What killed the Dyatlov group. Dyatlov Pass: “No mysticism! The group died due to a security breach. Modern photos of the Dyatlov Pass area
More than half a century ago, a mysterious and tragic event took place in the mountains of the Northern Urals. At the beginning of February 1959 for an unknown reason nine tourists died.
After this tragedy, three deputy chairmen of the KGB lost their posts at once, which was an unprecedented event in the history of the most powerful intelligence service in the world.
A FEAT ON A SCHEDULE
Ski trip to one of the peaks of the Poyasovyi Kamen ridge of the Subpolar Urals, Mount Otorten, was conceived by members of the tourism section of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. S. M. Kirov in the autumn of 1958. The route belonged to the highest category of difficulty.
The group had to overcome more than 350 km in severe winter conditions in 16 days and climb the Otorten and Oiko-Chakur mountains. The campaign was timed to coincide with the XXI Congress of the CPSU and was supported by the leadership of the Ural Polytechnic University.
The initial composition of the group consisted of twelve people, but in the end, on January 23, 1959, ten people set off from the Sverdlovsk railway station: Igor Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, Yuri Doroshenko, Georgy (Yuri) Krivonischenko, Nikolay Thibault-Brignolles, Lyudmila Dubinina, Semyon (Alexander) Zolotarev, Alexander Kolevatov and Yuri Yudin. It must be said that the group was only nominally considered a student group, since four of them were no longer students by that time, and some had nothing to do with UPI at all.
The composition of the group was diverse. The youngest was 20-year-old Dubinina. The instructor of the Kourovskaya camp site Zolotarev, who joined at the last moment, turned 37. The head of the group, Dyatlov, turned 23.
Despite his youth, Igor Dyatlov was already a very experienced tourist and had more than one route of varying difficulty behind him. And the rest were far from newcomers. In addition, they already had experience of joint campaigns and all of them, with the exception of Zolotarev, knew each other well and were a solid, friendly and proven team of like-minded people.
Each person was on the account, and it was all the more insulting to lose one of the participants in the very first days of the campaign. Due to aggravated sciatica, already after the first transition from the settlement of the 41st quarter to the non-residential settlement, the 2nd Northern mine was forced to leave the route of Yu. Yudin. A sharp pain did not allow him to move at the planned speed, even without a backpack.
The loss of one of the experienced male hikers forced the group leader to reconsider the schedule and postpone the date of the group's arrival back to Sverdlovsk in case of a successful completion of the trip from February 10 to February 12. However, no one doubted this outcome. And no one could have foreseen that this unfortunate absurdity would save Yuri Yudin's life - the only one of the whole group.
Based on diary entries, it is only possible to partially restore the picture of what happened: on the evening of February 1, 1959, a group led by Dyatlov set up a camp near Mount Otorten in order to climb to its summit the next morning. However, subsequent events did not allow the group to fulfill the intended ...
Neither on February 12 nor later did the group get in touch. Some delay did not particularly alarm the leadership of the institute. Relatives were the first to sound the alarm. At their request, a search and rescue operation was organized, which began only on February 22. Everyone took part in the search for the missing people: from students and tourists to army units and special services.
Moreover, all further events took place under the close control of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the KGB. The level of what happened is evidenced by the fact that to investigate the tragedy near Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, a state commission was created, which included: Major General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs M.N. Shishkarev, Deputy Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Regional Executive Committee V.A. F. T. Yermash, prosecutor of Sverdlovsk N. I. Klinov and Major General of Aviation M. I. Gorlachenko.
Pay attention to the last figure in this list. It would seem, what is a military pilot to do here? Nevertheless, some data allow us to assert that the Major General of the Air Force was not included in the commission by chance. The case was under the personal control of the 1st Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU A.P. Kirilenko.
TERRIBLE FINDINGS
The official investigation on the question of the causes of the tragedy on the night of February 1 to 2 could not give an answer. Or didn't want to. The criminal case was closed on May 28, 1959. In a document compiled by an employee of the Ivdel procurator L. Ivanov, it was said: "... it should be considered that the cause of their death was an elemental force, which people were not able to overcome."
Nevertheless, enthusiasts continued the search. Today, there are several dozen versions of the reasons for the death of the Dyatlov group. Among them:
- adverse weather conditions;
- quarrel between tourists;
- death at the hands of the local population;
- attack by escaped prisoners;
- clash with special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
- paranormal phenomena (mysticism and UFOs);
- man-made disaster (G. Tsygankova's version);
- avalanche (version by E. V. Buyanov);
- special operation of the KGB during the Cold War (version of A. I. Rakitin).
I must say that the investigations conducted by volunteers are respected, and some of them answer, if not all, then many questions.
On February 27, one and a half kilometers from a tent found half-buried and frozen in snow, set up on the slope of Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, the bodies of Yury Doroshenko and Yury Krivonischenko were found. Almost immediately, three hundred meters above, the body of Igor Dyatlov was found. Then, under a thin layer of dense snow, the body of Zina Kolmogorova was found, and on March 5, the body of Rustem Slobodin was found.
The next two months of searching yielded no results. And only after the warming, on May 4, they found the rest. The bodies were at the foot of the mountain under a layer of snow 2.5 m thick in the channel of a stream that had already begun to melt. First, the body of Lyudmila Dubinina was found, and the rest were found a little downstream: Alexander Kolevatov and Semyon Zolotarev lay at the edge of the stream in an embrace “chest to back”, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles was downstream, in the water.
The first assumption was that the tourists were caught in severe bad weather. With a hurricane gust of wind, part of the group was blown down the mountainside, the rest immediately rushed to their aid. As a result, people were swept up the slope by a hurricane, and as a result, everyone froze. However, later the investigation abandoned this version, since subsequent findings did not fit into it.
There could be no question of psychological incompatibility. Who would go on such a difficult and dangerous route with untested or conflicting people? This should be known at least then in order to understand: all members of the group trusted each other, each of them deserved the right to be among the lucky ones, and everyone stood up for each other with a mountain. Thus, the version about the death of all members of the group as a result of a quarrel also did not stand up to criticism.
A careful examination of the camp revealed several signs pointing to a crime. At the same time, it cannot be said that it was like a robbery, as if the group was faced with some criminal elements. A rather large amount of money, as well as watches, cameras and even alcohol remained untouched. Only one camera disappeared, along with a refilled film. But at the same time, the tent was torn and beyond repair. The examination showed that it was disabled from the inside.
But by whom and for what purpose? However, valuables left behind and a damaged tent indicate that the criminal version is untenable. It is unlikely that fugitive criminals would have left themselves without a roof over their heads, when at night the thermometer could drop to the 50-degree mark.
It has been suggested that the group was mistakenly destroyed by a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which confused tourists with criminals who had escaped from places of detention. But knowledgeable people argue: in this case, small arms would definitely be used, and gunshot wounds would not have happened. And they were not on the bodies.
The idea was put forward that tourists went to the sacred slope of the prayer mountain and were killed by representatives of the local population (Mansi). However, as it turned out, there is no prayer mountain in these places, and all the witnesses described the indigenous population as calm and tourist-friendly people. As a result, the suspicion with Mansi was removed.
People who are prone to mysticism and sincerely believe in the other world, argue with fervor: everything happened because the group violated the boundaries of a sacred place guarded by spirits. Like, it’s not for nothing that they say: this zone is forbidden for a person, and the name of Mount Otorten (the Mansi call it Lunt-Khusap-Syahyl), where the group was going to move in the morning, is translated “Do not go there.”
However, A. Rakitin, who devoted several years to research, claims: in fact, "Lunt-Khusap" means "Goose's Nest", and it is connected with the lake of the same name Lunt-Khusap-Tur at the foot of the mountain. Fans of the other world insisted: the tourists recklessly set up their last camp on the slope of Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, which means “Mountain of the Dead” in the Mansi language. Confirmation is that even Mansi hunters do not enter these places.
Tourists were killed by something unknown and terrible. In particular, the nephew of Igor Dyatlov later testified: all the dead had gray hair. However, the lack of people in this area is also explained in a very prosaic way: these regions are too scarce in game, and there is simply nothing for hunters to do here. Yes, and the terrible name of the Mountain of the Dead, with a more accurate translation, turns into "Dead Mountain".
V. A. Varsanofyeva, a geologist, doctor of sciences, who worked for a long time at the Institute of Geology of the Komi Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, argued that the gloomy name was given to the mountain only because there was nothing on its slopes, not even vegetation - only scree and stones covered with lichen . Thus, the mystical version looks untenable.
Adding to the mysteries was the fact that all the bodies were found far from the camp, while most of the people found themselves on this extremely frosty night (up to -30°C) half-dressed and without headgear, six were barefoot, on their feet were only socks. Some were not dressed in their clothes, two were only in their underwear. The version of E. Buyanov was seriously considered, who claimed that an unexpected avalanche had occurred, and it was this event that forced people to leave the camp in a hurry, half-dressed.
However, according to other experts, with a slope of only 15 degrees, the formation of an avalanche is unlikely. Although this does not rule out snow shifts, and with sufficient density, there is a possibility of serious compression injuries found on the bodies found. However, the skis stuck in the snow remained in a vertical position, which worked against this version.
Everyone agreed on one thing: some extraordinary circumstances forced the tourists in extreme haste to leave the sleeping bags and the tent for the sake of saving lives. But what hostile force made them do it? What could be stronger than the fear of death from the cold? The motives of the behavior of hardened and psychologically mature people at the moment when their fate was being decided have not yet been identified.
Unanswered questions multiplied. Some frozen bodies were in the position of defenders. But from whom or from what? It did not add clarity, and the fact that some of the bodies were found large burnt areas and traces of serious injuries, both intravital and post-mortem. Strong indentation of the sternum, numerous fractures of the ribs and other bones of the body were noted, which could be obtained as a result of compression, the powerful impact of external forces.
Yu. Krivonischenko and L. Dubinina had damaged eyeballs, S. Zolotarev had them completely absent, and the girl also had no tongue. A. Kolevatov has a broken nose, deformed neck and damaged temporal bone. Tourists received all these injuries during their lifetime, as evidenced by hemorrhages in nearby organs. All the clothes had a strange purple tint, and experts found traces of gray foam in Y. Doroshenko's mouth.
It should be noted that already initial stage significant inconsistencies have been identified. Some experts claim that the holes in the tents were made by the tourists themselves for the fastest possible evacuation due to a sudden danger. Others insist that the tent was deliberately damaged by some hostile force in order to exclude the possibility of its use in the future, which, under the conditions of the Northern Ural frosts, which reached critical levels, would be guaranteed to lead to the death of people.
And both of these statements are in direct contradiction with the statements of the third: the tent frozen in the snow was originally intact and damaged already during the clumsily conducted search operation. At the same time, they refer to the conclusions of the investigator of the prosecutor's office V. I. Tempalov, who in his detailed description the scene did not say a word about her damage.
ON GUARD OF THE HOMELAND, BUT NOT PERSON
The most popular version is associated with weapons testing, in particular with the launch of missiles. They talked about the components of rocket fuel, the impact of the blast wave, explaining the compression injuries. In confirmation, the excessive radioactivity of the clothes of tourists recorded by the investigation is given.
But this version looks strange. Weapon tests are usually carried out at special test sites with the appropriate infrastructure capable of recording the damaging effect. In addition, not a single document on the tests carried out in that area has been published since then. On the contrary, data have become available that refute this version.
At that time, there were no rockets in the USSR capable of flying from the launch site (Tyura-Tam, later Baikonur) to the site of the tragedy, and spacecraft carrier rockets were oriented to the northeast and, in principle, could not fly over the Northern Urals. And in the period from January 2 to February 17, 1959, there were no launches from Tyura-Tama.
Sea-based missiles, which were tested at that time in the Barents Sea area, had a flight range of no more than 150 km, while from the place of death to the coast was more than 600 km. Air defense missiles, adopted at that time, could fly at a distance of no more than 50 km, and the nearest launcher was deployed only a year later. However, we will return to air defense.
OIL FOR BLOOD
It is impossible not to take into account another serious version. She claims that the reason for the death of tourists is a man-made disaster caused by a tragic combination of circumstances. In part, this version echoes the version of the above-mentioned E. Buyanov about the avalanche.
The whole country was preparing for the opening of the XXI Congress of the CPSU. At that time, it was customary to report on new labor achievements. The discovery of a new oil and gas field and, most importantly, a timely report about it promised considerable privileges to all those involved.
But there was little time left. To carry out urgent reconnaissance work on the order of the government, the USSR Ministry of Geology and Subsoil Protection and the Ministry of Aviation, methanol was delivered by the world's largest An-8T aircraft, which was specially converted to transport dangerous goods.
Methanol is extremely toxic and, when exposed to humans, causes respiratory paralysis, swelling of the brain and lungs, and vascular collapse. In addition, the optic nerve and the retina of the eyeball are affected. An emergency situation that arose in flight forced the crew commander to get rid of the cargo and, loitering, merge it in hard-to-reach and deserted places. Unfortunately, the group's route passed in the An-8T flight area, and the tourists were exposed to a poisonous substance intended for completely different purposes.
Methanol has the ability to dissolve snow and ice, turning them into a fluid mass. It is used in gas and oil fields to prevent blockage of oil wells, underground gas storages and main gas pipelines by crystalline hydrates resembling ice. In addition, for geophysical work in special cases, the method of radioactive tracers was used. There is reason to believe that the An-8T was carrying radioactive methanol.
A large amount of the substance that settled on the snow cover in the highlands contributed to the liquefaction of huge masses of snow. And this is what provoked the formation of a heavy ice-snow landslide on a slope with a steepness of only 12-15 degrees. According to the version, it was precisely such a mass of liquefied snow that covered the tent with tourists on that February night. And it is the sprayed methanol that is the cause of the purple tint of the clothes.
Given the traces of radioactive contamination and the nature of the injuries, this version seems much more realistic than the UFO version. Although she does not answer the question why only part of the clothes of the dead
was radioactive. True, the author of the version explains this as follows: clothes soaked in a poisonous radioactive substance were removed from the corpses in order to hide the cause of the death of the group. And yet there were questions that this version could not answer.
KGB VS CIA
From a certain moment, testimonies about strange fireballs observed in the area where tourists died began to appear in the criminal case. They were repeatedly seen by residents of the Northern Urals, including search engines. According to eyewitnesses, a fireball larger than two lunar diameters grew in the sky. Then the ball faded, blurred across the sky and went out.
It is on the basis of this evidence that the supporters of the "Martian" version insist that the tragedy is connected with UFOs. But that was later, but for now, a decision is being made to conduct a radiological examination of the clothes of the dead. The results showed that there were traces of radioactive substances on the clothes of two participants in the campaign. In addition, it turned out that G. Krivonischenko and R. Slobodin were the bearers of state secrets and worked at the secret enterprise "Mailbox 10", which develops atomic weapons.
Things began to take a completely unexpected turn. The reason for the creation of the state commission with such a high status became clear. Subsequently, it turned out that a specialist in radioactive contamination, A. Kikoin, took part in the examination of the scene of the incident as a team leader, and even with unique equipment.
The international situation of that time should also be remembered: in the conditions of the escalating Cold War, the USSR hastily forged a nuclear shield. At the same time, the conclusions of the official investigation become more understandable, because everything that was connected with state secrets was carefully hushed up. Still would! After all, nothing that can carry radioactive traces of top-secret production should not leave the restricted area.
Because isotopic traces carry comprehensive information about what and how reactors produce. In those days, for foreign intelligence, there was nothing more valuable than this data. Especially since we are talking about the late 1950s, when the nuclear potential of the USSR for Western intelligence was a secret behind seven seals. All this gave a completely unexpected direction for researchers.
Among the dead was another difficult figure: Semyon (Alexander) Zolotarev. He introduced himself as Alexander when meeting the rest of the group. A. Rakitin in his study claims: Zolotarev was a KGB agent and carried out an absolutely secret mission with Krivonischenko and Slobodin. His goal was to control the transfer of clothes with traces of radioactive substances to a group of American agents.
Based on their analysis, it was possible to establish what exactly was produced at the secret factory. The whole operation was developed by specialists from the Lubyanka and pursued one goal: disinformation of the main enemy. The campaign itself was only a cover for an operation of national importance, and the students were used in the dark.
Apparently, during the meeting of agents and couriers, something went wrong as planned by the special services, and the entire Dyatlov group was destroyed. Their death was staged in such a way that the tragedy looked as natural as possible. That is why everything was done without the use of firearms and even edged weapons.
It was not difficult for the elite fighters. According to the position of some of the bodies and the nature of the injuries, it can be assumed that the dead had to deal with masters of hand-to-hand combat, and burn marks indicate that the presence of signs of life in the victims was checked in this way.
But the question arises: how did foreign intelligence agents get into the deserted and hard-to-reach region of the Northern Urals? Unfortunately, there is a very simple answer to this: until the early 1960s, NATO planes flew into the territory of the USSR from the North Pole almost without hindrance, and throwing a group of paratroopers into deserted places was not particularly difficult.
It is no longer a secret that in the middle of the 20th century the USSR did not have an effective air defense system, and the presence of "strat jets" in NATO countries - RB-47 and U-2 aircraft capable of climbing to a height of more than 20 km - made it possible to high efficiency carry out the deployment of agents and aerial reconnaissance of virtually any area of interest to them. The following facts testify to the impunity of the NATO Air Force: on April 29, 1954, a group of three reconnaissance aircraft made a daring raid along the route Novgorod - Smolensk - Kyiv.
On Victory Day - May 9, 1954 - an American RB-47 flew over Murmansk and Severomorsk. On May 1, 1955, reconnaissance aircraft appeared over Kyiv and Leningrad. May Day demonstrations of Soviet workers were photographed, sincerely believing that "the Red Army is the strongest of all, and not even suspecting that spy planes were literally flying over their heads.
According to American aviation historians, in 1959 alone, the intelligence of the US Air Force and the CIA made more than 3 thousand flights! The situation looked absurd: the center was flooded with reports of foreign aircraft flying over the country, and domestic aviation experts declared that “this cannot be.” But this concerned not only the USSR. The technical superiority of the U-2 over the then existing air defense systems was so obvious that the CIA, with undisguised cynicism, used these aircraft around the world.
As it turned out, the fireballs had nothing to do with UFOs either. These are just huge flare bombs parachuted for lighting to photograph large areas and secret objects at night. Now the inclusion of the general of aviation in the composition of the commission becomes understandable.
However, another question arises: how could the CIA agents leave the scene? After all, without escape routes and evacuation, this operation lost all meaning.
And if the air defense forces were powerless, then you can’t say the same about the KGB. Blocking train stations, combing all possible places of appearance of strangers for the special services did not work. And to pass hundreds or even thousands of kilometers unnoticed in the winter in the conditions of the Subpolar Urals is beyond the power of anyone. And here a truly unique know-how comes to the fore.
HEAVEN HOOK
In the fall of 1958, the Americans, using parachutes, landed two scouts on the drifting Soviet polar station North Pole-5, which had been mothballed two years earlier. The Americans were interested in all the draft documentation related to meteorological observations in the Arctic and the means of communication used by Soviet polar explorers.
And here - attention! After completing the mission, the scouts were evacuated and taken on board the aircraft using a unique system developed by designer Robert Fulton and installed on the P2V-7 Neptune reconnaissance aircraft. This device was designed to pick up a person who is on the surface of the earth and deliver him on board an aircraft flying over him. The device was dubbed the "skyhook" and proved to be surprisingly simple, safe and effective to use.
The evacuee was dropped a container, which contained a warm overall with a special harness, a mini-aerostat and a balloon with compressed helium. All this was accompanied by a nylon cord about 150 m long. One end of the cord was attached to a mini balloon, and the other to a harness. Dressed in overalls and filling the balloon with helium, the passenger launched it into the sky. The evacuator aircraft, using a special device installed outside the fuselage, at a speed of about 220 km / h, cut a stretched nylon cord and, using a winch, lifted a person aboard the aircraft.
The first US Marine Corps Sergeant Levi Woods to be flown aboard an aircraft in this manner was. It happened on August 12, 1958. Subsequently, the "sky hook" was tested in various conditions of use: on the water, in the mountains, in a forest area. The reviews were the most positive. At least two such interceptors are known to have been based in Europe.
With a flight range of 7,000 km, the Neptunes could carry out an emergency evacuation of scouts from almost anywhere in the European part of the USSR. This version is indirectly indicated by the loss of a camera with refilled film. Perhaps he was taken as one of the evidence of the meeting of agents with couriers.
To date, many who are interested in this topic recognize that A. Rakitin's version looks the most realistic. However, opponents of such conspiracy theories retort: this is impossible, since the authorities did not prevent a wide range of civilians from participating in the search operation, from whom in this case it was necessary to hide the true causes of the tragedy.
Perhaps, over time, new data will appear that reveal the mystery of the death of nine tourists on a February night in 1959. However, the number of those who know the true causes of the tragic events more than half a century ago is steadily approaching zero. Will we ever know the truth? Unknown. Do we have a right to this? Undoubtedly. This would be a worthy manifestation of respect for the memory of the dead. Along with the Dyatlov Pass already existing in the Northern Urals and marked on the maps.
Alexander GUNKOVSKY
Almost everyone has heard of the Dyatlov Pass. About the terrible tragedy that happened in the Northern Urals in 1959 with a group of tourists led by Igor Dyatlov, many films were made and even more articles were written.
There are many versions of the death of the Dyatlov group. They talk about unusual natural phenomena, secret tests, and even UFOs... Unfortunately, as often happens, most of those who made films and wrote these same newspaper articles have never seen either the investigation materials or the results of the examinations of this case. We will try not to prejudice to talk about the death of the group, based solely on the investigative materials.
Tent under the snow
On February 1, 1959, a group of skiers (mostly students from Sverdlovsk) began to climb the mountain, marked on their map under No. 1079. These were Dyatlov Igor (23 years old), Kolmogorova Zinaida (22 years old), Doroshenko Yuri (21 years old), Krivonischenko Yuriy (23 years old), Dubinina Lyudmila (20 years old), Kolevatov Alexander (24 years old), Slobodin Rustem (23 years old) , Thibaut-Brignolles Nikolay (23 years old), Zolotarev Alexander (37 years old).
On February 12, the group was supposed to arrive in the village of Vizhay and send a telegram to the sports club about the completion of the route. They have not come. A search operation was launched in the mountains. On February 26, an abandoned tent was found on the eastern slope of that same mountain. She was cut from the inside.
The Dyatlovites' tent was found by search engines Boris Slobtsov and Mikhail Sharavin, UPI students. Examining the eastern slope of the ridge through binoculars, Sharavin noticed a hillock in the snow that looked like a littered tent. When the searchers came closer, they saw that the entire tent was covered with snow, from under which only the entrance was visible. Above the surface, only skis stuck in the snow stuck out. The tent itself was covered with a hard layer of snow 20 cm thick. Footprints in the snow, going into the forest, indicated that the tourists had hastily left the lodging for the night, cutting the canvas of the awning. After the discovery of the tent, a search for tourists was also organized.
Undressed corpses
The frozen and crippled bodies of all nine members of the group were found within a radius of one and a half kilometers from the tent.
So, at the very border of the forest, near the remains of a bonfire, the corpses of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were found. The hands and feet of the guys were burned and cut. Moreover, both corpses were found in underwear without shoes. The children's clothes were cut off with a knife. Subsequently, these clothes were found on other members of the group. This indicated that both Yuris were practically the first to freeze ...
The examination found traces of leather and other tissues on the tree trunk. The guys climbed a tree to the last to break branches for a fire, while peeling their already frostbitten hands to the meat.
From the last strength
Soon, with the help of dogs, under a thin layer of snow, on the line from the tent to the cedar, they found the corpses of Igor Dyatlov and Zina Kolmogorova.
Igor Dyatlov was at a distance of about 300 meters from the cedar, and Zina Kolmogorova was about 750 meters from the tree. Igor Dyatlov's hand peeked out from under the snow. He froze in this position, as if he wanted to get up and go in search of his comrades again.
180 meters from the corpse of Dyatlov, towards the tent, they found the corpse of Rustem Slobodin. He was under a layer of snow on a slope: conditionally, between the corpse of Dyatlov and Kolmogorova. One of his legs was shod in felt boots. Rustem Slobodin was discovered by search engines in the classic “corpse bed”, which is observed in people frozen directly on the snow.
A later forensic medical examination found that Dyatlov, Doroshenko, Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova died from the effects of low temperature - no injuries were found on their bodies, with the exception of minor scratches and abrasions.
Rustem Slobodin's autopsy revealed a 6 cm long fracture of the skull, which he received during his lifetime. However, experts found that his death, like everyone else, came from hypothermia.
crippled bodies
On May 4, in the forest, 75 meters from the fire, under a four-meter layer of snow, the remaining corpses were found - Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexander Zolotarev, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles and Alexander Kolevatov.
There were no injuries on the corpse of Alexander Kolevatov, death came from hypothermia.
Alexander Zolotarev had broken ribs on the right. Nicholas Thibault-Brignolles had an extensive hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle and a depressed skull fracture.
Lyudmila Dubinina was found to have a symmetrical fracture of several ribs; she died from a massive hemorrhage in the heart within 15-20 minutes after the injury. The corpse had no tongue. On the bodies found and next to them were trousers and sweaters of Yury Krivonischenko and Yury Doroshenko who remained by the fire. This clothing had even traces of cuts ...
The criminal case on the fact of the death of the Dyatlov group was terminated with the following wording: “Given the absence of external bodily injuries and signs of a struggle on the corpses, the presence of all the group’s values, and also taking into account the conclusion of the forensic medical examination on the causes of death of tourists, it should be considered that the cause the death of tourists was an elemental force, which the tourists were not able to overcome.
Over the following years, numerous attempts were made to understand what happened on the slope of that ill-fated mountain. A variety of versions were put forward - from quite plausible to unlikely, and even delusional. At the same time, the existing facts were often forgotten ...
The events of that tragic night when the Dyatlov group died are recreated solely on the basis of the materials of the investigation and subsequent criminal examinations. So those who are waiting for aliens, fantastic anomalies and secret tests can read no further. There will be only fatal mistakes, hopelessness and the life-sucking bitter cold of the Northern Urals...
Warnings and Errors
From the testimony of the forester of the Vizhaysky forestry, I.D. Rempel: “On January 25, 1959, a group of tourists turned to me, showed me their route and asked for advice. I told them that it was dangerous to walk along the Ural Range in winter, as there were large gorges into which one could fall, and strong winds raged there. To which they replied: "For us, this will be considered the first class of difficulty." Then I told them: “First you need to go through it ...”
From the materials of the criminal case: “... knowing about the difficult conditions of the relief of the 1079 height, where the ascent was supposed to be, Dyatlov, as the leader of the group, made a gross mistake, expressed in the fact that the group began the ascent only at 15.00.”
Literally an hour later it started to get dark. Twilight was approached by the beginning of a snowfall, which found the group on the mountainside. Before sunset, there was only time to set up a tent.
Those who went on winter hikes know that a cold night at minus twenty-five is a serious test. Moreover, it was their first stop for the night, when they decided not to heat the stove.
"At random"
Tourists set up the tent “in a corporate way”: stretch marks were pulled over ski poles. The Dyatlovites had a small tin stove with them, but it was not installed that day, as the roof of the tent sagged and a fire could start. There were no problems with the installation in the forest - guy wires are attached to trees, but there are no trees on the mountain. The central part of the tent could be additionally secured with braces on skis, but this was not done.
It would be reasonable to try to fix the center of the tent, not even in order to hang the stove, but in order to avoid sagging of the slopes of the tent under the mass of snow. But they didn't do that either. Already frozen.
What was the ridge on which the tourists ended up? Moving to the top, the Dyatlov group reached one of the main ridges of the Northern Urals - the so-called watershed. It is here that the largest snowfall occurs in winter and powerful winds blow.
In a snow sarcophagus
By nightfall, everyone got rid of their wet outerwear and took off their shoes. All except Thibaut-Brignolle and Zolotarev. These two remained dressed and shod. Zolotarev, apparently, as an experienced tourist and instructor, did not relax. And Thibaut-Brignolles was on duty.
As the sun set, the weather changed a lot. The wind picked up and the snow began to fall. Heavy snow stuck to the slopes, stuck around and practically cemented the tent dug into the snow, making a sarcophagus out of it. Due to the lack of a central stretch, under a thick layer of snow, the tent caved in. The awning was old, sewn in many places. The accident did not take long. Fragile slopes burst in several places, and under the weight of snow, the tent collapsed right on the tourists. It all happened quickly, in complete darkness. It became dangerous to be in the tent. Tourists were lying, covered with an awning, under a thick layer of snow. The cold, ragged tent did not warm, did not give warmth. It turned into a source of obvious danger - it threatened to become a common grave. Dyatlov and Krivonischenko, who were at the end of the tent, began to cut the slopes.
In hope of salvation
Outside, more trouble awaited the tourists. Having got out of the tent, the guys faced a snowfall of incredible strength and density, with a wind that knocked them down. The emergency required a quick decision. The squall literally swept people off their feet, the tent was littered, and digging snow with bare hands under an icy wind was suicide.
Dyatlov decided to seek salvation in the forest below. Warmed up as best they could. Somehow they distributed the things obtained from the tent. They didn’t get shoes, they couldn’t. Wind, snow and cold interfered. Rustem Slobodin managed to put on one boot.
The wind almost itself drove the Dyatlovites down. The boys tried to keep up. However, it is unlikely that in such an environment everyone was able to stay within sight. A terrible cold pierced tourists, it was difficult to breathe, to think - even more difficult. Most likely, the group broke up. Testimony of one of the searchers, Boris Slobtsov: "... the traces at first went in a heap, next to each other, and then diverged."
First victim
On the way to the forest, tourists had to overcome several stone ridges. At the third ridge, misfortune befell the most athletic. Confidently walking on the snow - with one foot bare and the other shod in felt boots - did not work out, especially through the icy stones of the kurumnik. The felt boots glided strongly on a smooth surface. Rustem Slobodin lost his balance and fell extremely unsuccessfully, while hitting his head hard on a stone. Most likely, the rest of the Dyatlovites, busy overcoming the ridge, did not pay attention to his backlog at first. They realized it later, a little later: they began to search, shout, call.
Waking up, Rustem Slobodin crawled some distance down before losing consciousness. The injury was very serious - a crack in the skull ... He died first, froze in an unconscious state.
Fall and injury
Having reached the forest, the Dyatlovites made a fire near a tall cedar, in the only place found in the dark, where there was little snow underfoot. However, a fire in the wind is not salvation. We had to find a place to hide. Dyatlov sent the most well-equipped members of the group - Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolle and Lyuda Dubinina - to search for shelter. The three of them wandered to the border of the forest, bypassing the ravine, at the bottom of which a stream flows. In the dark, the guys did not notice how they came to a steep seven-meter cliff and ended up on a small snow ledge. Such "overhanging banks" near the tributaries of the Northern Urals rivers are a common occurrence. One has only to step on them in the darkness of the night, and tragedy is inevitable...
A fall from a seven-meter height onto a rocky bottom of a stream did not pass without a trace for all three, they all received multiple bodily injuries, later described by a forensic expert: Thibaut-Brignolles - a severe head injury, Zolotarev and Dubinina - chest injuries, multiple fractures of the ribs. The boys could no longer move.
Fight for life
Now it is difficult to establish whether Sasha Kolevatov went with them to the place of the fall, or he and Igor Dyatlov found the guys later in a helpless state. Be that as it may, he did not abandon his comrades, he helped to drag his friends up the stream, closer to the fire. Then Dyatlov, Kolevatov and Kolmogorova built a fir flooring in a natural depression. It was very hard work. Everything was done with practically frozen hands, without mittens, without shoes, without warm outerwear. Ideally, it was necessary to move the wounded to the cedar, to the fire. But it was impossible. Between the wounded and the cedar was a high steep ravine. The only thing that could help comrades Sasha Kolevatov, Igor Dyatlov and Zina Kolmogorova was to build a second fire and maintain it. The group split up again. Walking between the fire and the deck was difficult. They were separated by a high snow wall. From the cedar to the flooring was 70 endless meters.
Yura Doroshenko and Yura Krivonischenko remained to support the bonfire near the cedar.
Stress Sel e
It was not easy to build a fire on a blown hillock, near the border of the forest, where the cedar was located. Skinning to meat, the guys broke the only combustible material in winter - cedar paws. The fire was their salvation. However, the fire and the first signs of heat played a trick on Yuriy. They began to fall asleep. Anyone who goes on a winter hike knows that sleeping in the cold is death. The guys began to deliberately inflict injuries on themselves so that the pain would return consciousness, so as not to freeze into unconsciousness. Traces of these injuries will then be described by a forensic expert: burns, bites on the palms, scratches.
Alas, the guys lost in this battle ... In psychology, there is such a thing as Selye's stress. As soon as a freezing person feels the first signs of heat, he relaxes, and in extreme conditions this is deadly. Especially if there is no one to help. Both Yuris died before everyone else.
Clothes on corpses
The condition of the wounded on the floor deteriorated rapidly. It was difficult to determine who was still alive. Apparently, Dyatlov instructed Kolevatov to keep the fire at the deck, and he himself decided to reach the first fire. He found Doroshenko and Krivonischenko already frozen there. Apparently, believing that it was necessary to insulate the wounded, Dyatlov cut off part of their clothes. Alas, their comrades no longer came to their senses. Their death made a depressing impression on those who remained.
Last push
Now it is difficult to say who was the first to go again to look for the lagging behind Slobodin - Igor Dyatlov or Zinaida Kolmogorova. Be that as it may, they went in search of him, not wanting to get used to the idea that finding something in this situation is completely unrealistic ...
So they were found later - frozen on the slope: Slobodin, Kolmogorov and Dyatlov. Dyatlov froze in a strong-willed position, not curled up in the fetal position, in which people are usually found frozen. Until his last breath, he tried to go forward in search of comrades.
white silence
Perhaps, without waiting for Dyatlov, Kolevatov went to the first fire, but found there only an extinct fire and the dead bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. Probably, at that moment the guy realized that Dyatlov and Zina were also already dead ...
Kolevatov wandered back to the deck where his dead friends lay. He knew perfectly well that there was no longer any chance of survival. It is hard to imagine the extent of this man's desperation.
Subsequently, on May 4, search engines found four corpses eaten by mice at this place. Someone had no eyes, someone had a tongue, someone had eaten cheeks.
P.S.
Before leaving the tent, Dyatlov stuck his skis in the snow as a guide. He hoped to return, but led the group to their deaths. Everything was predetermined in advance: fatigue, an old rotten tent set up at random, lack of firewood and the harsh climate of the Northern Urals. Even now, tourists go to Otorten along the channels of the tributaries of the Lozva, and not along the dangerous Ural Range, where only wild cold reigns.
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The mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group- This is a high-profile incident that occurred more than half a century ago. If you like different ones, then the story about the Dyatlov Pass should certainly be familiar to you. In this article, we will consider in detail all the facts related to the mysterious death of the Dyatlov group.
Despite the fact that the death of individual tourists and entire tourist groups is not a unique phenomenon (only at least 111 people died in ski trips from 1975 to 2004), the death of the Dyatlov group continues to attract the attention of researchers, journalists and politicians - up to the coverage of events more than half a century ago on the central TV channels of Russia.
So, before you is the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass.
The secret of the Dyatlov pass
On the border of Komi and the Sverdlovsk region, in the north of the Urals, Mount Holatchakhl is located. Until 1959, in translation from Mansi, its name was translated as "Dead Peak", but at a later time it began to be called the "Mountain of the Dead".
For unknown reasons, many people died on it under a variety of mystical circumstances. One of the most mysterious and mysterious tragedies occurred on the night of February 1, 1959.
Expedition Dyatlov
On this frosty and clear day, a group of tourists consisting of 10 people set off to conquer Kholatchakhl. Despite the fact that the skiers were still students, they already had sufficient experience in climbing mountain peaks.
The group leader was Igor Dyatlov.
Igor Dyatlov and two students from the tourist group - Zina Kolmogorova and Lyudmila Dubinina An interesting fact is that one of the participants, Yuri Yudin, was forced to return home at the start of the ascent.
His leg hurt a lot, so he would simply not physically be able to overcome a long distance with his comrades. As it turns out later, this sudden illness will save his life.
Dyatlov group
So, the expedition set off on a journey in the amount of 9 people. With the onset of darkness, on one of the slopes, the Dyatlov group made a pass and set up tents. After that, the guys had dinner and went to bed.
It is worth noting here that according to the criminal case, the tent was set up correctly and with an acceptable degree of inclination. This suggests that no natural factors threatened the lives of the expedition members.
After studying the photographs subsequently discovered by the investigation team, it turned out that the tent was set up at approximately 6 pm.
The tent of the Dyatlov group, partially excavated from the snow And already at night something happened that led to the terrible death of the entire group, consisting of 9 people.
When it became clear that the expedition was gone, the search began.
mountain of the dead
In the third week of the search, pilot Gennady Patrushev noticed the Dyatlov Pass from the cockpit and dead tourists. An interesting fact is that, by some chance, the pilot met the guys from the Dyatlov group on the eve of their fatal ascent.
This acquaintance happened in one of the local hotels. Patrushev knew and understood perfectly well the dangers fraught with the famous "Mountain of the Dead". That is why he repeatedly dissuaded climbers from climbing it.
Igor Dyatlov's group on the eve of the tragedy He even tried to interest them in other peaks, doing everything possible so that they abandoned the planned trip. However, all the efforts of Gennady were in vain, since the goal of the tourists was the "Mountain of the Dead".
When the rescue team ended up at the pass where the tragedy occurred, a terrible picture opened up before them. Two people were lying near the entrance to the tent, and another was inside it.
The tent itself was cut from the inside. Apparently, the students, driven by some kind of fear, were forced to cut it with a knife, and then run away half-naked up the side of the mountain.
Mystery of the pass
Special attention deserves the study of footprints that the dead guys left on the pass. When studying them, it turned out that for some unknown reason, the members of the Dyatlov group ran around the pass in zigzags for some time, but then again gathered in one place.
One got the impression that some supernatural force did not allow them to scatter in different directions from the threatening danger.
Dyatlov Pass No foreign objects or alien traces were found on the pass. There were no signs or avalanches either.
Traces of the Dyatlov group are lost on the border with the forest.
Also, the investigation found that two students tried to make a fire near the pass. At the same time, for some reason, they were in the same underwear and, most likely, died from frostbite.
1.5 kilometers from the tent and 280 m down the slope, near a high cedar, the bodies of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were found Igor Dyatlov himself lay in visible proximity to them. According to experts, he probably tried to crawl to the tent, but he did not have enough strength.
But this is not all the mysteries of the tragedy at the Dyatlov Pass.
The death of the Dyatlov group
No injuries were found on the bodies of 6 students, but the situation was different with the other three participants. They died as a result of multiple wounds with numerous hemorrhages.
Their heads were pierced through, some of the ribs were broken, and one of the girls had her tongue brutally torn out. An interesting fact is that the investigation team did not find any hematomas or even abrasions on the bodies of the dead.
The results of the autopsy raised even more questions. Cracks were found on the skull of one of the tourists, but the skin remained intact and intact, which, in principle, cannot be the case with such injuries.
Mystic
Since the death of the Dyatlov tourist group caused a serious commotion in society, forensic prosecutors arrived at the site of the tragic pass. They managed to discover some more inexplicable phenomena.
They noticed burnt marks on the trunks of fir trees growing on the outskirts of the forest, but no sources of ignition were identified. The experts concluded that some kind of heat beam was probably directed at the trees, damaging the fir trees in such a mysterious way.
This conclusion was also made because the rest of the trees remained intact, and the snow at their base had not even melted.
As a result of a detailed analysis of all the events that occurred that night at the pass, the following picture emerged. After the tourists overcame about 500 m barefoot, they were overtaken and destroyed by some unknown force.
Radiation
During the investigation into the death of Dyatlov and his companions, the internal organs and belongings of the dead were examined for the presence of radioactive substances in them.
Here, too, an inexplicable mystery awaited the investigators. The fact is that experts found on the surface of the skin and directly on the things themselves radioactive substances, whose appearance was impossible to explain.
Indeed, in the territory Soviet Union no nuclear tests were conducted at that time.
UFO
There was even a version put forward that UFO was guilty of the death of the Dyatlov tourist group. Perhaps this assumption was due to the fact that during the search operation, the rescuers saw some fireballs flying over their heads. Nobody could explain this phenomenon.
Moreover, on the last day of March 1959, for 20 minutes, local residents observed a terrible picture in the sky. A huge fiery ring was moving along it, which then disappeared behind the slope of one of the mountains.
Witnesses also said that a star suddenly appeared from the center of the ring, which slowly moved down until it completely disappeared from sight.
This mysterious incident left the already frightened locals in disarray. People turned to the authorities to engage scientists to carefully study the mysterious phenomenon and explain its nature.
Who killed the Dyatlov group
For some time, the investigation team assumed that representatives of the local Mansi people, who had already committed crimes of a similar nature, were guilty of the murder of the skiers.
Many suspects were detained and questioned by police officers, but in the end, all of them had to be released due to lack of evidence.
The criminal case on the fact of the death of Dyatlov's tourists at the tragic pass was closed.
Photo of members of the tour group on the monument (the initials and surname of Zolotarev are embossed with errors) The official wording was quite abstract and vague. It stated that the students died due to "a natural force that the tourists could not overcome".
The true cause of the death of the tour group on the "Mountain of the Dead" was never established.
The Dyatlov group is a group of tourists who died for an unknown reason on the night of February 1-2, 1959. This event took place in the Northern Urals at the pass of the same name.
The group of travelers consisted of ten people: eight men and two girls. Most of them were students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. The leader of the group was a fifth-year student Igor Alekseevich Dyatlov.
sole survivor
One of the students (Yuri Efimovich Yudin) left the last campaign of the group due to illness, which subsequently saved his life. He participated in the official investigation, was the first to identify the bodies and belongings of classmates.
Officially, Yuri Efimovich did not provide any valuable information revealing the secret of the tragedy. He died on April 27, 2013 and, at his own request, was buried among his dead comrades. The burial place is located in Yekaterinburg at the Mikhailovsky cemetery.
About the campaign
Dyatlov Pass on the map (click to enlarge)
Officially, the fatal hike of the Dyatlov group was dedicated to the 21st Congress of the CPSU. The plan was to ski the most difficult route of 350 km, which was supposed to take about 22 days.
The campaign itself began on January 27, 1959. The last time they were seen alive was by classmate Yuri Yudin, who, due to problems with his leg, was forced to interrupt the trip on the morning of January 28.
The chronology of further events is based only on the diary entries found and photographs taken by the Dyatlovites themselves.
Group search and investigation
Slits on the tent
The investigation and the criminal case were closed on May 28, 1959 due to the lack of corpus delicti. The date of the tragedy was set on the night of February 1-2. The assumption was made on the basis of an examination of the last photograph, in which snow was excavated to set up a camp.
At night, for an unknown reason, tourists leave the tent by making a cut in it with a knife.
It was established that the Dyatlov group left the tent without hysteria and in an organized manner. However, at the same time, shoes remained in the tent, which they did not put on and went into severe frost (about -25 ° C) almost barefoot. From the tent for fifty meters (then the trace is lost) traces of eight people. The nature of the tracks made it possible to conclude that the group was walking at a normal pace.
abandoned tent
Further, finding themselves in conditions of poor visibility, the group split up. Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko managed to make a fire, but soon they fell asleep and froze. Dubinina, Kolevatov, Zolotarev and Thibaut-Brignoles were injured when falling from a slope, trying to survive, they cut off clothes from those who were frozen by the fire.
The least injured, including Igor Dyatlov, are trying to climb the slope to the tent for medicines and clothes. On the way, they lose the rest of their strength and freeze. At the same time, their comrades below are dying: some from injuries, some from hypothermia.
No oddities were described in the case documents. No other traces, besides the Dyatlovites themselves, were found. No signs of a struggle were found.
The official reason for the death of the Dyatlov group: elemental force, freezing.
Officially, the secrecy stamp was not imposed, but there is information according to which the first secretaries of the local regional committee of the CPSU gave a categorical instruction:
Classify absolutely everything, seal it up, hand it over to the special unit and forget about it. according to the investigator L. N. Ivanov
The documents on the Dyatlov Pass case were not destroyed, although the usual period of storage is 25 years, and they are still kept in the state archive of the Sverdlovsk region.
Alternative versions
Indigenous attack
The first version considered by the official investigation was an attack on the Dyatlov group by the indigenous inhabitants of the northern Urals - the Mansi. An assumption was made about the sacredness of Mount Kholatchakhl for the Mansi people. The ban on visiting the sacred mountain for foreigners could serve as a motive for killing tourists.
Subsequently, it turned out that the tent was cut from the inside, and not from the outside. And the sacred mountain of the Mansi is located elsewhere. An autopsy showed that all except Slobodin did not have any fatal injuries, for all the rest, freezing was established as the cause of death. All suspicions with Mansi were removed.
Interestingly, the Mansi themselves claimed to have observed some strange luminous balls right above the place where the Dyatlov group died. The indigenous people handed over the drawings to the investigation, which subsequently disappeared from the file and we were unable to find them.
Attack by prisoners or a search party(refuted by official investigation)
The investigation worked out the version, official requests were filed in the nearest prisons and correctional labor institutions. There were no shoots in the current period, and this is not surprising given the harsh climatic factors of the area.
Man-made tests(refuted by official investigation)
The next version of the investigation suggested a man-made accident or tests, casual victims which became the Dyatlov group. Not far from the place where the corpses were found, almost on the very border of the forest, burn marks were seen on some trees. However, it was not possible to establish their source and epicenter. The snow showed no signs of heat exposure, the trees, with the exception of the burnt parts, were not damaged.
The bodies and clothes of tourists were sent for a special examination to assess the level of background radiation. The expert's conclusion was that there was no or minimal radioactive contamination.
There is a separate version in which the Dyatlov group becomes victims or witnesses of some kind of government test. And then the military conducts an imitation of events known to us in order to hide true reason death of tourists. However, this version is more for an American film than for real life in the USSR. Then a similar problem would be solved by simply handing over to relatives of the personal belongings of the dead, flavored with official confirmation of some tragedy, like an avalanche.
This also includes versions about the impact of ultra or infrasound. Based on the official examination, there were no such impacts. On the other hand, this version fits well with the inadequate behavior of tourists, which could be caused by a weapon test, a rocket crash, and the deafening sound of a supersonic aircraft. Even if something like this actually happened, it is not possible to get to the bottom of the truth, since any evidence is refuted by the official investigation. Could it be otherwise?
Disaster
Having heard or noticed the avalanche coming down, the group decides to hastily leave the tent. Perhaps the snow covered the exit from the tent and the tourists had to make a cut in its wall. In the context of this version, the behavior of tourists looks strange: first they cut the tent, then they leave it without putting on their shoes (in a hurry), and then for some reason they walk at a normal pace. What prevented them from putting on their shoes if they were walking somewhere slowly?
The same questions arise when considering the version with the collapse of the tent under the pressure of the fallen snow. But this version has strengths: it was not possible to dig out the equipment, loose snow fell through, there was a severe frost and a dark night, which forced tourists to give up trying to dig out things and direct their efforts to finding shelter below.
The ball lightning version is supported by Mansi stories about the “fireballs” they saw and small burns on the bodies of some tourists. However, the burns are too small, and the behavior of tourists in this version does not fit into any reasonable framework.
Wild animal attack
The version of the attack of wild animals does not stand up to criticism, as the tourists moved away from the tent at a slow pace. Perhaps they did this on purpose so as not to irritate the beast, and then could not return to the tent because they fell down the slope, got injured and froze.
Poisoning or intoxication
It is unlikely that this version can be taken seriously. There were also adults among the tourists, and engineering students were not yard riffraff. It is insulting to think that, having gone on the most difficult trip, they were engaged in drinking cheap vodka or taking drugs there.
The strength of the version is that it explains the inadequacy of the actions of tourists. However, the secret of the Dyatlov Pass was not revealed, and the inadequacy of behavior was born only in the minds of the investigation, which closed the case without understanding the reasons for what happened. How the tourists actually behaved, and what was the reason for their behavior, remains a secret for us.
But the version of poisoning by some food product contaminated with pathogenic bacteria is quite real. But then it should be assumed that either the pathologists could not find traces of poisoning, or the investigation decided not to disclose information about it. Both, you see, are strange.
Argument
This version is also far from the truth. The latest photos testify to the warm relationship between the band members. All tourists left the tent at the same time. And the very idea of a serious quarrel in the conditions of such a campaign is absurd.
Other criminal versions
There is an assumption that the group was attacked as a result of a conflict with poachers or employees of IvdelLAG. Revenge is also supposed, as if a personal enemy of one of the participants in the campaign killed the entire group.
Such versions are supported by the strange behavior of tourists when they get out in the middle of the night through a cut in the tent and slowly walk away with bare feet. However, the official investigation says: there are no traces of outsiders, the tent is cut from the inside, and no violent injuries have been identified.
alien mind
This version explains the strange behavior of tourists, and confirms the Mansi stories about fireballs in the sky. However, the very nature of the injuries received by tourists allows us to consider this concept only in the vein of some kind of mocking bacchanalia arranged by aliens. There is no objective evidence for this version.
KGB special operation
A certain Alexei Rakitin suggested that some of the members of the Dyatlov group were recruited by the KGB agents. Their assignment was to meet with a group of foreign spies mimicking the same tourist group. The purpose of the meeting in this context is not important. The tourists posed as ardent opponents of the Soviet regime, but foreign spies uncovered their affiliation with state security structures.
To eliminate deceivers and witnesses, tourists were stripped under threat of reprisals and forced to leave so that they would die from hypothermia. When trying to resist foreign agents, the participants of the campaign were injured. The lack of eyes and tongue in Lyudmila Dubinina is explained by the torture that the saboteurs carried out in order to obtain information about the fled group members. Later, the saboteurs finished off the remaining tourists and covered their tracks.
Interestingly, on July 6, 1959, more than half of the deputy chairmen of the KGB were dismissed at once. Are the tragedy at the Dyatlov Pass and this event connected? The results of the official investigation completely contradict this version of events. The complexity of the operation is also striking, and many questions arise about its expediency.
Unfortunately, the secret of the Dyatlov Pass has not been revealed. We offer your attention documentary and the opinion of psychics about the tragedy.
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