The death of the Dyatlov expedition 1959. A military doctor told his version of the death of the Dyatlov group

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How tired of these conspiracy theories about the death of the Dyatlov group are. And every time a new version is presented under the loud headline “The mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group has been revealed!” and what follows is absolute heresy. If not a mystical version, then certainly a conspiracy theory. But mystery only interferes with “revealing the secret.” There is no mystery to this incident. The simplest explanation will be closest to the truth. For example, the version with wild animals is completely undeservedly rejected. Although everything points exactly to her. Here are some facts:

1. Some signs indicate that one person came out of the tent with a flashlight and an ice ax.

2. The group left the tent not through the entrance, but by cutting the tent on the other side.

3. The tourists left in an organized manner, but there was no time to get ready.

4. Three died from injuries (but there were no external injuries), six froze.

5. Part of the group froze near the extinguished fire. Despite the fact that there was enough fuel around.

What is the simplest version that emerges? The group is in a tent. They hear noise outside. One goes out to look, taking a flashlight and an ice ax just in case. He sees a wild animal (for example, a bear) approaching the tent. Warns others of danger. The group cuts through the tent from the inside and exits on the other side. The bear is showing aggression. Someone falls, but his comrades cannot help him. What can make an experienced tourist, who understands the danger of hypothermia, lie naked and motionless in the cold in the snow? There is a real danger to life growling nearby, from which there is only one salvation - to pretend to be dead.

Three of the group have seemingly strange injuries - rib fractures, a crack in the skull, internal hemorrhages. In this case, the soft tissues are not damaged. The explanation is simple. An adult bear can weigh up to a ton. Even half this weight is enough to break ribs and cause internal hemorrhages. Therefore, soft tissues are not damaged. Nobody beat the tourists - they were stepped on. The survivors acted wisely - they lit a fire to scare away the bear with fire. But they could not deliver fuel to the fire, because an aggressive animal was wandering in the dark. They found themselves under siege and when the fire went out, the tourists froze and they no longer had the strength to fight for life, even if the bear left the area.

Only one circumstance seems strange - the bear did not eat the tourists. This seems unusual, given that it was an ordinary connecting rod bear. But it could also be a female bear with a nursing cub, who for some reason was forced to interrupt hibernation and save the cub, which was still actually nursing (bears usually give birth in mid-January, the incident with the Dyatlov group occurred in mid-February). In this case, maternal instinct and the need to protect the cub would not allow her to unleash her rage.

The version with a wild animal, as I understand it, was never seriously considered. Perhaps because no traces of a wild animal were found. But it is precisely the traces in the investigative process that are the most vulnerable place. They were not studied, but from the very beginning they were interested only in the sense of searching for bodies. By the way, tourists with injuries could not make this journey from the tent themselves. But the bodies could well have been dragged by the bear, grabbing the clothes with her teeth. I am not an investigator and I “did not reveal the secret of the death of the Dyatlov group.” I am only presenting a version, but it is the simplest and most plausible, based on the available facts.

This tragedy is a very clear example of how people, literally fascinated by the mystery of the incident, do not even try to consider plausible versions, preferring mysticism, conspiracy theories and exaggerated sensations. Okama's Razor: "The simplest explanation is the truest."

Description of the tragedy of Dyatlov’s tourist group...

The terrible mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group

The tragic story of a tourist group of students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute in February 1959 in the Northern Urals, called the Dyatlov group, is one of the most mysterious tragedies in history. The case was partially declassified only in 1989. According to researchers, some of the materials from the case were seized and are still classified. Due to a huge number of strange and inexplicable circumstances back in 1959, investigators were unable to solve this mystery. Until now, for many years, proactive volunteers have been trying to investigate and somehow explain the incredibly strange and terrible history of the group. However, there is still no completely harmonious version that would explain all the mysteries of this case.

1. Dyatlov group.

On January 23, 1959, a group of 9 skiers from the tourist club went on a ski trip in the north of the Sverdlovsk region.

The group was led by experienced tourist Igor Dyatlov.

The goal of the hike is to go through the forests and mountains of the Northern Urals on a ski trip of the 3rd (highest) category of difficulty.

On February 1, 1959, the group stopped for the night on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl (translated from Mansi - Mountain of the Dead), not far from an unnamed pass (later called the Dyatlov Pass).

There were no signs of trouble.

These photographs of the group were later found in the cameras of the participants in the hike and developed by the investigation.

The group sets up a tent on the mountainside, time is about 17:00.

These are the most recent photographs that have been discovered.

On February 12, the group was supposed to reach the final point of the route - the village of Vizhay, send a telegram to the institute sports club, and return to Sverdlovsk on February 15. But neither on the appointed days nor later did the group appear at the final point of the route. It was decided to start searching.

2. Beginning of search and rescue operations.

Search and rescue operations began on February 22, and a detachment was sent along the route. There is not a single populated area for hundreds of kilometers around, completely deserted places.

On February 26, a tent covered with snow was discovered on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl. The wall of the tent facing down the slope was cut.

The tent was later excavated and examined. The entrance to the tent was open, but the slope of the tent facing the slope was torn in several places. A fur jacket was sticking out of one of the holes.

Moreover, as the examination showed, the tent was cut from the inside. Here is a diagram of the cuts

At the entrance inside the tent there was a stove, buckets, and a little further on there were cameras. In the far corner of the tent there is a bag with maps and documents, Dyatlov’s camera, Kolmogorova’s diary, a jar of money. To the right of the entrance were food items. To the right, next to the entrance, lay two pairs of boots. The remaining six pairs of shoes lay against the wall opposite. The backpacks are laid out at the bottom, with quilted jackets and blankets on them. Some of the blankets were not laid out; there were warm clothes on top of the blankets. An ice ax was found near the entrance, and a flashlight was thrown on the slope of the tent. The tent turned out to be completely empty; there were no people in it.

Traces around the tent indicated that the entire Dyatlov group suddenly, for some unknown reason, left the tent, presumably not through the exit, but through the cuts. Moreover, people ran out of the tent into 30-degree frost, even without shoes and partially dressed. The group ran about 20 meters in the direction opposite to the entrance to the tent. Then the Dyatlovites, in a dense group, almost in a line, walked down the slope in their socks in the snow and frost. The tracks indicate that they walked side by side without losing sight of each other. Moreover, they did not run away, but walked away down the slope at the usual pace.

These protruding mounds of snow are their traces; this happens when a strong snowstorm passes through the area.

After about 500 meters along the slope, the tracks were lost under the thickness of the snow.

The next day, February 27, one and a half kilometers from the tent and 280 m down the slope, near a cedar tree, the bodies of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were discovered. At the same time, it was recorded: Doroshenko’s foot and hair on his right temple were burned, Krivonischenko had a burn on his left shin and a burn on his left foot. A fire was discovered next to the corpses, which had sunk into the snow.

The rescuers were struck by the fact that both bodies were stripped down to their underwear. Doroshenko was lying on his stomach. Below him is a tree branch broken into pieces, on which he apparently fell. Krivonischenko was lying on his back. All sorts of small things were scattered around the bodies. There were numerous injuries on his hands (bruises and abrasions), his internal organs were filled with blood, and Krivonischenko had the tip of his nose missing.

On the cedar itself, at a height of up to 5 meters, branches were broken off (some of them lay around the bodies). Moreover, branches up to 5 cm thick, at a height, were first sawn with a knife, and then broken off with force, as if they were hanging on them with their whole body. There were traces of blood on the bark.

Nearby they found knife cuts with broken young fir trees and cuts on birch trees. The cut tops of the fir trees and the knife were not found. However, there was no suggestion that they were used for heating. Firstly, they do not burn well, and secondly, there was a relatively large amount of dry material around.

Almost simultaneously with them, 300 meters from the cedar tree up the slope in the direction of the tent, the body of Igor Dyatlov was found.

He was slightly covered with snow, reclining on his back, with his head towards the tent, his hand wrapped around the trunk of a birch tree. Dyatlov was wearing ski trousers, long johns, a sweater, a cowboy jacket, and a fur vest. On the right foot there is a woolen sock, on the left - a cotton sock. The watch on my wrist showed 5 hours 31 minutes. There was an icy growth on his face, which meant that before his death he had breathed into the snow.

Numerous abrasions, scratches, and bruises were revealed on the body; a superficial wound from the second to fifth fingers was recorded on the palm of the left hand; internal organs are filled with blood.

About 330 meters from Dyatlov, higher up the slope, under a 10 cm layer of dense snow, the body of Zina Kolmogorova was discovered.

She was dressed warmly, but without shoes. There were signs of nosebleeds on the face. There are numerous abrasions on the hands and palms; a wound with a scalped flap of skin on the right hand; skin encircling the right side, extending to the back; swelling of the meninges.

A few days later, on March 5, 180 meters from the place where Dyatlov’s body was found and 150 meters from the location of Kolmogorova’s body, the corpse of Rustem Slobodin was found under a layer of snow of 15-20 cm. He was also dressed quite warmly, with a felt boot on his right foot, worn over 4 pairs of socks (the second felt boot was found in the tent). A watch was found on Slobodin’s left hand that showed 8 hours 45 minutes. There was an icy build-up on the face and there were signs of nosebleeds.

A characteristic feature of the last three tourists found was their skin color: according to the recollections of rescuers - orange-red, in the documents of the forensic examination - reddish-purple.

4. New scary finds.

The search for the remaining tourists took place in several stages from February to May. And only after the snow began to melt did objects begin to be discovered that pointed the rescuers in the right direction to search. Exposed branches and scraps of clothing led to a creek hollow about 70 m from the cedar, which was heavily covered with snow.

The excavation made it possible to find at a depth of more than 2.5 m a flooring of 14 trunks of small fir trees and one birch tree up to 2 m long. On the flooring lay spruce branches and several items of clothing. The position of these objects revealed four spots on the flooring, designed as “seats” for four people.

The bodies were found under a four-meter layer of snow, in the bed of a stream that had already begun to melt, below and slightly to the side of the flooring. First they found Lyudmila Dubinina - she froze, kneeling with her face facing the slope near the waterfall of the stream.

The other three were found a little lower. Kolevatov and Zolotarev lay in an embrace “chest to back” at the edge of the stream, apparently warming each other to the end. Thibault Brignoles was the lowest, in the water of the stream.

Clothes of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko - trousers, sweaters - were found on the corpses, as well as a few meters from them. All the clothes had traces of even cuts, as they had already been removed from the corpses of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko. The dead Thibault-Brignolles and Zolotarev were found well dressed, Dubinina was worse dressed - her faux fur jacket and hat were on Zolotarev, Dubinina's bare leg was wrapped in Krivonischenko's woolen trousers. Near the corpses, a Krivonischenko knife was found, which was used to cut young fir trees around the fires. Two watches were found on Thibault-Brignolle's hand - one showed 8 hours 14 minutes, the second - 8 hours 39 minutes.

Moreover, all the bodies had terrible injuries received while still alive. Dubinina and Zolotarev had fractures of 12 ribs, Dubinina - on both the right and left sides, Zolotarev - only on the right.

Later, an examination determined that such injuries could only be caused by a strong impact, such as being hit by a car moving at high speed or falling from a great height. It is impossible to cause such injuries with a stone in a person’s hand.

In addition, Dubinina and Zolotarev are missing eyeballs - squeezed out or removed. And Dubinina’s tongue and part of her upper lip were torn out. Thibault-Brignolle has a depressed fracture of the temporal bone.

It is very strange, but during the examination it was discovered that the clothes (sweater, trousers) contained radioactive substances with beta radiation.

5. Inexplicable.

Here is a schematic picture of all the bodies discovered. Most of the group's bodies were found in a head-to-tent position, and all were located in a straight line from the cut side of the tent, for more than 1.5 kilometers. Kolmogorova, Slobodin and Dyatlov did not die while leaving the tent, but, on the contrary, on the way back to the tent.

The whole picture of the tragedy points to numerous mysteries and oddities in the behavior of the Dyatlovites, most of which are practically inexplicable.

Why didn’t they run away from the tent, but walked away in a line, at a normal pace?

Why did they need to light a fire near a tall cedar tree on a windswept area?

Why did they break cedar branches at a height of up to 5 meters when there were many small trees around for a fire?

How could they get such terrible injuries on level ground?

Why didn’t those who reached the stream and built sun loungers there survive, because even in the cold they could hold out there until the morning?

And finally, the most important thing - what made the group leave the tent at the same time and in such a hurry with practically no clothes, no shoes and no equipment?

There are still a lot of questions, no answers.

And two more diagrams from the article “The mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group has been revealed?”

1 - the valley of the Auspiya River, 2 - the Dyatlov Pass, where the obelisk is now located, 3 - the approximate location of the tent, 4 - the valley of the Lozva River, where the Dyatlovites “retreated”, 5 - the direction to Mount Otorten, which they were going to conquer. Scheme: Andrey Guselnikov.

Mount Kholatchakhl is the place where the Dyatlovites’ tent stood. 1 - the valley of the Auspiya River, 2 - the Dyatlov Pass, where an obelisk is installed on the rock, 3 - the approximate location of the tent, 4 - the valley of the Lozva River, where the Dyatlovites “retreated”. Scheme: Andrey Guselnikov

6. Mount Kholatchakhl - the mountain of the dead.

Initially, the local population of the northern Urals - the Mansi - were suspected of the murder. Mansi Anyamov, Sanbindalov, Kurikov and their relatives came under suspicion. But none of them took the blame.

They were rather scared themselves. Mansi said they saw strange “balls of fire” above the place where the tourists died. They not only described this phenomenon, but also drew it. Subsequently, the drawings from the case disappeared or are still classified. “Fireballs” were observed during the search period by the rescuers themselves, as well as other residents of the Northern Urals. As a result, suspicion against Mansi was lifted.

The very last frame was discovered on the film of the dead tourists, which is still causing controversy. Some claim that this shot was taken when the film was removed from the camera. Others claim that this shot was taken by someone from Dyatlov’s group from a tent when danger began to approach.

Mansi legends say that during the global flood on Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, 9 hunters previously disappeared - “died of hunger,” “cooked in boiling water,” “disappeared in an eerie radiance.” Hence the name of this mountain - Kholatchakhl, translated - Mountain of the Dead. The mountain is not a sacred place for the Mansi; rather, on the contrary, they have always avoided this peak.

Be that as it may, the mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group has not yet been solved.

7. Versions.

There are 9 main versions of the death of the Dyatlov group:

Avalanche

Destruction of a group by the military or intelligence services

Exposure to sound

Attack by escaped prisoners

Death at the hands of Mansi

Quarrel between tourists

Version about the impact of a certain weapon being tested

Version about “controlled delivery”

Paranormal versions

I will not describe them in detail; all these versions can be easily found on the Internet. I can only say that none of these versions can still fully explain all the circumstances of the death of the Dyatlov group.

8. In memory of the victims.

After the tragedy, the pass was named Dyatlov Pass. In memory of the dead tourists, a memorial was erected there.

Igor Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova, Semyon Zolotarev.

In preparing this article, materials from several sources, forums and investigative reports were used:

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Date of publication in "Interesting World" 07/30/2012

This material and a large number of materials about investigations into the mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group were published in the electronic media “Interesting World”.

The death of a tourist group consisting mainly of students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute (later the name “Dyatlov’s group” was assigned to it) is certainly one of the most stunning tragedies of the 20th century. There were nine of them, they died in a deserted region of the Northern Urals in February 1959. The case opened in the wake of the mysterious death was declassified (but only partially) in 1989. Some materials were removed from it and have not been made public to this day. Many circumstances surrounding the death of the nine tourists remain unexplained...

Chronology of events before death

So, on January 23, 1959, a tourist group set out from Sverdlovsk on a ski trip. The group was led by a tourist with extensive experience, Igor Dyatlov. The hike had the third category of difficulty (according to the classification of the fifties) and was dedicated to the Twenty-First Congress of the CPSU. As part of it, the participants of the trip pledged to ski at least three hundred kilometers in the northern part of the Sverdlovsk region and climb the peaks of Oika-Chakur and Otorten.

Here is the list of participants in this tour group:

1. Igor Dyatlov, 5th year student of the Faculty of Radio Engineering;
2. Rustem Slobodin, engineer of Sverdlovsk NIICHIMMASH;
3. Yuri Doroshenko, 4th year student of the Faculty of Radio Engineering;
4. Georgy Krivonischenko, graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, engineer at Mayak Production Association;
5. Zinaida Kolmogorova, 5th year student of the Faculty of Radio Engineering;
6. Nikolay Thibault-Brignolle, graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, engineer;
7. Lyudmila Dubinina, 4th year student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering;
8. Semyon Zolotarev, graduate of the Institute of Physical Education of the Belarusian SSR, instructor at the camp site;
9. Alexander Kolevatov, 4th year student of the Faculty of Physics and Technology;
10. Yuri Yudin, 4th year student of the Faculty of Engineering and Economics.

There is no mistake, there were initially ten tourists. They traveled by train from Sverdlovsk to Serov on January 23. Then we got to Ivdel, then by bus to the village of Vizhay.

On the evening of January 26, in Vizhay, they boarded a passing truck to the village of the 41st quarter. In the morning, January 27, having uncovered their skis, the group continued the route, one might say, lightly. The fact is that the head of the logging site asked a local grandfather-coachman with a horse to help the Dyatlovites, and they got the opportunity to load their heavy luggage into the sleigh.

So the group reached the 2nd Northern mine, which was once part of Ivdellag. Here the Dyatlovites stopped for the night in one of the more or less intact huts. On the morning of January 28, one of the group members, Yuri Yudin, had an inflamed sciatic nerve, his leg hurt, and he realized that he would not be able to continue the hike. It was decided that the group would continue the route without him. Yudin, having said goodbye to everyone and giving his comrades his food and some warm clothes, returned back to the village. So there are nine of them left.

Yuri Yudin fell ill and left the route. Unlike his comrades, he lived to a ripe old age (died in 2013)

It is also known that when saying goodbye, Dyatlov asked Yudin to tell everyone in the tourist club that the group could return two or three days later (the weather and snow conditions were simply not conducive to rapid progress along the route). In general, it was initially planned that the group would return to Vizhay by February 12. From there Dyatlov was going to send a telegram saying that the campaign was completed.

But on February 12, the group did not appear at the final destination of the route. No one got in touch in the following days.

By the way, it was Yudin who was the first to identify the personal belongings of his comrades, and he also identified the bodies of Dyatlov and Slobodin. But he still took almost no active part in the further investigation of the tragedy, which lasted for decades.

What happened after the group left the second Northern mine is known only from the surviving diaries and photographs of the participants in the hike. On February 1, 1959, the group spent the night on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl (translated from Mansi as “dead mountain” or “mountain of the dead”), not far from the then unnamed pass. Among the materials found later and developed during the investigation, there is a photo of them setting up a tent on the mountainside, the indicated time is around 17:00.

On the night of February 1-2 (although there are those who believe that the tourists actually died later, in the period from February 2 to 4, but we will stick to the more popular chronology) something terrible happened on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl - none of the nine tourists survived this night.

Discovery of the Dyatlov group's tent

On February 22, 1959, search and rescue activities began, and a search party was sent along the route to these deserted places.

On February 26, a tent covered with snow was discovered on the slope of Kholatchakhl. The back triangular wall of the tent was cut from the inside.

After the tent was dug up, many of the guys’ belongings were found there. At the entrance there was a homemade stove and buckets, and a little further away there were several cameras. Also found here were backpacks, documents and geographical maps, diaries of hike participants, and a bank with banknotes. Groceries and several pairs of shoes lay closer to the opposite side. Interesting finds also include an ice ax found inside the tent and a flashlight found outside on the slope of the tent. There were no people in the tent.

Traces around the tent indicated that the entire Dyatlov group had left the tent, most likely through the cuts, and not through the main entrance. People ran out into the extreme cold (it was about -30 degrees) without shoes and poorly dressed. They ran about twenty meters away from the tent. Then the Dyatlovites, in a dense row, a kind of line, moved down the slope. Moreover, they did not run away, but walked away with the most ordinary steps. Searchers noticed protruding mounds of snow - this is what human footprints look like when there is a big snowstorm in the area. After about half a kilometer along the slope, the tracks were lost...

Detection of corpses

The next day, February 27, on the descent towards the Lozva River, approximately 1,500 meters from the tent and 280 meters down the slope, the first dead were found - Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko. Both were only in their underwear. It turned out that Doroshenko’s foot and hair near his temple were burned, and Krivonischenko had a burn on his left leg and left foot. There was a fire pit near the corpses.

Later, about 300 meters from them, Igor Dyatlov was discovered dead. He was slightly covered with snow, lay on his back, hugging a birch trunk with his hand. Dyatlov was wearing ski pants, a sweater, a sleeveless fur vest, and a cowboy jacket. On the left and right feet there are different socks, on one - woolen, on the other - cotton. The body of Zinaida Kolmogorova was found 330 meters from the group leader. The girl was also in warm clothes, but completely barefoot.

In March, 180 meters from Kolmogorova, the body of Rustem Slobodin was discovered under a layer of snow. He was dressed quite warmly, with a felt boot on his right foot, worn over four pairs of socks (the second felt boot remained in the tent). A characteristic feature of the last three tourists found was the shade of the skin: according to search engines - red-orange, in forensic documents - crimson.

The other members of the group were found only in May, when the snow began to melt. Some small finds led searchers to the creek hollow. Using probes, they found and dug out a flooring of fifteen trees under the snow, but there were no people on it. They were found even lower, directly next to the stream.

At the same time, some of the bodies located here had terrible injuries, apparently received during life. Dubinina and Zolotarev had twelve ribs fractured. Later, an examination determined that these injuries could only be caused by a powerful blow, similar to a fall from a significant height. Dubinina and Zolotarev also had missing eyeballs - they were squeezed out or removed. On top of that, when Dubinina was discovered, she was missing her tongue and part of her lip. And Thibault-Brignolle’s temporal bone was fractured and, as it were, pressed inward.

Many of the deceased participants had watches on their hands, and, interestingly, they showed different times. And one more strange thing: during the examination it was discovered that some items of clothing (sweaters, trousers) emit radioactive radiation.

The whole picture of the tragedy was replete with oddities in the behavior of the Dyatlov group. It is not clear why they did not run away from the tent, but walked away from it at a normal pace. It is not clear why they needed to light a fire right next to a tall cedar tree in an open area and why they needed to break branches up to a height of five meters. How could they have received such terrible injuries? Why didn’t those who reached the stream and made sunbeds there survive, because even in the cold they could “hang on” until dawn? And the key question: what made the group leave the tent so quickly with practically no clothes, no shoes and no special equipment?

The funeral of the group members in Sverdlovsk took place from March to May. And on May 28, the investigator closed the case. The resolution stated that the cause of the death of the Dyatlovites was some irresistible elemental force - a very vague formula.

Main and most probable versions

Among the numerous versions of the death of the Dyatlovites, several main ones can be distinguished. These include the gathering of a “snow board”, an attack by prisoners who escaped from a colony, death at the hands of the Mansi, and the destruction of a group by the military or intelligence services. Some talk about a quarrel between tourists or voice versions about the impact of a powerful weapon that was allegedly being tested in the USSR at that time. Finally, there is a very specific (and conspiracy) version about “controlled delivery” - that supposedly in the mountains of the Northern Urals the Dyatlovites met with spies from another country. Each of these versions deserves a separate discussion.

Murder of Mansi

Initially, the local population of the Northern Urals - the Mansi - were suspected of the murder. More specifically, Mansi Anyamov, Kurikov, Sanbindalov and their relatives were suspected. But neither of them wanted to admit anything. They were rather scared themselves. Some Mansi said that they saw mysterious “fireballs” not far from the place where the tourists died. They not only described this phenomenon, but also sketched it. Subsequently, these sketches disappeared from the case somewhere.

Ultimately, suspicion against Mansi was lifted. The criminal case says that the Mansi, who live about a hundred kilometers from this place, are friendly towards Russians - they provide tourists with overnight accommodation, provide them with assistance, and so on. And in general, Mount Kholatchakhl is not a sacred place for the Mansi; on the contrary, representatives of this nation have always tried to avoid this peak. The slope where the group died in winter, according to the Mansi, is not very suitable for reindeer herding and hunting.

Quarrel between tourists, attack by prisoners or security forces-poachers

There is a version that the cause of the tragedy could have been a domestic quarrel or a drunken fight between participants in the hike over girls. This fight allegedly led to severe violent actions and subsequent tragedy. Experienced tourists reject this assumption. In particular, Vitaly Volovich, an expert on survival in extreme situations, spoke out against the version of internecine conflict.

As for the possibility of conflict with fugitive prisoners, this version also has drawbacks. It is not clear, for example, why the prisoners did not take money and valuables (in particular, cameras). In addition, the investigator of the Ivdel prosecutor’s office in those years, Vladimir Korotaev, says that there were no escapes during the period when the Dyatlovites died.

It is also suggested that the Dyatlovites met with officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (apparently, employees of Ivdellag) who were engaged in poaching. People in uniform, out of hooligan motives, some believe, attacked tourists, which led to their death from cold and injuries. The very fact of the attack was allegedly subsequently hidden.

Critics of this version insist that the surroundings of Mount Kholatchakhl are unsuitable for hunting in winter and therefore not very attractive for poachers. In addition, the possibility of completely concealing a clash between employees of certain special services and tourists is being questioned in the context of a large-scale investigation that has begun.

Avalanche version

This is one of the most developed versions. It was put forward in 1991 by Moses Axelrod, a participant in the search. Later she was supported by Masters of Sports (MS) in Tourism Evgeny Buyanov and Boris Slobtsov.

The meaning of the version is that an avalanche (“snow board”) fell on the tent. It crushed it with a significant load of snow, which caused the urgent evacuation of tourists without warm clothing and equipment, after which they died from the cold. It was also suggested that the serious injuries received by some tourists were the consequences of an avalanche.

Buyanov points out that the scene of the incident is classified as “areas with avalanches of recrystallized snow.” Based on the opinions of certain experts and citing relevant examples, the researcher writes that a relatively modest (no more than ten tons), but extremely dangerous collapse of compacted snow - the so-called “snow board” - could have landed on the tent of Dyatlov’s group. In Buyanov's version, the injuries of some tourists are explained by compression between the high-density snow mass and the hard bottom of the tent.

Opponents of this hypothesis point out that traces of the notorious “snow board” were not found, although experienced climbers were among the search participants. The “avalanche” origin of the serious injuries of three people is also rejected - because for some reason there are no traces of the impact of the avalanche on other members of the group or on fragile objects in the tent.

Finally, the departure of the Dyatlov group from the avalanche danger zone downwards, and not across the slope, is considered a grave mistake; experienced tourists could hardly make such a mistake.

"Controlled delivery"

The conspiracy version of Alexey Rakitin is very popular. According to this version, several members of the Dyatlov group were secret KGB officers. At the meeting, they were supposed to convey disinformation related to domestic nuclear technologies, as well as a radioactive sweater, to foreign (American) agents disguised as another tour group. But the foreign spies accidentally gave themselves away when they met, after which they decided to destroy all members of the Dyatlov group.

In the past, USSR intelligence officer Mikhail Lyubimov was skeptical about this version. He noted that Western intelligence services in the distant fifties really showed interest in the secrets of industrial enterprises in the Urals and carried out spies. But why transmit a radioactive sweater in such a deserted and remote area is absolutely not clear.

In addition, traces of radiation can be fully explained by the famous accident at the Mayak production facility in 1957. One of the Dyatlovites, Georgy Krivonischenko, participated in the liquidation of this accident.

Versions about the impact of certain weapons being tested

Some researchers believe that the Dyatlov group became a victim of some kind of weapon being tested, for example, a missile of a fundamentally new format. This allegedly provoked a hasty escape from the tent or even directly contributed to the death of people. The damaging factors include rocket fuel components, a fallen off rocket stage, a sodium cloud, the impact of a volumetric explosion, etc.

A journalist from Yekaterinburg, Anatoly Gushchin, expressed the version that the group became a victim of tests of a neutron bomb, after which, in order to maintain state secrets, the deaths of tourists were staged in natural conditions.

Some researchers also voiced a version about the influence of some psychotronic weapon on the psyche of tourists, as a result of which they temporarily lost their minds and began to maim each other. Here you should know that there is such a thing as infrasound - these are sound waves below the frequency perceived by the human ear. Exposure to infrasound could well have led to panic, all sorts of visions, and to the fact that the Dyatlov group began to take extremely rash actions.

The key disadvantage of all such versions is that there is no point in testing new weapons outside of special testing grounds. Only at training grounds can you evaluate the effectiveness of a weapon, its pros and cons. In addition, in those years the Soviet Union supported a moratorium on nuclear tests, and Western partners would certainly have recorded a violation of this moratorium.

As Evgeny Buyanov writes, an accidental hit by a rocket in the vicinity of Mount Kholatchakhl is, in principle, excluded. All types of missiles of the corresponding period are either not suitable in range (taking into account the likely launch sites), or were not launched on the days when the tragedy occurred.

Paranormal versions

This includes versions that use factors to explain the death of the Dyatlov group, the existence of which is still generally denied by scientists: fireballs, the arrival of aliens, curses and damage, an attack by a Yeti (Bigfoot), a meeting with some underground dwarfs, etc.

Memorial plaque in memory of the Dyatlov group

Ultimately, everyone can adhere to any version they want, because there is still no exact answer to how everything happened and why the Dyatlovites died. But there is a memory of this incident. The pass located next to the place where the tourists died is now called the Dyatlov Pass. And on a stone ledge near this pass in 1963, a memorial plaque was installed with photographs of nine young and brave tourists.

Subsequently, another memorial plaque was installed here in 1989. And in mid-2012, several plates with publications about the Dyatlov group in the Yekaterinburg publication “Ural Pathfinder” were additionally recorded at this place.

Documentary film “Dyatlov Pass: The End of History”

Preface.

Currently, absolutely all authors writing on the topic of the death of the Dyatlov group support the investigation’s version that The death of the students occurred on the night of February 1-2, 1959. Up to a certain point, I adhered to this version. After all, three of the four stopped clocks found in the hands of the dead students showed a time interval between 8 and 9 o'clock.

Therefore, with the light hand of investigators, in the investigation materials, official documents, fiction, and later on the Internet, the opinion was firmly established for a long time that The death of the group occurred between 20 and 21 hours on February 1, 1959, in the dark. However, having carefully analyzed all information available to me, I did not find a single fact that could clearly indicate that the Dyatlov group died on the evening of February 1, or on the night of February 1 to 2, 1959, as the investigation suggested. What was especially annoying was that the analysis of student behavior absolutely clearly showed that all their actions were conscious and sighted, that is tragic events could not have happened in the dark. And this led to the assumption that the students' clocks stopped from 8 to 9 am on February 2.

But until a certain time, I did not have absolute evidence that the death of the students occurred on the morning of February 2, during daylight hours, and therefore, like everyone else, I was forced to adhere to the official point of view. However, later, having made a request to the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and having analyzed and deciphered the seismograms, we received absolute and irrefutable proof that the death of Dyatlov’s tour group occurred at 8:41 a.m., February 2, 1959. Moreover, it was possible to discover new facts that clearly testified in favor of the space version of the death of students, and even almost minute by minute reconstruction of events that occurred in the area mountains Kholat Syakhyl. In this regard, I was forced to edit the text for the new book, which I offer to the reader.

Chapter 1. What caused the death of the Dyatlov group?

“There is no need to multiply entities unnecessarily.”

Okama's Law.

The cause of this tragedy, which resulted in the complete death of the student tourist group led by Igor Dyatlov, is still a mystery that neither the investigators who were involved in this criminal case nor numerous subsequent researchers could reveal. have repeatedly covered the events of this incident over the fifty years that have passed since the tragedy. Meanwhile, a retrospective study of the events that occurred in the mountains of the Northern Urals on February 1, 1959 allows us to confidently assert that the mysterious death of the members of the Dyatlov group was associated with airborne electric discharge explosions of fragments of a small comet.

All this deserves to be told about this case in more detail, and only on the basis of the investigation materials and documented facts.

The most complete information about this incident was collected and summarized by M.B. Gerstein in his book “Secrets of UFOs and Aliens” (M-SPb 2006, “Owl” edition), although he, like other researchers, could not understand the reason for the death of the Dyatlov group.

To be fair, it should be said that numerous versions of the mysterious death of a group of tourists led by Igor Dyatlov in the mountains of the Northern Urals have been repeatedly published in periodicals before with numerous conflicting details. About this case, with the most fantastic additions, I was told in the city of Serov, Sverdlovsk region.

Unfortunately, all modern versions, created by semi-literate researchers, for the most part are not at all consistent with the facts, and are mediocre fantasies of the authors who created them.

Let me remind you that as a result of the investigation, based on the facts identified and numerous eyewitness accounts, Prosecutor Ivanov came to an unequivocal and completely fair conclusion that mysterious luminous fireballs were involved in the death of students.

But, failing to understand the true nature of these mysterious space objects, prosecutor Ivanov, who was in charge of this criminal case, thought they were mysterious UFOs. This point of view, which investigator Ivanov reported to the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional party committee, and which he defended with sincere conviction many years after the tragedy, gave the death of students a mystical overtones. As a result of this circumstance, the criminal case was ordered to be closed, all testimony of witnesses about “luminous balls” was removed from the case, and the case itself was classified as “secret” and handed over to the archives. All this was immediately carried out, but later, this decision raised a lot of questions and comments from modern researchers, who considered that they were still “They are fooling around in full.”

Meanwhile, in this extraordinary story there is nothing mysterious or mysterious at all, because the “luminous balls” that caused the death of the Dyatlov group were not mystical UFOs, but a chain of fragments of a small comet that invaded the Earth’s atmosphere in February - March 1959.

Now let's restore the facts and chronology of events morning February 2 1959, the tragic date of the death of the Dyatlov group, and for this we use all the information available to us. And as the story progresses, we will accompany the story about the events that took place with our own small commentary.

Start of the hike.

This organized group of tourists included ten young people: the leader of the group Igor Dyatlov, 23 years old, the youngest member of the group Lyudmila Dubinina, 20 years old, Alexander Kolevatov, Zinaida Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, Yuri Krivonischenko, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles, Yuri Doroshenko, as well as the oldest member of the tourist group Alexander Zolotarev - 37 years old, and Yuri Yudin , the only surviving member of this group.

The purpose of the Dyatlov group’s trip was to climb Mt. Otorten(literally from Mansi - "do not go there" ), located at the intersection of the northern edge of the Sverdlovsk region with the borders of the Komi Republic and the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug.

And the death of the students occurred at the foot of the mountain Kholotsakhl, (Kholat Syakhyl)(literally) "mountain of the dead" ). According to Vogul legend, the name of the mountain was given long before the death of Dyatlov’s group, because of the Mansi group that died here, which also included 9 people.

Dyatlov’s group left by train from Sverdlovsk to Serov, from there to Ivdel, then to Vizhay, from which the group reached the 2nd Northern Village on foot. In this village, due to an attack of radiculitis, Yuri Yudin fell behind the group, and this ultimately saved his life. However, he was not a participant in the tragic events and therefore could not help solve the mystery of the death of the remaining guys from Dyatlov’s group.

The last entry in the diary of the tourist group, made by Dyatlov on January 31: “We are developing new methods of walking more productively. ... We gradually separate from Auspiya, the climb is continuous, but quite smooth. And now we ran out of spruce trees and we reached the border of the forest. The wind is western, warm, piercing... Nast, bare places. You don’t even have to think about setting up a warehouse. About 4 hours. You need to choose an overnight stay. We go down to the south - into the Auspiya valley. This is apparently the snowiest place. The wind is light, the snow is 1.2 - 2 meters thick. Tired, exhausted, they set about arranging for the night. There is not enough firewood. Frail, raw food. The fire was lit on logs, I don't want to dig a hole. We have dinner right in the tent. Warm. It’s hard to imagine such comfort somewhere on a ridge, with a piercing howl of the wind, a hundred kilometers from populated areas.”

We can make a preliminary conclusion and highlight the information that is most important to us based on this record. Dyatlov's group is competent. This is evidenced by the fact that the members of Dyatlov’s group, as experienced taiga workers, lit the fire on logs in deep snow conditions. (Otherwise, having flared up, it will simply drown in deep snow and go out.) Already at 4 o'clock, without waiting for the end of daylight, Dyatlov's group began to choose a place to spend the night. This also testifies to the maturity of the group leader Igor Dyatlov. Note that the maximum thickness of snow in the forest is 1.2 - 2 meters, and on the mountain slope - present. The next day, February 1, 1959, the group built a storage shed, and, leaving some of their things and food in it, they set off lightly to Mount Otorten.

Last night.

For their last night, Dyatlov’s group settled down approximately three hundred meters from the top of Mount Kholat Syakhyl, digging a hole and pitching a tent on an open mountainside. Here is what the resolution to terminate the criminal case says about this: “One of the cameras preserved a photo frame (the last one taken), which depicts the moment of digging up snow to set up a tent . Considering that this frame was shot with a shutter speed of 1/25 seconds at an aperture of 5.6, with a film sensitivity of 65 units. GOST, and also taking into account the frame density, we can assume that installation of the tent has begun around 5 pm on February 1, 1959. A similar photograph was taken with another camera. After this time, not a single record or photograph was found."

We can confirm the tent installation time. Considering that people's behavior always standard, and there was no reason to disrupt the usual daily routine, group, like the day before, started setting up the tent about 16 o'clock evenings.

Setting up a tent.

The tent was pitched well and was believed to be in an absolutely safe place. A little later, search engine S. Sorgin will confirm - The tent was set up according to all the rules of mountaineering art: “On March 4, I, Axelrod, Korolev and three Muscovites went up to the place where Dyatlov’s tent was. All of us here came to a unanimous opinion that the tent was set up in accordance with all tourist and mountaineering rules. The slope on which the tent stood does not pose any danger...” And here is the testimony of Evgeny Polikarpovich Maslennikov, one of the leaders of the search: The tent was stretched on skis and poles driven into the snow , its entrance was facing the south, and on this side the guy wires were intact, and the guy wires were on the north side (from the mountain side) torn off therefore, the entire second half of the tent was covered with snow. There was not much snow, what was piled up by snowstorms in February.

Why did the tent guy ropes break?

Let me emphasize guy ropes are torn off from the side of the mountain. And let us note one inaccuracy. Throughout February, according to weather reports, no snow or blizzards were observed. And looking ahead, we’ll immediately reveal the secret. The tent's ropes were torn off by the blast wave of a comet fragment exploding over the mountain, resulting in some snow blowing into the torn tent. Here is the weather report for the Ivdel region on the day the group died: “Precipitation fell less than 0.5 mm. Wind north-northwest, 1-3 meters per second. There were no snowstorms, hurricanes or blizzards.” That is, a weak wind, the maximum speed of which was less than 11 kilometers per hour, could not damage the stretch marks of the tent, which, moreover, was located in a conscientiously dug snow hole and had practically no windage. But some force, and a considerable one at that, still tore the tent’s guy ropes. Anyone who has seen such tents knows that the hemp ropes on them, in terms of strength, can replace the tow rope of a car. And the energy of an electric-discharge cosmic explosion should have considerable strength, to cut all the stretch marks at once.

The search begins.

They began to look for the Dyatlov group February 21, and the tent abandoned by the tourists was found only on the fifth day of searching, February 26 1959. Here is what the head of one of the search groups, Boris Efimovich, a third-year student at the Ural Polytechnic Institute, writes about this: Our group was the youngest among the search engines. ... I remember that we arrived in Ivdel first. Then we were dropped by helicopter into the mountains, but not to Otorten, as planned, but further south. A radio operator and a hunter were with us. The people are local, older than us. They assumed that nothing good would come from the end of this epic. We young people were completely convinced that nothing terrible had happened. Well, someone broke his leg, they built a shelter, sat and waited. There were three of us that day: local forester Ivan, me and Misha Sharavin. ... We walked from the pass obliquely to the northwest until we saw... The tent is standing, the middle of it is caved in, but it’s standing. Imagine the state of 19-year-old boys. It's scary to look into the tent. And yet we begin to stir with a stick - a lot of snow has packed into the tent through the open entrance and the cut. There was a rain jacket hanging at the entrance to the tent. As it turned out, Dyatlovskaya. There is a metal box in my pocket... It contains money and tickets. They pumped us up: Ivdellag, there are bandits all around. And the money is there. So it's not so scary anymore. They dug a deep trench in the snow near the tent, but found no one there. We were extremely happy. We took several items with us so that the guys wouldn’t scold us for our “fantasies”... We radioed about the find. We were told that all groups would be transferred here..."

As a comment, it should be said that concentration camps of prisoners of the famous Ivdellag were densely located in these places. Therefore, before the discovery of the missing group, it was assumed that Dyatlov’s group could become a victim of escaped prisoners.

Versions about the murder of students are false.

“The location and presence of objects in the tent (almost all shoes, all outerwear, personal belongings and diaries) indicated that the tent was abandoned suddenly and simultaneously by all tourists, and, as subsequently established by forensic examination, leeward side of the tent, where the tourists placed their heads, turned out to be cut from the inside in two places, in areas that ensured the free exit of a person through these cuts.

Below the tent throughout up to 500 meters in the snow there were traces of people walking from the tent into the valley and into the forest... Examination of the traces showed that some of them were left by almost bare feet (for example, in one cotton sock), others had a typical display of felt boots, feet shod in a soft sock, and so on. The trails of tracks were located close to one another, converged and diverged again not far from one another. Closer to the border of the forest, the tracks... turned out to be covered with snow. No signs of a struggle or the presence of other people were found either in the tent or near it.

And this extract from the criminal case is absolute documentary evidence that Dyatlov’s group left the tent almost instantly, due to some real threat to life. But Let us pay special attention to the fact that “.. “No signs of a struggle or the presence of other people were found either in the tent or near it.” That is, all versions of the murder of students by outsiders are false. And the authors of all the criminal versions simply pulled them out of thin air. After all, none of these authors relied on facts, but colorfully, with breathtaking details, presented only their own fantasies.

Location of dead bodies and description of injuries.

Later, rescuers who walked along those going down to the northeast, following the tracks, the bodies of the dead were found. IN 850 meters from the tent they found Kolmogorova's body, sprinkled ten centimeter layer of snow, Slobodin's body lay behind 1000 meters, Dyatlova for 1180 meters, and in 1.5 km from the tent, they found the bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, stripped to their underwear, lying lightly dusted with snow by the fire built under a cedar tree. Near Kolmogorova's head, witnesses noticed a small pool of blood coming down her throat.

The remaining bodies were discovered much later, in a hollow near a stream. All the bodies of the dead students were practically on the same straight line and this is very important for our reconstruction of the events that took place. And judging by the position of the bodies of Slobodin, Dyatlov and Kolmogorova, one could assume that they died trying to return to the tent. Later, an autopsy will show Slobodin has a six-centimeter crack in the skull, 0.1 cm wide. Dyatlov was lying on his back, with his head towards the tent, hugging the trunk of a birch tree with his hand.

The remaining four: Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolle and Kolevatov were found after a very difficult persistent search, only May 4th. They were lying 75 meters from the fire, near a stream, perpendicular to the path of movement from the tent, under a 4.5 meter layer of snow.

From the materials of the criminal case: “Forensic medical examination established that Dyatlov, Doroshenko, Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova died from exposure to low temperatures (frozen), none of them had any injuries, not counting minor scratches and abrasions. Slobodin had a skull fracture, 6 cm long, which widened to 0.1 cm, but Slobodin died from hypothermia.

May 4th 1959, 75 meters from the fire, towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the river. Lozva, that is, perpendicular to the route of tourists from the tent, under a layer of snow of 4 - 4.5 meters, the corpses of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolle and Kolevatov were discovered. Clothes of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko - trousers, sweaters - were found on the corpses, as well as a few meters from them. All the clothes have traces of even cuts, as they were already removed from the corpses of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko. The dead Thibault-Brignolles and Zolotarev were found well dressed, Dubinina was worse dressed - her faux fur jacket and hat were on Zolotarev, Dubinina's bare leg was wrapped in Krivonischenko's woolen trousers. Near the corpses, a Krivonischenko knife was found, which was used to cut young fir trees around the fires.

Two watches were found on Thibault's hand - one of them shows 8 hours 14 minutes, the second - 8 hours 39 minutes. A forensic autopsy of the corpses established that Kolevatov’s death was caused by low temperature (frozen). Kolevatov has no bodily injuries. Dubinina has a symmetrical fracture of the ribs: 2,3,4,5 on the right and 2,3,4,5,6,7 on the left. In addition, there was extensive hemorrhage in the heart. Thibault-Brignolle has extensive hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle, corresponding to it - a depressed fracture of the skull bones measuring 3-7 cm... Zolotarev has a fracture of the ribs on the right 2,3,4,5 and 6..., which led to his death.”

Strange skin color of the dead.

All search engines and forensic experts note strange skin color dead members of the Dyatlov group. Here's what search engine Boris Slobtsov said about this: “When we climbed through the pass to the others, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko had already been found. We now confidently name names. And then Yura Doroshenko was mistaken for Zolotarev. I knew Yura, but I didn’t recognize him here. And even his mother didn’t recognize him. And they also wondered about the fifth corpse - it was Slobodin or Kolevatov. They were completely unrecognizable,skin of some strange color..."

Search engine Ivan Pashin told his nephew, V.V. Plotnikov that the color of the exposed areas of the head and hands of the victims was orange-red. But at that time few people paid attention to this, believing that this was the result of monthly exposure to the sun and snow. In forensic medical examination documents, the skin color of the deceased is recorded as reddish-purple.

As another comment, it should be said that the changed color of the exposed areas of the skin of the participants in the Dyatlov group clearly indicated a burn from the light-thermal radiation of an electric discharge explosion of a meteorite and the investigators were obliged to pay attention to this. However, the strange skin color of the students was considered the result of too long a search, and during this time the corpses were allegedly exposed to prolonged exposure to sun and frost. In addition, postmortem examinations are performed on thawed bodies, which may have explained the strange change in skin color at that time.

The students left the tent without injury.

And here is how prosecutor Lev Nikitovich Ivanov covers the events that took place: “As a prosecutor-criminologist, I was obliged to participate in investigations or lead investigations in the most complex cases. ... So I found myself in the impenetrable Ural taiga in a tarpaulin tent... An examination of the tent showed that the outer clothing of the tourists - jackets, trousers, backpacks with all their contents - had been preserved intact. It is known that tourists, even in winter, when settling down for the night in a tent, take off their outerwear..... . From the tent from the mountain to the valley there were sometimes 8, sometimes 9 tracks of tracks. In mountain conditions with supercooled snow, the tracks are not covered, but, on the contrary, look like columns, since the snow under the tracks is compacted and blown out around the track.

Let's pause the quote for another comment. I would like to draw the reader’s attention to the fact that L.N. Ivanov directly writes that “... There was not a single drop of blood in or around the tent, which indicated that all tourists left the tent without injury... .»

That is, the authors of the versions who claim that the students were injured in the tent as a result of an avalanche or murder did not read the materials of the criminal case well, and in their versions they set out their own fantasies. In addition, L.N. Ivanov considered it necessary to note that « The presence of nine tracks of footprints confirmed that all the tourists walked independently, no one was carrying anyone.” However, there are countless authors on the Internet who continue, contrary to the facts, to claim that one of the students carried the victim. And this lie continues to be actively replicated on numerous forums.

Autopsy results: fatal injuries were caused by an air blast.

But let’s continue with Ivanov’s quote: “ But then a mystery happened. 1.5 km from the tent, in a river valley, near an old cedar tree, the tourists, after escaping from the tent, lit a fire and here they began to die, one by one... When investigating cases, there are no minor details - investigators have a motto: attention to detail! Near the tent, a natural trace was found that one man was going out for minor needs. He went out barefoot, wearing only woolen socks (“for a minute”). This trail of bare feet is then traced down into the valley. There was every reason to build a version that it was this person who gave the alarm signal, and he no longer has time to put on his shoes.

This means that there was some terrible force that frightened not only him, but also all the others, forcing them to urgently leave the tent and seek refuge below, in the taiga. Finding this force, or at least getting closer to it, was the task of the investigation. February 26, 1959 below, at the edge of the taiga, we found the remains of a small fire and here we found the bodies of tourists Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, stripped to their underwear. A body is then discovered in the direction of the tent Igor Dyatlov, not far from him there are two more - Slobodin and Kolmogorova. Without going into detail, I will say that the last three were the most strong and strong-willed individuals, they crawled from the fire to the tent for clothes - this is quite obvious from their poses. A subsequent autopsy revealed that These three courageous people died from hypothermia - they froze, although they were better dressed than others. Already in May, around the fire, under a five-meter layer of snow we found the dead Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolle and Kolevatov. Upon external examination, there are no injuries on their bodies. A sensation came when, in the conditions of the Sverdlovsk morgue, we performed an autopsy on these corpses. Dubinina, Thibault-Brignolle and Zolotarev had extensive internal injuries that were completely incompatible with life. Luda Dubinina, for example, has broken ribs 2,3,4,5 on the right and 2,3,4,5,6,7 on the left. One fragment of a rib even penetrated into the heart. Zolotarev’s ribs 2,3,4,5,6 are broken. Note that this is without visible bodily harm.

Such injuries, as I have described, usually occur when a person is subjected to a directed large force, for example, a car at high speed. But such damage cannot be caused by falling from your own height. In the vicinity of the mountain... there were snow-covered boulders and stones of various configurations, but they were not in the path of tourists (remember the tracks), and, naturally, no one threw these stones... There were no external bruises. Therefore, there was a directed force that selectively acted on individual people..."

Let's pause for another clarification.

Here is the response of forensic expert Dr. Vozrozhdenny to the investigator’s request about the cause of the injuries: “I believe that the nature of the injuries in Dubinina and Zolotarev - multiple fractures of the ribs: in Dubinina, bilateral and symmetrical, in Zolotarev, unilateral, as well as hemorrhage into the heart muscle in both Dubinina and Zolotarev with hemorrhage into the pleural cavities, indicate their vitality and are the result of exposure to great force, approximately the same as was used against Thibault. These injuries... are very similar to injuries caused by an air blast.".

Indeed, the nature of the injuries of all members of the Dyatlov group allows us to believe that these injuries were received from exposure to extremely powerful air blast wave. And that’s what’s typical. At the moment of the impact of force, which caused death and injury, all the dead members of the Dyatlov group were not only in different places, but also at a fairly considerable distance from each other. That is, it really was the impact of a powerful blast wave.

On the selectivity of the thermal impact of a cosmic explosion.

Let's continue the quote from L.N. Ivanova: “When already in May E.P. and I Maslennikov examined the scene of the incident and found that some young fir trees at the border of the forest have a burnt mark, but these traces did not have a concentric shape or any other system. There is no epicenter either. This once again confirmed the direction of a kind of heat ray or a strong, but completely unknown, at least to us, energy acting selectively, - the snow was not melted, the trees were not damaged.”

Let's pause the quote again for one more quick comment.

A radiant explosion and the selectivity of its action are a characteristic feature of electric-discharge cosmic explosions. This phenomenon has not been detected in any other explosions.

I repeat, the selectivity of powerful light exposure is a typical and natural characteristic of the propagation of thermal energy only for a cosmic electric discharge explosion.

This was not understood not only by the investigative team that studied the consequences of a cosmic explosion in the vicinity of Mount Kholat Syakhyl, but also by numerous researchers who also drew attention to a similar mysterious phenomenon of the electric discharge explosion of the Tunguska meteorite.

Here is a small quote from Radhika Mann’s book “Punishment of Heaven, or the Truth about the Tunguska Disaster” ": "Another incomprehensible feature of the effects of radiation ( Tunguska explosion ) turned out to be on vegetation selectivity of this effect. Trees that were almost unaffected by the heat could be located almost next to those that were severely burned. And such an incomprehensible alternation was observed throughout the entire area of ​​the burn. Researchers could not understand the pattern of this phenomenon and fell into despair. How should a flash shine if one tree is burned and the rest nearby are untouched?

This question is answered in detail in my article about Tunguska disaster, in the meantime, let's try to determine the power of the explosion that killed the students of Dyatlov's group.

Estimated power of a cosmic electric discharge explosion.

As is known, the airborne atomic explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the power of which was 12 and 20 kilotons of TNT, ignited wood from a distance of up to 1.5 kilometers and charred her at a distance of 3 kilometers. And it can be assumed that power air electric discharge cosmic explosion in the area of ​​Mount Kholat Syakhyl, was comparable to a small nuclear explosion.

It must be said that academic scientists are trying in different ways to determine the power of cosmic electric discharge explosions, which is why their estimates of the power of such explosions differ by thousands of times (!!!). Some scientists estimate the power of a cosmic explosion by the volume of the crater remaining at the explosion site (the volume of the crater is considered approximately equal to the amount of explosive in TNT equivalent). Others estimate the power of an air explosion by the amount of destruction that remains around the epicenter of the explosion. Therefore, some academic scientists determined the power of the Tunguska explosion to be only ten kilotons in TNT equivalent, while others, focusing on the area of ​​forest fall at the site of the Tunguska disaster, estimate the power of the Tunguska explosion to be hundreds of megatons in TNT equivalent.

Distance from the epicenter of the cosmic explosion to the tent.

It should also be recalled that the amount of light radiation is directly proportional power explosion And back proportional square distances to the epicenter explosion. There are no traces of thermal effects on the tent, but all students received burns - tanning of exposed skin. According to the Ivdel prosecutor Tempalova, flying around the area where the students died in a helicopter, he saw numerous craters on the reverse slope of Mount Kholat Syakhyl, that is relatively close to the tent.

Why were the investigation materials classified?

And now we will again give the floor to prosecutor L.N. Ivanov, who very clearly explains by whom and why the criminal case was classified: “It seemed that when the tourists walked on their own feet 500 meters down the mountain then someone dealt with some of them in a targeted manner... When, together with the regional prosecutor, I reported the initial data to the first secretary of the regional party committee L.P. Kirilenko, he gave a clear command - all work must be classified, and not a single word of information should leak out. Kirilenko ordered to bury the tourists in closed coffins and tell relatives that the tourists died from hypothermia... When the investigation was underway, a tiny note appeared in the Tagilsky Rabochiy newspaper: “... This luminous object moved silently towards the northern peaks of the Ural Mountains.” The author of the note asked what it could be? The editor of the newspaper was punished for publishing such a note, and the regional committee suggested that I not develop this topic. The second secretary of the regional party committee, A.F. Eshtokin, took charge of the investigation into my case. At that time, we still knew very little about unidentified flying objects, and we did not know about radiation. The ban on these topics was caused by the possibility of even accidentally deciphering information about missile and nuclear technology, the development of which at that time was just beginning, and there was a period in the world that was called the “Cold War” period.

The investigation ruled out all versions of the death of the Dyatlov group, except for fireballs.

Let us continue to quote the revelations of L.N. Ivanova: “ But an investigation must be carried out, I am a professional criminologist and must find a solution. I nevertheless decided, despite the ban, to work on this topic with the highest degree of secrecy, since other versions, including an attack by people, animals, a fall during a hurricane, etc., were excluded by the obtained materials. It was clear to me who died and in what order - all this was revealed by a thorough study of the corpses, their clothes and other data. All that remained was the sky and its contents - an energy unknown to us, which turned out to be beyond human strength.

From the above, it clearly follows that the investigation, having consistently examined all versions, rejected them and came to the unequivocal conclusion that “fireballs” were to blame for the death of the students.

Unfortunately, the conclusion suggests itself that modern researchers either did not read the investigation materials or are deliberately lying. For, without burdening themselves with facts, they composed dozens of their own versions that contradict the well-founded conclusions of the investigation, replacing them with their own fantasies.

Is a UFO to blame for the deaths of students?

L.N. Ivanov tried to sincerely understand the cause of the death of the students, and based on the investigation materials, he put forward his own hypothesis of the death of the students of the Dyatlov group: “ ... As a prosecutor, who at that time already had to deal with some secret defense issues, I rejected the version of testing atomic weapons in this zone. It was then that I began to work closely with “fireballs”. I interrogated many eyewitnesses of the flight, hovering and, simply put, visiting unidentified flying objects in the Subpolar Urals. By the way, when aliens are necessarily associated with UFOs, that is, unidentified flying objects, I do not agree with this. UFOs must be deciphered as unidentified flying objects, and that’s the only way. Many data indicate that these may be clots of energy that are not understood by modern people and unexplained by modern science and technology, affecting living and inanimate nature encountered along their path. Apparently we met one of them... It was already a matter of technology - to find other people who, at night and in the evenings in January-February 1959, did not sleep due to duty, but were on duty in the open air. Now it’s no secret that the Ivdel zone was at that time a continuous “archipelago” of camp points forming Ivdellag, which was guarded around the clock. ... Studying the case is now completely convincing, and even then I adhered to the version of the death of student tourists from the impact of an unknown flying object. Based on the collected evidence, the role of UFOs in this tragedy was completely obvious...

If before I thought that the ball exploded, releasing radioactive energy unknown to us, then now I believe that the effect of energy from the ball was selective, it was aimed at only three people. When I reported to A.F. Eshtokin gave absolutely categorical instructions about his findings - fireballs, radioactivity: to classify absolutely everything, seal it, hand it over to a special unit and forget about it. Need I say that all this was done exactly? ... And once again about fireballs. They were and are. We just need to not hush up their appearance, but deeply understand their nature. The overwhelming majority of informants who met them talk about the peaceful nature of their behavior, but as you can see, there are also tragic cases. Someone needed to intimidate, or punish people, or show their strength, and they did this by killing three people. I know all the details of this incident and I can say that only those who were in these balls (!?) know more about these circumstances than I do. But whether there were “people” there and whether they are always there - no one knows yet...”

Unfortunately, these words indicate that prosecutor Ivanov did not quite correctly understand the essence of what happened and did not adequately assess the events that took place. However, in general, his reasoning was not far from the truth. At the same time, we should not forget that it was 1959, and L.N. Ivanov simply did not have enough knowledge to understand that what he took for a UFO was actually "string of pearls" of a small comet.

Suspecting that fireballs were the cause of the tourists’ deaths, investigators, including prosecutor L.N. Ivanov, for whom the exact time of death of the Dyatlov group was important, were obliged to send a request to the archive of the seismic station of the city of Yekaterinburg, which in 1959 was located on the territory of the Sverdlovsk weather station, because an explosion of such power should have been recorded by seismographs. And in this case, with the help of seismograms, even then it was possible to absolutely accurately determine the time, power, and location of the air explosion. (By the way, they should have done the same and specialists who investigated the explosion in Sasovo(see the article “The Mystery of the Explosion in Sasovo” on the website), which, using a seismogram from the nearest weather station, could reliably determine the power of the Sasovo explosion.

The cause of death of the Dyatlov group was a comet.

Thus, the materials of the criminal case clearly indicated that the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was the “fireballs” that L.N. Ivanov identified it with UFOs. Modern scientific knowledge allows us to confidently assert that these were not UFOs, but fragments of a small comet. And all other versions of the students’ deaths were excluded by investigators at the investigation stage as completely unfounded. And the strained attempts of modern authors to give birth to something original , are simply meaningless. And now we can absolutely reliably and scientifically tell about this extraordinary incident that occurred in the mountains of the Subpolar Urals.

Numerous witnesses observed fireballs in the skies of the subpolar Urals for approximately two months, and the flash of a cosmic explosion was seen in Serov on the morning of February 2, the day of the death of the Dyatlov group.

Therefore, it is necessary to say a few words about the written evidence of people who personally observed these fireballs.

Chapter 2. Fireballs.

Investigator Karataev's version.

First, let’s give the floor to Vladimir Ivanovich Karataev, a former investigator of the Ivdel prosecutor’s office, who began the investigation into the death of the Dyatlov group: “I was one of the first at the scene of the disaster. Quite quickly I identified about a dozen witnesses who said that on the day the students were killed, a balloon flew by. Witnesses: Mansi Anyamov, Sanbindalov, Kurikov- not only described it, but also drew it (these drawings were later removed from the file). All these materials were soon requested by Moscow... I handed them over to the prosecutor of Ivdel Tempalov, he took him to Sverdlovsk. Then the first secretary of the city party committee, Prodanov, invites me to his place and transparently hints: there is a proposal to stop the matter. Clearly, not his personal, nothing more than an order “from above”... Literally a day or two later I learned that Ivanov had taken it into his own hands, who quickly turned it down. ... Of course, this is not his fault. They put pressure on him too. After all everything was done in great secrecy. Some generals and colonels came and sternly warned us not to let loose our tongues in vain. Journalists were generally not allowed within range of a cannon shot...» Later Karataev added to his testimony: “... That’s what I told the first secretary: there’s murder here! Because he himself dug up the corpses and laid out the children’s entrails in boxes. Two died under a cedar tree, three froze to death on a slope, and four more near a stream. They were killed by something that fell from the sky, I have no doubt. Apparently there were two blast waves. One covered Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault. They died first. (???)"

But here again a clarification is needed.

In this case, professional investigator Karataev incorrectly evaluates the available information. The first from the Dyatlov group to die were Doroshenko and Krivonischenko.. After all, warm clothes cut from them were later found on Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatovo and Thibault-Brignoles, found under a 4.5 meter layer of snow.)

Let's continue the quote. “The second wave has caught up with the rest . Apparently, she turned out to be weaker, or the guys were able to take cover while running away. At least they remained conscious."

And again a small comment.

WITH Investigator Karataev, as well as prosecutor Ivanov, was absolutely convinced that there were two blast waves. And it really was a cosmic tandem explosion. The explosions occurred approximately half an hour apart. The first explosion caught the guys on the slope, 500 meters from the tent, when they were descending from the mountain. AND Doroshenko and Krivonischenko became victims of this blast wave. Watch Krivonischenko stopped at 8:14 a.m. , And the second explosion, which killed the other seven members of Dyatlov’s group, according to the seismogram readings from the Sverdlovsk seismic station, occurred at 8:41 a.m., 27 minutes later (plus or minus the error of Krivonischenko’s clock).

So how did the events at the cedar develop, according to Karataev?

Let us again give the floor to Karataev himself : “The first thing they did was make a fire. They broke such thick cedar branches that we, healthy men, could not even bend them. Apparently, not only the instinct of self-preservation worked, but a deep emotional shock. The best dressed went to the tent. But no one got there: may have been blinded by the flash. Zina Kolmogorova got closest to the camp. She was found 400 meters away. (??? There is an inaccuracy here, because the investigation materials indicate 850 meters). Below are Igor Dyatlov and Rustem Slobodin... I refused to attribute the death of tourists to hypothermia. But that's exactly how it is reported to Khrushchev. I was removed for intractability, and after 20 days the case was closed. When I found it in the archive, there was no forensic evidence, no eyewitness accounts who had repeatedly observed the appearance of strange, flying, luminous objects in the sky...”

N.S. Khrushchev was indeed informed about the strange incident, and he was interested in the progress of the investigation. And this led to additional nervousness and secrecy during the investigation of this case.

However, information about an unknown celestial body flying by February 1, 1959 preserved. Here is a radiogram from E.P. Maslennikov dated March 2, 1959: “... The main mystery of the tragedy remains the exit of the entire group from the tent. The only thing other than an ice ax found outside the tent, a Chinese lantern on its roof, confirms the possibility of one person getting outside, which gave some reason for everyone else to hastily abandon the tent. The cause could be some extraordinary natural phenomenon, meteorological rocket flight (!?) , which was seen on 1.02. in Ivdel, and Karelin’s group saw it. Tomorrow we will continue our search. ...

However P no missiles were launched at the specified time. Here is the answer from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to a request from search engine V. Lebedev, who knew all the guys from the Dyatlov group well: “During the period you are interested in (from January 25 to February 5, 1959), there were no launches of ballistic missiles and space rockets from the Baikonur Cosmodrome... We unequivocally state that it is impossible for a rocket or its fragments to fall into the area you indicated.

As you can see, the official answer is categorical: “... It is impossible for a missile or its fragments to fall into the specified area.”

And this should be known to supporters of the rocket version, who unfoundedly claim that the cause of the death of the students was a rocket. And depending on their own hallucinations, they declare this missile to be chemical, meteorological, ballistic, etc. , depending on the strength of your imagination.

Testimony of Rimma Kolevatova about the “ball of fire”.

But unknown luminous objects were actually observed on the day of the death of the Dyatlov group. This is what Rimma Kolevatova, the sister of Alexander Kolevatov, told the investigation at a time when the four missing people had not yet been found : “I had to bury each of the dead and found tourists. Why are their hands and faces so brown with a dark tint? How to explain the fact that the four who were at the fire and remained, by all assumptions, alive, did not make any attempt to return to the tent? If they were dressed much warmer (for those things that are missing among those found in the tent), if it's a natural disaster Of course, after being around the fire, the guys would certainly crawl to the tent. The entire group could not die from the snowstorm.

Why did they run out of the tent in such panic? A group of tourists from the Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Geography (in their words), which was on Mount Chistop (to the southeast), I saw some kind of fireball these days, in early February, in the area of ​​Mount Otorten. The same fireballs were recorded later. What is their origin? Could they have caused the death of the boys? After all, the group brought together experienced and hardy people. Dyatlov was in these places for the third time. Lyuda Dubinina herself led a group to the city of Chistop in the winter of 1958; many of the guys (Kolevatov, Dubinina, Doroshenko) were hiking in the Sayan Mountains. They could not have died only from a raging snowstorm.”

Unfortunately, the investigation did not provide an answer to these natural questions from Rimma Kolevatova.

Testimony of Lyuda Dubinina's father about the explosion.

An excerpt from the interrogation of Alexander Dubinin, Lyuda Dubinina’s father, is also interesting: “I heard UPI students talking that the flight of naked people from the tent was caused by an explosion and large radiation... Statement from the manager The administrative department of the regional committee of the CPSU Comrade Ermash, made to the sister of the deceased Comrade Kolevatova, that the remaining 4 people not found now could have lived after the death of those found no more than 1.5 - 2 hours, makes you think that it is forced, sudden escape from the tent due to a shell explosion (?!) and radiation... the “filling” of which forced ... to run further from it and, presumably, affected people’s life, in particular their vision”.

That is the investigation was reliably aware of two outbreaks and explosions that killed the Dyatlov group.

In addition, the investigation knew for sure that the analyzes of some clothing samples taken by forensic expert Dr. Vozrozhdenny, showed overestimated amounts of radioactive substances. And to the investigator’s question: “ Can we assume that these clothes are contaminated with radioactive dust? the expert replied: “Yes, the clothes are contaminated or with radioactive dust falling from the atmosphere, or clothing was exposed to contamination when working with radioactive substances... this pollution exceeds ... the norm for persons working with radioactive substances.

Based on this, believing that the incident could somehow be accidentally connected with falling of a ballistic missile, and, afraid of accidentally exposing top-secret information, and also believing that this It is no coincidence that Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is interested in the case; the Sverdlovsk regional party committee decided to play it safe and destroy the investigation materials.

As a result, just in case, all evidence relating to the “fireballs”, the blinding flash and the mysterious radioactive contamination of the area was destroyed. Accordingly, the results of the forensic medical examination were classified.

Prosecutor Ivanov’s verbose justification for his unseemly role in the illegal destruction of investigative materials also becomes clear. : “So that the current generation does not judge us very harshly for our work, I will say that even today about old cases, when eyewitnesses are still alive, they do not tell the whole truth. ... Over 40 years of work in the prosecutor’s office, and most of this time I was admitted to highly classified information I still can’t understand why it was necessary to lie to the people? I don't want to justify my actions with this on classifying events with fireballs and the death of a large group of people. I asked the correspondent to publish my apologies to the relatives of the victims for distorting the truth, hiding the truth from them, and since there was no place for this in four issues of the newspaper, with this publication I apologize to the families of the victims, especially Dubinina, Thibault-Brignolle, Zolotarev. At one time, I tried to do everything I could, but at that time there was, as lawyers say, an “irresistible force” in the country, and it became possible to defeat it only now.” Unfortunately, this is a belated but honest confession by prosecutor L.N. Ivanov about the situation in which the country and all of us lived at that time.

Certificate of M.A. Axelrod about fireballs.

The evidence of search engine Moses Abramovich Axelrod about fireballs has also been preserved: « Many watched unnatural glow some celestial objects in the Middle and Northern Urals early 1959. Bright balls flying across the sky in those days , saw, among others, famous tourists G. Karelin, R. Sedov. I myself saw a pulsating circle moving horizontally...”

Thus, without fear of being mistaken, we can say that at the beginning of February 1959, the Earth collided with a chain of fireballs, which were fragments of the nucleus of a small comet, torn apart by the gravitational forces of our planet.

(Later, after the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, astronomers who observed this phenomenon would call it the “string of pearls.”) This chain of “fireballs” burning in the Earth’s atmosphere was observed by numerous eyewitnesses in February-March 1959. (I presented a detailed description of this phenomenon, which occurs when comets collide with planets, in an article devoted to the Tunguska catastrophe. And knowledge of the mechanism of cosmic catastrophes of comets allowed me to logically explain many other historical mysteries of the past.)

In the fall zone two fragments comets that are over flashes of air electric discharge explosions, Dyatlov's group accidentally ended up camping unsuccessfully for the night not far from the summit mountains Kholat Syakhyl.

At the same time, it should also be recalled the site of an electric discharge explosion always has increased soil radioactivity, which I have already talked about several times in my previous works on cosmic explosions.

Other evidence of fireballs in the sky over Otorten.

1st of February.

Several written documents have been preserved with testimonies of witnesses who observed the flight of “fireballs” in the area of ​​​​the Otorten and Kholat Syakhyl mountains.

From the interrogation of witness Krivonischenko Alexey Konstaninovich (father of the deceased Yuri Krivonischenko) by the prosecutor of the investigative department of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region Romanov, it follows that at the memorial dinner, students, participants in the search for the missing group, told him that they had observed a strange glow in the sky on the evening of February 1st.

Here is the testimony of Father Krivonischenko during interrogation: "After the burial of my son, I had students at dinner, participants in the search for nine students. And those who were south of Mount Otorten in January-February. Participants in two groups told what they observed 1st of February in the evening a light phenomenon struck (them) to the north of these groups. Extremely bright glow from some kind of rocket or projectile. The glow was constantly strong... one of the groups, already getting ready to sleep, came out of the tent and observed this phenomenon. After a while, they heard a sound effect like strong thunder from afar. ... Students said that they observed a similar phenomenon twice: the first and seventh of February 1959."

And here is an excerpt from the interrogation protocol of Vladimir Mikhailovich Slobodin, the father of Rustem Slobodin: "From him(Chairman of the Ivdel City Council A.I. Delyagin) I heard for the first time that around the time the band suffered a disaster some residents (local hunters) observed the appearance of some kind of fireball in the sky. That the fireball was observed by other tourists- E.P. told me as students. Maslennikov)

Investigator Ivanov's testimony: "... a similar ball was seen on the night the guys died, that is from the first to the second of February students-tourists of the Faculty of Geography of the Pedagogical Institute."

According to the students, R.S. Kolevatova also said that a group of tourists from the Faculty of Geography saw a fireball in the area of ​​Mount Otorten in early February.

Mikhail Vladimirov reports that "that night" (?!) on Chistop they saw "strong light" So what “a flare would hardly have illuminated the area like that”.

Fireballs were also seen later.

February 17.

In a note by A. Kissel, deputy. Head of Communications of the Vysokogorsk Mine “Unusual Celestial Phenomenon”, dated February 18, 1959, in the newspaper “Tagilsky Rabochiy”, it is written:

“At 6:55 local time yesterday, a luminous ball the size of the apparent diameter of the Moon appeared in the east-southeast at an altitude of 20 degrees from the horizon. The ball was moving towards the northeast. Around seven o'clock there was a flash near him, and the very bright core of the ball became visible. He himself began to glow more intensely, and a luminous cloud appeared near him, torn away towards the south. The cloud spread over the entire eastern part of the sky. Shortly after this a second outbreak occurred, it looked like a crescent moon. Gradually the cloud grew larger; a luminous point remained in the center (the glow was variable in magnitude). The ball was moving forward in an east-northeast direction. The highest altitude above the horizon - 30 degrees - was reached at approximately 7:05. Continuing to move, this unusual phenomenon weakened and blurred. Thinking that it was somehow connected with the satellite, they turned on the receiver, but there was no signal reception.”

In the first half of April 1959, prosecutor Tempalov found and interviewed members of the internal troops who also observed the flight of “fireballs” at six forty in the morning February 17, 1959 described in the newspaper “Tagilsky Rabochiy”. According to the servicemen on guard, the luminous object was clearly visible for eight to fifteen minutes. Surrounded by a cloud of fog, it had variable brightness, and moved slowly at a very high altitude in a northerly direction, like the object observed by searchers on March 31.

Here is the testimony of the technician - meteorologist Tokareva, given on March 16, 1959 to the head of the Ivdel police department:

"February 17, 1959 6 hours 50 minutes local time, an unusual phenomenon appeared in the sky. Movement of a star with a tail. The tail looked like dense cirrus clouds. Then this star freed itself from its tail, became brighter than the stars and flew away. It began to gradually, as if swell, form a large ball, shrouded in haze. Then a star lit up inside this ball, from which a crescent moon first formed, then a small ball, not so bright, was formed. The large ball gradually began to fade, becoming like a blurry spot. At 7:05 am he completely disappeared. The star was moving from south to northeast .

Excerpt from the protocol of interrogation of serviceman Alexander Dmitrievich Savkin, conducted by the Ivdel city prosecutor, junior justice adviser Tempalov.
The witness testified: "February 17 1959, at 6:40 am... a ball of bright white light appeared from the southern side, which was periodically shrouded in a thick white fog; inside this cloud there was a brightly luminous point the size of a star.
Moving towards the north, the ball was visible for 8-10 minutes.”
The interrogation protocol was filled out with his own hand on April 7, 1959 by Savkin
Excerpt from the protocol of interrogation of a soldier of military unit 6602 “B” Malik Igor Nikolaevich, prosecutor of Ivdel, junior justice adviser Tempalov.
The witness testified: “On February 17, at 6:40 a.m., while on duty, I noticed a moving ball of bright white color, which appeared from the south side. The ball was bright white, in a thick white fog. The foggy cloud became thicker and lighter, and in the white cloud a bright white ball was illuminated, which moved north. The ball was visible for 10-15 minutes, after which the ball was no longer visible in the northern part.”
I filled out the interrogation protocol with my own hand. April 7, 1959 goals. Malik (signed)

Excerpt from the protocol of interrogation of witness Georgy Ivanovich Skorykh, born in 1925, head of the Karaul section of the subsidiary farm of the Paper Mill, living in the village. Guard of the Novo-Lyalinsky district of the Sverdlovsk region by the prosecutor of the Novo-Lyalinsky district, junior counselor of justice Pershin.
" … approximately in mid-February 1959 I was in my apartment in the village of Karaul, Novo-Lyalinsky district.
Around 6-7 o'clock in the morning, my wife went outside and immediately knocked on the window and shouted to me through the window: “Look. Some kind of ball flies and turns.” In response to this cry, I jumped out onto the porch and from the second floor of the house in which I live, from the porch, I saw a large luminous ball moving away to the north, alternating red and green light periodically. The ball moved away very quickly, and I only watched him for a few seconds. After which he disappeared over the horizon.
I did not hear any noise from the flight of this ball and I believe that the ball flew from us at a very great distance.
This ball, as I imagine, walked along the Ural ridge from south to north, however, I cannot indicate the exact direction of flight; it was the size of the Sun or the Moon. I can describe the picture of what I saw... this glowing ball looked like a bright sun in the fog. The ball was moving in a straight line far from us, but I noticed that the light of this ball was constantly changing in a certain alternation of red and green light, around which at the same time a white halo in the form of a ball was constantly preserved.

From here the impression was created that the moving ball, changing color, was in a white shell. All this happened instantly within a few seconds, and at what distance this ball was from us, I couldn’t even get my bearings, ..." Skorykh (Signature)

Testimony of Georgy Atmanaki from the Karelin group:

"…February 17 Vladimir Shavkunov and I got up at 6.00 am to prepare breakfast for the group. Having lit the fire and done everything necessary, they began to wait for the food to be ready. The sky was overcast, there were no clouds or clouds, but there was a slight haze, which usually dissipates with sunrise. Sitting facing north and accidentally turning his head to the east, I saw that in the sky at an altitude of 30° there was a milky-white blurry spot about the size of 5-6 lunar diameters and consisting of a series of concentric circles. The shape resembled a halo that occurs around the moon in clear frosty weather. I remarked to my partner that this is how the moon was painted. He thought and said that, firstly, there is no moon, and besides, it should be in the other direction. From the moment we noticed this phenomenon, 1-2 minutes passed I don’t know how long it lasted before and what it looked like initially. At that moment, in the very center of this spot, an asterisk flashed, which remained the same size for several seconds, and then began to sharply increase in size and rapidly move in a westerly direction. Within a few seconds it grew to the size of the moon, and then, breaking the smoke screen, or clouds, appeared as a huge milky fiery disk measuring 2-2.5 lunar diameters, surrounded by the same pale rings. Then, remaining the same size, the ball began to fade until it merged with the halo surrounding it, which in turn spread across the sky and went out. Dawn was beginning. The clock showed 6.57, the phenomenon lasted no more than a minute and a half and made a very unpleasant impression...”. “... It seemed that some celestial body was falling in our direction. When it grew to enormous sizes, the thought flashed that another planet was coming into contact with the earth, that a collision would now follow.”
“...I then had to talk a lot with eyewitnesses, and most describe... that the light from it was so strong that people in the houses woke up".

Karelin's testimony:

« ... I jumped out of my sleeping bag and out of the tent without boots in only woolen socks and, standing on the branches, I saw a large bright spot. It grew. A small star appeared in its center, which also began to grow. It's all a blur moved from northeast to southwest and fell to the ground. Then it disappeared behind a ridge and forest, leaving a light stripe in the sky. This phenomenon had different effects on different people: Atmanaki claimed that it seemed to him that the earth was about to explode from a collision with some planet; This phenomenon seemed “not so scary” to Shavkunov; it didn’t make much of an impression on me,” the fall of a large meteorite and nothing more. This whole phenomenon happened in just over a minute.” Fireballs were also seen on March 31st.

March 31.

Memories of Valya Yakimenko:
Camp... A vast clearing in the forest. Army platoon tent 6x6 m. There is a table in the middle of the tent. Near it is an iron stove. A pleasant warmth comes from it and spreads throughout the entire volume. Backpacks lie along the walls. Sleeping bags. Felt boots are closer to the stove. Windbreakers, padded jackets, underwear and other wet clothes hang on a rope. And there are people sitting everywhere. Everyone was frozen, dirty, with red, weathered faces.
On the left are us, UPI students. Right from the entrance there was a group of 6 people in black sheepskin coats and black quilted jackets. Many have pistols. They are from a group of state security forces. On the right are 9 people in white sheepskin coats and green quilted jackets. Hair brushed, young faces. These are guys from the conscript service of the railway troops. They are here instead of sappers. Commanded by the military lieutenants Potapov and Avenburg.
Here is one of the typical days: “...Today, like yesterday, and all the previous days, we worked on the slope. We lined up, pierced the snow with long two-meter rods every 40-50 cm. In some places the snow was knee-deep, in others waist-deep. "We move slowly. And so - for several hours. Then we return to camp.". Here is a diary entry from an atypical day: "...Today the same work. Hard, tedious. Suddenly the probe does not go all the way, as always in this work, but only to the middle. And next to it, and it doesn’t go further, but is pushed even further to the end.
Full impression - they found the body. We feverishly dig through the snow. We put down the tool. We dig with our hands. The snow falls back into the hole. The rest, huddled around, help widen the hole. So they resisted and raked it out. Oh, damn! Big log. We sigh and move on."In the evening, radio operator Gosha Nevolin taps out in Morse code: “There is nothing new, we continue the search.”
March 31. Early in the morning it was still dark. Orderly Victor Meshcheryakov came out of the tent and saw a luminous ball moving across the sky. Woke everyone up. We observed the movement of the ball (or disk) for about 20 minutes until it disappeared behind the mountainside. We saw him southeast of the tent. He was moving in a northerly direction.
This phenomenon excited everyone. We were sure that the death of the Dyatlovites was somehow connected with him. A detailed telegram was sent to Ivdel.

Here is the telegram: “Prodanov, Vishnevsky, 03/31/59, 9.30 local time.
31.3.1959 at 04.00 in the southeast direction, the orderly Meshcheryakov noticed a large ring of fire, which within 20 minutes it was moving towards us, then disappearing behind height 880.
Before disappearing behind the horizon from the center of the ring a star appeared, which gradually increased to the size of the Moon, and began to fall down, separating from the ring.
The unusual phenomenon was observed by all personnel who were alerted.
Please explain this phenomenon and its safety, since in our conditions this creates an alarming impression.
(lieutenants) Avenburg Potapov Sogrin"

Certificate of a full member of the Geographical Society of the USSR O. Strauch:
“03/31/59. At 4 hours 10 minutes the following phenomenon was observed: a spherical luminous body passed quite quickly from the southwest to the northeast over the village. A luminous disk, almost the size of the full moon, of a bluish-white color, was surrounded by a large bluish halo. At times this halo flashed brightly, resembling flashes of distant lightning, as the body disappeared beyond the horizon , the sky in this place was illuminated with light for several minutes.".

Reconstruction of tragic events.

The investigation, focusing on the exposure of the last photographs in the cameras of the Dyatlov group, determined that at about 17:00 on February 1, 1959, the Dyatlov group began digging a snow hole for a tent. Considering the lack of entrenching tools, the hole was dug for a long time, and it can be assumed that, together with the installation of a fairly large tent for ten people, it took 1.5 - 2 hours. (The exact time does not yet have any fundamental significance and serves only to indicate the chronological sequence of events.)

As darkness fell, everyone slowly began to settle into the tent, taking off their outerwear and shoes. The evening and night passed peacefully. The tragedy occurred on the morning of February 2, after the group woke up and was preparing to have breakfast.

And we can reproduce the subsequent events of February 2, 1959, right up to the moment of the death of the students, almost minute by minute.

Cosmic explosion.

A fireball appeared in the sky over Mount Kholat Syakhyl at about half past eight in the morning on February 2, 1959. At this time, there was only one person from the group on the street, who came out of the tent “for a minute” in woolen socks and with a flashlight, (according to the investigation, presumably Thibault-Brignolles), because it was dark in the tent, which had no windows. He probably managed to see a fireball rapidly approaching the top of the mountain from the southwest, its flight ending in a bright flash.

Powerful the blast wave covered the mountain and, raising clouds of snow dust, rushed down. Instantly assessing the situation, he shouted a terrible word for any climber: "Avalanche!!!". But here I must make a very significant remark. On the mountainside loose there was no snow, it was snowing. And the fine snow dust raised by the explosion, swirling and spreading in a continuous veil from the place of the explosion, only created the illusion of an avalanche. In reality, these were just clouds of snow dust raised by the blast wave. And therefore, none of the search engines and investigators found traces of an avalanche on the slope.

There was no panic.

But there was no particular confusion or panic. Because almost instantly, the side of the tent was ripped open by knives in two places at once to its full height, and everyone quickly jumped out. Everyone instinctively looked in the direction from which this blinding light, burning the skin and blinding the eyes, came from, the brightness of which significantly exceeded the brightness of the sun. In principle, a few moments would be enough for one of them to receive a burn to the retina. But in any case, they still had a reserve of time, because in order for retinal edema to develop and complete or partial blindness to occur, it usually passes no less 30-40 minutes. (Similar phenomena are observed when working with electric welding without safety glasses).

The cut tent testifies to the students’ ability to make the right decision in an extreme situation.

About the cause of skin burns.

According to the theory of electric discharge explosion of Alexander Nevsky, at the moment of formation of the pillar of electric discharge explosion powerful ultraviolet, infrared, x-ray and neutron radiation occurs. Therefore, on open areas of the skin of the face, neck and hands of the guys from Dyatlov’s group, a “sunburn”, which so puzzled numerous researchers, and heated clothes burned the body.

To illustrate what has been said, we again cannot do without an explanation based on another analogy with the Tunguska explosion. Here is the testimony of a resident of the Vanavara trading post, located 65 kilometers from the epicenter of the Tunguska explosion P.P. Kosolapov, which he told in 1963: “In June 1908, at about 8 in the morning, I was getting ready to make hay, and I needed a nail. I went out into the yard and began to pull out a nail with pliers from the window casing, in case something happened to me. My ears were badly burned.

Grabbing them and thinking that the roof was on fire, I raised my head and immediately ran into the hut.” It is useful to cite one more eyewitness account. E.L. Krinov, in his book “Messengers of the Universe,” published in 1963, cites the testimony of a resident of the Vanavara trading post, S.B. Semenov, who suffered from the Tunguska explosion, located 65 kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion: “I don’t remember the exact time, but it was in the summer, during the fallow plowing, at breakfast, I was sitting on the porch of the house, facing north... I just swung my ax to fill the hoop on the tub, when suddenly in the north the sky split in two, and in it a fire appeared that engulfed the entire northern part of the sky. I felt so hot, it was like my shirt was on fire. I wanted to tear it apart and throw it off me, but at that moment the sky slammed shut and a strong blow was heard. I was thrown from the porch three fathoms.” (That is approximately six and a half meters!)

Let's make the necessary comparison.

In the case of the Dyatlov group, the electric discharge explosion was, of course, much less powerful than the similar Tunguska one. But the tent of Dyatlov’s group turned out to be very close to the epicenter of the explosion, as a result of which people were exposed to a stronger impact of the cosmic explosion, as evidenced by burns to the face, neck and hands, as well as severe injuries received from the impact of the blast wave by members of the Dyatlov group. Fleeing from a blast wave raising clouds of snow dust, which the guys mistook for an avalanche, the entire Dyatlov group rushed down the slope to the seemingly saving forest, while a blinding light hit them in the back. Footprints in the snow showed the direction to the northeast, therefore, the flash of the electric discharge explosion was from the southwest of the tent. And a little later, approximately 500 meters from the tent, blast wave caught up and knocked over Dyatlov's fleeing group to the ground.

Losses and injuries from the first blast wave.

Doroshenko and Krivonischenko died from the effects of this blast wave (the autopsy did not establish the exact cause of their death). It is possible that Rustem Slobodin also received a six-centimeter skull fracture from the same blast wave. The rest escaped with scratches and abrasions.

The stopped clock of Yuri Krivonischenko recorded the time of his fall and death: 8 hours 14 minutes. The survivors did not yet know that they all have only life left about half an hour. Rising after the fall, they continued to move towards the forest, having reached which, some began to make a fire and prepare firewood, while others carried the dead Doroshenko and Krivonischenko to the fire. Here they cut off their clothes, sweaters and trousers, which were divided among themselves by Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles, in order to put them on themselves, to try to preserve the remnants of the heat of their bodies. Then Thibault-Brignolle took and stopped clock Yuri Krivonischenko to hand them over to the relatives of the deceased.

The members of Dyatlov's group were well aware that in conditions of severe frost and wind they had extremely limited time for rescue. They were half naked, and in order to escape, they urgently needed to bring clothes, equipment and food from the tent. After all, according to the weather report, on that day the temperature was 25-28 degrees below zero. At this temperature, a poorly dressed person is doomed to freeze within 1.5-2 hours or even earlier.

Harvesting spruce branches, making flooring from it, digging a snow hole and keep the fire going remained Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolle.

While leaving for the spruce branches, the guys fueled the fire with firewood, which, as the search engines would later testify, continued burn from one to two hours. The physically stronger ones went to the tent, Zinaida Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, and Igor Dyatlov. The first to leave the fire under the cedar tree was Kolmogorova, followed by Slobodin a couple of minutes later, and a minute later, having given the last orders to those remaining, Igor Dyatlov.

Second explosion.

And after some time, close to Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignol, There was an electric discharge explosion of another fragment of the comet's nucleus, which killed everyone. It was the so-called tandem explosion, a phenomenon absolutely typical of cosmic catastrophes of comets.

This time, the blast wave, carrying with it an avalanche of snow, literally threw into a rocky valley overgrown with trees a stream that had moved away from the fire behind spruce branches, and were on edge of a cliff Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolle, whose stopped watch recorded for us the time of death of the entire group: 8 hours 39 minutes. Let me remind you that the astronomical time of the explosion according to the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station is 8 hours 41 minutes. (The slight discrepancy in time is due to the error of the Krivonischenko clock)

At the same time, three of them, during a disorderly fall, were hit by trees or stones located at the bottom of the ravine, after which the entire ravine was covered with a four to five meter layer of snow.

And lightly dressed and located further from the epicenter of the explosion, Kolmogorov, Slobodin and Dyatlov found themselves literally frozen by the second blast wave of the meteorite, which clogged their lungs and pierced through with icy cold, after which the guys never found the strength to rise. Let me remind you that the air temperature that day dropped to minus twenty-eight degrees, and the hurricane icy cosmic wind of the blast wave deprived them of their last chance to survive. An hour and a half after the death of the guys from Dyatlov’s group, the fire went out.

The fire was the last to go out.

During the investigation, Yuri Krivonischenko’s father, according to the search engines, said: “The guys claim that the fire near the cedar went out not because of a lack of fuel, but because the people who were at the fire did not see what to do, or were blinded. According to the students, a few meters from the fire there was a dry tree, and under it there was dead wood that had not been used. If there is a fire, not to use ready-made fuel - this seems to me more than strange ... "

The stored fuel actually remained intact. But there was no one left to put it on. By this time, the entire Dyatlov group had died. The fire was the last to go out. Investigators noted the presence of burn marks on single trees. In order for tree trunks to receive thermal burns, the short-term exposure to temperature on their surface had to be about 500 degrees. And the temperature of the electric discharge explosion column is at least 1500-2000 degrees. Even if some of the members of Dyatlov’s group received light burns to their eyes from the bright flash of the explosion, blindness did not have time to develop. For until the last minute, all the actions of the Dyatlov group members were meaningful, sighted and logical. Only death in youth is always absurd and illogical.

About broken cedar branches.

Not knowing about the electrical discharge explosion that killed the boys, search engines and investigators misinterpreted the most well-known facts.

Here, for example, is what the search engine G. Atamanka writes about the cause of broken thick branches on a cedar: « The side of the cedar facing the slope, on which the tent stood, was cleared of branches at a height of 4-5 meters. But these raw branches were not used and partly lay on the ground, partly hung on the lower branches of the cedar.

As a comment, it should be noted that the thick cedar branches, which, according to investigator Karataev, “It was not even possible for healthy men to bend,” was broken by an air blast wave, from which all the guys died, and therefore there was no one to use them(i.e. put it in the fire).

But, not knowing about this, the Atamanka search engine interprets this fact differently: “It looked like the people had made something like a window so that they could look down from above on the side from where they came and where their tent was located.

Later version by G. Atamanka. “about the window for observation” was picked up by all the authors of inadequate criminal versions.

However, G. Atamanka’s further reasoning is more logical: “ The volume of work done near the cedar, as well as the presence of many things that obviously could not belong to the two found comrades, indicate that Most, if not the entire group, gathered around the fire, who, having made a fire, left some of the people with him. Some decided to go back to find a tent and bring warm clothes and equipment, and the remaining comrades began making something like a hole, where the prepared spruce branches were used to wait out the bad weather and wait for dawn... (?!)"

Here G. Atamanki made another mistake, which was repeated by absolutely all researchers of the death of the Dyatlov group, because, The death of the students did not occur at night, but at 8:41 a.m. on February 2, during daylight hours.

The situation with the death of the Dyatlov group was completely clear to me, and having posted the article on the Internet, I did not plan to return to this topic again. For this was an ordinary article, one of many on my website devoted to extraordinary cosmic electric discharge explosions. However, quite unexpectedly, the article aroused great interest among the general reader and came out on top in the Yandex search engine. Readers had many questions and they insisted on a more detailed coverage of the topic. The consequence of a deeper immersion in the topic was that I wrote several new articles devoted to individual episodes of this criminal case.

Chapter 3. The thirty-third frame and the last half hour of the students’ lives.

Therefore, this, and all subsequent articles, are a logical addition to the previous work. Not being a criminologist, I did not plan to give a detailed analysis of the tragic events that occurred on Mount Kholat Syakhyl, on the morning of February 2, 1959. And initially, my first article was intended for a Soviet-style reader who was accustomed to thinking about the text and meticulously delving into its content. It is with regret that I have to admit that the modern Internet user is sharply different from the image of the Soviet reader, kind and wise. After all, for an intelligent reader it was enough to just outline the basic diagram of the tragic incident that occurred and the essence of the phenomenon that destroyed the group.

And I expected that, based on the facts presented in the article, any internet user will be able to easily understand the meaning of what is written and INDEPENDENTLY check the accuracy of the information presented. After all, all the initial data for this is present in the article, and it is not the author’s fault that modern Internet users are too lazy and do not know how to strain their own brains. Alas, as one of the authors rightly noted, “The development of the Internet has significantly outpaced the development of its users.”

As in all articles previously published on my website, the author considers it only correct, when presenting the circumstances of the death of students from the Dyatlov group, to rely only on documented facts and investigative materials, without allowing any liberties in the presentation of the events that took place.

This article compares favorably with other versions posted on other sites, in which the authors, regardless of the facts, express the most exotic versions of what happened, although they are not at all consistent with the facts of the officially conducted investigation. And I’ll immediately make a reservation that the investigation conducted by professional Soviet investigators was generally sound and of high quality, despite some incorrect conclusions that were made as a result of force majeure circumstances in this case. In particular, due to the fact that the investigators were faced with a physical phenomenon that they did not understand and active opposition to the investigation from the leading party apparatus.

Let us once again, in more detail, examine the events which occurred on February 2 in the morning, before breakfast, because up to this point, all the events of the camping trip took place, as they say, “normally”. To do this, let’s try together to reconstruct as closely as possible the last half hour of the life of the guys from Dyatlov’s group.

The extraordinary power of the airborne electric discharge explosion that occurred in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl, which, based on indirect evidence, I considered to be approximately comparable to the Sasovo explosion, led me to think: contact the archive of the Sverdlovsk weather station. According to my guess, on the seismograms of this station for 1959, there should have been a record of the cosmic explosion that killed the Dyatlov group. The guess turned out to be correct, and this made it possible to establish the exact astronomical time of death of the Dyatlov group. The seismogram dispassionately recorded that the cosmic explosion that killed the students of the Dyatlov group in the area of ​​Mount Kholat Syakhyl occurred at 8:41 a.m., February 2, 1959. by local time.

I repeat, not on the night from the first to the second of February, as investigators assumed, and as absolutely all the authors who investigated the circumstances of the death of the Dyatlov group write about this, but on the morning of the second of February. In accordance with these additional data, we can now absolutely reliably reconstruct the sequence of tragic events that occurred in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl.

In the morning, before breakfast, one of the participants in the hike (according to the investigation, it was Thibault-Brignolles), who was too lazy to put on outer shoes, wearing only woolen socks, grabbed a Chinese lantern, which he used to illuminate himself, getting out of the dark tent in the cramped space, comes out tents for small needs. Let's fix this moment as a conditional starting point for further events. Coming out of the tent, he sees a luminous object flying in the morning sky and decides to photograph it. Thibault-Brignolles informs the group about this, asks them to hand him the camera, after which he puts a flashlight in the fold of the tent slope, photographs the object, closes the camera case, hands the camera back, and he begins to relieve himself, continuing to observe the approaching luminous object. And after a short period of time, in the sky, near the top of Mount Kholat Syakhyl, an explosion occurs, similar to the explosion in Sasovo. Probably, he still gave an alarm signal with his voice, although this signal was useless.

The fact is that at the moment of the electric discharge explosion, the temperature of which reached 1500 degrees, the sides of the tent instantly heated up, and the temperature inside the tent rose to the temperature of the coolest Finnish sauna or higher. The hot air inside the tent mercilessly burned the bodies, and it immediately became difficult to breathe. The photograph of the tent shows how many senseless blows with knives were applied to the sides of the tent and what convulsive cuts and tears were made.

That is, when someone managed to cut through the side of the tent, others grabbed the edges of the cut and helped tear the cut tarpaulin. But any fabric tears more easily in the longitudinal than in the transverse direction. That is why one of the cuts - breaks has an overturned U-shape. These are not clean cuts, but rather cuts-breaks.

In addition, it should be said that it was precisely from the high temperature of the explosion that the trees located at the edge of the forest received selective thermal burns.

Now let's pause to comment on the last shot taken by Thibault-Brignolle, the thirty-third shot, preserved on the film loaded into the camera.

Thirty-third frame.

In my first article, I did not cover the issue of the thirty-third frame, due to the fact that now most users are practically unfamiliar with film cameras like “Zorki” or “FED”, but use digital photo and film cameras. It’s easy to understand that this photograph captures a fast-flying, brightly glowing “fireball,” which was shot at an exposure of 25\5.6 or 30\5.6, because in the center of the picture there is a flare from the blade aperture window, and the glowing ball is blurred due to the high speed of movement. This object is located in the left corner of the frame, and flies from top to bottom, towards the photographer. It would be clearer if the shutter speed was 60, 125, 250, etc. If the subject were less bright and moving very slowly, then there would be no flare from the aperture in the frame, and the object itself would not look blurry. If we assume that it was a rocket, then a dark spot would definitely be visible in the center of the luminous object, since the rocket nozzle in this case would be located behind. It is characteristic that slow speed of movement of the camera shutter, showed the position of the object in the form of five positions. In addition, taking into account its distance from the photographer, and its relative size in the frame, as well as the fact that it was shot with a standard Industar-50 or Industar-50U lens, the luminous ball was quite large, and was comparable to the size of the full moon, or exceeded it. It is important to note that similar balls in this area were observed for at least two months, about which numerous written eyewitness accounts have been preserved, which indicates that it really was a “string of pearls” of a medium-sized comet.

Running away from the blast wave...

In order to reconstruct as accurately as possible the further events of that tragic day, we must consistently answer a number of fundamental questions.

1. Why did the guys leave the tent so quickly?

Let's try to reconstruct the events in the tent after a meteorite flashed in the sky and its electric discharge explosion. Calculations by A. Nevsky show that the temperature of the cosmic explosion reaches 1500 - 2000 degrees, which led to almost instantaneous heating of the air inside the tent to 120-160 degrees, or even higher. Due to the unbearable heat, the tourists did not immediately manage to rip open the sides of the tent, as evidenced by numerous stabs with knives on the sides of the tent. It should be noted that most of the blows with knives were made on the side of the tent, facing the base of the mountain. And the cut made on the side of the tent, facing the top of the mountain, apparently to observe a celestial object, was immediately covered with a fur jacket due to the unbearable heat. For the same reason, the group climbed out through cuts made in the opposite side of the tent.

2. Did they run or walk from the tent?

There are no trampled tracks near the tent, so it is logical to believe that after getting out of the tent, the guys did not linger near the tent, but only for a moment, looking back, rushed down with all their might, running away from the resulting blast wave and the blinding burning light.

The investigation established that they remained in the snow only traces of students, no traces of strangers were found at the scene.

The student tracks leaving the tent showed the direction to the northeast, therefore, we can confidently believe that the electric discharge pillar of the cosmic explosion was located behind the students, that is, on the southwestern slope of Mount Kholat Syakhyl. Running downhill limits stride length, because you have to run, leaning back slightly, “from your heels.” This is a little different from the usual toe running, but does not limit your running speed. In addition, the feeling of danger and additional adrenaline in the blood forced the group to run with all their might. It was precisely the fact that the students running downhill took shortened steps that allowed some inadequate authors to claim that the group leisurely (?!) moved away from the tent. This primitive misconception is due to the fact that the authors of Internet publications themselves have spent their entire adult lives sitting at a computer and have never run from the mountains, and therefore have no idea about it. In addition, for the half-shod members of the group, “leisurely walking” in twenty-eight degree frost was simply impossible, because it threatened serious frostbite of the legs in the very first minutes after leaving the tent.

3. What was the speed of the air blast wave?

Let's determine the speed of the air blast wave of a cosmic explosion by comparing it with the wind speed on the Beaufort scale. According to the Beaufort scale, at a speed of 70 km per hour, the wind breaks thick branches of trees, and at a speed of over 90 km per hour, the wind already knocks down, uproots, or breaks trees. Considering that only the thick cedar branches, and the tree itself was not damaged, it is most logical to believe that the speed of the air blast wave in the cedar area was close to 70 km per hour (20 m/sec)..

4. What was the running speed, and how long did it take the students to run to the cedar?

Now let's determine the time during which the guys from Dyatlov's group could theoretically run a distance of 1500 meters, from the tent to the cedar tree, in conditions of increased danger and stress. Considering that it was a run from the mountain and the guys were running as fast as they could to escape the blast wave, I believe that they were running no more than six minutes (360 seconds). This is the standard for teenage football players aged 13 (see the website http://kofla.ru/html/norm.html). The time, of course, is far from being a championship, given that the guys from Dyatlov’s group had excellent physical training. But this is a rather modest and correct tense that will not cause any complaints from the reader. Let's add here another 20-30 seconds, which the guys could have spent in order to get out of the tent through two cuts. Based on these rough assumptions, we can calculate that the entire journey from the tent to the cedar took approximately six and a half minutes.

Comparison with the Sasovo explosion.

To make our story about the events that happened in the vicinity of Mount Kholatchakhl more substantive and visual, let’s try to find a more or less clear analogy for the explosion that killed Dyatlov’s group, and very roughly compare it with the Sasovo explosion, about which quite a lot of testimony has been preserved.

Cosmic explosion in Sasovo.

To do this, we will have to remember the main parameters of the cosmic explosion on the outskirts of Sasovo, which occurred on April 12, 1991 at 1:34 am. This is what the chronology of Sasovo events looks like.

First, a growing rumble was heard, then the earth shook. Multi-storey buildings swayed, furniture fell, doors and frames were knocked out, people were thrown from their beds. Sewer manhole covers were torn off in the streets and water pipes burst underground. Before the disaster, numerous witnesses observed a ball of bright white color, and half an hour before the explosion, some residents living on the outskirts of the city saw two fireballs in the sky.

Glowing balls were also seen in the village of Chuchkovo, located 30 kilometers from Sasovo. Unusual balls in the sky were seen by police officers, diesel locomotive drivers, train passengers, cadets of the civil aviation school, railway workers, fishermen and random passers-by. Residents of the city heard an explosion and saw a pillar of fire, five kilometers high, in place of which a funnel with a diameter of 28 meters was formed.

Scheme of the explosion in Sasovo.

The shock wave broke windows and opened doors even in the village of Igoshino, located 50 kilometers from Sasov. Luckily, only four people were injured from the explosion. For a long time, until A.P.’s article was published. Nevsky about the explosion in Sasovo, (see article on the website), no one could understand what exploded in Sasovo. After all, some of the destruction created the impression that the blast wave was directed not only from the crater, but also towards the crater. For example, 70 meters from the epicenter of the explosion lay 30 tons of fertilizers, paper bags with which were transferred by an unknown force to the very edge of the crater

Glass and window frames flew not only inside the houses, but also outside, and electric poles standing on the field leaned towards the explosion. Alexander Platonovich Nevsky explains these oddities by the phenomenon of levitation.

For two nights after the explosion, the crater glowed as if it had been artificially illuminated from within, and an increased level of beta radiation was detected in the area of ​​the crater.

On the night of June 28, 1992, residents of the village of Frolovskoye, located near Sasovo, heard the roar of another cosmic explosion, but no damage was recorded. And only a week later, in the corn field of the New Path state farm, a crater from a space alien was discovered, 4 meters deep and about 12 meters in diameter. The upturned clods of earth scattered half a kilometer, but the oak trees growing fifteen meters away were not damaged at all.

Let's note the coincidence of the Sasovo cosmic explosion and the cosmic explosion in the vicinity of Mount Kholtchahl.

It's powerful blast wave, spread over many kilometers, electric discharge pillar, several kilometers high and radioactive beta radiation detected at the explosion site. Well, besides , fireballs which numerous witnesses observed before the explosion.

Well, now let’s return to the events on Mount Kholatchakhl.

Footprints in the snow.

Witnesses of the explosion in Sasovo report that the height of the column of the electric discharge explosion exceeded five kilometers, and the power of the explosion was estimated by experts from twenty to three hundred tons of TNT equivalent. (see article “The Mystery of the Sasovo Explosion”). Conventionally, we will assume that in our case, the explosion parameters were approximately the same.

Traces of all members of the group are clearly visible throughout five hundred meters and investigators note that there were no falls in this entire area and no one was carried. Further, the tracks disappear under the snow, which was swept up by the blast wave. And this suggests that the first blast wave overtook the fleeing students only when they ran five hundred meters from the tent.

5. What were the consequences of the impact of the first blast wave on the escaping group?

If we assume that the blast wave that caught up with the fleeing group of students had a speed of 72 km/h, and the group’s running speed was 15-18 km/h, then the total speed of the students’ fall along the mountainside was 90 km/h. Is it a lot or a little?

To understand this, let's compare the collision of an object moving at a speed of 90 km/h with a stationary obstacle, or with a free fall from a certain height. It is easy to calculate that hitting an obstacle at a speed of 90 km/h is equivalent to falling from a height of 31 meters, that is, it is like jumping from the roof of a nine-story building. The chances of surviving a collision with an obstacle at such a speed are minimal. And for comparison, let us inform you that the braking distance of a car at a speed of 90 km/h on a dry section of a horizontal road is 60 meters. On a slippery wet road it increases to 150 meters or more. On this basis, it can be assumed that the blast wave could have dragged the students along the mountainside at least 150 meters.
Let me remind you that the students fell on the mountainside with a slope of 15-20 degrees and a speed of 90 kilometers per hour, but in the absence of visible obstacles. As a result of this fall, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko died, and Slobodin was diagnosed with a skull fracture. The rest of the group escaped with multiple longitudinal abrasions and scratches, as well as body bruises of various locations.

But at that moment, none of the group members knew that Krivonischenko and Doroshenko had died, and their death was diagnosed not at the site of the fall, but later, near the cedar tree, near the lit fire.

At the cedar.

Footprints left in the snow show that the members of the group were running quite close to each other, and this indicates that everyone felt mortal danger, and the instinct of self-preservation forced them to stick together. At the time of the fall they were already near the forest, and a cedar tree located on the edge of a ravine and towering above the area, to which the entire group headed, taking both victims with them.

Reconstruction of further events seems to me to be simple. While four men from the group carried the unconscious Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, the remaining three went ahead, to make a fire in the forest and prepare dead wood for firewood, because a quickly lit fire was their only chance of salvation. The fire was lit on the leeward side of the cedar, and when the men brought Krivonischenko and Doroshenko to the fire, it had already flared up. Having gathered around the fire, they confirmed the death of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, and decided to take off the clothes from the dead, and partially use them to insulate the rest of the guys, and the search engines later found the rest of the clothes on the flooring, where they were spread out as places to sit. Krivonischenko’s watch was also taken from the cedar in order to give it to the relatives of the deceased.

They worked skillfully and quickly, because everyone understood the seriousness of the situation in which they found themselves. After all, there was a real danger hanging over them of stupidly freezing just one and a half kilometers from the rescue tent, in which their food and warm clothes remained. Trying to warm up their very cold hands and feet as quickly as possible, they stuck them straight into the open flame of the fire, as evidenced by the burnt sleeves of their sweaters and trousers. Let's take a break.

In order for a fire from dead wood to flare up well, you only need 10 minutes, I know from my own experience. And this was the time that the guys spent around the fire. Apparently, they were helped to quickly light a fire by pieces of film, the torn remains of a roll of which were found by searchers near the tent. For young Internet users, I will inform you that in 1959, photographic and film film was produced as highly flammable, which allowed us, as children, to use it to light fires and various unsafe pyrotechnic entertainments.

Meeting by the fire next to the cedar tree.

The students understood perfectly well that barefoot and half-dressed, they would not be able to hold out for long in the twenty-eight degree frost, in the cold wind, even by the fire.

They had only a slim chance, half dressed, half barefoot and hungry , wait out the time by the fire made in a snow pit, while others, the most resilient, try to reach the tent to bring as much as possible from the food, clothing and shoes left there in a hurry. An ax and at least one metal bucket to melt water from the snow were also desirable. And for a more bearable and almost “comfortable” overnight stay, it would be nice to have a piece of fabric from a tent to make a “bump” for the fire.

But a place for the snow pit still had to be found, and the pit itself had to be equipped, i.e. cover with spruce branches, on top of which lay the clothes of the dead. In addition, everyone understood that dehydration quickly sets in in the cold, and by night the frost could get worse, and everyone would be tormented by hunger and thirst. Therefore, the group split in two. At this point, there was approximately 15 minutes. But no one knew about this and everyone fought for their salvation until the very last moment.

The last fifteen minutes of the life of Kolmogorova, Slobodin and Dyatlov.

Zolotarev, Dubinina, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignol, led by Dyatlov, taking with them the clothes of the dead, went to look for a place for a snow pit and prepare spruce branches. Why with Dyatlov? Because it was he, as the group commander, who was obliged to determine and approve a safe place for the snow pit. Kolmogorov and Slobodin, who had suffered a head injury, remained by the fire. A little later, Dyatlov was supposed to catch up with them. But why did they choose them? I believe that it is precisely because they all had their shoes off. And the guys assumed that having managed to quickly run to the tent, they would be able to immediately put on their shoes, and thereby reduce the time they spent in socks in the snow and avoid serious frostbite. After all, if you sent others to the tent, the time until they brought shoes would double for them.

Kolmogorova and Slobodin, gathering warmth from the fire before throwing themselves into the icy cold, did not stay near it for long. Kolmogorova was the first to leave, having stayed by the fire for about five minutes; then, a couple of minutes later, Slobodin, who had a traumatic brain injury, left the fire. Calculating the time of their departure, with a known error, is quite simple. Kolmogorova’s body was found 850 meters from the tent, that is, 650 meters from the cedar tree and the fire. It is impossible to run uphill through the snow drift left after the blast wave, you can only walk quickly, that is, its speed could presumably be about 3.9 km per hour, and it could cover 650 meters uphill in ten minutes. Slobodin's body was found 1000 meters from the tent, and 150 meters from Kolmogorova, that is, 2-2.5 minutes from Kolmogorova, provided that they were moving at the same speed. What was Dyatlov doing at this time? Having identified a place for a snow pit, which was located in a ravine 75 meters northeast of the cedar, and ordered to prepare spruce branches and light a fire near the pit before his return, he went to catch up with Kolmogorov and Slobodin who had gone to the tent. At the same time, he also lingered a little by the fire to warm up and add more wood to the flaring fire. Dyatlov’s body was found 180 meters from Slobodin, that is, he left the fire approximately three minutes after Slobodin. And he only managed to walk 320 meters when the blast wave from the second explosion covered everyone.

And now we have to talk about the last fifteen minutes of life Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolle.

The last fifteen minutes of the lives of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolle.

After the departure of Dyatlov, Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolle, they divided into two groups, one of which began to trample the snow pit, prepare firewood and light a fire, and the second, prepare the spruce branches and carry it to the pit. The spruce branches were harvested along the edge of the ravine, not far from the snow pit, and immediately laid as the first layer of flooring. Having laid 15 cut trees (14 fir trees and one birch), parallel to each other in the form of a flooring, and covering the trees with spruce branches on top, they stacked the things taken from Krivonischenko and Doroshenko in the corners of the flooring, thus marking the places for sitting. And then, having warmed their hands over the flaring fire, they, all together, got out of the ravine and went along its edge to prepare dead wood for the fire and cut new portions of spruce branches. But they didn’t have time to go far. The powerful blast wave of the second explosion threw everyone off the cliff to the very bottom of the ravine. And the whirlpool of snow raised by the blast wave, to the very edges, covered the ravine and their bodies with snow.

And the terrible injuries that the tourists received were due to the fact that the blast wave, which had a speed of at least seventy kilometers per hour, threw them onto the rocky bottom of the ravine. At the same time, each of them flew a distance at least 10-12 meters, and besides, he fell from the edge of a ravine, which was five meters deep.

But the supposedly “torn out tongue” from Dubinina, about which numerous bloggers are still “breaking their spears,” as I have repeatedly reported, is clearly of posthumous origin. After all, such intravital injuries are accompanied by massive heavy bleeding, including arterial bleeding. And in this case, all the clothes and snow around the crash site would be literally drenched and soaked in blood, which Internet users who defend the right to their fantasies stubbornly refuse to pay attention to.

However, this is not all the information about the death of the Dyatlov group.

The fact that the flight of the “fireballs” that made up the “string of pearls” of the comet, over the course of a month, passed over the same place, led to the assumption that the trajectory of the flying comet almost completely coincided with the axis of rotation of the Earth. And the slow speed of movement of the “fireballs” in the sky indicates that the fragments of the comet were catching up with the Earth in its orbital movement, and were not flying towards it. My assumptions are also consistent with the conclusion of the investigation that the cause of the death of Dyatlov’s group was the elemental force emanating from the fireballs, which the students were unable to overcome.

Absolute confidence that the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was a cosmic explosion forced me to contact For help, go to the archives of the Yekaterinburg seismic station. Such archives have no restrictions on the storage period, and that is why seismograms of the Tunguska explosion have reached us. And I was convinced that the answer from the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station would allow us to accurately establish the time of the space disaster and the death of the students of the Dyatlov group and clarify the circumstances of the death of the students. After a long search for the location of the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, we sent our request there, and soon received an answer. And in order to show that these seismograms recorded precisely an explosion in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl, we publish this information along with the seismogram and an explanatory note.

Chapter 4. Sensational seismogram: Dyatlov’s group died on the morning of February 2, 1959.

Answer and seismogram from the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station

After an extremely long search on the Internet, the administrator of our site managed to find traces of the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and on March 19, 2013, we sent a request there, in which the archive staff was asked the only question: Are any explosions recorded on the seismograms of the Sverdlovsk seismic station on February 1 and 2, 1959?

Here is the verbatim response we received:

Dear Mikhail Dmitrievich!

In response to your request dated March 19, 2013, I inform you that specialists from the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences analyzed the seismograms of the Sverdlovsk seismic station (SVE) for February 1 and 2, 1959. At that time, 2 types of seismometers were installed at the station: Golitsyn (SG, long-period) and Kharin (SH, short-period). The seismograms for analysis were selected taking into account the difference between local time and Greenwich Mean Time, which is used in seismology (for Sverdlovsk the difference was +5 hours).

No records of seismic events were found on the seismograms of the SG device from 00:00 on February 1 to 24:00 on February 2, 1959 (Greenwich Time). .

When analyzing seismograms of the CX (EW) device on February 2, 1959 in 04 o'clock 07 min. 54 sec. GMT (09 hours 07 minutes 54 seconds local time) a record of a seismic event is noted, expressed in a train of oscillations with a period of maximum phase T = 1.8 sec.

According to our interpretation these vibrations are the beginning of a recording of a distant deep earthquake that occurred February 2, 1959 in the Banda Sea area (Indonesia). The USGS (National Earthquake Information Center, U.S.A.) seismological bulletin published a solution for this earthquake. The epicentral distance from the Sverdlovsk station is =82° (more than 9100 km), and the depth of the source is 150 km. The seismogram shows three distinct phases from the said earthquake: longitudinal wave P at 04:07:54, deep phase sP at 04:08:54, double reflected from the PP core at 04:11:14.

No records of other seismic events were found on the SH seismograms for February 1 - 2, 1959.

An electronic copy of the scanned seismogram of the CX device for February 1 - 2, 1959 is attached.

Note that the Sverdlovsk station is 550 km away from Mount Kholat-Syakhyl.

Director of GS RAS

Corresponding Member of the RAS A.A. Malovichko

Spanish L.S. Chepkunas

This answer was accompanied by a seismogram of the explosion itself:

clicking on the seismogram will enlarge the image

That is, this answer provides objective evidence of the fact of an explosion of unknown etiology and a subjective human interpretation of this explosion.

Meanwhile, the answer received, in my opinion, is objective and impeccable proof of the fact of a cosmic explosion on Mount Kholat Syakhyl. But this requires a little further explanation.

About the time of a cosmic explosion on the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station.

Focusing on the astronomical time of the explosion recorded on the seismogram, we can confidently state that air space explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl.

Here is the necessary calculation.

Air shock waves travel over long distances at an average speed just above the speed of sound (approximately 340 m/sec). The distance from the Sverdlovsk seismic station to Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, reported to us by corresponding member of the RAS A.A. Malovichko in the response sent is 550 km.

An explosion was recorded on the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station at 9 o'clock 07 min. 54 sec. by local time. That is, the explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl occurred 27 minutes earlier, at approximately 8:41 a.m., February 2, 1959, by local time(9 hours 07 minutes 54 seconds - 27 minutes = 8 o'clock 41 min.).

Go ahead. In electric discharge explosions, according to the theory of A.P. Nevsky, exists three clearly defined air shock waves. Let's just do it for now purely hypothetically, we identify them by the time indicated on the seismogram, like air shock waves formed over Mount Kholat Syakhyl.

1. Ballistic air shock wave, which always accompanies the fall in the atmosphere of a meteorite flying at cosmic speed for 9 hours 07 minutes 54 seconds. - 27 min. = 8 o'clock 41 min.

2. Explosive destruction of a meteorite (flash explosion) in the air, which is accompanied air shock wave. 9 o'clock 08 min. 54 sec. - 27 min. = 8 o'clock 42 min .

3. Cylindrical air shock wave the formed pillar of an electric discharge explosion. (9 hours 11 minutes 14 seconds - 27 minutes = 8 o'clock 44 min. 14 sec.

That is, the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station recorded not deep seismic waves, which are not formed at all during cosmic air explosions, A V air shock waves of a cosmic explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl.

To verify this, we need to restore the chronology of events in the area of ​​​​Mount Kholat Syakhyl, using the stopped clocks left in the hands of the dead students of the Dyatlov group.

About the group hours.

There were four hours in Dyatlov's group. According to the investigation, Dyatlov’s watch at the moment of stopping showed 5 hours 31 minutes, Krivonischenko’s watch stopped at 8 hours 14 minutes , Slobodin’s watch showed 8 hours 45 minutes, and Thibault-Brignolle’s clock stopped at 8 hours 39 minutes.

In light of the above, it is easy to understand that Dyatlov’s watch stopped spontaneously, after the spring’s life had expired.

The watch of Krivonischenko, who died on the slope from the first cosmic explosion of low power, not recorded by the weakly powerful seismographs of the Sverdlovsk seismic station at 8 hours 14 minutes, gave us the opportunity to determine the time of the beginning of the tragedy.

And Slobodin’s watch ( 8 hours 45 minutes) and Thibault-Brignolle ( 8 hours 39 minutes), stopped near the astronomical time of the group's fall under the influence of a cylindrical shock wave of a more powerful second cosmic explosion. (8 hours 44 minutes 14 seconds).

The slight discrepancy between the time on the students’ watches and the astronomical time recorded by the seismographs of the Sverdlovsk seismic station is easily explained by the clock error.

About the accuracy of the clock.

Dyatlov’s group left Sverdlovsk on January 23 and on the night of January 25, the guys arrived in Ivdel. This was the last settlement in which the guys could check the watch based on a radio signal. January 26 the students left Ivdel, and then until the very moment of the cosmic catastrophe on the morning of February 2, within seven and a half days, they had no way to check their watches.

According to the passport, the factory warranty accuracy of serial wristwatches of that time was plus or minus 45 seconds per day, but in Under real operating conditions, for mechanical wristwatches, the average daily error was usually plus or minus one is one and a half minutes, and much less often, it could be less than plus or minus 30 seconds. (Young readers can easily test this statement by asking their grandparents.)

That is, the total error of the clock, accumulated over seven and a half days, on average could be (45 seconds x 7.5 days = plus or minus 337 seconds (5.5 minutes), and the real one could be twice as large ( plus - minus 11 minutes).

A simple calculation shows that the astronomical time of the cosmic catastrophe almost coincides with the time on the stopped clocks of Slobodin and Thibault-Brignol. And the slight discrepancy (+46 sec. for Slobodin’s watches, and - 4 min. 46 sec. for Thibault-Brignolle’s watches) is explained by the error of the watch, typical for mechanical wristwatches of that time.

My conclusion is logical and completely obvious. The seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station recorded the time of the cosmic explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl, and the interpretation of this airborne cosmic explosion by the seismic station workers as an earthquake in Indonesia turned out to be thoughtlessly copied from the American seismological bulletin, only so that this explosion would not be “nameless.”

Otherwise we will have to answer a completely inexplicable question. Why did the seismogram “not record” the explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl, which is located only 550 km from the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and confidently recorded "distant deep earthquake", which occurred at a distance of more than 9100 kilometers, simultaneously with the explosion over Kholat Syakhyl? What other evidence is needed to confirm the cosmic explosion that occurred above Mount Kholat Syakhyl? Is it possible that in this case, supporters of Rakitin’s version will argue that the cunning "American spies" did they deliberately adjust the watches of the students they killed in order to combine their readings with the watches of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and thus mislead us?

Chapter 5. About the reason for my request to the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station.

Even at the stage of becoming familiar with the circumstances of the case of the death of the Dyatlov group in 2010, I drew attention to some inconsistencies between the investigation materials and the facts that I was able to discover.

Firstly, I noticed the selective burning of trees located at the edge of the forest, which is a feature and distinctive feature characteristic of only electric discharge cosmic explosions. No other known explosions produce a radiant burn.

In addition, the analysis of the incident showed that the cosmic air explosion was quite powerful, and, moreover, quite clearly the impact of two blast waves on the deceased group was traced. The bodies of students who had severe injuries were found under a 4.5 meter layer of snow, and the conclusion of a forensic expert that these injuries could only have been caused by exposure to a powerful air blast wave, as well as the statements of prosecutor Ivanov, What “the death of the students occurred from the influence of a natural force, which they were unable to overcome”, gave reason to believe that we can only talk about cosmic explosions.

And the periodic appearance of fireballs over the same area for two months indicated that we were talking about a “string of pearls” of a small comet, the direction of flight of which coincided with the rotation of the Earth.

And the only known, albeit very approximate analogue of such explosions, was Sasovo cosmic explosion, the scientific analysis of which was given by Alexander Platonovich Nevsky. Therefore, I quite consciously used the parameters of this explosion in my article to explain the schematic diagram of the events that took place on Mount Kholat Syakhyl.

Secondly, I noticed to the surprisingly “sighted” behavior of group members, indicating that the space incident occurred during daylight hours. But I was unable to find any absolute evidence of this in the investigation materials, except for a number of indirect ones. Therefore, initially, despite my doubts, I had to rely on the investigation’s assumption that the death of the tour group occurred evening of February 1 Moreover, this version was supported by absolutely all authors of books and articles and all Internet users. And I just noted that “until the last minute, all the actions of the Dyatlov group members were meaningful, sighted and logical» . A little later, analyzing additional facts, I again drew attention to the fact that they do not coincide with the version of the evening explosion. Moreover, indirect facts clearly indicated that the explosion occurred precisely in the morning, February 2, when the students woke up but had not yet had time to get dressed. And I had to write carefully, What "having analyzed all information available to me, I have not found a single fact that would clearly indicated that the explosion occurred on the evening of February 1, as the investigation suggested,(which I also relied on ), and not on the morning of February 2. In addition, the version that the tragedy could have occurred on the morning of February 2, V in the light of new facts may turn out to be more prosperous».

And sending your request to the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, I was almost convinced that there was an explosion exactly on the morning of the second of February, and not the first in the evening, and therefore my request was made not only on the first, but also on the second of February. And the hidden logic of the question was that the cosmic explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl, according to my assumption, must have coincided in time with the time recorded on the guys’ stopped watches.

And the only objective and irrefutable evidence of the time of the explosion that occurred over Mount Kholat Syakhyl could only be a seismogram of this explosion. And when sending the request, I well understood that only the time of the explosion can be objective on the seismogram, and the explosion itself can be interpreted in any way: as industrial, and as military, and as technical, and as nuclear... however, I least expected it, that it is interpreted as an earthquake in the Indonesia area.

Let me explain. In principle, modern seismographs make it possible to determine the epicenter of an explosion by comparing the readings of several seismographs at one station. In this case, the most correct amplitude (displacement) of oscillations can only be recorded by a seismograph whose pendulum oscillations coincide with the direction of the seismic beam. After all, when recording waves from other directions, “the amplitude of their oscillations will be the smaller the larger the angle A between the direction of the beam and the oscillation of the pendulum. This angle is determined by the formula: tg α = X2/X1, in which X1 and X2 are the vibration amplitudes of longitudinal waves recorded by two mutually perpendicularly located seismographs".

That is, it is possible to determine the direction of the seismic beam of a longitudinal wave, and setting the epicentral distance on it, determine the location of the explosion. But at the same time we must make one small clarification. Even one seismic station can indeed show the direction of the seismic beam, but to clarify the location of the explosion from the seismic station in the direction (0 -180 degrees) a second seismic station is required.

And looking ahead a little, I must say that the sensitivity of the 1959 seismographs available at the Sverdlovsk seismic station did not allow recording ultra-small earthquakes located at a distance of 9,100 kilometers.

Fortunately, we have an excellent opportunity to clarify the date and time of the explosion and according to witness testimony.

Date of death of the group according to the testimony of Lyuda Dubinina’s father.

Now we have to clarify whether the astronomical time of the cosmic explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl, accurately recorded on the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, corresponds to the testimony of witnesses given by them in 1959?

The investigation materials contain a copy of the interrogation of Lyudmila Dubinina’s father, carried out in March 1959, “...I heard conversations among students of the Ural Polytechnic University (UPI) that the flight of undressed people from the tent was caused by an explosion and large radiation..., and the manager’s statement administrative department of the regional committee of the CPSU Comrade Ermash, made to the sister of the deceased Comrade Kolevatova, that the remaining 4 people who were not found now could have lived after the death of those found for no more than 2 hours, makes us think that the forced, sudden flight from the tent was due to an explosion projectile and radiation near Mount 1079, the “filling” of which forced... to flee further from it and, presumably, affected people’s livelihoods, in particular, their vision.

The light of a shell was seen on February 2 at about seven o'clock in the morning in the city of Serov... I am surprised why tourist routes from the city of Ivdel were not closed. .. If the projectile deviated and did not hit the intended test site, in my opinion, the department that fired this projectile should send aerial reconnaissance to the place where it fell and exploded to find out what it could have done there. ...If aerial reconnaissance was done, then we can assume that she picked up the remaining four people. I have not shared my personal opinion expressed here with anyone, considering it not to be disclosed."

Lyudmila Dubinina’s father at that time was a member of the CPSU and a responsible employee of the Sverdlovsk Economic Council, that is, he unconditionally obeyed the strict rules of party discipline that existed at that time, and therefore his testimony cannot be unreliable. And he is the first and only witness who fairly and reasonably linked the explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhyl, on the morning of February 2, with the death of the students. And, one must assume that in provincial Serov, located 200-250 kilometers from Mount Kholat Syakhyl, many residents saw this flash, that is, the flash of the explosion was extremely powerful.

And we have the right to draw the only correct conclusion that the seismogram absolutely accurately recorded the astronomical time of the cosmic electric discharge explosion above Mount Kholat Syakhyl, which occurred at 8 hours 41 minutes, on the morning of February 2, 1959.

It follows from this that the investigation’s assumption that the tragedy on Mount Kholat Syakhyl occurred on the evening of February 1, or on the night of February 1 to 2, is false.

Accordingly, the assumption of academic scientists that the seismogram recorded an earthquake in the Banda Sea area in Indonesia also is a grave mistake.

Therefore, the reasoning absolutely all authors, relying in their versions on the fact that the tragedy occurred at night, are unfounded. And, unfortunately, we have to admit that they are all just the fruit of logical constructions, based on an initially incorrect fact.

Date of death of the group according to Axelrod.

In Nikolai Rundkvist's book "100 Days in the Urals" there is a quote from Axelrod:
“Yes, undoubtedly, it is their tent that stands on the gloomy slope of Solat-Syakhla. I myself took part in its sewing in ’56. Skis were carefully placed under the tent, without haste. The date of death of the boys was established simply. In the far corner of the tent there was a diary with the date of the last entry - February 2 1959. That is, the tourists were just starting the route. In the Auspiya valley they built a storehouse to store food and equipment that was unnecessary above the forest line.”

http://russia-paranormal.org/index.php/topic,4404.0.html#sthash.DDfBfTGt.dpuf (Forum “Russia Paranormal”)

We, of course, can assume that this date was pedantically put down by the students of Dyatlov’s group immediately after 00.00. nights, but usually the date of a new day is usually set in the morning, after waking up. However, for our research this is not fundamental, since the death of the group, according to the stopped clock, could only have happened in period from 20 to 21 pm on February 1, or from 8 to 9 am on the second of February.

That is, in this case, we have impeccable written evidence from the Dyatlovites themselves that on the morning of February 2, after waking up, the students were still alive. And the seismogram from the Sverdlovsk seismic station perfectly accurately recorded the astronomical time of the death of the Dyatlov group. And the message is that the flash of this explosion was seen on the morning of February 2 in Serov, allows us to reasonably assume that the brightness of the flash was comparable to the flash of a nuclear explosion.

Chapter 6. About space funnels at the site of the tragedy.

Investigator L. Ivanov wrote in one of his articles that he had to remove from the case materials everything that pointed to a “fireball” or a UFO, and further: “When E.P. Maslennikov and I inspected the scene of the incident in May, we discovered , What “Some young fir trees at the forest border have a burnt mark, but these marks were not concentric in shape or any other system. There was no epicenter. This once again confirmed the direction of a kind of heat ray or a strong, but completely unknown - at least to us - energy acting selectively. " Let's try to determine the epicenter of this outbreak.

Location of the first explosion.

I noticed one message on the Internet: "south of the Mountain (Kholat Syakhyl ) modern tourists have already stumbled upon into several deep craters "obviously from missiles". With great difficulty, we found two of them in the remote taiga and explored them as best we could. They clearly didn’t stand up to the rocket explosion of ’59, in a funnel birch grew age 55 (counted by rings), that is, the explosion occurred in the remote taiga rear no later than 1944. Remembering what year it was, one could attribute everything to training bombing or something like that, but... funnel, we made an unpleasant discovery with the help of a radiometer, it was very phonic».

I will talk about the reasons for the occurrence of radiation at the site of the explosion below, in a separate article, but for now we will give one more message.

According to G.V. Novokreshchenov, after the death of Dyatlov’s group, traces of numerous craters on the slope of Mount Kholat Syakhyl, opposite from the location of the tent, were seen by the prosecutor of the Ivdel region Vasily Ivanovich Tempalov, who took part in flying over this area by helicopter. Later, regarding these funnels, he said: “What can I say, there were rockets falling, there were craters all around"I'm an artilleryman."

Almost everyone has heard about the Dyatlov Pass. Many films have been made and even more articles have been written about the terrible tragedy that happened in the Northern Urals in 1959 with a group of tourists led by Igor Dyatlov.

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 examinations of this case. We will try to talk about the death of the group without prejudice, based solely on investigative materials.

Tent under the snow

On February 1, 1959, a group of tourist skiers (mostly students from Sverdlovsk) began climbing the mountain marked on their map as No. 1079. These were Igor Dyatlov (23 years old), Zinaida Kolmogorova (22 years old), Yuri Doroshenko (21 years old), Yuri Krivonischenko (23 years old), Lyudmila Dubinina (20 years old), Alexander Kolevatov (24 years old), Rustem Slobodin (23 years old) , Thibault-Brignolle 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 Dyatlov group's tent was found by search engines Boris Slobtsov and Mikhail Sharavin, UPI students. Examining the eastern slope of the ridge with binoculars, Sharavin noticed a mound 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. Only the skis stuck into the snow stuck above the surface. 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 their accommodation for the night, cutting the tarpaulin of the tent. After the tent was discovered, a search for tourists was organized.

Stripped corpses

The frozen and mutilated 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 fire pit, the corpses of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were found. The boys' arms and legs were burned and cut. Moreover, both corpses were found in their underwear without shoes. The boys' clothes were cut off with a knife. These clothes were subsequently found on other members of the group. This indicated that both Yuri were practically the first to freeze...

The examination found traces of leather and other tissues on the tree trunk. The guys climbed the tree to the last to break branches for the fire, while peeling their already frostbitten hands to the flesh.

With all my might

Soon, with the help of dogs, under a thin layer of snow, on the line from the tent to the cedar, they discovered the corpses of Igor Dyatlov and Zina Kolmogorova.

Igor Dyatlov was approximately 300 meters from the cedar, and Zina Kolmogorova was approximately 750 meters from the tree. Igor Dyatlov's hand peeked out from under the snow. He froze in such a position, as if he wanted to get up and go in search of his comrades again.

180 meters from Dyatlov’s corpse, towards the tent, the corpse of Rustem Slobodin was found. He was under a layer of snow on a slope: conditionally, between the corpses of Dyatlov and Kolmogorova. One of his feet was shod in felt boots. Rustem Slobodin was found by search engines in the classic “dead body”, which is observed in people frozen directly in the snow.

A later forensic medical examination established that Dyatlov, Doroshenko, Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova died from exposure to low temperatures - no damage was found on their bodies, with the exception of minor scratches and abrasions.

An autopsy of Rustem Slobodin revealed a 6 cm long skull fracture, which he received during his lifetime. However, experts found that his death, like everyone else’s, was due to hypothermia.

Mangled 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-Brignolle and Alexander Kolevatov.

There were no injuries on the body of Alexander Kolevatov; death was due to hypothermia.

Alexander Zolotarev had broken ribs on the right. Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles had extensive hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle and a depressed fracture of the skull.

Lyudmila Dubinina had a symmetrical fracture of several ribs; death occurred from extensive hemorrhage in the heart within 15-20 minutes after receiving the injury. The corpse had no tongue. On the bodies found and next to them were the trousers and sweaters of Yuri Krivonischenko and Yuri Doroshenko who remained at the fire. This clothing had even traces of cuts...

The criminal case into the death of the Dyatlov group was discontinued with the following wording: “Taking into account the absence of external bodily injuries and signs of struggle on the corpses, the presence of all the group’s valuables, 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 a natural force that the tourists were unable to overcome.”

Over the following years, numerous attempts were made to understand what happened on the slope of that ill-fated mountain. A wide variety of versions have been put forward - from completely plausible to unlikely, and even delusional. At the same time, they often forgot about the existing facts...

The events of that tragic night when Dyatlov’s group died were reconstructed solely based on the materials of the investigation and subsequent criminal examinations. So those who are expecting aliens, fantastic anomalies and secret tests need not read further. Here there will only be 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 approached me, showed me their route and asked for advice. I told them that in winter it is dangerous to walk along the Ural ridge, since there are large gorges there that you can fall into, and strong winds are raging there. To which they replied: “For us this will be considered first class difficulty.” Then I told them: “First we need to go through it...”

From the materials of the criminal case: “...knowing about the difficult terrain conditions of height “1079”, where the ascent was supposed to be, Dyatlov, as the leader of the group, made a gross mistake, which resulted in the fact that the group began the ascent only at 15.00.”

Literally an hour later it began to get dark. Twilight was brought closer by the onset of snowfall, which found the group on the mountainside. Before sunset there was only time to set up the tent.

Those who have gone on winter hikes know that a cold overnight stay at minus twenty-five is a serious test. Moreover, this was their first overnight stop when they decided not to light the stove.

"At random"

The tourists set up the tent “in a branded way”: they pulled guy ropes onto ski poles. The Dyatlovites had a small tin stove with them, but it was not installed that day, since the roof of the tent sagged and a fire could occur. There were no problems with installation in the forest - the guys are attached to trees, but there are no trees on the mountain. The central part of the tent could have been additionally secured with guy ropes on the skis, but this was not done.

It would be reasonable to try to secure the center of the tent, not even in order to hang the stove, but in order to avoid sagging the tent slopes under the mass of snow. But they didn’t do that either. Already frozen.

What was the ridge on which the tourists found themselves? Moving to the top, Dyatlov’s group reached one of the main ridges of the Northern Urals - the so-called watershed. This is where the heaviest snowfall in winter occurs and powerful winds blow.

In a snow sarcophagus

By nightfall, everyone got rid of their wet outerwear and took off their shoes. All except Thibault-Brignolle and Zolotarev. These two remained dressed and shod. Zolotarev, apparently as an experienced tourist and instructor, did not relax. And Thibault-Brignolle was on duty.

With sunset the weather changed a lot. The wind picked up and 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, the tent sagged under a thick layer of snow. The tent was old, sewn in many places. The accident did not have to wait long. The fragile slopes burst in several places, and under the weight of the snow, the tent collapsed right on top of the tourists. Everything happened quickly, in complete darkness. It became dangerous to be in the tent. The tourists lay covered with an awning under a thick layer of snow. The cold, torn tent did not warm, did not provide 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.

Hoping for salvation

Outside, new troubles awaited the tourists. Having got out of the tent, the guys were faced with snowfall of incredible force and density, with wind knocking them down. The emergency situation required a quick decision. The squall literally knocked people off their feet, the tent was overwhelmed, and digging through the snow with bare hands under the icy wind was suicide.

Dyatlov decided to seek salvation in the forest below. We insulated ourselves as best we could. We somehow distributed the things we had taken from the tent. They didn’t get the shoes, they couldn’t. Wind, snow and cold interfered. Rustem Slobodin managed to put on only felt boots.

The wind almost itself drove the Dyatlovites down. The guys tried to walk side by side. However, it is unlikely that in such a situation everyone was able to stay within sight. A terrible cold pierced the tourists, it was difficult to breathe, and even more difficult to think. Most likely, the group broke up. Testimony from one of the search engines, Boris Slobtsov: “...the tracks at first were in a cluster, next to each other, and then they 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 one. It was not possible to walk confidently in the snow - with one foot bare and the other shod with felt boots - especially through the icy stones of the kurumnik. The felt boot slid violently on the smooth surface. Rustem Slobodin lost his balance and fell extremely unsuccessfully, hitting his head hard on a stone. Most likely, the rest of the Dyatlovites, busy overcoming the ridge, did not pay attention to his lag at first. They realized it later, a little later: they started looking for him, screaming, calling.

Having woken up, Rustem Slobodin crawled some distance down before losing consciousness. The injury was very serious - a crack in the skull... He died first, frozen in an unconscious state.

Falls and injuries

Having reached the forest, the Dyatlov group lit a fire near a tall cedar tree, in the only place found in the dark where there was little snow underfoot. However, a fire in the wind is not salvation. It was necessary 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 edge of the forest, avoiding a ravine at the bottom of which a stream flowed. In the darkness, the guys did not notice how they came to a steep seven-meter cliff and found themselves on a small snow ledge. Such “overhanging banks” near the tributaries of the North Ural rivers are a common occurrence. One has only to step on them in the darkness of the night, and tragedy is inevitable...

The fall from a seven-meter height onto the rocky bottom of the stream did not pass without a trace for all three; they all received multiple injuries, which were later described by a forensic expert: Thibault-Brignolles - a severe head injury, Zolotarev and Dubinina - chest injuries, multiple rib fractures. The boys could no longer move.

Fight for life

Now it is difficult to establish whether Sasha Kolevatov went with them to the place where they fell, or whether 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 drag his friends higher along the stream, closer to the fire. Then Dyatlov, Kolevatov and Kolmogorov built a flooring of fir trees 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 this was impossible. Between the wounded and the cedar there was a high steep ravine. The only way Sasha Kolevatov, Igor Dyatlov and Zina Kolmogorova could help their comrades was to make a second fire and maintain it. The group split up again. Walking between the fire and the decking was difficult. They were separated by a high snow wall. From the cedar to the flooring there were 70 endless meters.

Yura Doroshenko and Yura Krivonischenko remained to support the fire near the cedar.

Stress Sel e

On a windy hillock, near the edge of the forest, where the cedar was located, it was not easy to build a fire. Peeling the skin down to the meat, the guys broke the only material that is flammable in winter - the paws of cedar. The fire was their salvation. However, the fire and the first signs of warmth played a cruel joke on the Yuri. They began to feel sleepy. Anyone who goes on a winter hike knows that sleeping in the cold is death. The guys began to deliberately injure themselves so that the pain would return consciousness, so as not to freeze in unconsciousness. The traces of these injuries will later be described by a forensic expert: burns, bites of the palms, scratches.

Alas, the guys lost in this battle... In psychology there is such a thing as Selye stress. As soon as a freezing person feels the first signs of warmth, he relaxes, and in extreme conditions this is fatal. Especially if there is no one to help. Both Yuri died before everyone else did.

Clothes on corpses

The condition of the wounded on the deck quickly deteriorated. It was difficult to determine who was still alive. Apparently, Dyatlov instructed Kolevatov to maintain the fire near the deck, and he himself decided to go to the first fire. He found Doroshenko and Krivonischenko there already frozen. Apparently, believing that it was necessary to warm the wounded, Dyatlov cut off some of their clothing. Alas, their comrades never came to their senses. Their death left a depressing impression on those who remained.

The 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 was completely unrealistic...

That’s how they were found later – frozen on the slope: Slobodin, Kolmogorova and Dyatlov. Dyatlov froze in a volitional position, not curled up in the fetal position in which frozen people are usually found. Until his last breath, he tried to go forward in search of his comrades.

White Silence

Perhaps, without waiting for Dyatlov, Kolevatov went to the first fire, but found there only an extinguished 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 flooring where his dead friends lay. He understood perfectly well that there was no longer any chance of survival. It is difficult to imagine the degree of despair of this man.

Subsequently, on May 4, searchers found four corpses eaten by mice at this place. Some had missing eyes, some had missing tongues, some had eaten away cheeks.

P.S.
Before leaving the tent, Dyatlov stuck his skis into 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 erected at random, lack of firewood and the harsh climate of the Northern Urals. Even now, tourists go to Otorten along the riverbeds of the Lozva tributaries, and not along the dangerous Ural ridge, where only wild cold reigns.

More versions :

1. A UFO in the Dyatlov Pass area awaits researchers:

2. There could have been a big fight at the Dyatlov Pass:

3. The mystery of the Dyatlov Pass has been solved:

: lomov_andrey wrote - It’s also interesting to read about the Dyatlov Pass. The topic is dark and I was even wondering if you could find something previously unknown, I don’t want to wait a month, so if I may ask a question from me: The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass.

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

On January 23, 1959, the group went on a ski trip in the north of the Sverdlovsk region. The group was led by experienced tourist Igor Dyatlov. The group left for 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-Syahl, translated from Mansi - “Mountain of the Dead”) or peak “1079” (although on later maps its height is given as 1096.7 m), near an unnamed pass (later called Dyatlov Pass).

On February 12, the group had to reach the final point of the route - the village of Vizhay and send a telegram to the institute sports club. There is a lot of testimony from participants in search operations and UPI tourists that with Yu. Yudin leaving the route, the group postponed the deadline to February 15. The telegram was not sent either on the 12th or 15th February.

An advanced search group was sent to Ivdel on February 20 to organize searches from the air. Search and rescue work began on February 22, with the dispatch of several search teams formed from students and UPI employees who had tourist and mountaineering experience. A young Sverdlovsk journalist, Yu.E., also took part 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. There was equipment left in the tent, as well as shoes and outerwear for some of the tourists.

This is how the Dyatlovites’ tent was seen during investigative actions.

On February 27, the day after the discovery of the tent, all forces were pulled into the search area, and a search headquarters was formed. Yevgeny Polikarpovich Maslennikov, Master of Sports of the USSR in Tourism, was appointed head of the search, and Colonel Georgy Semenovich Ortyukov, a teacher at 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 traces of a fire, the bodies of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were discovered. They were stripped down to their underwear. 300 meters away, up the slope and in the direction of the tent, lay the body of Igor Dyatlov. 180 meters from him, higher up the slope, they found the body of Rustem Slobodin, and 150 meters from Slobodin, even higher, of 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 corpses of Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexander Zolotarev, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolle and Alexander Kolevatov were found. Three had serious injuries: Dubinina and Zolotarev had broken ribs, Thibault-Brignolle had a severe traumatic brain injury. Kolevatov did not have any serious injuries, except for damage to his head caused by the avalanche probe used to search for bodies. Thus, the search work ended with the discovery of the bodies of all participants in the hike.

It was found that the death of all group members occurred on the night of February 1-2. Despite the efforts of search engines, the full picture of the incident was never established. It remains unclear what really happened to the group that night, why they left the tent, how they acted next, under what circumstances the four tourists were injured and how it happened that no one survived.

Official investigation

The official investigation was opened by the prosecutor of the Ivdel region Tempalov upon the discovery of the found corpses on February 28, 1959, was conducted for two months, then was extended for another month and was closed on May 28, 1959 by a resolution to terminate the criminal case, which states that the group , apparently, faced some dangerous circumstances in which there were no signs of a crime, and was unable to 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 any other people being in the area of ​​the group’s death at the time of the events. Versions of a deliberate attack on the group (by Mansi, escaped prisoners or anyone else) were checked. The task of fully clarifying 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 tourism leaders in UPI, since their actions showed insufficient attention to organizing and ensuring the safety of amateur (the term “sports” was not yet used at that time) tourism.

The full materials of the case have never been published. They were available to a limited extent to the Yekaterinburg Regional Newspaper journalist Anatoly Gushchin, who quoted some of them in his documentary story “The Price of State Secrets 9 Lives.” According to Gushchin, the first investigator was appointed a young specialist V.I. Korotaev from the Ivdel prosecutor’s office. He began to develop a version of the murder of tourists and was removed from the case, as management demanded that the event be presented as an accident. The prosecutor-criminologist of the Sverdlovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office Ivanov L.I. was appointed as the investigator. It should be noted that information about Korotaev's role in the investigation is provided by Gushchin without any documentary evidence. The investigation materials of V.I. Korotaev are not included in the archival criminal case, which consists of one volume, an album and a package marked “Top Secret”. According to Yu. E. Yudin, who was familiarized with the case, it contains technical correspondence between the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region and the prosecutor's office of the RSFSR, which became familiar with the case in the order of prosecutorial supervision.

According to some commentators, the investigation did not study the facts fully enough to clearly classify the incident as a crime or an accident. In particular, the identity of some of the items found and the reasons for their appearance in the area of ​​the group’s death were not established (a scabbard, a soldier’s winding and other items of unknown origin were found). Later it turned out that the ebonite sheath found near the cedar matched A. Kolevatov’s knife (a number of sources mention a second sheath near the tent). It has not been determined what kind of tool was used to cut down or cut off the trunks of the flooring found near the stream, an examination has not been carried out to establish an avalanche, an examination of traces of biological tissue on a cedar trunk, presumably left by tourists, an examination of Thibault-Brignolle’s skull injuries with an answer to the question: what object could cause these fractures and whether they were of artificial origin. The source of radioactivity in some items of clothing is vaguely identified. It remains unclear whether a biochemical examination was carried out on the blood and biosamples of the bodies of tourists, which (according to Gushchin) were selected and packaged by Korotaev in Ivdel. There are no resolutions in the case recognizing the relatives of the deceased 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 justifications for it.

In 1990, Ivanov L.I., who conducted the investigation, published an article “The Mystery of Fireballs” in the newspaper “Kustanayskaya Pravda”, in which he stated that the case was closed at the request of the authorities, and the real reason for the death of the group was hidden: “... Everyone was told, that the tourists found themselves in an extreme situation and froze... ...However, this was not true. The true reasons for the death of people 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 regional prosecutor 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 have been the cause of the deaths 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 imperfect 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 accepted 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 overwhelming majority of tourists have above the 1st category according to the modern classification. Due to the specific nature 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 a conflict that led to an 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 teenagers only from the position of an ordinary person who has no idea about the traditions and specifics of sports tourism. Moreover, characteristic of the youth environment of the 1950s.

3. Avalanche.
The version suggests that an avalanche hit the tent, the tent collapsed under the load of snow, the tourists cut the wall when evacuating from it, after which it became impossible to stay in the tent until the morning. Their further actions, due to the onset of hypothermia, were not entirely adequate, which ultimately led to death. It was also suggested that the severe injuries received by some of the tourists were caused by the avalanche.

4. Exposure to infrasound.
Infrasound can occur when an air object flies 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 vibrations. Under the influence of infrasound, the tourists experienced an attack of uncontrollable fear, which explains their flight.
Some expeditions that visited this area noted an unusual condition that may be characteristic of exposure to infrasound. Mansi legends also contain references to oddities that 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 the lack of direct evidence. As well as the absence of any statistics on the occurrence of CMM in winter in Northern latitudes.

6. Attack by escaped prisoners.
The investigation inquired about nearby correctional facilities and received a response that no prisoner escapes were detected during the period of interest. In winter, escapes in the Northern Urals region are problematic due to the severity of natural conditions and the inability to move outside of permanent roads. In addition, this version is contradicted by the fact that all things, money, valuables, food and alcohol remained untouched.

7. Death at the hands of Mansi

“Kholat-Syakhyl, mountain (1079 m) on the watershed ridge between the upper reaches of the Lozva and its tributary Auspiya, 15 km southeast of Otorten. Mansi “Kholat” - “dead people”, that is, Kholat-Syakhyl - mountain of the dead. There is a legend that nine Mansi once died on this peak. Sometimes they add that this happened during the Great 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 among the Mansi.

Or a conflict with hunters:

The first suspects were local Mansi hunters. According to investigators, they quarreled with 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 what their fate would have been (the law enforcement agencies of those years mastered the art of obtaining recognition to perfection), 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 were “breaking” into the tent, but the tourists themselves were trying to get out of it. In addition, no extraneous traces were found around the tent; the supplies remained untouched (and they were of considerable value to the Mansi). Therefore, the hunters had to be released.

8. Secret weapon tests - one of the most popular versions.
It has been suggested that the tourists were hit by some kind of test weapon, the impact of which provoked the flight, and, possibly, directly contributed to the death of people. The damaging factors mentioned were vapors of rocket fuel components, a sodium cloud from a specially equipped rocket, and a blast wave, the action of which explains the injuries. Excessive radioactivity in the clothing of some tourists, recorded by the investigation, is cited as confirmation.

Or for example a nuclear weapons test:

Having dealt with the enemy’s machinations, let’s consider the version of the secret test of nuclear weapons in the area where the Dyatlov group was 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 conduct 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, during 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 clothing of the deceased by the fall of a Soviet R-7 ballistic missile in the Dyatlov group’s campsite: it supposedly frightened the tourists, and the fuel vapors that ended up on the clothes and skin caused such a strange reaction. But rocket fuel does not “color” a person, but kills instantly. 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 is based on observations of certain luminous objects made at another time, but there is no evidence of the group meeting with such an object.

10. Bigfoot.
The version of the appearance of a “bigfoot” (a relict 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 hugged them very tightly " The traces, the edges of which would already be fuzzy by the time the search work began, could simply be mistaken for blows or protruding stones sprinkled with snow. In addition, the search group was primarily looking for traces of people, and such atypical prints could simply not have been paid attention to.

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

12. Zolotarev’s secret service background (Efim 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, since he had a “secret” that he did not want to share. This “secret” was the goal of Zolotarev’s pursuers. Semyon moved further and further until he ended up in the Urals.

13. Galka’s version of the crash of a military transport plane
In a nutshell, the fuel carrier aircraft made an emergency release of cargo, presumably methanol (or itself collapsed in the air). Methanol caused sliding, unusually mobile landslides, and then, possibly, an avalanche.

14. This is the work of the KGB.

There are a lot of hidden facts, evidence, alterations of information and ignoring certain facts.

15. Military poachers

It is our military that has long been the most unpunished of all possible poachers. Try to catch up with a combat helicopter yourself on a motorcycle or a regular 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 had left the group, they visited a warehouse for geological samples. They took several stones with them. Yudin took some (or all?) with him in his backpack. From Kolmogorova’s diary: “I took several samples. This was the first time I saw this rock after drilling. There is a lot of chalcopyrite and pyrite here.” Several sources note that rumors among the “locals” during the search and investigation included: “The guys’ backpacks were stuffed with gold.” In principle, some samples could look like gold. They could also 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 coloring

Ill-fated "magical power piece of paper", which gave official status to Dyatlov’s group of tourists, with all the ensuing consequences, can be compared to a plane ticket doomed to inevitable death with all its passengers.
If the Dyatlovites had gone as ordinary wild tourists along with the Blinovites, then both episodes with the participation of the police could have seriously influenced the behavior of Yura Krivonischenko, and even in the village. Vizhay there would be no special need to stop, and if we had to spend the night there, we would have spent the night “in the same club where we were 2 years ago”. They would not have to communicate with the leadership of the colony, thereby actually worsening their living conditions in the village. Vizhay. The Dyatlovites would not have had to advertise the purpose of their campaign in the village of Vizhay, timed to coincide with the beginning of the 21st Congress of the CPSU...

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

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

19. A slightly modified version of the 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 The prisoners escaped and had to be either captured or destroyed.

Fishing in the forest thickets in winter? Pointless. Destroy - with what.
No, not cruise missiles, of course, and not vacuum bombs. Gases were used. Most likely a nerve agent.

Or like this:

One version of conspiracy theorists: the Dyatlov group was liquidated by a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was pursuing the escaped prisoners (it must be said that there were indeed quite a few “zones” in the northern Urals). At night, special forces encountered tourists in the forest, mistook them for “prisoners” and killed them. At the same time, for some reason the mysterious special forces did not use either bladed weapons or firearms: there were no stab or bullet wounds on the bodies of the victims. In addition, it is known that in the 50s. escaped prisoners at night in the wilderness were not usually pursued - the risk was too great. They handed over directions to the authorities in the nearest settlements and waited: you couldn’t last long in the forest without supplies; willy-nilly, the fugitives had to go to “civilization.” And most importantly! Investigators requested information about escapes of “prisoners” from the surrounding “zones.” It turned out that there were no escapes at the end of January - beginning of February. Therefore, there was no one for the special forces to catch on Kholat-Syakhyl.

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 tour was only a cover for the “controlled supply” 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 the three dead tourists. Conspiracy theorists connected this fact with the biography of one of the victims, Georgy Krivonischenko. He worked in the closed city of nuclear scientists Ozersk (Chelyabinsk-40), where plutonium for atomic bombs was produced. Samples of radioactive clothing provided invaluable information for foreign intelligence. Krivonischenko, who worked for the KGB, was supposed to meet with enemy agents at Mount Kholat-Syakhyl and hand over radioactive “material” to them. But Krivonischenko made a mistake on something, and then the enemy agents, covering their tracks, destroyed the entire Dyatlov group. The killers acted in a sophisticated manner: threatening with weapons, but not using them (they didn’t want to leave traces), they drove the young people out of the tent into the cold without shoes, to certain death. The saboteurs waited for some time, then followed in the footsteps of the group and brutally finished off those who were not frozen. Thriller, and nothing more! Now let's think about it. How could the KGB officers plan a “controlled delivery” in a remote area that was not controlled? Where they could neither observe the operation nor protect their agent? Absurd. And where did the spies even come from among the Ural forests, where was their base? Only the invisible man will not “show up” in small surrounding villages: their residents know each other by sight and immediately pay attention to strangers. Why did the adversaries, who had planned a clever staging of the death of tourists from hypothermia, suddenly seem to go mad and begin to torture their victims - breaking ribs, tearing out tongues, eyes? And how did these invisible maniacs manage to escape the persecution of the omnipresent KGB? Conspiracy theorists have no answer to all these questions.

Rakitin's version

22. Meteorite

The forensic medical examination, examining the nature of the injuries inflicted on the group members, concluded that they were “very similar to injuries caused by an air blast wave.” While examining the area, investigators found traces of fire on some trees. It seemed as if some unknown force was selectively influencing both the dead people and the trees. At the end of the 1920s. Scientists were able to assess the consequences of such a natural phenomenon. This happened in the area where the Tunguska meteorite fell. According to the recollections of the participants of that expedition, the heavily burnt trees at the epicenter of the explosion could have been located next to the survivors. Scientists could not logically explain such a strange “selectivity” of the flame. Investigators in the Dyatlov group’s case were also unable to find out all the details: on May 28, 1959, a command came from “from above” to close the case, classify all materials and hand them over to a special archive. The final conclusion of the investigation turned out to be very vague: “It should be assumed that the cause of the death of tourists was a natural force that people were not able to overcome.”

23. Poisoning with methyl alcohol.
The group had 2 flasks with ethyl alcohol, 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 encountering wild animals on a hike and knew how to act in such situations, so it is unlikely that such an attack would have led to the escape of the group. In addition, no traces of a large predator being in the area, nor signs of an attack on the bodies of already frozen tourists, were found. 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 be sure that the animal has already left.

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