Pumsalnel near Otorten, and later member of Martyushev rescue group Apr 6, 1959 #dyatlovpass #1079book

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**fortyck** · 21 Lutego 2023

February 21 - beginning of the search.

The confusion.

The mood in UPI is foreboding.

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

At least not yet.

There was confusion.

By February 21 UPI was buzzing like a hornets nest.

The telephone at the university Sports Club rang constantly.

Not just the hikers’ parents and relatives, but the general public too, wanted to hear the details.

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

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

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

Students were bursting with desire to help their friends.

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

Here are the three facts contributing to the confusion:

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

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

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

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

Yevgeny Zinoviev, the member of Blinov’s hiking group whom Lyuda mentioned in her diary as Zhenya, wrote later in his book Tracks in the Snow: “The whole institute, and then the city itself, was buzzing around like a demolished beehive.

Everywhere, there were hundreds of questions.

‘Where are the young people?

What happened to them?’

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

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

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

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

The locals were alarmed and rumors were spreading.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I then called the city sports club Comrade Ufimtsev.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Organization of the Search

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

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

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

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

Until 16.02, no one was concerned about Dyatlov group.

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

17.02 rang again

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

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

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

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

Ivdel hotel where search teams stayed in 1959.

February 16
Yuri Blinov called Ufimtsev in the city committee.

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

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

The City Committee sent official inquiry to Vizhay.

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

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

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

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

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

Due to bad weather, they did not reach Otorten.

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

No traces of Dyatlov group were found.

The first search team loads into helicopter in Ivdel. 1959

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**fortyck** · 21 Lutego 2023

There is still hope that one of them will decide to unburden themselves with the truth before passing away.

#dyatlovpass #1079book

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**fortyck** · 22 Lutego 2023

February 22 - Mansi, Mansi, Mansi

After February 21 the search of Dyatlov group was coordinated from Ivdel by the local prosecutor Tempalov and representatives of the UPI Yuri Blinov and chairman Lev Gordo.

Yuri Blinov is a member of the Bureau of the Tourist Section of the UPI, and the leader of the group of hikers who, along with Igor Dyatlov's group, was traveling on the same train, then on the same bus, from Sverdlovsk through Serov - Ivdel to the village of Vizhay.

Tempalov received instructions from the secretary of the Ivdel city committee of the KPSS, Prodanov, to start searching for the missing hikers (and Prodanov himself was ordered from Sverdlovsk by regional party and state authorities).

From Sverdlovsk was ordered aerial search.

Prodanov requested the engineer of the Energo Lesokombinat Mikhail Timofeevich Dryahlih, who communicated with Dyatlov group in the 41st district, to join the search.

Now the only fact that is clear is that Dyatlov group is missing.

It was still to be found what route did they take.

The search operation needed witnesses.

Mansi Nikolay Bahtiyarov had said that at end of January a group of students (8 people, including one or two women) stayed overnight at his brother Petr Bahtiyarov’s Yurt.

Mansi settlements in the area, such as Suyevat Paul, consisted of several yurts (nomadic tents), and all of the people were carrying the last last name.

The small settlement were called the Bahtiyarov Yurt, Anyamov Yurt, Handybin Yurt...

“In the yurt we talked to the hikers.

They said that they are going to the mountains but didn’t specify which one exactly.

They only asked which way is better to go – on the river or some other way, and they went along the road toward the river".

Now we know that these students were from the city of Rostov and headed to Vels peak.

Igor Fomenko led this group.

In February 1959 the lead had to be checked although Bahtiyarov Yurt was not on Dyatlov group way to Otorten.

But then again, the rescuers didn't have a map to follow.

And the photo of Bahtiyarov’s family below was made by students from MGU in 1956 that were going to Mt. Otorten.

Vizhay, Bahtiyarov Yurt and the direction to Otorten.

February 22
Engineer Mikhail Timofeevich Dryahlih and UPI sports club chairman Lev Gordo landed in Vizhay with a helicopter.

They took forester Kuznetsov and flew to North Toshemka river to the yurt of Alexander Prokakopevich Anyamov (Mansi).

They talked to him.

Then flew to the upper sources the Vizhay river, above the tributary of Anchuchа.

They landed, Dryahlih and Kuznetsov visited Mansi Bahtiyarov 5 yurts.

After that they flew west to the Urals and saw a clear track of the Mansi dog sled that went from Bahtiyarov yurt Vizhay river 1.5 km west to the Urals.

No traces of the missing hikers were found.

Varvara Kuzmovna Bahtiyarova and her children Miron and Albina, 1956

Moscow was made aware of the incident, and soon also sent a few experienced hikers.

Eugene Maslennikov, the head of the UPI sports club, was appointed to coordinate the search, together with Colonel George Ortyukov of the Army, who was in charge of overall logistics and helicopter support.

Slobtsov group of 11 assembled first and consisted mainly of UPI students: Boris Slobtsov, Vadim Brusnitsin, Stas Devyatov, Yuri Koptelov, Vyacheslav Krotov, Vladimir Lebedev, Vladimir Strelnikov, Vyacheslav Khalizov, Mikhail Sharavin.

The group also included two local residents - forester Ivan Pashin and hunter Alexei Cheglakov of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with experience in the taiga.

Several prison guards from the Ivdel LAG under the leadership of Captain Alexey Chernyshov and another seven officers of MVD (cops) under command of lieutenant Potapov have joined the search in the Dyatlov group.

Another three groups were formed in UPI from student volunteers under the leadership of Oleg Grebennik, Moises Akselrod and Boris Slobtsov.

Additionally, four Mansi hunters were hired to help and look for the missing group.

Moscow sent several specialists including E.P. Maslennikov, Baskin, Bardin and Shuleshko.

Slobtsov rescue group was transported on An-2 from Sverdlovsk to the military airfield of Ivdel with equipment and weekly supply of products.

Waited for a airlift by a helicopter but the weather was prohibitive.

Slobtsov group had to spent the night in Ivdel.

Headquarters of the Ural Military District

To investigate the tragedy in Mt Kholat Syakhl, a state commission was established consisting of Major-General M. N. Shishkarev, Deputy Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Regional Executive Committee V. Pavlov, Head of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union F. T. Ermash, Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk N. I. Klinov and Major-General of Aviation M. I. Gorlachenko.

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**fortyck** · 23 Lutego 2023

𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟯, 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵

On the morning of February 23, Maslennikov reported to Ufimtsev over the phone, but except for the information on the Slobtsov group’s departure by plane, there was no further news.

At 9:00 AM a conference began at the UPI with Siunov, Andrey Vishnevskiy, Slobodin, and Zaostrovskiy, the Secretary of the UPI party committee, taking part.

A message came from Ivdel that Mansi hunters had discovered the hiker’s campsite.

A search team of geologists from the Northern Expedition moved to follow the track of the Dyatlov group.

Three search groups of the Mansi hunters were sent along the Ural Ridge and to the vicinity of Mt. Oyko Chakur and Mt. Otorten.

Maslennikov was summoned to a conference, which lasted until midnight.

Information was received that the Slobtsov search group was dropped off in the vicinity of Mt. Otorten.

It was decided to send a second UPI group to Ivdel to search in the vicinity of Mt. Oyko Chakur.

Oleg Grebennik, a 4th year student of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an experienced mountaineer, was offered to lead that group.

In 1958, Oleg traveled to Austria as a member of the Sverdlovsk mountaineering team and had the "USSR Mountaineer" badge received at the "Ullu-Tau" alpine camp in the Elbrus region.

According to the recollection of Grebennik, after his return from an expedition to Kazakhstan, he learned that the Dyatlov group had disappeared, and a search group had already been sent to follow its track.

At the UPI sports club, Grebennik was asked to organize a group to track the final part of the Dyatlov group's route, from the Otorten back.

The members of the newly organized search group spent the night at the UPI labor union committee.

Flying out was scheduled for the next day.

Throughout the night, they were packing their equipment and food supplies.

The UPI students helped to prepare food rations; one of those students was Kira Obodova, a 4th year student of the Department of Radio Engineering and the future wife of Oleg Grebennik.

She was a member of the Blinov group, that had traveled together with the Dyatlov group to Vizhay.

Ortyukov was in charge of the travel arrangements.

#dyatlovpass #1079book

Boarding of Slobtsov's search group on the Uktus-Ivdel plane. Photo from Feb 22.

Ivdel, boarding of Slobtsov's search group on the helicopter 31510 from 123rd flight detachment with commander Pustobaev. The far right is Devyatov. Photo from Feb 23.

Aerial shots on the way to the pass. Photo from Feb 23.

Civil helicopter from the 123rd flight detachment at the pass.

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**fortyck** · 23 Lutego 2023

There was an orientation session for the members of the search group on the premises of the UPI labor union committee; Maslennikov took part in the orientation session and agreed to leave for Ivdel as a consultant at the request of the Institute.

The notes are from Ada Grat.

https://dyatlovpass.com/mysterious-flash#maslennikov

#dyatlovpass #1079book

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**fortyck** · 24 Lutego 2023

𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟰, 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵

On February 24, the Sogrin group returned to Sverdlovsk from an expedition in the Subpolar Urals.

They had not managed to carry out all of their scheduled tasks.

They were supposed to go through a 500 km circular route, including path-breaking winter ascents to the peaks of the Sablya, Neroyka, and Telpoz-Iz Mountains. However, several emergencies caused a change in their plans.

In the very first days, their tent was burned down, hence the hikers had to spend the remaining nights in snow bivouacs.

The many-day-long blizzard and the sickness of one of the hikers forced the group to go back along their contingency route.

Nevertheless, theirs was the world's first winter ascent on both the Sablya and the Neroyka.

Around 11:00 AM, the UPI second search group departed for Ivdel.

It included Oleg Grebennik, Vladimir Shlyapin, Ivan Tatsienko, Vladimir Skachkov, Vladislav Kirsanov, and Victor Kostrulin.

The group included experienced mountaineers and hunters.

For instance, in 1957 Tatsienko met the standards for the "Mountaineer of the USSR" badge at the "Varzob" alpine camp, and next year he was elected chairman of the UPI mountaineering section.

He was a participant in the first UPI Alpinists’ academic competition, went through a training camp for junior mountaineering instructors at the "Dzhan-Tugan" alpine camp.

Shlyapin was taught by his father about life in the taiga from early childhood.

From the age of 14, he was hunting and going in for hiking and mountaineering.

The search party was joined by the UPI Deputy Rector Nikolay Fyodorovich Pletnev, as well as by Zaostrovskiy, Vishnevskiy, Maslennikov, and Ortyukov, who had already appeared in this story.

There were 12 people on the plane in total.

Colonel Ortyukov was entrusted with coordinating the activities of civilian and military searchers and aviators, maintaining contact with the search groups, local and regional authorities, and the UPI administration.

In the morning, before the departure from Sverdlovsk, Ortyukov had already met with the Military District’s Air Force Commander, Lieutenant General of Aviation David Slobozhan, arranging the allocation of one aircraft and two helicopters for reconnaissance by the Ural Military District.

The transportation of the UPI search party to the Uktus airfield was provided by the Institute.

Stanislav Tipikin, at the time a 5th year student of the Department of Physics and Technology, would later recall that, in general, the organization of the departure was not ideal.

An experienced hiker, who had previously been elected chairman of the bureau of the UPI mountaineering club, Tipikin was part of the Grebennik search group, but couldn’t fly out on that day due to the aircraft overload.

His equipment, including his rifle, flew away to Ivdel, loaded along with other luggage.

The UPI sports club would return his rifle in a broken condition after a month and a half; they would not be able to find the cartridges and his other belongings altogether.

Tipikin would be able to fly away to join the search only the following day.

We cannot rule out that Yuri Yarovoy, a newspaperman, head of the department of the Na smenu! ("On duty!") daily, the official publication of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the Komsomol flew as number twelve together with the UPI representatives.

He might have been dispatched to supervise the progress of the search.

Likely that was the reason why there was no seat for Tipikin.

It was customary for the Komsomol to send an internal informant to observe and document operations like this.

According to existing recollections, following his return from the search operation, Yarovoy gave an account of the details of the search to the regional Komsomol and party committees.

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**fortyck** · 24 Lutego 2023

Tomorrow's chronicle will show documents never published before.

Despite it's a slow day for the social media you may want to drop by.

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**fortyck** · 25 Lutego 2023

𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟱, 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵

This piece of paper was rolled inside a canister and dropped from the air on February 25, 1959, containing instructions for the Slobtsov's group on how to proceed with the search of the Dyatlov group.

To this moment the operation is still believed to be a rescue mission.

There is a very strange line in the text, can you tell?

Something no one should have known yet.

#dyatlovpass #1079book

Mission plan for the Slobtsov group for the search of the group of the UPI students (led by com. Dyatlov):

1. In the area of the Auspiya River headwaters, the campsite of the Dyatlov group was discovered approximately 20–25 kilometers from the top of the ridge on the Auspiya River.
2. The campsite was discovered by the Mansi men eight or ten days ago.
3. On February 25, a group of the Mansi men with a radio set departed to the area of the Dyatlov group campsite to search for the Dyatlov group’s tracks and then moving along that track further towards the head of the Auspiya River.
4. You have to go down from the headwaters of the Lozva River to the headwaters of the Auspiya River, discover the trail of the Dyatlov group, its second campsite at the foot of the ridge in the headwaters of the Auspiya River, and meet with the Mansi men.
5. After getting together with the Mansi group, it is necessary to discuss the results of your search, taking a mutual decision on conducting the subsequent search - jointly with this group or separately. Report on your actions and decisions by radio. Keep in mind that on their way back from Mt. Otorten, the Dyatlov group was to approach the Ural Ridge, and then to move southwards along the ridge up to Mt. Oyko Chakur.
6. It is important to pay particular attention to locating the Dyatlov group’s second campsite and their cache site in the headwaters of the Auspiya River. In case of its discovery, it is necessary to begin with locating the tracks of the group in the southern direction towards the Oyko Chakur and then to move along those traces.
#dyatlovpass #1079book

7. In case these traces are not discovered, search for the Dyatlov group tracks going towards the Otorten and then follow them to climb to the top. It is necessary to carefully inspect the vicinity of the peak of Mt. Otorten to locate any signs of a possible accident.
8. On February 25–26, an airlifted party under the command of Captain Chernyshev will be dropped in the area of the pass from across the head of the Purma River to the head of the Vishera River. Their goal is to cross the ridge along the pass and to locate any traces of the Dyatlov group with a subsequent examination of the ridge in the southward direction and further into the valley of the North Toshemka River. Hence, follow your examination of the head of the Auspiya River and in the event of any traces of the Dyatlov group are discovered along the ridge southward, continue movement until you meet with the Chernyshev group. The latter should leave a note for you at the mountain pass to the head of the Vishera River. You should bring the reconnaissance to a conclusion together with this group and then retire to the huts on the North Toshemka River.
9. In case of discovering the Dyatlov group, you should light three large bonfires forming a triangle of 30 meters on each side and send off a radio message, if possible.
10. For your information, a UPI rescue team of six led by Oleg Grebennik has been dropped off in the area of the Oyko Chakur. In addition, a systematic aerial survey of the entire area of the emergency route is underway.
Leader of the search Colonel Ruslan Ortyukov#dyatlovpass #1079book

Sharavin-Lebedev-Slobtsov-Halizov. Searchers read Ortyukov's instructions dropped in a canister and check the route with the map.

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**fortyck** · 25 Lutego 2023

There is a another message dropped from the air tomorrow.

It has never been published before.

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**fortyck** · 25 Lutego 2023

The air dropped instructions by Ortyukov are translated in this article, as well as the description of the photos in my chronicle post.

Tomorrow I will tell you what in this document doesn't add up.

#dyatlovpass #1079book

https://dyatlovpass.com/instructions-from-air-ortyukov?fbclid=IwAR05EYfPnkuBSTVIbob0QBpATf2acaGBedWhxArwFcvS9Dls26Gurk6PmAE

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