Over the years, interest in this event has not weakened. Evidence of this is the American-Russian film "The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass", released in February 2013. It’s just not worth taking the directors’ fantasies at face value. It is better to arm yourself with historical facts.

The campaign of nine tourists led by Igor Dyatlov was dedicated to the XXI Congress of the CPSU. The group faced a difficult task. The total length of the distance that the expedition members had to overcome on skis was almost 350 km. The path of the group lay through the forests and mountains of the Northern Urals. The final part of the trip was to be climbing the Otorten and Oiko-Chakur mountains.

The group initially consisted of ten people: Igor Dyatlov, Yuri Doroshenko, Nikolay Thibault-Brignoles, Yuri Krivonischenko, Zinaida Kolmogorova, Semyon Zolotarev, Alexander Kolevatov, Rustem Slobodin, Lyudmila Dubinina and Yuri Yudin. The latter, by the way, is the only survivor of the entire company. Yudin was saved by the disease. He simply could not take part in the campaign because of an attack of sciatica that began in him.

The leader of the group was Igor Alekseevich Dyatlov, a 5th year student at the Ural Polytechnic Institute. In general, the composition of the expedition participants could be called youth (five students, three graduates and one tourist inspector - the oldest of all). But this did not speak of their inexperience at all. The Dyatlov group was a close-knit and well-trained team. Almost all members of the expedition had gone through fire, water and copper pipes before: they fought against the elements more than once, overcame the hardships and hardships of camp life.

The group set off on a hike on January 23, 1959, when its members left by train from Sverdlovsk to Serov, from where they went to Ivdel. The next destination was the village of the 41st quarter - the place of life of loggers. After spending the night, the group moved to the village of the Second Northern Mine. Here it is worth mentioning one important point. Completely abandoned by the end of the 1950s, the village of the Second Northern Mine was part of the Stalinist camp system. In this part of the Urals, they were everywhere. At the time of the group's arrival in the village, there was not a single stranger on its territory, except ... their fellow traveler, the cabman Velikiavichus, with the help of which the group arrived at their destination. Lithuanian Velikiavichus was sentenced to camps in 1949 and released in 1956. It must be assumed that Velikiavichus was not the only inmate of IvdelLAG (that was the name of the system of the Ural camps). A large number of former prisoners lived in those places.

According to the official version of events, the expedition said goodbye to Velikiavichus on January 28, when he took Yury Yudin, who fell ill, back to the village of the 41st quarter. It was then that the tourists were seen alive for the last time.

From this moment begins the period of the group's journey. The first time the tourists moved without complications, according to the plan. The path of the group lay along the Lozva River and along its tributary Auspiya. They went skiing. On the evening of February 1, the group decided to set up camp for the night on the eastern slope of Mount Kholatchakhl. Interestingly, from the language of one of the indigenous peoples of the region - the Mansi, Kholatchakhl literally translates as "mountain of the dead." True, in accordance with the grammar of the Mansi, the name of the mountain would be more correct to translate as "a mountain on which nothing grows." But we will return to the question of the possible involvement of the Mansi in the death of the group.

According to the plans of the participants, on February 12 it was supposed to reach the village of Vizzhay, which served as the final point of the trip. On the same day, the group planned to send a telegram to the institute's sports club about the successful completion of the task. But neither on the 12th nor on the following days did the group arrive in the village.

According to the classification of hiking trips, the hike of the Dyatlov group belongs to the highest category of difficulty. In total, by that time, there were three categories of complexity in mountain tourism.

Very soon the loss of the expedition caused concern. Three groups of volunteer rescuers went in search of tourists - students and employees of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. In tourism, everyone was grated rolls.
The camp of the missing was discovered on 26 February. The tent was covered with snow, but there was no serious damage to it. There were no people in the tent. Down the slope of the hill from her were traces of nine people.

Soon, two bodies belonging to Yury Krivonischenko and Yury Doroshenko were found at a distance of one and a half kilometers from the tent. They had neither shoes nor outerwear. Burn marks were visible on the feet and palms. Here you could see the remains of a fire. Nearby was a large cedar with recently broken branches.

Then three more bodies were found. The bodies of Rustem Slobodin, Zina Kolmogorova and the head of the group, Igor Dyatlov, were found at different distances between the fire and the tent. The bodies of the rest of the expedition members were found two months later. Lyudmila Dubinina, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles, Alexander Kolevatov and Alexander Zolotarev were found in one of the forest ravines. Their bodies were buried under many meters of snow. They were dressed noticeably warmer than the rest.

Tortured bodies

At first, investigators suggested that the tourists were attacked. But no signs of a struggle were found at the scene. Soon, only one thing became obvious - something made people jump out of the tent in a panic at night into the bitter cold. At the same time, they did not even have time to put on warm clothes and shoes. The tracks of the group members diverged and converged again, as if something was forcing them to run down the mountainside, as far as possible from their place of parking. Investigators found cuts on the tent, but they were made from the inside by one of the expedition members. The guys wanted to leave the tent as soon as possible and tried to cut it with everything that fell into their hands.

According to the autopsy results, most of the expedition members died as a result of hypothermia. Most of all, the investigators were interested in the injury of Rustem Slobodin. A crack 6 cm long and 0.5 cm wide was found in his skull. Such an injury could only be the result of an incredibly large blow. It is unlikely that a person could get it by simply falling and hitting his head on the snow. And here's the mystery - the cause of Slobodin's death was hypothermia. The rest of the expedition members died as a result of severe injuries. Experts found numerous bruises and fractures on their bodies, and Dubinina had no tongue at all. Those who happened to see the corpses of the participants in the campaign noted their unnatural orange-brown tint. The bodies and belongings of tourists were checked for radiation. But its level was not much higher than the average for the region.

The case was quickly covered up. Even in our time, despite the removal of the secrecy stamp, not everyone can freely get acquainted with the materials. In the documents of the investigation themselves, a well-disguised uncertainty shows through. Everyone who was engaged in their own investigation, did not leave the feeling that the authorities wanted to hush up the incident as soon as possible.

As mentioned above, the first version of the death of the group was an attack by strangers. Local residents, belonging to the small Mansi people, were suspected of the crime. There was an opinion that Mount Holatchakhl was a sacred place for them. This allegedly became the reason for the murder of tourists. But, as it turned out, the mountain did not have a cult significance among the Mansi at all. Another similar reason is the attack of IvdelLAG prisoners. And some claimed that they liquidated the group because the guys witnessed the testing of some secret weapon. Among the versions of the death of the expedition, there are frankly delusional ones. For example, this: the group was destroyed by foreign intelligence services, and the participants in the campaign themselves were KGB officers. All these theories have one weak component. After studying all the details of what happened, the experts were unequivocal in their assessment - except for the group itself, that fateful night, there was no one else on the mountainside. In the snow, the investigators managed to find only traces of nine people - members of the expedition.

Mansi is the indigenous population of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. They are one of the smallest peoples of Russia. Today, about 12 thousand representatives of this nationality live in our country. Mansi have their own language, but most of considers Russian to be his native language.

Of course, the cause of the tragedy could be a quarrel between the participants in the campaign themselves. We know that Igor Dyatlov had a certain sympathy for Zina Kolmogorova. The sympathy was mutual. But at one time Zina was courted by another participant in the campaign - Yuri Doroshenko. For some reason, their relationship didn't work out. Could this be the cause of the conflict? Theoretically, yes. But people who knew the guys claimed that the relationship between the leader of the group and Kolmogorova was purely platonic. And after an unsuccessful attempt to start a romance, the relationship between Yuri and Zina could be called friendly. In general, experienced climbers and skiers consider the version of the conflict as one of the least likely. In the mountains, everyday problems and love vicissitudes fade into the background.

Among the various theories of the death of the group, fantastic versions occupy not the last place. Oddly enough, they have a certain basis. According to one of the investigators, Lev Ivanov, in February and March 1959, some “flying spheres” were noticed in the area where the group died. Witnesses say that these objects emitted an incredibly strong glow. Something similar is described by the members of the rescue expedition. According to them, in addition to bright light, the phenomenon was accompanied by a sound effect similar to explosions or thunder.

Another mysterious circumstance testifies in favor of this version. Among the photographs taken by a member of the campaign, Yuri Krivonischenko, there is one frame that shows a cluster of lights of unknown origin. Perhaps it was the 33rd frame of Krivonischenko that captured the mysterious lights in the sky. However, with the same success, this "paranormal phenomenon" could turn out to be an ordinary film defect or a slightly less mysterious ball lightning.

One often hears a version about the death of the group as a result of testing some secret weapon. Allegedly, this can explain the unnatural skin color of the dead, as well as their terrible injuries. Even if this version is true - we will hardly ever be able to find out. After the tragedy, the military stated that no tests were carried out in the area where the tourists died.

There is another theory regarding the origin of the photo frame, supposedly capturing the mysterious lights in the sky. The 33rd photo frame could have been taken by the investigator pressing the shutter of the camera before removing the film from it. The fact is that the Zorki model camera of the 50s of the last century did not have the option to determine the position of the shutter. Thus, wanting to check the latter, the investigator could click on it himself.

It is necessary to consider one of the most popular options for the development of events. As you know, the main danger in the mountains is an avalanche. But this seemingly most reasonable version leads to a dead end. In fact, Mount Holatchakhl can hardly be called a mountain in the usual sense of the word. Her slopes are very gentle. Therefore, the likelihood of an avalanche is extremely small. And as a result of an avalanche, the tent and equipment of tourists would have received much more serious damage. Ski poles, stuck next to the tent even before the tragedy, remained standing in the same place. Strange avalanche, isn't it? And one moment. According to safety precautions, in the event of an avalanche, you need to go sideways from the parking lot. The group, for some reason, went down the slope. Due to the experience of the expedition, it is unlikely that all of its participants could make the same and so obvious mistake.

Our version

Of all the available theories, the most plausible, in our opinion, is the version that is often mentioned by experienced climbers and skiers. During the installation of the tent, tourists could cut the snow, which subsequently rolled down on them. The layer of snow that “ran over” the tent did not lead to its complete collapse, but sowed panic among the expedition members. Fearing to be buried under a pile of snow, the tourists ran out of the tent and tried to find shelter outside it. Do not forget that on that fateful night the air temperature dropped to -30°C. Perhaps a strong wind was blowing. Restoring the picture of the tragedy, experienced specialists believe that the guys went down in an organized manner. But then the first misfortune happened. Apparently, during the descent, Rustem Slobodin fell and hit his head on a stone. The rest did not have time to notice this, since it was at night, and the weather did not allow them to see beyond the outstretched hand. Probably Slobodin lost consciousness. After consciousness returned to him, he was unable to navigate in space and, after unsuccessful attempts to find his comrades, froze.

After the disappearance of Slobodin, the group broke up. When Zina Kolmogorova discovered his absence, she went in search of him. Her body was found 600 meters from the place where the tourists then lit a fire. Her death was also due to hypothermia. For some reason, Zolotarev, Dubinina and Thibaut-Brignoles left the group. Apparently, they tried to reach the forest as quickly as possible and find shelter there. The guys could not notice the steep cliff and fall from a great height. It is likely that this was the cause of severe injuries that led to death. When the injured members of the campaign were still alive, the remaining members of the expedition came to their aid. But they failed to drag the seriously wounded comrades to the fire. The seriously injured people were doomed. Together with them, Alexander Kolevatov, who came to the rescue, also froze.

At the same time, Igor Dyatlov went back to the tent to take warm clothes. But he was very tired or simply lost his way, as a result of which he died of cold, before reaching the tent for about a kilometer. Rescuers found the bodies of Yury Doroshenko and Yury Krivonischenko near the fire. They also froze. Wanting to keep warm and not fall asleep, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko probably brought their hands and feet to the fire. This can explain the numerous burns found on them. Dubinina's lack of language can be justified in another way. After death, the soft tissues of the body often become food for all kinds of living creatures.

For a comment on our version, we turned to the famous mountaineer and skier, a man with the title of "Snow Leopard", Nikolai Mishchenko. “The story of the death of the Dyatlovites is not unique,” ​​says Nikolai Akimovich. – When someone asks me about that unfortunate incident, another tragedy immediately comes to mind that happened in the Pamirs – one of the highest peaks of the USSR. In 1974, the entire female expedition led by Elvira Shataeva, the wife of the famous Soviet climber Vladimir Shataev, perished on Lenin Peak. As in the case of the Dyatlov group, when Shataeva's expedition was discovered, there were no signs that the group had been covered by an avalanche or some other disaster had occurred. And yet, all members of the expedition died. In an unforeseen situation, they were unable to orient themselves in time. The participants of the campaign went in different directions, lost sight of each other and died. Why did it happen? I think it's a psychological issue. In mountainous conditions, a person is not always able to adequately assess the situation and make the right decisions. The death of the Dyatlov group is another vivid example of this. It is quite obvious to me that when something unexpected happened (the version about the collapse of the snow is quite plausible), young people, being in a state of stress, panicked and made a number of mistakes that they would never have made in their normal state. The experience of the group members turned out to be powerless in such a situation. People were driven by fear. I want to tell you about one more very important detail. From my many years of experience, I know that when hiking in the mountains, there must be a leader in the group. We need a person to whom the rest of the expedition members would obey implicitly. I'm not sure that Igor Dyatlov was just such a leader. After all, it must be remembered that at the time of the tragedy he was still a very young man. Most likely, when a force majeure situation occurred, some participants in the campaign decided to act independently. As a result, as in the case of Shataeva’s expedition, they dispersed in different directions, got lost and froze.”

The highest title in Soviet mountaineering is "Snow Leopard". It is worn by climbers who have visited the tops of the highest mountains located on the territory of the USSR. The official name of the token is: "Conqueror of the highest mountains of the USSR."

Thus, the picture of the incident begins to acquire more expressive shades. But what is the root cause of the horror that gripped the participants of the campaign? In this situation, we can only apply the principle of "Occam's razor". Most likely, the group left the tent under the influence of reasons that are quite natural in nature. And there were hardly any anomalies here. However, we will probably never know the truth about this tragedy.

Our expert: Nikolai Mishchenko, a well-known mountaineer and skier with the title of "Snow Leopard".

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"Death came from paralysis of the respiratory center"

A military medic told his version of the death of the Dyatlov group

A picture taken by the Dyatlov group on their last trip

The story of the mysterious death on the night of February 1-2, 1959 in the north of the Sverdlovsk region of a group of nine tourists led by a fifth-year student of UPI (joined UrFU) Igor Dyatlov is one of those in which no one will ever be able to put an end to it . There are a million versions: an avalanche, a bigfoot, a rocket explosion, a sabotage group, runaway prisoners, Mansi, dissatisfied with the invasion of sacred places for them. Recently, the site's correspondent met a former military medic, 66-year-old Vladimir Senchenko. Now he lives in Kamensk-Uralsky, but he comes from the north of the region, he served in missile units for many years ..

- What do you know about this whole story with the death of tourists?

- Let's start with the map .. A military paramedic, he served in the missile forces and I know about this case. Tired of listening: either the aliens flew in, or the bear came out and kicked everyone.

- In fact, there are more versions, and for the most part they are not so fantastic.

- In those years, military tests were carried out in the Ivdel region, missiles were tested. All the locals were well aware of this. They were often called fire snakes. I myself, when I was still living in Maslovo, saw 5-6 launches every winter. In the summer, by the way, they were not. Only held in winter. They went from the Serov region to the north, approximately along the Serov-Ivdel railway. Once, by the way, I saw that two rockets were flying at the same time. What does it say? The fact that these were not tests of only ballistic missiles. According to the instructions, they cannot test two ballistic missiles at the same time. Yes, everything was classified, but even the last losers in our country knew that weapons, including atomic weapons, were being tested in the north. We were strongly advised not to walk in the rain, not to walk in the snow. And why? Because the fallout was radioactive.

- You want to say that the entire north of the Sverdlovsk region is infected?

- It's less now. Listen further. When I graduated from medical school, I was sent to Vizhay for distribution. But I did not get to Vizhay, I worked in the village of Pervoi Severny. I was settled there with geophysicists, at least that's how they were introduced to me at first. Allegedly, they make up some kind of cards and all that stuff. On weekdays, these people disappeared in the taiga, and on weekends they rested in the village. One fine day, it was Monday and I had a day off, one of them, the youngest, stayed at the base. He must have been 25 years old. He offered me a drink, I didn't refuse, sat down. I asked him why he didn't go with everyone. And then he started talking. I won’t go, he says, no more, how do you live here, they say? He says you can't live here, there's radiation all around. It turned out that they are not geophysicists. They walk through the taiga and collect all sorts of junk left over from the launches. I say I want to live. The next day, he planned to go to their office, get paid and leave the village. Only when the next day I came home after work, I could not get into the apartment. Turns out it was a shot. He locked himself in a room and shot himself. This is instead of going home. Two uncles came and took away the body. me for interrogation. I pretended to be, as we then said, "rags."

- How is this connected with the Dyatlov Pass?

“The problem is that people have absolutely no idea what an explosion is. It is believed that these are, relatively speaking, fragments, a bunch of holes and all that. Specifically, what is a blast wave, hydrodynamic shock, absolutely no one knows. Even I, who worked as a doctor for seven years and served in missile units from the Caucasus to the Urals, until some point studied it only as an elective. I want to say that the four wounded from the Dyatlov group (Rustem Slobodin, Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexei Zolotarev, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolle - site) are not a bear or aliens at all, this is a shock wave.

- In fact, this is one of the most popular versions, why are you so sure of this?

- All these combinations of injuries suggest such an idea: broken ribs, head injuries. This is what happens in a blast. He fell, say, on a backpack, on a stone or on another person during the explosion - he broke his ribs, injured his head. True, if you paint these injuries separately, and this is exactly what was done in the conclusion of the pathologist, then nothing is clear. It is not ruled out that the pathologist could have known about everything, but he was simply forbidden to write as he was. (The forensic medical examination of all the dead was carried out by the forensic expert of the regional bureau of forensic medical examination Boris Vozrozhdenny. At the same time, the forensic expert of the city of Severouralsk Ivan Laptev also participated in the study of the first four bodies on March 4, 1959, and an expert took part in the study of the last four bodies on May 9, 1959 -criminalist Henrietta Churkina - site).

- Do you want to say that near Mount Holatchakhl, on the slope of which on February 1, 1959 the group of Igor Dyatlov got up for the night, there was a rocket explosion?

- Let me remind you that the launches were carried out mainly in the evening. At least, it was at this time of day that they were most often observed in those years by local residents, including myself. At this time, the Dyatlov group was just getting up for the night. The second important point: all missiles during testing are equipped with a self-explosion system. The most secret part at that time was rocket fuel, for better ignition, an oxidizing agent based on nitric acid was added to it. Therefore, the electronics blew up the fuel tank. The rockets then went at a low altitude, and the Dyatlov group stood on the mountain. There is every reason to believe that we are dealing with a self-explosion of a rocket that occurred close to them.

- The minus of the rocket version is that the Ministry of Defense assures that there were no launches that day.

- We read carefully what they wrote: there were no training launches of ballistic missiles. Question: were any others produced? Nobody asked this question. We could talk about tactical missiles with a range of 300-400 km.

- In favor of the rocket version speaks a strange reddish-orange skin tone, which was seen on the bodies of dead tourists. Allegedly, these are traces of the impact of rocket fuel.

- When the tank with this fuel was opened, smoke or orange-colored vapor instantly appeared from there. Vapors bubbled up like a fountain, from orange to brown depending on the lighting. They are quite heavy. On the one hand, they are slowly deposited, on the other hand, they are slowly blown away by the wind. In general, it turned out that the group, after the explosion of the rocket, fell under a cloud of vapors of this fuel.

- Where did the rocket itself or its fragments go in this case?

- It is a mistake to believe that a rocket falls apart during self-explosion. The rocket body itself went a little further. According to the instructions, at the first opportunity, but no later than three days later, helicopter pilots took him away. They usually follow. Large parts were collected at the earliest opportunity, and small ones were collected before the 70s.

Could they see the tent and the bodies on the slope?

— We could see the tent. But these comrades have strict orders to follow their own course and not interfere in anything else. Especially by that time everyone was already dead. A cloud of vapors went down from the place of detonation, and there is no need to explain what acid vapors are.

- Stop, just right.

- To imagine what it is, you can pour nitric acid in the room. There is a strong irritant effect on the respiratory tract, effects on the eyes. A strong cough, runny nose, tears begin. I believe they were in the tent by the time the cloud reached them. I had to run. By this time, they began to choke, hence the cuts on the tent. Where to run? Just down, away from the cloud. In addition, try to drag a wounded person uphill in winter, and they had a ratio of four wounded to five survivors.

- I believe that they went down to the river (a tributary of the Lozva - site). We found this niche near the river: a cliff, there they simply hid from the wind.

In the case of the death of the Dyatlov group - new evidence

Relax a little, look around. It's cold, not enough clothes. We must return. But there is a strong irritation in the eyes, they do not really see. Plus cough, runny nose. Here you need to understand one more thing, the susceptibility of each person is different. For example, I tolerate acid more easily than alkali. Then they decide to leave part of the group by the river, the rest climbed a little higher up the slope to the edge of the forest, where they break branches and burn a fire ..

Why didn't anyone come back? There was not much to go to the tent.

“The oxidizing agent I told you about does not cause burns as such. It is quickly absorbed into the body and causes poisoning, accompanied by a red-orange color of the skin. Within half an hour, a person dies from paralysis of the respiratory center. That's why they didn't reach the tent either.

- When they found the bodies, they lay on the slope one after another. Closest to the tent was Zinaida Kolmogorova. Why?

- There may be several versions. They received the same poisoning, but everyone's tolerance is different. The resistance of the woman's body, as a rule, is higher, so she climbed the farthest.

- The rocket version, however, does not explain why some of the dead had no eyes, and Dubinina had no tongue and part of her lower lip.

- Everyone paid attention to this and went in cycles in it. In fact, the bodies were not immediately covered with snow. Eyes, lips, tongue - all these are the softest tissues, birds could really peck them out or gnaw them out by mice. There is an explanation why, for example, there was no tongue - they were suffocating, and this girl simply died on inspiration. The mouth remained open, and the animals could well take advantage of this.

- Good. Do you have an understanding of which missile test could lead to the death of the Dyatlov group?

- The launch of the S-75 complex flies one to one like those fiery snakes that we saw in my native village. This is a rocket, by the way, which on May 1, 1960, Powers was shot down in the sky over Sverdlovsk (pilot of the American U-2 spy plane - website). It is not ruled out that in 1959 it was tested. Around the same years, by the way, the S-125 complexes were tested. I think this question could be addressed to the Ministry of Defense.

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Version-reconstruction of the death of the Dyatlov group based on the materials of the investigation in a criminal case, after studying the main versions of the death of the group, as well as studying other factual data that are significant and are direct or indirect confirmation of the version.

In 1959, a group of students and graduates of the UPI Sverdlovsk went on a hike of the highest category of difficulty in the mountains of the Northern Urals. Their route is completely unexplored. Tourists go on it for the first time. The leader of the campaign, Igor Dyatlov, planned to complete the campaign in 20 days, but no one was destined to return alive from the campaign. With the exception of one who left the group citing ill health. Having decided to spend the night on the mountain with a mark of 1079, tourists find themselves in conditions that stop their last trip. However, according to the itinerary of the trip, the group should not have stopped at this mountain at all. The search will be long and difficult. The finds will baffle everyone. It is no coincidence that the local Mansi people called this mountain Halatchakhl or "Mountain of the Dead". But is everything as mysterious and inexplicable as some people think? After studying the materials of the criminal case and other factual data that are relevant to the essence of the tragedy, the author creates a version-reconstruction of the death of tourists, which he presents to readers, based on facts, captivating the reader and offering to become a participant in the search and study of this difficult story.

1. Hike to Otorten

A trip to the Ural Mountains, to one of the peaks of the Poyasovoi Kamen ridge of the Northern Urals, to Mount Otorten was conceived by tourists from the tourism section of the sports club of the Sergey Kirov Ural Polytechnic Institute in the city of Sverdlovsk back in the fall of 1958. From the very beginning, Luda Dubinina, a 3rd year student and several other guys, were determined to go on a hike. But nothing worked until an experienced tourist, who already had experience in leading groups, 5th year student Igor Dyatlov, took up the organization of the trip.

Initially, the group was formed in the amount of 13 people. In this form, the composition of the group ended up in the route project, which Dyatlov submitted to the route commission:

But later Vishnevsky, Popov, Bienko and Verkhoturov dropped out. However, shortly before the trip, the instructor of the Kourovskaya camp site on the Chusovaya River, Alexander Zolotarev, known almost exclusively to Igor Dyatlov, was included in the group. As Alexander, he introduced himself to the guys.

The tourists were going to take personal equipment and some equipment from the UPI sports club with them. The campaign was timed to coincide with the beginning of the 21st Congress of the CPSU, for which they even received a ticket from the trade union committee of the UPI. She subsequently helped to move to the starting point of the route - the village of Vizhay and beyond, gave the official status to tourists as participants in an organized event, and not a wild hike, when a group appeared in any public place where an overnight stay or passing transport was required.

The route that Igor Dyatlov was going to take with the group was new, so still none of the UPI tourists and even the whole of Sverdlovsk did not go. Being the pioneers of the route, the tourists intended to get to the village of Vizhay by train and by car, from the village of Vizhay to get to the village of Vtoroy Severny, then go northwest along the valley of the Auspiya River and along the tributaries of the Lozva River to Mount Otorten. After climbing this peak, it was planned to turn south and go along the Poyasovyi Kamen ridge along the headwaters of the headwaters of the Unya, Vishera and Niols rivers to Mount Oiko-Chakur (Oykachahl). From Oiko-Chakur in an easterly direction along the valleys of the Malaya Toshemka or Bolshaya Toshemka rivers, to their confluence into the North Toshemka, then to the highway and again to the village of Vizhay.

According to the Campaign Project, which was approved by the Chairman of the route commission Korolev and a member of the march commission Novikov, Dyatlov planned to spend 20 or 21 days on the campaign.

This hike was assigned the highest third category of difficulty according to the then existing system for determining the categories of hikes in sports tourism. According to the instructions in force at that time, the “troika” was assigned if the trip lasts at least 16 days, at least 350 km will be covered, of which 8 days in sparsely populated areas, and if at least 6 overnight stays are made in the field. Dyatlov had twice as many such overnight stays.

The release was scheduled for January 23, 1959. Igor Dyatlov intended to return with the group to Sverdlovsk on February 12-13. And earlier, from the village of Vizhay, the UPI sports club and the city sports club of Sverdlovsk should have received a telegram from him that the route was successfully completed. It was the usual practice of hiking and the requirement for instructions to report to the sports club. It was originally planned to return to Vizhay and give a telegram about the return on February 10th. However, Igor Dyatlov postponed the return to Vizhay to February 12. Igor Dyatlov's precise engineering calculation underwent a change in schedule due to one emergency, which was the first failure in a group event. At the first stage of the campaign, Yuri Yudin left the route.

On January 23, 1959, the Dyatlov group began a trip to Otorten from the railway station in Sverdlovsk, consisting of 10 people: Igor Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, Yuri Doroshenko, Yuri Krivonischenko, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles, Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexander Zolotarev, Alexander Kolevatov and Yuri Yudin. However, on the 5th day of the campaign on January 28, Yuri Yudin leaves the group for health reasons. He left with a group from the last settlement on the route - the village of the 41st quarter and went to the uninhabited village of Second Severny, when he had a problem with his legs. He obviously would have delayed the group, as he moved slowly even without a backpack. He lagged behind. Lost formation. However, in that transition between these villages, 41 quarter-Second North tourists got lucky. In the village, tourists going on a hike towards the 21st Congress of the CPSU were given a horse. Backpacks of tourists from the village of 41 quarters to the village of Second Severny were carried by a horse with a driver on a sleigh. Ill Yuri Yudin returns to Sverdlovsk.

The equipment at that time of the development of tourism was very heavy and not perfect. Backpacks of an old design, very heavy in themselves, a bulky tent made of heavy tarpaulin, a stove weighing about 4 kilograms, several axes, a saw. An additional increase in the load in the form of a mass of backpacks and the departure of Yuri Yudin from the group in itself prompted them to postpone the control time of the group's arrival back to Vizhay for two days. Dyatlov asked Yudin to warn the UPI sports club about the postponement of the return telegram from February 10 to February 12.

The description of this reconstruction version contains a possible presumption of responsibility and seriousness of the intentions of the participants in the campaign to return alive and unharmed. Speculation regarding the unsportsmanlike behavior of the participants in the campaign, which caused the death of the group, is excluded.

• Dyatlov Igor Alekseevich born on 13.01.36 just turned 23 years old
• Kolmogorova Zinaida Alekseevna born on 01/12/37, recently turned 22 years old,
• Doroshenko Yuri Nikolaevich born on 01/29/38, on the 6th day of the campaign he turns 21 years old
• Krivonischenko Georgy (Yura) Alekseevich born February 7, 1935, 23 years old, he was supposed to be 24 years old during the campaign,
• Dubinina Lyudmila Alexandrovna born on May 12, 1938 20 years,
• Kolevatov Alexander Sergeevich Born 11/16/1934 24 years,
• Slobodin Rustem Vladimirovich born on 01/11/1936, recently turned 23 years old,
• Thibaut-Brignolle Nikolai Vasilievich born 06/05/1935 23 years old
• Zolotarev Alexander Alekseevich born 02.02.1921 37 years.

There is no contact with tourists. No one in Sverdlovsk knows how the campaign goes. There are no radios for tourists. There are no intermediate points on the route from where tourists would contact the city. On February 12, the sports club UPI does not receive the agreed telegram about the end of the campaign. Tourists do not return to Sverdlovsk either on February 12, or on February 15, or on February 16. But the chairman of the UPI sports club, Lev Gordo, sees no reason for concern. Then the relatives of the tourists sounded the alarm. At that time, there were no structures of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, sports committees, trade union committees, city committees, with the support of internal troops and the armed forces, were engaged in the search for missing tourists. The search began on February 20, 1959. UPI students, the sports community of Sverdlovsk, and military personnel took part in the search. In total, several groups of search engines were recruited. The groups of search engines necessarily included UPI students. The groups were delivered to the areas that the Dyatlov group should pass along its route. The accident and its consequences were to be discovered by Dyatlov's classmates. The organizers of the search hardly doubted that the irreparable had happened. But the search was wide-ranging. Military and civil aviation was involved from the Ivdel airport. The search for students was given great attention due to the fact that two participants in the campaign, graduates of the UPI, Rustem Slobodin and Yura Krivonischenko, were engineers from secret defense mailboxes. Slobodin worked at the research institute. Krivonischenko at the factory where the first atomic weapon was created. Now this production association "Mayak" is located in the city of Ozersk, Chelyabinsk region.

Several search groups searched for the tourists of the Dyatlov group at various supposed points along the route. After the discovery of the first corpses of tourists, the prosecutor's office initiated a criminal case, which began to be investigated by the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel, closest to the site of the tragedy, Junior Counselor of Justice V.I. Tempalov. Then the preliminary investigation was continued and completed by the forensic prosecutor of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region, Junior Counselor of Justice LN Ivanov.

The search engines Boris Slobtsov and Misha Sharavin, UPI students, were the first to find the Dyatlov group's tent. It turned out to be installed on the eastern slope of peak 1096. Otherwise, this peak was called – Mount Halatchakhl. Halatchakhl – This is a Mansi name. Several legends are associated with this mountain. The indigenous Mansi people preferred not to go to this mountain. There was a belief that on this mountain a certain spirit killed 9 Mansi hunters, and since then everyone who climbs the mountain will be cursed by shamans. Halatchakhl in the Mansi language sounds like this - the mountain of the Dead.

How they found the tent, Boris Slobtsov told on April 15, 1959, under the protocol to prosecutor Ivanov:

“I flew to the scene by helicopter on February 23, 1959. I led the search party. The tent of the Dyatlov group was discovered by our group on the afternoon of February 26, 1959.

When they approached the tent, they found that the entrance of the tent protruded from under the snow, and the rest of the tent was under the snow. Around the tent in the snow were ski poles and spare skis - 1 pair. The snow on the tent was 15-20 cm thick, it was clear that the snow was inflated on the tent, it was hard.

Near the tent, near the entrance to the snow, an ice ax was stuck; on the tent, on the snow, lay a Chinese pocket lantern, which, as it was later established, belonged to Dyatlov. It was not clear that under the lantern there was snow about 5-10 cm thick, there was no snow above the lantern, it was a little sprinkled with snow on the sides.

Below you will often find extracts from interrogation protocols and other materials of a criminal case, often the only factual documents that shed light on the tragedy. During the investigation, search engines and other witnesses were interrogated, who informed the investigation of certain factual data. It should be noted that the lines of the protocols in this case were not always “dry” or “clerical”, sometimes even lengthy discussions about the state of tourism and the level of organization of tourist searches were found in the protocols. But sometimes some data surfaced later in the memoirs of search engines or eyewitnesses of searches.

Boris Slobtsov, who discovered the tent, later clarified the details of the find of the tent in one of the articles in the All-Russian magazine of extreme travel and adventures:

“Our path with Sharavin and the hunter Ivan lay on the pass in the valley of the Lozva River and further on to the ridge, from which we hoped to see Mount Otorten with binoculars. On the Sharavin pass, looking through the eastern slope of the ridge through binoculars, I saw something in the snow that looked like a littered tent. We decided to go up there, but without Ivan. He said that he was not feeling well and would wait for us at the pass (we realized that he had just "fell"). As we approached the tent, the slope became steeper, and the ice became denser, and we had to leave the skis and walk the last tens of meters without skis, but with sticks.

Finally, we ran into the tent, we stood, we were silent and we didn’t know what to do: the slope of the tent was torn in the center, there was snow inside, some things, skis were sticking out, an ice ax was stuck in the snow at the entrance, people were not visible, it was scary, already horror! ."

(“Rescue work in the Northern Urals, February 1959, Dyatlov Pass”, EKS magazine, No. 46, 2007).

On February 26, 1959, a tent was discovered. After the discovery of the tent, the search for tourists was organized.

The prosecutor of Ivdel was summoned to the scene. Inspection of the tent by prosecutor Tempalov is dated February 28, 1959. But the first investigative action was an inspection of the first discovered corpses, which was carried out on February 27, 1959. The corpse of Yura Krivonischenko and the corpse of Yura Doroshenko (he was first mistaken for the corpse of A. Zolotarev) were found below in a hollow, between Mount Halatchakhl and a height of 880, where there was a stream bed flowing into the fourth tributary of the Lozva. Their bodies lay near a tall cedar, at a distance of about 1500 meters from the tent, on a hillock at the base of height 880, at the base of the pass, which would later be called in their memory the “Dyatlov Group Pass”. A bonfire was found next to the cedar. The corpses of two Yurs were found in their underwear without shoes.

Then, with the help of dogs, under a thin layer of snow 10 cm along the line from the tent to the cedar, the corpses of Igor Dyatlov and Zina Kolmogorova were found. They were also without outerwear and without shoes, but still they were better dressed. Igor Dyatlov was at a distance of about 1200 meters from the tent and about 300 meters from the cedar, and Zina Kolmogorova at a distance of about 750 meters from the tent and about 750 meters from the cedar. Igor Dyatlov's hand peeked out from under the snow, leaning on a birch. He froze in such a position, as if ready to get up and go in search of comrades again.

From the protocol of inspection of the first found corpses, which became the protocol of inspection of the scene, the active phase of the investigation of the criminal case began on the death of tourists from the Dyatlov group. After the discovery of the first corpses, and the discovery of a tent torn in several places, the corpse of Rustem Slobodin will soon be found under the snow. It was under a layer of snow of 15-20 centimeters on a slope conditionally between the corpse of Dyatlov and Kolmogorova, about 1000 meters from the tent and about 500 meters from the cedar. Slobodina also did not have better clothes, one leg was shod in felt boots. As the forensic medical examination will later show, all the tourists found died from frostbite. Rustem Slobodin's autopsy will reveal a 6 cm long crack in the skull, which he received during his lifetime. Rustem Slobodin was discovered by search engines in the classic “corpse bed”, which is observed in frozen people if the body cooled down directly on the snow. Then began a long search for the remaining tourists Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles, Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexander Kolevatov, Alexander Zolotarev. The snow cover of the slope, light forest zones and the forest area around the cedar were combed by search engines with dogs, probed by avalanche probes. They no longer believed in the salvation of the Dyatlovites. The search went on throughout February, March and April. And on May 5, after exhausting, long and difficult search work, when excavating snow in a ravine, they found a flooring.

Near the flooring, 6 meters from it, in the bed of a stream flowing along the bottom of the ravine, they found the last four corpses of tourists. The flooring and tourists were dug out from under a large layer of snow. In May, the fir twigs and parts of the Dyatlovites’ clothes that had just melted out from under the snow were pointed to the excavation site. On May 6, the bodies in the ravine and the flooring were examined.

The location of the discovery of the flooring and the corpses "in the ravine" can be established with authenticity based on the materials of the criminal case.

In the protocol of the inspection of the scene dated May 6, 1959, made by the prosecutor Tempalov, the location of the last corpses is described as follows:

“On the slope of the western side of height 880 from the famous cedar, 50 meters in the stream, 4 corpses were found, including three men and one woman. The body of the woman has been identified - this is Lyudmila Dubinina. It is impossible to identify the bodies of men without raising them.
All corpses are in the water. They were excavated from under the snow with a depth of 2.5 meters to 2 meters. Two men and a third lie with their heads to the north along the stream. The corpse of Dubinina was lying in the opposite direction with its head against the current of the stream.

(from the materials of the criminal case)

In the Resolution on the termination of the criminal case, issued by the forensic prosecutor Ivanov on May 28, 1959, the location of the flooring and the corpses is more precisely defined:

“75 meters from the fire, towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva, i.e. perpendicular to the path of movement of tourists from the tent, under a layer of snow 4-4.5 meters away, the bodies of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolles and Kolevatov were found.

(from the materials of the criminal case)

This perpendicular can be seen in the scheme from the criminal case.

(from the materials of the criminal case)

70 meters from the cedar. "To the river Lozva" - this means from the cedar to the north-west. The stream flows past the cedar from south to north towards Lozva. It flows into the 4th tributary of the Lozva.

Schematically, the location of the flooring and the last four corpses can be depicted as follows:

The location of the ravine on the map:

The ravine was covered with snow in February and from March to April until May 6, 1959. The ravine was also covered with snow in April 2001, when M. Sharavin was there as part of the Popov-Nazarov expedition ...

Between the tent and the cedar there was a ravine, along the bottom of which a stream flows. The ravine stretches from south to north in the direction of a stream flowing along its bottom to the 4th tributary of the Lozva. But by February 26, the ravine was already covered with snow. It is not even noticeable that until recently there was a ravine. You can only see the slope, the right eastern bank of the stream, which rose to a height of about 5-7 meters. This was shown by the search engine Yuri Koptelov.

“On the edge (further the slope was steeper) we saw paired tracks of several pairs, deep, on firn snow. They walked perpendicular to the slope of the tent in the valley of the tributary of the river. Lozva. We crossed from the left bank of the valley to the right bank and after about 1.5 km we ran into a wall, 5-7 meters high, where the stream made a turn to the left. In front of us was a height of 880, and on the right was a pass, which was later called lane. Dyatlov. We climbed the ladder (head-on) to this wall. I'm on the left, Mikhail is to the right of me. In front of us were rare low birches and fir trees, and then a large tree towered - a cedar.

(from the materials of the criminal case)

It seems quite reliable that Yuri Koptelov described the place of the alleged fall of the tourists Zolotarev, Dubinina and Thibaut-Brignolle. With certainty, it can be assumed that the place from which the fir and birch for flooring were cut off are those very “rare low birches and fir trees” from Koptelov’s description. And Yury Koptelov and Misha Sharavin climbed a little to the right of the wall, where the wall is not so high and flatter, which makes it more possible to climb the ladder on skis in the forehead. It's just about opposite the cedar.

The bodies of the last 4 tourists were found in a ravine under a layer of snow 2-2.5 meters thick.

Considering that the bottom of the ravine was not yet covered with snow on February 1, because It was after February 1 that witnesses noted heavy snowfalls and snowstorms in the area of ​​the Poyasovy Kamen ridge (their testimonies are below), then a fall on a rocky bottom from a steep 5-7 meters high seems very dangerous. But more on that below.

“January 31, 1959. Today the weather is a little worse - wind (west), snow (apparently with firs) because the sky is completely clear. We left relatively early (about 10 am). We go along the beaten Mansi ski trail. (Until now, we have been walking along the Mansi path, along which a hunter rode a reindeer not very long ago.) Yesterday we met, apparently, his overnight stay, the deer did not go further, the hunter himself did not go along the notches of the old path, we are following his trail now . Today was a surprisingly good overnight stay, warm and dry, despite the low temperature (-18° -24°). Walking today is especially difficult. The trail is not visible, we often stray from it or grope. Thus, we pass 1.5-2 km per hour. We develop new methods of more productive walking. The first one drops the backpack and walks for 5 minutes, then returns, rests for 10-15 minutes, then catches up with the rest of the group. This is how the non-stop way of laying tracks was born. It is especially difficult for the second one, who goes along the ski track, the first one, with a backpack. We are gradually separating from Auspiya, the ascent is continuous, but rather smooth. And now the spruces ran out, a rare birch forest went. We came to the edge of the forest. The wind is from the west, warm and piercing, the wind speed is similar to the air speed when the plane rises. Nast, naked places. You don’t even have to think about the device of the lobaza. About 4 hours. You have to choose accommodation. We descend to the south - to the valley of Auspiya. This is probably the snowiest place. The wind is light on snow 1.2-2 m thick. Tired, exhausted, they set about arranging an overnight stay. Firewood is scarce. Sickly raw spruce. The fire was built on logs, reluctance to dig a hole. We dine right in the tent. Warmly. It is difficult to imagine such comfort somewhere on the ridge, with a piercing howl of the wind, a hundred kilometers from settlements.

(from the materials of the criminal case)

There are no more entries in the general diary, so far no entries have been found for other dates after January 31 in the personal diaries of the group members. The date of the last overnight stay is determined in the Resolution known to us on the termination of the criminal case, signed by the forensic prosecutor Ivanov as follows:

“In one of the cameras, a frame (taken last) was preserved, which shows the moment of excavation of snow to set up a tent. Considering that this shot was taken with a shutter speed of 1/25 sec., at an aperture of 5.6 with a film sensitivity of 65 units. GOST, and also taking into account the density of the frame, we can assume that the tourists started setting up the tent at about 5 pm on January 1, 1959. A similar picture was taken with another camera. After this time, not a single record and not a single photograph was found ... "

(from the materials of the criminal case)

Until now, no one has seen these pictures of setting up a tent in a criminal case. And this is the biggest mystery of the case...

Stanislav Ivlev

The continuation can be found in Stanislav Ivlev's book "The campaign of the Dyatlov group. In the footsteps of the Atomic Project." The whole book, or a separate full text of the reconstruction, can be ordered on the "Planet", contributing to the release of the book.

Many terrible, inexplicable and mysterious stories are known to mankind. One of these chilling tragedies occurred in the middle of the last century in the USSR, in the Urals. The tragedy, known as the "death of the Dyatlov group."
In 1959, in the last days of January, a group of nine skiers set off on a previously planned hike in the north of the Sverdlovsk region with the subsequent goal of climbing the Oiko-Chakur and Otorten mountains. None of them returned back. The search engines found an empty tent on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl, and then the bodies of all the participants in the campaign. The young people were undressed, severely mutilated and were at a distance of one and a half kilometers from the tent.
In that distant 1959, investigators trying to find out the circumstances and cause of the death of the Dyatlov tourist group were faced with a huge number of inexplicable and strange facts. The investigation materials were later seized and classified. The tragedy that had occurred was forbidden to be covered in the media, and the facts available to the investigation were not to be widely publicized. And only in 1989 the secrecy was removed, but only partially. The official version is as follows: "The death of the Dyatlov group occurred as a result of an avalanche, or other irresistible elemental force." There are several unofficial versions of the death of the Dyatlov group - from the version that tourists were victims of special services to various paranormal versions.

THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY

So, January 23, 1959. a group of young people - members of the tourist club of the Ural Polytechnic Institute of the city of Sverdlovsk went on a ski trip in the Northern Urals.
Initially, the group consisted of ten people - eight young men and two girls. Six of them were students of UPI, three were graduates of the same educational institution. And the tenth was the instructor of the club - the oldest of all in age. The group was led by Igor Dyatlov, an experienced tourist, a 5th year student at UPI.

Despite the youth of all members of the group, they were already experienced skiers, experienced and hardy people. Here are their names:
Dyatlov Igor, 23 years old,
Kolmogorova Zinaida, 22 years old,
Slobodin Rustem, 23 years old,
Doroshenko Yury, 21 years old,
Krivonischenko Yuri, 23 years old,
Thibaut-Brignolles Nikolay, 24 years old,
Dubinina Lyudmila, 20 years old,
Kolevatov Alexander, 24 years old,
Zolotarev Semyon Alekseevich, 37 years old,
Yudin Yuri, born in 1937

Yuri Yudin is the only survivor of the Dyatlov expedition. Just before entering the active part of the route, he fell ill and was forced to stay in a small taiga village, parting with his friends just a couple of days before their death.
The ski trip, on which the Dyatlov detachment went, was timed to coincide with the upcoming XXI Congress of the CPSU. It belonged to the third (highest) category of difficulty according to the classification of sports hikes in force at that time. The task of the hike is to ski a huge distance of almost 350 km through the forests and mountains of the Northern Urals in 16 days. At the end of which, climb the Oiko-Chakur and Otorten mountains. On Mount Otorten (translated from Mansi - “do not go there”), the Dyatlov group assumed, according to the established tradition, to leave their beacon and an Information Letter - a memo.

THE MISSING EXPEDITION

According to a pre-developed plan, the Dyatlov detachment was supposed to reach the end point of its route on February 12 - the village of Vizhay, from where to send a telegram to the tourist club. And on February 15, the guys were already waiting at home - in Sverdlovsk. On the appointed days, the tourists did not show up, so it was decided to start searching.
On February 22, a search party was sent along the group's route. Search and rescue work began.
On February 26, in the area of ​​​​an unnamed pass (later named after Dyatlov), on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl (Kholat Syahyl), a tent of tourists was found under a layer of snow. Right here, 1st of February The group got up for their last night. One of the walls of the tent, facing down the slope, was cut from the inside in several places, although the entrance to the tent was open. A fur jacket was stuck in one of the cuts. All things, shoes, products, documents and maps - everything was in place. Everything but the people themselves.

TERRIBLE FINDINGS

The next day, February 27, 1500m from the tent, the first bodies were found - Krivonischenko and Doroshenko. The bodies had numerous injuries and burns. A little further they found the body of Igor Dyatlov. And on it the same way - wounds, abrasions. Three hundred meters from the body of Dyatlov was the body of Kolmogorova. On March 5, the body of R. Slobodin was found. He was less than two hundred meters from the bodies of Dyatlov and Kolmogorova. The color of the bodies of these three children was reddish-purple. Further, as a result of phased searches from February to May, the remaining four bodies were also found.
All nine bodies found had terrible injuries and wounds. The experts found that these injuries were received by the guys during their lifetime, but what caused them is not clear. The appearance of radioactive substances on some parts of the clothes of the dead guys remained a mystery.

MANY VERSIONS

Many incomprehensible, mysterious facts of this tragedy have haunted researchers for more than fifty years and are the cause of the most controversial versions of the death of the Dyatlov group. Lots of unanswered questions:
The nature of the terrible injuries received by tourists is not clear, the orange-red color of the skin of several bodies found.
The reason that forced the tourists to leave the tent in a hurry, leaving all their things and products, is not clear.
How did the tourists' tent turn out to be in this place, because the plan of the trip did not involve entering Mount Holatchakhl?
Whose traces of shoes with heels were found near the tent (all tourists were found barefoot) and things that did not belong to the expedition - an extra pair of skis, a cloth belt, an ebonite sheath, a fragment of a ski.
Why was the criminal proceedings initiated on 02/06/1959 - earlier than the search activities?
There are a considerable number of volunteers trying to figure out the details of the case. Only until now it is not possible to find out the whole truth. But the facts available today are quite enough to excite the minds and suggest the most fantastic versions of the death of the Dyatlov group.
Until the end, none of us, most likely, will ever be able to find out all the circumstances of the death of the Dyatlov group and its true causes.

The death of the Dyatlov group is a mystery that even today causes controversy, bewilderment and horror. Films have been made and articles written about this tragedy, various versions are being expressed, but none of them has been able to explain the mysterious death of 9 trained sports young people on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl, not far from the nameless pass, later called the Dyatlov Pass. The frozen and crippled bodies of all nine members of the group were found within one and a half kilometers from the tent. This tragedy happened on the night of February 2, 1959.

The search group found an empty tent, which, as the examination showed, was cut from the inside, traces of a group of 8 people leading down. And bodies. Which were found in different places for a mile and a half. The bodies were half-dressed. Some are crippled. And no traces of other people or animals in the area were found. There were also no signs of a conflict in the tent. The last photo was taken around 5 p.m. on February 1st. On it, the guys have fun setting up a tent. In the evening, no one made entries in their diaries: they had fun by making a wall newspaper. Then they went to bed.

Then they were awakened. Something. And this "something" instilled such horror that it forced strong trained guys and girls to flee urgently. Cut the tent and run down the slope. They obviously didn’t have time to get dressed: the bodies found were half-dressed, mostly barefoot. Traces of a group of 8 people were found. It is obvious that one of the group left the tent at night (perhaps Zolotarev, because it was he who was dressed best of all), saw "something", or "something" happened to him (for example, he was blown off the slope by a strong wind) and he screaming woke up his comrades.

This is the only thing that can be said with a high degree of probability: one went out of the tent, and then somehow woke the others. Everything else remained shrouded in the darkness of the unknown. Five died from exposure to low temperatures, four - violent death. Could death come from falling on stones? According to the medical examiner, the impact force should be approximately equal to that of a high-speed vehicle with impact and body rebound. Or the impact of an air blast wave.

The composition of the Dyatlov group:

Igor Dyatlov (23 years old), Zinaida Kolmogorova (22 years old), Yuriy Doroshenko (21 years old), Yuriy Krivonischenko (23 years old), Ludmila Dubinina (20 years old), Alexander Kolevatov (24 years old), Rustem Slobodin (23 years old), Tibo - Brignol Nikolay (23 years old), Zolotarev Alexander (37 years old).

In this article, we will not state our (or someone else's) version of what happened, but simply acquaint you with some excerpts from the interrogations of witnesses, from which you can fully restore the chronology of events. Of no less, and in our opinion, even greater interest is the conclusion of an expert examination of the content of radioactive substances and evidence of strange events that took place during this period (see below). The nature and level of detected radioactivity could not explain the injuries and deaths of tourists. Obviously, therefore, the data of the radiological examination were withdrawn from the criminal case “as irrelevant to the case” and were not mentioned in the decision to dismiss the case.

From the interrogation of the witness Yudin:

Our group initially consisted of 11 people: me, Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, Dubinina, Doroshenko, Kolevatov, Krivonischenko, Slobodin, Thibaut-Brignolles, Bienko and Vishnevsky. Subsequently, Vishnevsky and Bienko decided not to participate in the campaign, and two days before the departure, the instructor of the Kourovka camp site S.A. Zolotarev, whom none of the members of our group knew before, joined our group.

The area where we were supposed to go to make a trip was outlined at the end of December 1958. It was decided to start the campaign from the village. Vizhaya, go to the ridge, before that it was necessary to reach the village. 2 north, then go along the ridge and return to the village. Vizhay. Dyatlov suggested crossing the top of the mountain, or rather, visiting the top of Mount Otorten, there were no objections. The project of the campaign was made by Dyatlov.

From mountains. Sverdlovsk left on January 22, 1959, all together, arrived in Ivdel on the night of January 25, from where they left by bus the next day (January 26) in the afternoon and arrived on the same day in the village. 41st quarter, we spent the night there in the loggers' hostel. On January 27 (corrected from "28" - approx. comp.) January 1959, our group went on skis in the direction of the village. 2 North. On the evening of January 27, 1959, we arrived in the village. 2 Severny, spent the night there in an abandoned hut.

My leg hurt, I could not participate in the campaign, so on January 28, 1959 from the village. 2 Severny returned back to the mountains. Ivdel, and the remaining 9 people on skis and with all the equipment left along the route.

So, on the morning of January 28, Yudin, after saying goodbye to the group and giving his comrades his part of the total cargo and some personal warm things, returned back with a cart, and further events are known only from the discovered diaries and photographs of the participants in the campaign.

On January 28, leaving the 2nd Northern, the tourists skied along the Lozva River and spent the night on its banks.

On January 29, a transition was made from the parking lot on the banks of the Lozva to the parking lot on its tributary Auspiya along the Mansi trail.

On January 31, the Dyatlovites approached Mount Holatchakhl, at that time better known as "height 1079", and tried to climb the slope, but due to the unsuitability of the treeless terrain reached for laying a storehouse, evening time and strong wind, they were forced to descend again into the Auspiya valley and spend the night there.

On February 1, having equipped a storehouse in the Auspiya valley, the group again climbed the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl, where they stopped for their last night not far from the nameless pass, later called the Dyatlov Pass, in 1963 a memorial plate was installed here. Here, that terrible and still unsolved tragedy broke out.

Organization of searches

On February 12, the Dyatlov group was supposed to reach the end point of the route, the village of Vizhay, and send a telegram to the institute's sports club, and return to Sverdlovsk on February 15. However, there was no news from them. Having contacted Vizhay, the head of the UPI sports club Lev Semyonovich Gordo and the head of the department of physical education A. Vishnevsky found out that the group had not returned ...

On February 22, the tourist section of the UPI formed 3 groups of searchers from students and employees of the UPI who had tourist and mountaineering experience - the groups of Boris Slobtsov, Moses Axelrod and Oleg Grebennik, who were transferred to Ivdel the next day. Another group, led by Vladislav Karelin, was decided to be transferred to the search area directly from the campaign.

The military joined the search on the spot: a group of captain A. A. Chernyshev and a group of operational workers with search dogs under the command of senior lieutenant Moiseev, cadets of the SevUralLag sergeant school under the command of senior lieutenant Potapov and a group of sappers with mine detectors under the command of lieutenant colonel Shestopalov.

Also, radio operators from the exploration party Yegor Nevolin and B. Yaburov, as well as some local residents of the Mansi: Stepan and Nikolai Kurikov, hunters brothers Bakhtiyarov and Anyamov, and others joined the search engines.

The group of Slobtsov was abandoned first (February 23), then Grebennik (February 24), Axelrod (February 25), Chernyshev (February 25-26). Another group, which included Mansi and radio geologist Yegor Nevolin, began moving from the lower reaches of the Auspiya to its upper reaches.

From the record of the interrogation of the witness Axelrod M.A. - member and leader of the search group.

On February 26, despite the bad weather, my group (I was appointed leader) consisting of Axelrod, Sogrin, Tipikin, Yaburov, Chigvintsev was landed from a helicopter at 4 o'clock in the afternoon 8 kilometers east of the height of Otorten. Since time was running out in the evening, I decided not to conduct searches that day, but to stop for the night, which we did below the forest border in the Sulpa River valley.

On the morning of February 27 at 8 a.m. For 10 minutes, the search group consisting of Axelrod, Sogrin and Tipikin went out to search, leaving Chigvintsev and Yaburov with the radio station R.B.S. in the camp to communicate with the plane (this was agreed in advance). We returned to the camp only at seven o'clock in the evening. For 10 hours of searching with a fifteen-minute break for lunch, we searched for about forty, forty-five kilometers, bypassing the entire valley of the western tributary of the Sulpa River along the forest border, examining all the passes between the peaks of the mountains Otorten, 1024, 1039; 1041, having made a traverse of the Otorten peak from the southwest to the northeast and a separate ascent to Otorten with a bypass of the cornice of the southern kart of Otorten.

A note dated 1956, left by tourists from Moscow State University, was taken from the top of the mountain. At about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, a plane flying over us dropped a pennant with an order to carefully continue further searches and with a message that all the belongings and skis of the Dyatlov group were found 12-13 kilometers south of us on the slope of Mt. 1079.

It became clear to me that the Dyatlov group was dead and offered to bare their heads. It was clear that the group could not go anywhere without skis.

When departing from Ivdel, we had an agreement that on February 28 at 4 a.m. a helicopter would fly for us. At about five o'clock in the evening on February 28, the group in full strength was transferred to Ivdel. We flew together with the Ivdel district prosecutor Tempalov. He informed me that the naked corpses of four people had been found: Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, Krivonischenko and Zolotarev (later identified as Doroshenko).

In Ivdel, to the question of Artyukov, what are our future plans, I personally and the whole group fully provided their time at the disposal of the search headquarters and the next day, together with the regional criminal prosecutor Ivanov L.N. Sogrin, Tipikin and I were dropped by helicopter into the search area. We immediately had to change into felt boots instead of boots and take part in loading the tent and things of the Dyatlov group into the helicopter. Three corpses - Kolmogorova, Dyatlov and Doroshenko, lay already brought from the valley near the remnant stone on the pass.

The group immediately took part in the search. It was clear to me that none of the dead had left the valley, a lot of time had passed, the corpses, of course, lay under the snow, and it was only necessary to look for them here. From that day until the day of departure (March 9), I took part in the search every day with a probe in my hands. At first, he participated as the head of his own group of five people, and then, when part of the tourists departed for Ivdel, as the head of the entire civilian part of the search group.

The search tactics were not established from the very beginning. At first, the search groups went in a wide search, rarely and shallowly piercing the snow cover with ski poles from the tent to the cedar (1500 m), and then the tactics changed. The search engines, standing close to each other, elbow to elbow, walked along or across the slopes of the emergency valley, deeply piercing the snow with metal probes.

This method gave results: on March 5, one of the members of the dead group, Rustem Slobodin, was found under the snow, the smallest thickness of 350 mm. He was lying with his stomach down, his arms outstretched, on one of which, the right one, the knuckle of the thumb was grafted with something. On the same hand was a watch. There is a cap on the head, on the basis of which I believe that at the time of death there was no particularly strong wind, because he would inevitably have blown off the cap from the head, if not alive, then dead, Slobodin. One leg, the right one (I could be mistaken) was in felt boots, the left without it, pulled up under the right leg. The face is very calm, no traces of violence were visible during this external examination. Under the knees, chest, ie. parts of the body, on which the weight of the lying person was distributed, was a layer of half-ice-half-snow with a thickness of about 70 - 80 mm, which allowed me to conclude that Slobodin did not die instantly, but<неразборчиво>, after the fall, some more time.

The corpse was located approximately in the middle between Kolmogorova and Dyatlov. As you know, 2 corpses were found near the cedar: Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, but a thorough study of the bonfire suggests that there were more people around the bonfire. My bases are as follows:

1.) Judging by the work done, the two cannot cope with the amount of work that has been done there.

2.) A small burnt, obviously female scarf was found by the fire.

3.) A tattered cuff of a dark-colored sweater was found, which is not on any of the tourists already found.

What happened to the Dyatlov group? Opinion of M. Axelrod.

On February 1, the group got up late. Late because the day before, judging by the diary, the group was very tired, and because in the morning, or after the diary was written, late in the evening it was decided to make a storehouse in order to free the shoulders that had been strained by the previous campaign for at least three days , increase the speed of movement. In the morning the group got up at 11 o'clock and proceeded to set up a storage shed. While the storehouse was being made, while we were sorting out what to take with us and what to leave (this had not been done the day before, because the arrangement of the storehouse was in doubt), breakfast was ready. It was about 2 o'clock. And I believe that the group left the place no earlier than half past three, setting themselves one of 2 tasks:

1) Pass from forest to forest, from the valley of Auspiya to the valley of Lozva or:

2) Considering that for several days now the group has been walking through exceptionally deep snow, the movement through which is extremely tiring. Considering that the group had a good rest on this half-day break, had a late meal, move as far as possible along the border of the forest without entering the forest.

A group with light backpacks goes on the route, but relatively late time - about 5 hours, poor visibility, or rather, the absence of it, makes the group stop for the night outside the forest. This does not exclude any of the options offered here. Was the decision to sleep on a bare ground (I deliberately avoid the word slope, because I believe that the slope, as such, did not play any role in their death) justified? In my opinion yes. Why?

Last year, in the Subpolar Urals, we had four such overnight stays. All of them were in conditions where the safety of the group dictated the need to stop where there was space while there was still daylight to pitch the tent. It was in severe (-25 - 30 C) frosts and there were no reasons to recognize this decision as tactically incorrect. So Dyatlov had precedents, and they stopped for the night without losing heart, without blindly submitting to the forces of nature.

It is possible that while the group was putting up a tent, 2-3 people went on reconnaissance. The tent has been set up. The tent was set up with the weather in mind. Stretched tight<непонятно>, backpacks are laid on the windward side inside, a "barricade" of the stove and backpacks is arranged at the entrance so that it does not blow out. In the tent, of course, the temperature is below zero, and you need to show too much restraint and self-control in order to write with stiff hands in a 25-30 degree frost, fill in your diaries.

The only thing for which there was enough strength and humor was the release of "Evening Otorten". Personally, the letters seem angular to me, and the handwriting is similar to Zolotarev's, but with significant changes. It's possible in cold weather. By the way, it is clear from the diaries that Zolotarev loved to draw and his comrade, judging by the photographs, was not without humor. Having laughed enough, the group that had rested during the day (almost only 2-3 kilometers covered with lightweight backpacks), the group goes to bed ...

… The awakening was terrible.

My firm conviction is that nothing and no one from the inside could instill panic in the guys. From the inside - in the sense of the tent itself. This means that they were forced to flee by the manifestation of some external forces. If the tent is asleep, closed, then it is either a very bright light, or a very strong sound, or both.

It may be that the signal to escape was given by one of the comrades who came out to urinate, dropping his flashlight in surprise. At the entrance, only a few clasps are undone. The triangular end of the tent is stretched well, therefore it is not easy for one person to climb through. Crush, crush. Maybe at this time, not knowing what to grab onto, Slobodin puts on a felt boot (is it his own?). Someone falls into the hands of a saving knife. Not from the first time, but from the third time the tent is cut open and a panic flight begins down the wind, to where it is easiest to run. The fact that there is a forest, guess only later.

I, with a group of tourists, stood for a long time at the site of a tent with a group of tourists (Sogrin, Korolev, Baskin, Shuleshko) and we came to the unanimous conclusion that if they had only one chance to return, they would return and return with any wind. The group is running. But these are not animals, but young, energetic, Soviet people. They run one, two groups. Somewhere on a ridge of stones, Slobodin breaks his head and soon falls. But after all, the tent is not visible, the cold snow burns his legs, or maybe Slobodin closes the group of fugitives, and he remains lying on the snow.

And somewhere even earlier, Zina Kolmogorova broke away and lost sight of the latter. After wandering for a long time, and she lays down on the snow.

The rest run to the forest, to deep snow and begin to fight for life with superhuman efforts. At the cost of a long time of frostbitten hands and feet, the fire is lit and Dyatlov, the leader of the group, a faithful comrade, goes in search of the stragglers and freezes there.

It is quite possible that Komogorova did not fall behind earlier, but went to look for Dyatlov and Slobodin, who had not returned. It had not yet dawned on her that it was a matter of life and death, that the group should not be broken up, but she was always in a team (school, vocational school, institute, tourist section) and for her the tourist slogan "Die yourself, but help a friend out" not an empty phrase. She goes into a blizzard, up and falls exhausted into the snow and freezes.

There are several people around the fire. They decided to collect more spruce branches behind the cedar, bury themselves in it and wait out the bad weather, especially since there are no thin firewood nearby, they can’t break thick ones, and their hands and feet are already frostbitten. They understand that they will never return to the tent. Two, Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, fall asleep, die, and the rest, in a last attempt to save their lives, rush either to the storehouse or to the tent. Along the way, death overtakes them.

M. Axelrod (signature)
24/IV/59

Message gr. Avenburg

Prodanov, Vishnevsky, March 31, 1959, 9.30 local time.

On March 31, 0400, orderly Meshcheryakov noticed a large fiery ring in the southeast direction, which moved towards us for 20 minutes, then hiding behind Hill 880.
Before disappearing beyond the horizon, a star appeared from the center of the ring, which gradually increased to the size of the moon, began to fall down, separating from the ring.
An unusual phenomenon was observed by the entire personnel, alerted.
Please explain this phenomenon and its safety, as in our conditions it produces an alarming impression.

Avenburg, Potapov, Sogrin.

Citizens' message Piguzova

Head of the Ivdel police station 17. II. A.D. 59 6:50 local time an unusual phenomenon appeared in the sky. Movement of a star with a tail. The tail looked like dense cirrus clouds. Then this star freed itself from its tail, became brighter than the stars and flew away. It gradually began to swell, as it were, a large ball was formed, shrouded in haze. Then a star lit up inside this ball, from which at first a crescent moon was formed, then a small ball was formed, not so bright. The big ball gradually began to fade, became like a blurry spot. At 7:05 he completely disappeared. The star moved from south to northeast.

Meteorological Technician Tokareva (signature)
Beginning HMS Piguzov (signature).

Examination for the content of radioactive substances

In the radiological laboratory of the Sverdlovsk City Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, samples of internal organs (biosubstrates) and clothing were examined for the content of radioactive substances. We will not give the entire text of the expert's opinion here, we will only acquaint you with the conclusions:

Final findings of the audit:

1. The studied solid biosubstrates contain radioactive substances within the limits of the natural content determined by Potassium-40.

2. Individual samples of clothing examined contain slightly overestimated amounts of radioactive substances or a radioactive substance that is a beta emitter.

3. Detected radioactive substances or radioactive substance when washing clothing samples tend to be washed away, that is, they are not caused by a neutron flux and induced radioactivity, but by radioactive contamination with beta particles.

Chief radiologist of the city of Levashov 05/27/1959 (Signed).

During the investigation, Levashov was asked additional questions:

1. Should there be (can there be) increased contamination of clothing with radioactive substances under normal conditions, i.e. without being in a radioactively contaminated environment or place?

Answer: It shouldn't be perfect.

2. Was there contamination of the objects you examined?

Answer: As indicated in the conclusion, there is contamination with radioactive substances (substance) by beta emitters of individual, selective sections of clothing, sent samples. So, for example, the clipping from No. 4 - brown sweater at the time of the study had 9900 decays of beta particles per minute per 150 sq. cm, and after washing (for 3 hours with us) it gave 5200 decays per minute of beta particles from 150 sq. cm. For example, we can say that according to the sanitary rules that exist in our country, contamination in beta particles from 150 sq. cm per minute should not exceed 5000 decays before cleaning (washing), and after cleaning (washing) there should be a natural background, i.e. e. as much as cosmic radiation gives to all people and all objects in a given area, this is the norm for those working with radioactive substances.

The cutout from No. 1 - the sweater belt shows 5600 decays before washing, and after washing - 2700. The lower part of the harem pants from No. 1 shows 5000 decays before washing and 2600 after washing. Your data indicate that all these objects were in running water for a long time before the study, i.e. have already been washed.

Answer: Yes, the clothing is either contaminated with radioactive dust from the atmosphere, or the clothing has been exposed to contamination through handling or contact with radioactive materials. This pollution exceeds, as I have already pointed out, the norm for persons working with radioactive substances.

4. What do you think, what could be the degree of contamination of individual objects, if we take into account that before the study, they were in running water for about 15 days.

Answer: It can be assumed that the contamination of individual parts of the clothes was many times greater, but here it must be taken into account that the clothes could be washed unevenly, that is, with varying degrees of intensity.

As we already mentioned, the data of this examination were withdrawn from the criminal case as having nothing to do with the death of tourists.

Maybe that's why the mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group has not yet been disclosed? Is it possible that some secret tests were carried out and the object crashed, thereby causing a strong shock wave and a burst of radiation? What led to a hasty escape from the tent and, ultimately, to death?

At the end of the article, we attach the decision to close the case.

APPROVE:

PROSECUTOR OF THE SVERDLOVSK REGION
STATE COUNSELOR OF JUSTICE III CLASS
(N. KLINOV)

RESOLUTION.

The prosecutor criminalist of the Sverdlovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, Junior Counselor of Justice Ivanov, having considered the criminal case initiated on the occasion of the death of 9 tourists in the Ivdelsky district of the Sverdlovsk region,

installed:

January 23, 1959 a group of amateur tourists in the amount of 10 people went on a ski trip along the route: mountains. Sverdlovsk - mountains. Ivdel - pos. 2nd Northern - Mount Otorten - Mount Oika-Chakur - Northern Toshemka River - settlement. Vizhay - Ivdel - mountains. Sverdlovsk.

The group included: Dyatlov Igor - student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, leader of the campaign; Dubinina L.A., Kolmogorova Z.A., Kolevatov A.S., Yudin Yu.E., Doroshenko Yu.N. — UPI students; Zolotarev A.A. – instructor of the Kourovskaya tourist base, Slobodin R.V., Krivonischenko Yu.G., Thibaut-Brignolles N.V. — engineers of enterprises in Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk.

All participants of the hike had good tourist training and could participate in the hike of the III category of difficulty. The group was supplied with the necessary equipment and food, the trip was financed by the trade union committee of the Ural Polytechnic Institute.

Arriving safely at the start of the hiking trip - to the village. On January 28, 1959, the 2nd Northern Ivdelsky District, a group went on a campaign. One tourist - Yudin Yu.S. returned home from the 2nd Northern site, as he could not continue the campaign due to illness.

From diary entries, sketches of the route and developed photographic films of tourists, it is seen that on January 28, 1959, the group went upstream the river. Lozva, 30. I. 59, the group continued to move, 31. I. 59, the tourists went to the river Auspiya and tried to pass through the pass to the valley of the river. Lozva, however, due to the low temperature and strong wind, they were forced to return down and stopped for the night. I.II.59 in the upper reaches of the river. In Auspiya, the tourists built a shed, in which they left a supply of food and all unnecessary equipment.

Returning on 31.I.59 to the valley of the river. Auspiya and knowing about the difficult conditions of the relief of the height "1079", where the ascent was supposed, Dyatlov, as the leader of the group, made a gross mistake, expressed in the fact that the group began the ascent on I.II.59 only at 15-00.

Subsequently, on the ski trail of tourists, preserved by the time of the search, it was possible to establish that moving towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva River, the tourists took 500-600 m to the left and instead of the pass formed by the peaks "1079" and "880", went to the eastern slope of the summit "1079".

This was Dyatlov's second mistake.

Having used the daylight hours to climb to the peak "1079", in conditions of strong wind, which is common in the area, and a low temperature of about 25-30 ° C, Dyatlov found himself in unfavorable overnight conditions and decided to pitch a tent on the slope of the peak "1079 "so that in the morning of the next day, without losing altitude, go to Mount Otorten, to which there were about 10 km in a straight line.

One of the cameras preserved a frame (taken last), which shows the moment of excavation of snow to set up a tent. Considering that this shot was taken with a shutter speed of I / 25 sec., with an aperture of 5.6 at a film sensitivity of 65 Units. GOST, and also taking into account the density of the frame, we can assume that the tourists started setting up the tent at about 5 pm on January 1, 1959. A similar picture was taken with another camera.

After this time, no record and no photographs were found.

According to the protocol of the route commission, the head of the group, Igor Dyatlov, on February 12, 1959, had to telegraph to the UPI sports club and the Committee of Physical Education (comrade Ufimtsev) about their arrival in the village of Vizhay.

Since the control deadline - 12.II.59 passed, and no information was received from the group, tourists who knew Dyatlov closely began to insistently demand that measures be taken to search, and on 20.II.59, the leadership of the Institute sent a search group along the route of Dyatlov and then some more groups. Later, soldiers and officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, airplanes and helicopters of civil and military aviation were sent to search.

On February 26, 1959, on the eastern slope of summit "1079", the group's tent was discovered with all the equipment and food in it. The tent and everything that was in it were well preserved.

Inspection of the tent showed that it was set up correctly and provided overnight accommodation for tourists. The tent is equipped with 2 blankets, backpacks, storm jackets and trousers. The rest of the blankets were crumpled and frozen. On the blanket were found several pieces of the skin from the loin.

The location and presence of objects in the tent (almost all shoes, all outerwear, personal belongings and diaries) indicated that the tent was suddenly left at the same time by all tourists, and, as established in the subsequent forensic examination, the lee side of the tent, where the tourists settled their heads , turned out to be cut from the inside in two places, in areas that ensure the free exit of a person through these cuts.

Below the tent, for up to 500 meters, traces of people walking from the tent into the valley and into the forest were preserved in the snow. The tracks are well preserved and there were 8-9 pairs. Examination of the traces showed that some of them were left with an almost bare foot (for example, in one cotton sock), others had a typical display of a felt boot, a foot shod in a soft sock, etc. The paths of the tracks were located close to one another, converged and again diverged not far from one another. Closer to the border of the forest, the tracks disappeared - they turned out to be covered with snow.

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

On February 26, 1959, 1500 meters from the tent, near the border of the forest, the remains of a fire were found, and near it the corpses of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, stripped to their underwear, were found. At 300 meters from the fire, in the direction of the tent, the corpse of Dyatlov was found, another 180 meters from it - the corpse of Slobodin, and 150 meters from Slobodin - the corpse of Kolmogorova. The last three corpses were located on a straight line from the fire to the tent. Dyatlov lay on his back, head towards the tent, his hand clasping the trunk of a small birch. Slobodin and Kolmogorova were lying face down, their posture indicated that they were crawling towards the tent. Money, personal items (pens, pencils, etc.) were found in the pockets of Kolmogorova, Dyatlov and Slobodin. On the left hand of Slobodin, thrown aside, a watch was found that showed 8 hours 45 minutes. Dyatlov's clock showed 5 hours 31 minutes.

A forensic medical examination established that Dyatlov, Doroshenko, Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova died from the effects of low temperature (frozen), none of them had any injuries, apart from minor scratches and abrasions. Slobodin had a crack in the skull 6 cm long, which spread to 0.1 cm, but Slobodin died of cold.

May 4, 1959, 75 meters from the fire, towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva, i.e. perpendicular to the path of movement of tourists from the tent, under a layer of snow 4-4.5 meters away, the bodies of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolles and Kolevatov were found. On the corpses, as well as a few meters from them, Krivonischenko and Doroshenko's clothes were found - trousers, sweaters. All clothes have traces of even cuts, tk. filmed already from the corpses of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko.

The dead Thibault-Brignoles and Zolotarev were found well-dressed, Dubinina was worse dressed - her faux fur jacket and cap ended up on Zolotarev, Dubinina's unbowed leg was wrapped in Krivonischenko's woolen trousers. Krivonischenko's knife was found near the corpses, with which young firs were cut at the fire. Two watches were found on Thibaut's hand - one of them shows 8 hours I4 minutes, the second - 8 hours 39 minutes.

A forensic autopsy established that Kolevatov's death was caused by low temperature (frost), Kolevatov had no bodily injuries. The death of Dubinina, Thibaut-Brignolles and Zolotarev resulted from multiple bodily injuries. Dubinina has a symmetrical fracture of the ribs: 2, 3,4,5 on the right and 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 on the left. In addition, there is an extensive hemorrhage in the heart.

Thibaut-Brignolles has an extensive hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle - accordingly, a depressed fracture of the skull bones measuring 3 x 7 cm, with a bone defect of 3 x 2 cm.

Zolotarev has a fracture of the right ribs 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 along the thoracic and mid-clavicular line, which led to his death.

The investigation did not establish the presence of other people on February 1 or 2, 1959 in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bheight "1079", except for a group of tourists Dyatlov. It has also been established that the population of the Mansi people, who live 80-100 km from this place, is friendly to Russians, provides tourists with lodging for the night, provides them with assistance, etc. The place where the group died is considered by the Mansi unsuitable for hunting and reindeer herding in winter.

Taking into account the absence of external bodily injuries and signs of a struggle on all the corpses, the presence of all the values ​​of the group, and also taking into account the conclusion of the forensic medical examination on the causes of death of the tourists, it should be considered that the cause of the death of the tourists was an elemental force, which the tourists were unable to overcome .

For shortcomings in the organization of tourist work and weak control, the bureau of the Sverdlovsk Civil Code of the CPSU punished in the party order: the director of the Ural Polytechnic Institute Siunov, the secretary of the party bureau Zaostrovsky, the chairman of the trade union committee of the Criminal Procedure Code Slobodin, the chairman of the city union of voluntary sports societies Kurochkin and the union inspector Ufimtsev. The chairman of the board of the sports club of the Gordo Institute was removed from work.

Considering that there is no causal connection between the actions of the persons listed above, who made shortcomings in the organization of sports work, and the death of tourists, and, not seeing corpus delicti in this case, guided by paragraph 5 of article 4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR,

decided:

The criminal case on the death of a group of tourists should be terminated by further proceedings.

PROSECUTOR CRIMINALIST
ML. COUNSELOR OF JUSTICE (IVANOV)

I AGREE:
HEAD OF INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT
COUNSELOR OF JUSTICE (LUKIN)