The mystical secret of the terrible death of the members of the tourist group Igor Dyatlov is finally fully revealed.

Two experienced travelers published their version of what happened at the Dyatlov Pass on Youtube, the site reports. User Sergey Dolya interviewed expert Dmitry Kirillov, who has been to the site of the tragedy many times and on other extreme journeys. According to him, on the day the Dyatlov group spent the night on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl, a space rocket was launched from Baikonur. One of its steps with the remnants of the poisonous heptyl fuel fell onto the mountain. The gas went down because it is heavier than air. During the night, the group began to choke and ran out of the tent in a panic, cutting it open. Since it is easier to move down the slope, they ran to the river without hesitation. The descent was slippery, which caused the group members to constantly fall and get injured. Below, they were able to catch their breath and some of them, who still had strength, decided to return to the tent for things and died on the way. The rest just froze. Dmitry Kirillov believes that some soft tissues were not on the bodies of the dead, as they had lain in the river for a long time and were simply washed away with water.

The death of the Dyatlov tourist group has become one of the most famous mystical mysteries of the Soviet Union. According to the site, on January 23, 1959, nine people set out on a hike to climb the peaks of Otorten and Oika-Chakur in the Northern Urals. On the first of February, they made a camp for the night at the pass near Mount Holatchakhl (the border of the Komi Republic and the Sverdlovsk region). The further fate of tourists is shrouded in mystery. The rescue operation began on February 22 and lasted until May. Forensic experts eventually stated that six people froze to death, and three more died from injuries to internal organs that they could not get when falling from their height. Their tent was found cut open, and the bodies themselves were in different places at a great distance from each other in unnatural poses. One girl had no tongue, other bodies had no eyes. Almost all the dead were without jackets and shoes.

The strange circumstances of the death of the Dyatlov group turned the tragic incident into a mystical legend. There are dozens of different theories about what actually happened. Among them: the attack of local residents or criminals who escaped from prison, aliens or Bigfoot, the murder of a group by the authorities, the testing of secret weapons and the banal avalanche. Based on theories about the events at the Dyatlov Pass, they make games, write books and make films. The official investigation did not provide answers to all questions. Investigators decided that the version of the attack was no longer valid due to the lack of "external damage and signs of a struggle." The reason for the death of the Dyatlov tourist group in the results of the investigation indicated "a natural force that the tourists were unable to overcome."

: lomov_andrey wrote - It is also interesting to read about the Dyatlov Pass. The topic is dark and I even wondered if you could find something that was previously unknown, it’s reluctant to wait a month, so if you can ask me a question: The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass.

Having looked at how many of these versions, I decided so, let's collect here very briefly the maximum number of them. Where possible, references will lead to their more extended interpretation. And you are required in the comments (if you read this on infoglaz.rf) or by voting at the end of the post (if you read this on LiveJournal) to choose the most likely version in your opinion. In the meantime, I will briefly tell you what happened at the pass:

January 23, 1959 the group went on a ski trip in the north of the Sverdlovsk region. The group was headed by an experienced tourist Igor Dyatlov. The group went to the starting point of the route in full force, but Yuri Yudin was forced to return due to pain in his leg. On February 1, 1959, the group stopped for the night on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl (Kholat-Syakhl, translated from Mansi - "Mountain of the Dead") or peak "1079" (although on later maps its height is given as 1096.7 m.), not far from the nameless pass (later called the Dyatlov Pass).

On February 12, the 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. There is a lot of testimonies from participants in search operations and tourists from the UPI that, with Yu. Yudin gone off the route, the group postponed the deadline to February 15. The telegram was not sent either on the 12th or the 15th of February.

An advanced search party was sent to Ivdel on 20 February to organize searches from the air. Search and rescue operations began on February 22, sending several search teams, formed from students and employees of the UPI, who had tourist and mountaineering experience. The young Sverdlovsk journalist Yu.E. also participated in the search. Yarovoy, who later published a story about these events. On February 26, a search group led by B. Slobtsov found an empty tent with a wall cut from the inside, facing down the slope. Equipment was left in the tent, as well as shoes and outerwear of some tourists.

This was seen by the Dyatlovites' tent during investigative actions.

On February 27, the day after the discovery of the tent, all forces were drawn into the search area, and a search headquarters was formed. Evgeny Polikarpovich Maslennikov, master of sports of the USSR in tourism, was appointed the head of the search, and Colonel Georgy Semyonovich Ortyukov, teacher of the military department of the UPI, was appointed chief of staff. On the same day, one and a half kilometers from the tent and 280 m down the slope, next to the traces of a fire, the bodies of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were found. They were stripped down to their underwear. 300 meters from them, up the slope and in the direction of the tent, lay the body of Igor Dyatlov. 180 meters from him, up the slope, they found the corpse of Rustem Slobodin, and 150 meters from Slobodin, even higher, - Zina Kolmogorova. There were no signs of violence on the corpses, all people died from hypothermia. Slobodin had a traumatic brain injury, which could be accompanied by repeated loss of consciousness and contributed to freezing.

The search took place in several stages from February to May. On May 4, 75 meters from the fire, under a four-meter layer of snow, in the bed of a stream that had already begun to melt, the bodies of Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexander Zolotarev, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles and Alexander Kolevatov were found. Three had serious injuries: Dubinina and Zolotarev had rib fractures, Thibault-Brignolle had a severe head injury. Kolevatov did not have any serious injuries, except for damage to his head caused by an avalanche probe, with which they searched for bodies. Thus, the search work ended with the discovery of the bodies of all participants in the campaign.

It was found that the death of all members of the group occurred on the night of February 1-2. Despite the efforts of the search engines, a complete picture of the incident has not been established. It remains unclear what really happened to the group that night, why they left the tent, how they acted further, under what circumstances four tourists were injured and how it happened that no one survived.

official investigation

The official investigation was opened by the prosecutor of the Ivdelsky district Tempalov on the fact of the discovery of the found corpses on February 28, 1959, was conducted for two months, then it was extended for another month and was closed on May 28, 1959. , apparently, faced some dangerous circumstances in which no signs of a crime are seen, and could not successfully resist them, as a result of which she died. The investigation, first of all, studied the circumstances of the case regarding the possibility of other people being in the area of ​​the death of the group at the time of the events. Versions of a deliberate attack on the group were checked (by the Mansi, runaway prisoners or anyone else). The task of fully elucidating the circumstances of the death of the group, apparently, was not set at all, since from the point of view of the goals of the investigation (making a decision on the existence of a crime), this was not of decisive importance.

Based on the results of the investigation, organizational conclusions were made regarding a number of leaders of tourism in the UPI, since their actions were seen as insufficient attention to the organization and security of amateur (the term "sports" was not yet used at that time) tourism.

The full case file has never been published. To a limited extent, they were available to Anatoly Gushchin, a journalist from Regional Newspaper of Yekaterinburg, who quoted some of them in his documentary story The Price of State Secrets for 9 Lives. According to Gushchin, a young specialist Korotaev V. I. of the Ivdel prosecutor's office was appointed the first investigator. He began to develop a version of the murder of tourists and was removed from the case, as the management demanded that the event be presented as an accident. L.I. Ivanov, a forensic prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, was appointed investigator. The materials of the investigation by V.I. Korotaev are absent from the archival criminal case, which consists of one volume, an album and a package labeled “Top Secret”. According to Yu. E. Yudin, who was familiarized with the case, it contains technical correspondence from the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region and the prosecutor's office of the RSFSR, which got acquainted with the case in the manner of prosecutor's supervision.

According to some commentators, the investigation did not study the facts fully enough to unequivocally classify the incident as a crime or an accident. In particular, the belonging of some of the found items and the reasons for their appearance in the area of ​​​​the death of the group were not established (sheaths, soldier's windings and other items of unknown origin were found). Later it turned out that the ebonite sheath found near the cedar was suitable for the knife of A. Kolevatov (a number of sources mention the second sheath near the tent). It has not been determined with what tool the trunks of the flooring found near the stream were cut down or cut off; to apply these fractures and whether it was of artificial origin. The source of the radioactivity of some garments is vaguely identified. It remains unclear whether a biochemical examination of the blood and bioassays of the bodies of tourists was carried out, which (according to Gushchin) were selected and packed by Korotaev in Ivdel. There are no decisions in the case on recognizing the relatives of the dead tourists as victims, and therefore their legal representatives cannot exercise their rights to participate in a new investigation of the criminal case, if there are legal grounds for such.

In 1990, L.I. Ivanov, who was conducting the investigation, published an article “The Secret of Fireballs” in the newspaper “Kostanayskaya Pravda”, in which he stated that the case was closed at the request of the authorities, and the real cause of the death of the group was hidden: “... Everyone was told that the tourists were in an extreme situation and froze to death… …But that was not true. The true causes of death were hidden from the people, and only a few knew these reasons: the former first secretary of the regional committee A.P. Kirilenko, the second secretary of the regional committee A.F. Eshtokin, the prosecutor of the region N.I. Klimov and the author of these lines, who were investigating the case ... ". In the same article, L.I. Ivanov suggested that a UFO could be the cause of the death of tourists. Some researchers suggest that the mystical bias that prevailed in the press of the 90s, and references to such artifacts, indicate the impossibility of the investigation to clearly and in detail explain the causes of the tragedy due to the imperfection of knowledge, both on the part of the investigators and in the scientific community of that time.

There are more than twenty versions of why the Dyatlov group died, from everyday to fantastic

And now the versions:

1. Quarrel between tourists
This version was not taken as serious by any of the tourists who had experience close to the experience of the Dyatlov group, not to mention the greater one, which the vast majority of tourists have above the 1st category according to the modern classification. Due to the specifics of training in tourism as a sport, potential conflicts are eliminated already at the stage of preliminary training. The Dyatlov group was similar and well prepared by the standards of that time, so the conflict that led to the emergency development of events was excluded under any circumstances. It is possible to assume the development of events by analogy with what could happen in a group of young difficult-to-educate adolescents only from the position of an average person who has no idea about the traditions and specifics of sports tourism. Especially characteristic of the youth environment of the 1950s.

3. Avalanche.
The version suggests that an avalanche descended on the tent, the tent fell under a load of snow, the tourists cut the wall during the evacuation from it, after which it became impossible to stay in the tent until morning. Their further actions due to the onset of hypothermia were not quite adequate, which ultimately led to death. It was also suggested that the serious injuries received by some of the tourists were caused by the avalanche.

4. Influence of infrasound.
Infrasound can occur when an air object is flying low above the ground, as well as as a result of resonance in natural cavities or other natural objects under the action of wind, or when it flows around solid objects, due to the occurrence of aeroelastic oscillations. Under the influence of infrasound, tourists experienced an attack of uncontrollable fear, which explains the flight.
Some expeditions visiting the area have noted an unusual condition that may be due to the effects of infrasound. In the Mansi legends there are also references to oddities, which can also be interpreted in a similar way.

5. Ball lightning.
As a variant of a natural phenomenon that frightened tourists and thus initiated further events, ball lightning is no better or worse than any other assumption, but this version also suffers from a lack of direct evidence. As well as the absence of any statistics on the occurrence of BL in winter in the Northern latitudes.

6. Attack by escaped prisoners.
The investigation requested nearby ITUs and received an answer that no prisoners escaped during the period of interest. In winter, shoots in the Northern Urals are problematic due to the severity of natural conditions and the inability to move outside permanent roads. In addition, this version is opposed by the fact that all things, money, valuables, food and alcohol remained intact.

7. Death at the hands of Mansi

“Kholat-Syakhyl, a mountain (1079 m) on the watershed ridge between the upper reaches of the Lozva and its tributary, the Auspiya, 15 km southeast of Otorten. Mansi "Kholat" - "the dead", that is, Kholat-Syahyl - the mountain of the dead. There is a legend that nine Mansi once died on this peak. Sometimes it is added that this happened during the Flood. According to another version, during the flood, hot water flooded everything around, except for a place on the top of the mountain, sufficient for a person to lie down. But Mansi, who found refuge here, died. Hence the name of the mountain ... "
However, despite this, neither Mount Otorten nor Kholat-Syakhyl are sacred to the Mansi.

Or a conflict with hunters:

The first suspects were local Mansi hunters. According to investigators, they quarreled with the tourists and attacked them. Some were seriously injured, others managed to escape and then died from hypothermia. Several Mansi were arrested, but they categorically denied their guilt. It is not known how their fate would have developed (the law enforcement agencies of those years were perfect in the art of gaining recognition), but the examination established that the cuts on the tourists' tent were made not from the outside, but from the inside. It was not the attackers who "burst" into the tent, but the tourists themselves tried to get out of it. In addition, no extraneous traces were found around the tent, supplies remained intact (and they were of considerable value to the Mansi). Therefore, the hunters had to be released.

8. Tests of secret weapons - one of the most popular versions.
It has been suggested that the hikers were hit by some kind of weapon being tested, the impact of which provoked the flight, and possibly directly contributed to the deaths. As damaging factors, such as vapors of rocket fuel components, a sodium cloud from a specially equipped rocket, and a blast wave were named, the action of which explains injuries. As confirmation, the excessive radioactivity of the clothes of some tourists recorded by the investigation is given.

Or, for example, testing a nuclear weapon:

Having dealt with the enemy's intrigues, let's consider the version of a secret nuclear test in the area where the Dyatlov group is located (this is how they try to explain the traces of radiation on the clothes of the dead). Alas, from October 1958 to September 1961, the USSR did not carry out any nuclear explosions, observing the Soviet-American agreement on a moratorium on such tests. Both we and the Americans carefully monitored the observance of "nuclear silence". In addition, with an atomic explosion, traces of radiation would have been on all members of the group, but the examination recorded radioactivity only on the clothes of three tourists. Some “experts” explain the unnatural orange-red color of the skin and clothes of the deceased by the fall of the Soviet ballistic missile R-7 in the area of ​​​​the Dyatlov group’s parking lot: supposedly it scared the tourists, and fuel vapors, being on clothes and skin, caused such a strange reaction. But rocket fuel does not “color” a person, but instantly kills. Tourists would have died near their tent. In addition, as the investigation established, no rocket launches were carried out from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the period from January 25 to February 5, 1959.

9. UFO.
The version is purely speculative, it relies on observations made at other times of some luminous objects, but there is no evidence of a group meeting with such an object.

10. Bigfoot.
The version about the appearance of a “snowman” (relic hominoid) near the tent, at first glance, explains both the stampede of tourists and the nature of the injuries - according to Mikhail Trakhtengerts, a member of the board of the Russian association of cryptozoologists, “as if someone had already hugged them very tightly ". Traces, the edges of which by the time the search began would already be indistinct, could simply be mistaken for blowing or protruding stones sprinkled with snow. In addition, the search team was primarily looking for traces of people, and such atypical prints could simply be ignored.

11. Dwarfs from the mainland Arctida, Descendants of the ancient Aryans, and so on in the same vein.
The version is that the group stumbled upon some artifacts belonging to representatives of some legendary peoples, sects, carefully hiding from people, or met with them themselves and was destroyed to keep the secret. No unambiguously interpreted confirmation of this version (as well as evidence of the existence of these peoples or sects) is given.

12. Zolotarev's special service past (Yefim Saturday's version).

He was forced to move from place to place, hiding from those who had reason to take revenge on him (former colleagues or victims of SMERSH). Zolotarev could not turn to the authorities for help, because he had a "secret", which he did not want to share. This "secret" was the goal of Zolotarev's pursuers. Semyon moved farther and farther until he ended up in the Urals.

13. Version of Galka about the crash of a military transport aircraft
In a nutshell, the fuel carrier aircraft made an emergency release of cargo, presumably methanol (or itself collapsed in the air). The methanol caused sliding, unusually moving landslides, then possibly an avalanche.

14. This is the work of the KGB.

Many facts of hiding, evidence, correcting information and ignoring certain facts.

15. Military poachers

It is our military who have long been the most unpunished of all possible poachers. Try to catch up with a combat helicopter on a motorcycle or an ordinary motor boat. At the same time, often, shooting is carried out at everything “that moves”, and military personnel sometimes do not think about the problem of collecting their hunting trophies at all.

16. Crime, gold.

In the village of 2nd Severny (the last settlement), still with Yudin, who left the group, they visited a warehouse of geological samples. We took some stones with us. Yudin took some (or all?) of it with him in his backpack. From Kolmogorova's diary: “I took several samples. I saw this breed for the first time after drilling. There is a lot of chalcopyrite and pyrite here.” Several sources note that among the “locals” during the search and investigation there were rumors: “The guys’ backpacks were stuffed with gold.” In principle, some samples outwardly could resemble gold. And they could be radioactive to one degree or another. Maybe they were looking for these stones (even if they were taken by tourists by mistake?)

17. Political, anti-party and anti-Soviet overtones

ill-fated "magic power of a piece of paper", which gave official status to the Dyatlov group of tourists, with all the ensuing consequences, can be compared with a plane ticket doomed to inevitable death with all its passengers.
If the Dyatlovites had set off as ordinary wild tourists along with the Blinovites, then both episodes involving the police could seriously affect the behavior of Yura Krivonischenko, and in the village. Vizhay there would be no special need to stop, and if you had to spend the night there, then you would spend the night “in the same club where we were 2 years ago”. They would not have had to communicate with the leadership of the colony, thereby worsening their living conditions in the village. Vizhay. The Dyatlovites would not have had to advertise in the village of Vizhay the purpose of their campaign, timed to coincide with the beginning of the XXI Congress of the CPSU ...

18. The mysterious death of the members of the Dyatlov group was associated with airborne electric discharge explosions of fragments of a small comet.

Quite quickly identified about a dozen witnesses who said that on the day of the murder of students, a balloon flew by. Witnesses: Mansi Anyamov, Sanbindalov, Kurikov - not only described him, but also drew him (these drawings were later removed from the file). All these materials were soon demanded by Moscow...

19. A slightly modified version of a thunderstorm, based on the fact that it is lightning discharges that are a direct consequence of the death of the group, and not temperature or a snowstorm.

20 Zeki fled, and they had to be either caught or destroyed.

Catch in the winter in forest thickets? It makes no sense. Destroy - than.
No, not cruise missiles, of course, and not vacuum bombs. Used gases. Most likely a nerve agent.

Or like this:

One of the versions of conspiracy theorists: the Dyatlov group was liquidated by the special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which pursued the escaped prisoners (I must say, there really were a lot of “zones” in the northern Urals). At night, the special forces collided with tourists in the forest, mistook them for "convicts" and killed them. At the same time, for some reason, the mysterious special forces did not use either cold or firearms: there were no stab or bullet wounds on the body of the dead. In addition, it is known that in the 50s. escaped prisoners at night in the wilderness of the forest were usually not pursued - too much risk. They passed orientations to the authorities in the nearest settlements and waited: you won’t last long in the forest without supplies, willy-nilly, the fugitives had to go to “civilization”. And most importantly! Investigators asked for information about the escapes of "convicts" from the surrounding "zones". It turned out that in late January - early February there were no shoots. Therefore, there was no one to catch the special forces on Kholat-Syahyl.

21. "Controlled delivery"

And here is the most “exotic” version: it turns out that the Dyatlov group was liquidated by ... foreign agents! Why? To disrupt the KGB operation: after all, the student hike was just a cover for the “controlled delivery” of radioactive clothing to enemy agents. The explanations for this amazing theory are not without wit. It is known that investigators found traces of a radioactive substance on the clothes of three dead tourists. Conspiracy theorists linked this fact with the biography of one of the dead - Georgy Krivonischenko. He worked in the closed city of atomic scientists Ozersk (Chelyabinsk-40), where plutonium was produced for atomic bombs. Samples of radioactive clothing provided invaluable information for foreign intelligence. Krivonischenko, who worked for the KGB, was supposed to meet with enemy agents at the Kholat-Syakhyl mountain and hand over radioactive “material” to them. But Krivonischenko "pierced" on something, and then the enemy agents, covering their tracks, destroyed the entire Dyatlov group. The killers acted subtly: threatening with weapons, but not using it (they didn’t want to leave traces), they drove the young people out of the tent into the cold without shoes, to certain death. For a while, the saboteurs waited, then followed in the footsteps of the group and brutally finished off those who did not freeze. Thriller, and more! And now - let's think. How could the KGB officers plan a "controlled delivery" in a remote area that they did not control? Where could they neither observe the operation nor secure their agent? Absurd. And where did the spies come from among the Ural forests, where was their base? Only the invisible man will not "light up" in small surrounding villages: their inhabitants know each other by sight and immediately pay attention to strangers. And why did the adversaries, who conceived a cunning staging of the death of tourists from hypothermia, suddenly seem to be distraught and began torturing their victims - breaking ribs, tearing out their tongues, eyes? And how did these invisible maniacs manage to get away from the persecution of the ubiquitous KGB? The conspiracy theorists do not have answers to all these questions.

Rakitin's version

22. Meteorite

The forensic medical examination, examining the nature of the injuries inflicted on the members of the group, came to the conclusion that they "very similar to the injury that occurred during an air blast wave." Examining the area, the investigators found traces of fire on some trees. It seemed as if some unknown force selectively affected both the dead people and the trees. In the late 1920s scientists were able to assess the consequences of the impact of such a natural phenomenon. It was in the area where the Tunguska meteorite fell. According to the memoirs of the participants of that expedition, badly burned trees in the epicenter of the explosion could be next to the survivors. Scientists could not logically explain such a strange "selectivity" of the flame. The investigators in the case of the "Dyatlovites" could not find out all the details either: on May 28, 1959, a command came from "above" - ​​to close the case, classify all materials and hand them over to the special archive. The final conclusion of the investigation turned out to be very vague: "It should be considered that the cause of the death of tourists was an elemental force, which people were not able to overcome."

23. Methyl alcohol poisoning.
There were 2 flasks of ethyl alcohol in the group, which were found unopened. No other alcohol-containing objects or traces of them were found.

24. Meeting with a bear.
According to the recollections of people who knew Dyatlov, he had experience of meeting wild animals on a campaign and knew how to act in such situations, so it is unlikely that such an attack would lead to the flight of the group. In addition, there were no traces of a large predator in the area, no traces of its attack on the bodies of already frozen tourists. This version is also contradicted by the fact that several members of the group, judging by the position of the bodies, tried to return to the abandoned tent - no one would do this in the dark, when it is impossible to make sure that the beast had already left.

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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 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.

- Fine. 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.

Many researchers patiently waited for the statute of limitations to expire and the case of the death of students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute to be declassified. Here is what Gennady Kizilov writes (Death of Tourists - 1959, http://zhurnal.lib.ru): "The case was declassified in 1989, but, according to the journalists who leafed through it (these include Stanislav Bogomolov, Anatoly Gushchin and Anna Matveev), a lot of important documents were seized from it. Probably, these documents migrated from a secret volume to a "top secret" one, which is unlikely to be shown to citizens or selected journalists over the next decades.
Amateur and professional investigations continued. In 2005, I participated in a discussion of the death of the Dyatlov group on the forum of the Ural Television Agency website - http://www.tau.ur.ru. This topic still exists and has taken almost 2000 pages in six incomplete years - http://www.tau.ur.ru/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1111&PN=1 .
I wrote under the name Sameh and the host was Loreline. Despite the fact that there were very naive and illiterate opinions *, in general, the forum clarified many incomprehensible details. Then we tried to find patterns that could become a clue. One of the main non-anomalous versions was an attack by a group of unknown people:

1. Runaway convicts;
2. Military;
3. Special Forces;
4. Local residents (Mansi).

Patterns could suggest how the group of tourists was divided in the attack. Despite the possible numerical superiority of the attackers, a group of nine tourists could be divided into parts. So during the wars, captured officers were separated from the rank and file, and the commander was separated from his unit. If young and athletic students were able to escape from the encircled camp, their own division into groups could occur - according to the situation**, kinship, friendly and authoritative relations.

And after studying the available materials on the case in the press and the Internet, I decided to mention all the matches found, even if they sound anecdotal:

1. Dyatlov and Kolmogorova knew each other well from past campaigns - they crawled together to the tent.
2. Below, by the cedar and by the stream, there were three injured and three healthy ***.
3. Both dead near the cedar had Ukrainian surnames.
4. Both dead at the cedar were no longer students, but engineers.
5. From the case file: “In the winter of 1958, many of the guys (Kolevatov, Dubinina, Doroshenko) were on campaigns in the Sayans” - it was this trio that was found below at the foot of the mountain.
6. Worst of all were dressed those who remained by the fire. The best dressed (except shoes) were the returning
into the tent.
7. Kolevatov is the only one of the “four by the stream” who did not have serious injuries. According to
many researchers - was the last to die. It is his diary that is missing from the file.
8. Dubinina is the only woman from the “four by the stream”. Found head down against
currents. While the other three men lay with their heads downstream.
9. Three with the most severe injuries (and Kolevatov) were found under the deepest layer of snow.
10. All three returning to the tent were without shoes - Kolmogorova and Dyatlov, Slobodin was in one felt boot.
11. Studying the autopsy, here's what I noticed: Three were injured in the right side of the body: Kolevatov - two wounds: the right cheek and behind the right ear. Zolotarev - a fracture of the ribs on the right along the parathoracic and midclavicular lines. Thibaut - an extensive hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle, respectively - a depressed fracture of the skull bones. It is unlikely that all these injuries were caused by one left-hander, while facing the victims. Injuries were inflicted by right-handers, behind and on the right side. This happens when they caught up and caught up with the victim.
12. From the case file: "The fire was the strongest guys - Krivonischenko and Doroshenko."(A. Matveeva. Dyatlov Pass). The corpses of the strongest guys were stripped.
13. From the case file: “The strongest and most experienced Dyatlov and Zolotarev lie down, as always, from the edges, in the coldest and most uncomfortable places. Dyatlov at the far end of the four-meter tent, Zolotarev at the entrance. I think that Lyuda Dubinina lay next to Zolotarev, then Kolya Thibault-Brignolles, Rustic Slobodin. Who was in the center and beyond, I don’t know, but the four guys at the entrance, in my opinion, lay exactly like that. Everyone fell asleep"(Axelrod). All three lying at the entrance to the tent (Zolotarev, Dubinina and Thibault) were found together by the stream.
14. Zolotarev, Dubinina, Thibault and Slobodin - all those who were lying at the entrance to the tent - were severely injured.
Doubtful matches:
The three crawling back to the tent are all students.
Four at the stream - two students and two non-students.

There are two most mysterious circumstances of the tragedy:
1. If three people (Dubinina, Zolotarev and Thibaut-Brignolles) were seriously injured on a slope in a tent, how were they brought down? Without a stretcher and at dusk, on a snowy and rocky slope?
2. Why did two of the cedars (Doroshenko and Krivonischenko) climb a tall tree with all their strength, tearing off their skin and tearing their muscles?

The answers to these questions are quite simple. If we assume that the tourists were attacked by an unknown group of people, then a fight ensued at the entrance to the tent. The Dyatlov group was simply not allowed to leave it. Then those who were captured inside cut the tent open with knives**** and ran down the slope.
It is known that being below the guys tried to keep warm and lit a fire. The attackers found them by the firelight and attacked a second time. Then serious injuries were inflicted - the wounded at the entrance to the tent were simply finished off already at the mountainside.
It was assumed that Doroshenko and Krivonischenko began to freeze. Therefore, they climbed the cedar for its lower dry branches. But many small trees and bushes grew nearby - there was plenty of fuel for the fire. Then they put forward an insane hypothesis that the engineers were blinded by UFOs or rocket fuel. But everything is again simpler - tourists were in mortal danger. Unknown people attacked Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, and they, crippling their hands, tried to escape on a tree.
Prosecutor Ivanov wrote: "When we looked around the scene of the incident, we found that some young fir trees on the border of the forest were, as it were, burnt."
I have often observed the drying of the tips of the branches near the fir trees and pines. They were brown and looked like burns. So dry branches could be found. Why, then, was it necessary to cripple your limbs and climb the high trunk of a cedar?
Here is an excerpt from the site "Mysterious crimes of the past" - http://murders.ru. Its authors are distinguished by a very serious approach to the analysis of crimes: " The bodies of the dead tourists lay in such a way that the fire was between them and the cedar. It seemed that the fire had gone out not because the firewood had run out, but because they had stopped adding it. There are memories according to which the body of Georgy Krivonischenko lay on dry branches, crushing them with his mass, as if the deceased had fallen on the prepared brushwood from a certain height and did not rise again. But the official protocol of the crime scene inspection does not say anything about this; there are no photographs that can shed light on this very important nuance. Again, from the memoirs of the participants in the search operation, it is known that there was a lot of dead wood around the fire, which it was logical to use to build and maintain fire. However, for some reason, the dead climbed the cedar, breaking its branches, peeling off the skin from their hands and leaving traces of blood on the bark of the tree. http://murders.ru/Dy...ff_group_3.html
On the forum http://aenforum.org I had a controversy with the famous ufologist and writer Mikhail Gershtein. I leaned towards the version of an attack by an unknown group of people, focusing on the case near the cedar. Mikhail Borisovich replied that "during cold accidents, there is a period of clouding of consciousness, when a person is deprived of the ability to soberly evaluate his actions."
Then I had a conversation with a specialist in psychiatry of our research institute. He said that it was unlikely that two people with a clouded mind would commit one action at a time*****. In this case, they violently climbed the cedar.
M. Gerstein replied that "both dead by the fire could not perform one action at the same time in a clouded state of consciousness - this is not true, they helped each other as best they could, and not just sat and froze. In addition, cloudiness does not occur immediately, as from a blow to the head, they started more or less common sense and only then, losing strength due to bad weather and cold, gradually "failed".
But there is a contradiction in this statement. If engineers have not completely lost their critical analysis and thinking - even helped each other... then why did they climb a tree together at all? Why make such an effort, tearing the skin and muscles, if you can move a little away from the cedar and cut the branches of young trees? In other words, their consciousness became dim so much that, crippling their hands, they climbed onto the cedar for branches, not paying attention to the nearby dead wood ... And at the same time, their consciousness did not become dim much - Doroshenko and Krivonischenko began to help each other in an insane desire get to the cedar branches. Too complicated and contradictory. The version with the attack, when the victims fled from fear on a tree, is more plausible. This scenario is well known in forensic science.

Apparently, on the forum http://www.tau.ur.ru we have come close to unraveling the long-standing tragedy near the mountain of the Dead. After some time, the most active participants in the forum began to insult. Email threats poured in. Someone left the forum, someone returned... But riddles and questions still remain.

*For example, one of the forum participants claimed that in 1959 helicopters did not yet exist in the Soviet Union. But upon careful examination of the circumstances of the case, one can find evidence from rescuers that the helicopter pilot refused to transport the bodies of the dead tourists. Without the use of special hermetic bags, contamination of the helicopter compartment with decomposition products could occur.
**During the panic and in conditions of poor visibility (twilight), everyone could not run in one direction.
*** It is possible that each of the healthy ones helped to move one wounded man.
****The fact that the tent was cut from the inside is considered absolutely proven.
***** In the case of temporary insanity, each person's behavior becomes purely individual. In other words, everyone has "his own Hell" in his head.

P.S. I received a letter (05.05.2010) from the authors of the site http://murders.ru/Dyatloff_group_1.html
I presented the information received on the forum http://aenforum.org:

"How to explain the fact that Krivonischenko's underpants burned down on his shin (the length of the burn was 31 cm), but at the same time the SOCK DIDN'T BURNED a little lower? In what position do you need to sit by the fire in order to burn the leg like this? was dressed later... even postmorally?
How to explain the origin of the gray foam at the nose and mouth of Doroshenko? It's very s serious clinical sign , indicating that the pressure in the lungs exceeds atmospheric pressure. Similar rapid development of pulmonary edemaonly occurs in a few cases:
- drowning;
- epileptic seizure;
- gradual compression of the chest.
It is completely frivolous to think that Doroshenko was an epileptic, this assumption can be refuted by a number of indirect considerations (at least by the fact that he did not have a white ticket and studied at the military department, well, and from five others).
Foam may also appear during agony. But only for divers and climbers,because at normal atmospheric pressure of the external environment, this is excluded.
In reality, only the case of chest compression during intensive interrogation is suitable for Doroshenko's case. This is carried out in the field in the position of the interrogated "on the back", and the interrogator sits on his chest. For pulmonary edema and the appearance of foam in such a frost, it is enough for a person weighing 90-100 kg to sit on his chest for a short time. And this is the normal weight of a healthy man IN WINTER ROUTINES.
Message from the Yellow Wolf from the "Forum on the study of the death of the tourist group I. Dyatlov", http://pereval1959.forum24.ru/:
The SME (forensic medical examination) of Slobodin is of interest. He (the only one) has truly knocked down knuckles (metacarpal joints) and phalanges of the fingers. He is the only one who tried to fight hand to hand. The dryness of these wounds should not be embarrassing - in the cold, skin deposits will be covered with a crust and at the corpse. No falls into a snowdrift and blows on the ground cannot explain such wounds. Try it for yourself and you will immediately see the difference! On his head he has hemorrhages in both temporal muscles - both right and left. But at the same time, the skin was not knocked down, not cut, which means that the injury was blunt, from a fist. Two injuries on the left shin in the lower third - they knocked out the leg with kicks of the leg, shod in a boot, so they brought the skin. Slobodin tried (the only one) to provide physical resistance - he was beaten, knocked down and survived a knockout.

The fight apparently took place near the tent. Of all the dead men, the corpse of Rustem Slobodin was closest to the tent. And the injuries, as a result of a fierce fight, he had one of the most severe (a crack in the calvaria).
If there are doubters that nine innocent people could hardly have been killed, then I will give a real case:
“But the most terrible crime of 1989 can be considered what happened on the night of August 13-14 at the Kyzylet station of the Krasnoyarsk railway. There, having missed the last train, seven vocational school students decided to stop the freight train and with the help of a wire closed the rails in front of the traffic light, and as a result of this, a red light was lit. To troubleshoot the scene, a team of track workers and a policeman went to the scene, who met the teenagers who were waiting for the train. Upon learning what, in fact, the matter was, the policeman became furious and decided to punish the "criminals". pistol, he inflicted several blows on the head to one teenager, which turned out to be fatal for the boy. Seeing this, the policeman decided not to leave witnesses and, having called for the help of four track workers, killed the rest of the teenagers. Then, having loaded the bodies of the dead on a cart, the killers took them to railroad tracks, where they were left to lie in the middle of the rails, in the expectation that the train leaving the bend would not have time to slow down and mutilate the corpses beyond recognition. That's how it all happened. The investigative team that investigated this case wrote it off as an accident. For three years this was the case. But in the fall of 1992, one of the track workers who took part in the murder, while drunk, blabbed to the residents of his village about this crime. In retaliation for this, another participant in the murder, the brother of the one who blabbed, took and killed his relative. So the crime committed three years ago was solved "(F. Razzakov. "Bandits of the times of socialism". Chronicle of Russian crime 1917-1991. - M., 1996)
Most likely, no one was going to kill a group of tourists at first. But apparently, that's the way it was.

Brief scenario of what happened, with possible adjustments in the future:

(There may be minor errors in the description of the scenario that do not affect the overall picture of what happened)

1. The Dyatlov group set up camp on the slope of the Dead Mountain.
2. Judging by the products found in the tent, the tourists were going to have dinner.
3. Judging by the footprints found at the tent, one of the men went out for a small need.
4. It is possible that it was Slobodin, who entered into hand-to-hand combat with the attackers, and thus covered the retreat of his group.
5. The entrance and exit to the tent was blocked by the attackers, then the Dyatlovites cut the tent from the inside and rushed down the slope at dusk.
6. Many were poorly dressed and were forced to kindle a fire downstairs in order not to freeze ... with a faint hope that they would not be attacked again.
7. An unknown paramilitary group of attackers finds the Dyatlovites by the light of a fire and attacks a second time (This explains the ambiguity of how the Dyatlovites were able to transport the seriously wounded down the slope. Severe injuries were already received below, during the second attack).
8. Tourists are divided into groups by the attackers. The interrogation at the fire of two engineers with Ukrainian surnames begins.
9. Doroshenko and Krivonischenko try to escape on a high cedar. But to no avail.
10. The officer/s proceed to interrogation. Krivonischenko's leg is burned in a fire, an interrogator sits on Doroshenko's chest. The main questions are: the composition of the group, is there another group following them (The goal of the leader of the paramilitary group is to identify all possible witnesses to the crime and destroy them).
11. Having ascertained the death of all the tourists, the paramilitary group performs some manipulations with the corpses. In particular, they put a whole sock on Krivonischenko's burned shin. The goal is to stage an accident (Some rescuers who visited the site of the death of the Dyatlovites noted that they had a feeling of inept staging ... As if the criminals were in a hurry or did everything in almost complete darkness).

As before, the question of the reason for the attack on peaceful tourists remains open. My personal guess is that there is a secret underground facility in the Mountain of the Dead. Here are the arguments:
A. There is a case when two geologists spent the night on a hill, deep in the Taiga. In the middle of the night they heard a train going underground. The most important strategic objects are located deep underground. If this is a plant, then a multi-kilometer underground "metro" is brought to it. But even without underground railway lines, there were enough secret underground facilities on the territory of the USSR.
B. The Mansi Mountain of the Dead is an obvious taboo, a forbidden and dangerous zone.
Q. Compasses in the Dead Mountain area often deviate. Perhaps due to the fact that a massive structure made of iron and concrete is located underground.
G. The reason why the tourists were attacked is clear - they went into the restricted area. For some reason, the security of the facility attacked the Dyatlovites. It is possible that even earlier, the guards somehow discovered themselves. I had to "clean up" the place in order to keep the secret of the location of an important object.
D. Previously, the question arose, how did the attackers find a group of tourists? They did not look for her - the Dyatlovites themselves came.
E. Now the reason for such secrecy around the death of the Dyatlov group is clear - an important strategic object is involved here.

But I repeat - secret underground facility is just my guess. This version does not explain why the staging was not then brought to perfection ... or why the corpses and ammunition were not hidden and taken away at all. After all, there was enough time ... And the dead and their camp were under the very nose - at the top of the object.
It is possible that the Dyatlovites stumbled upon something secret even earlier, before approaching the Mountain of the Dead. Most likely there are no artificial objects inside the hill itself.
To cut the tent from the inside and run down into the chilling twilight half-dressed - could only be forced by a serious (mortal) danger. My opinion - a group of people armed with firearms, against which hand-to-hand combat did not make sense. Slobodin fought out of desperation, subconsciously covering the retreat of the group.

P.S. http://murders.ru/Dyatloff_group_1.html contains the most complete analytical analysis of the tragedy. Previously unpublished photographs from the case are presented.
But the political accents have been changed ... Western intelligence agents-saboteurs are called murderers))).

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 hike

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, the accidental victims of which were 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 the true cause of the 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 you a documentary film and the opinion of psychics about the tragedy that happened.

The latest documentary "Dyatlov Pass: The Secret Revealed" (2015)