ABOUT tragic death On February 2, 1959, nine student tourists of the Ural Polytechnic Institute (UPI) in the northern Urals were heard by many in Russia, in the USSR and far abroad.

Over the past period of time, many articles have been published in the media on this topic, and there have been many reports and discussions on television. In the USA, Hollywood was even planning to make a feature film.

In the picture are students of the deceased group of tourists (from left to right) bottom row: Slobodin R.S. , Kolmogorova Z.A., I.A. Dyatlov I.A., Dubinina L.A. Doroshenko Yu.A.
Top row: Thibault-Brignolle N.V., Kolevatov A.S., Krivonischenko G.A., Zolotarev A.I.

The event attracted widespread public attention due to the fact that the investigation conducted by the Sverdlovsk prosecutor's office in 1959 did not give a clear answer about the causes of death of the young people.

In the resolution to terminate the criminal case by prosecutor L.N. Ivanov said the following verbatim:

“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 of death of tourists was a natural force, which the tourists were not able to overcome ."

The uncertainty of the investigation’s conclusion about “natural force” gave rise to a lot of fiction, mysticism and fear. Many different versions have been put forward, from a UFO attack, Bigfoot, to American spies. Over time, additional information appeared in various media sources, which was not included in the criminal case, and therefore the real reasons were not given.

All that remains is to complete the missing “links in the chain” of interconnected events in order to tell about the tragedy that occurred. Let's leave the details that have already been told and highlight the main thing that was missed.

Start

So, a group of ten UPI students (one got sick on the road and returned back) left the city of Ivdel, Sverdlovsk region, on January 26, 1959. Having passed the villages of Vizhay and Severny, they then set off on their own on skis for a two-week trek to Mount Otorten (1234 m) in the northern Urals. The tourists laid their route along the sleigh-reindeer trail of hunters of the local northern Mansi people.

Along the way, some students kept their diaries. Their observations are interesting. Entry from the diary of the group leader, fifth-year student Igor Dyatlov:

01/28/59...After talking, the two of us crawl into the tent. A suspended stove glows with heat and divides the tent into two compartments.

01/30/59 “Today is the third cold night on the bank of the river. Auspii. We are starting to get involved. The stove is a great thing. Some (Thibault and Krivonischenko) are thinking of constructing steam heating in the tent. Canopy - hanging sheets are quite justified. Weather: temperature in the morning - 17° C, in the afternoon - 13° C, in the evening - 26° C.

The deer path ended, the rough path began, and then it ended. It was very difficult to walk on virgin soil, the snow was up to 120 cm deep. The forest is gradually thinning out, the height is felt, the birch and pine trees are dwarfed and ugly. It’s impossible to walk along the river - it’s not frozen, but under the snow there is water and ice, right there on the ski track, we go along the shore again. The day is approaching evening, we need to look for a place to bivouac. Here's our stop for the night. The wind is strong from the west, knocking the snow off the cedar and pines, creating the impression of snowfall.”

01/31/59 “We reached the border of the forest. The wind is western, warm, piercing, the wind speed is similar to the air speed when an airplane takes off. Nast, bare places. You don’t even have to think about setting up a lobaz. About 4 hours. You need to choose an overnight stay. We go down to the south - into the river valley. Auspii. This is apparently the snowiest place. Light wind on snow 1.2-2 m thick. Tired, exhausted, they set about arranging for the night. There is not enough firewood. Weak, raw spruce. The fire was lit on logs; there was no desire to dig a hole. We have dinner right in the tent. Warm. It is difficult to imagine such comfort somewhere on a ridge, with a piercing howl of the wind, hundreds of kilometers from populated areas.

Today was a surprisingly good overnight stay, warm and dry, despite the low temperature (- 18° -24°). Walking today is especially difficult. The trail is not visible, we often stray from it or grope along. Thus, we travel 1.5-2 km per hour.
I’m at a great age: the nonsense has already worn off, but I’m still far from insanity... Dyatlov.”

On February 1, 1959, at about 5 pm, the students set up their tent for the last time on the gentle slope of Mount Kholatchakhl (1079 m) below 300 meters from its peak.

The guys took pictures of the place where and how they set up the tent. The evening was frosty and windy. The photo shows how skiers on the slope dig deep snow to the ground, wearing hoods, and how a strong wind blows snow into the hole.

02/1/59 Combat leaflet No. 1 “Evening Otorten” - written by students before bed:

“Is it possible to warm nine tourists with one stove and one blanket? A team of radio technicians consisting of comrade. Doroshenko and Kolmogorova set a new world record in the stove assembly competition - 1 hour 02 minutes. 27.4 seconds."

The slope of Mount Kholatchakhl is 25-30 degrees. When setting up the tent, the guys did not expect an avalanche from the top. The hill was not so steep and by the beginning of February the crust was so strong that it could hold a person without skis.

The entries from the diary indicate that they had a collapsible stove, and they heated it in a tent. The stove was very hot!

When the tent was buried deep in the snow on the mountainside under a “cornice of crust” and the stove was lit, it melted the snow around it. In the cold, the molten snow froze, turning into a solid edge of ice.

After dinner, taking off their shoes and warm outerwear, the guys went to bed. But in the early morning of February 2, something happened that soon determined their fate...

Let's go off topic a little

In 1957 in Arkhangelsk region It was precisely at the latitude of the northern Urals that the (at that time secret) Plesetsk cosmodrome was opened. In February 1959, it was renamed the 3rd Artillery Training Range. From 1957 to 1993, 1,372 ballistic missile launches were carried out from here. (This information is from Wikipedia).

Spent ballistic missile stages with remains liquid fuel fell, burning over the deserted areas of the northern Urals. Therefore, many residents of those places often noticed burning lights (balls) in the night sky.

The falling, burning rocket stage over the mountainside where the students spent the night was photographed at night (or early in the morning) (with aperture delay) by the group instructor Alexander Zolotarev. This was his last photo.

On the left in the photo you can see traces from the falling rocket stage, and in the center of the frame there is a light spot from the camera diaphragm.

The event was also witnessed by other people who were far from the group at the time and spoke about this during the investigation.

It is also necessary to pay attention to the fact that February 2, 1959 was Monday - the beginning of the work week (for the military too).

Whether it was a rocket stage with incompletely burned fuel remaining in it, or whether it was a rocket that deviated from the given flight path and was automatically detonated, or whether the falling rocket (stage) was shot down by another rocket, like a training target, it no longer matters what specifically was the source of the explosion.

The blast wave shook the snow on the mountainside and moved down in some places. On top of the snow was a heavy layer of snow crust (sometimes called a “board”). The crust is thick and hard and rather resembles not a board, but an icy, multi-layered “plywood sheet”. So strong that people ran on it without shoes without falling through. This can be seen from the footprints going down the mountain from the tent. The photograph of the tracks from the mountain and the abandoned tent (below) was taken later around February 26-27, 1959 by members of the search party.

The guys in the tent slept with their heads towards the top of the mountain

The previous evening, the heat from the stove had melted the edges of the snow around the tent, turning it into solid ice, which hung over them from the mountain side like an “ice cornice.” After the explosion, this ice, pressed down from above by a heavy load of crust and snow, fell onto the tent and onto the heads of the people sleeping in it. Subsequently, a forensic medical examination established that two had broken ribs and two more had cracks (6 cm long) in the skull.

One of the tent posts (the farthest one in the photo) was broken. If the stand broke, then the effort was quite enough to break the bones of people who were not expecting anything, lying relaxed.

The students in the darkness of the tent, of course, could not appreciate the real danger that had arisen. They considered the ice and crust with snow that fell on them to be a general avalanche. Being in a state of shock, under the fear of being buried alive under the snow, in a panic, they instantly cut the tent from the inside and, being without shoes (only socks), and without warm outerwear, jumped out and began to run away from the avalanche down the mountainside.

No other danger would have forced the guys to do this. On the contrary, they would hide in a tent from another external threat.

Having run 1.5 km down to the forest, only there the guys were able to soberly assess the situation and the real threat of death - from hypothermia. They had 1-2 hours to live without shoes and outerwear in the cold and wind. The air temperature in the early morning of February 2 was about -28°C.

The students lit a fire under the cedar tree and tried to warm themselves. Having figured out that there was no avalanche, the three ran back up the mountain to the tent for warm clothes and shoes, but they no longer had enough strength. On the way up the mountain, all three fell from fatal hypothermia and froze there.

Subsequently, the two were found frozen under a cedar tree near an extinguished fire. Another four (three of them with fractures received earlier in the tent), who felt worse than others due to their injuries, tried to wait for those who had gone to get clothes, hiding from the cold wind in a ravine. They also froze. This ravine was then covered with snow by a snowstorm, and the boys were found later than the others on May 4, 1959.

Radiation was found on the clothes of people covered in snow.

In the USSR, according to the chronology of thermonuclear bomb tests, in the period from September 30, 1958 to October 25, 1958, 19 explosions were carried out in the atmosphere at the Dry Nose test site on Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Ocean (opposite the Ural Mountains). This radiation fell with snow on the ground in the winter of 1958-1959 (including in the northern Urals).
The photo below shows the location of the discovery of four bodies, covered with snow, in a ravine.

Returning to the materials of the criminal case

Witness Krivonischenko A.K. testified during the investigation:

“After the burial of my son on March 9, 1959, students, participants in the search for nine tourists, were at my apartment for lunch. Among them were those tourists who, at the end of January and beginning of February, were on a hike in the north, somewhat south of Mount Otorten. There were, apparently, at least two such groups, at least, the participants of two groups said that they observed on the evening of February 1, 1959, a light phenomenon that struck them north of the location of these groups: an extremely bright glow of some kind of rocket or projectile .

The glow was constantly strong, so that one of the groups, being already in the tent and getting ready to sleep, was alarmed by this glow, came out of the tent and observed this phenomenon. After some time, they heard a sound effect like strong thunder from afar.”

Testimony of investigator L.N. Ivanov, who finished the case:

“... a similar ball was seen on the night the guys died, that is, from the first to the second of February, student tourists of the Geography Department of the Pedagogical Institute.”

Here, for example, is what Lyudmila Dubinina’s father, in those years a senior official at the Sverdlovsk Economic Council, said during interrogation in March 1959:

“... I heard conversations among students of the Ural Polytechnic University (UPI) that the flight of undressed people from a tent was caused by an explosion and high radiation..., 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 were not closed . Ivdel..."

Excerpt from the interrogation protocol of Vladimir Mikhailovich Slobodin, father of Rustem Slobodin:

“From him (Chairman of the Ivdel City Council A.I. Delyagin) I first heard that around the time when the group suffered a catastrophe, some residents (local hunters) observed the appearance of some kind of fireball in the sky. E.P. told me that the fireball was observed by other tourists - students. Maslennikov."

The individual characteristics of the injuries to the bodies of some of the victims do not change the overall picture of what happened. The damage only served to fuel incorrect speculation.

For example, one person's foaming at the mouth was attributed to vomiting caused by inhaling fumes (or carbon monoxide from rocket fuel) dispersed in the air above the mountain. This is also the reason for the unusual red-orange color of the skin on the surfaces of corpses exposed to the sun. In others, damage to an already dead body (nose, eyes and tongue) was caused by mice or birds of prey.

Name the real reason the death of students on the night of February 2, 1959 - from a missile test, from an explosion in the air that served to move the crust and snow on Mount Kholatchakhl, the investigation did not dare.

Investigator of the Sverdlovsk Prosecutor's Office V. Korotaev, who first began to conduct the case (later during the years of glasnost) said:

“... the first secretary of the (Sverdlovsk) city party committee, Prodanov, invites me and transparently hints: there is, they say, a proposal to stop the matter. Clearly, not his personal, nothing more than an order from above. At my request, the secretary then called Andrei Kirilenko (first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional party committee). And I heard the same thing: stop the matter!
Literally a day later, investigator Lev Ivanov took it into his hands, who quickly turned it down...” – With the above formulation about “irresistible elemental force.”

All secrets (military or otherwise), one way or another, harm people. Secrets are called secrets; it is a shame to tell people openly about them because of their immoral essence.

As the wise Chinese thinker Lao Tzu noted:

“Even the best weapons do not bode well.”

Two different people based on the same

facts will be written by two stories of completely different merits

DI. Pisarev.

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, was unable to 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 descend 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 snow thickness 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 decision 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, just like the day before, started setting up the tent about 16 o'clock evenings.

Setting up the 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 little snow, what snowstorms accumulated 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's 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 reversible 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 from 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-Brignolle 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 heads 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 the 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 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 strongest and most 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 affected 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 Catastrophe” ": "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 others 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, 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. Much evidence suggests that these may be misunderstood modern people and clots of energy 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 death of students 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. “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 hit 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, the warm clothes cut from them were later found on Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov 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. Vozrozhdeniy, 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 death 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 a “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: February 1st and 7th 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 illuminate 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 the city of Ivdel, junior counselor of justice Tempalov.
The witness testified: “On February 17, at 6:40 a.m., while on duty, I noticed a moving ball of bright white who 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° 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, chapped 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 in a line, 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 the 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 the 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, reminiscent of flashes of distant lightning when 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.)

With the onset of darkness, 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 to the northeast,, while a blinding light hit them in the back. Footprints in the snow showed the direction 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 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 Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles shared among themselves, so that they could put them on themselves and try to preserve the remnants of their body heat. Then Thibault-Brignolle took and stopped clock Yuri Krivonischenko to hand them over to the relatives of the deceased.

The members of the Dyatlov group understood well that in conditions severe frost and the wind they had extremely limited time to escape. 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 for 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 in 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 electric 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 is more deep dive The topic was the writing of several new articles by me, 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 was incomprehensible to them 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 tour 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 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.

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 frame, preserved on 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 fairly 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, and school cadets. civil aviation, 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.

Two nights after the explosion, the crater glowed, as if it had been artificially illuminated from within, and in the area of ​​the crater a increased level beta radiation.

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, a crater from the New Path state farm was discovered space alien, 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 approximately 500 meters from the tent,, 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 again 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 allows us to assume 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/hour, and the group’s running speed was 15-18 km/hour, then the total speed of the students’ fall along the mountainside was 90 km/hour. 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.

The 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 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 Dubinina’s supposedly “torn out tongue,” 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 assert 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 a fall in the atmosphere flying with escape velocity meteorite 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 really 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 was caused by a natural force that they were unable to overcome,” gave reason to assume that we can only talk about cosmic explosions.

And the periodic appearance of fireballs over the same area for two months indicated that we're talking about about the “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 Rundqvist'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 ) already modern tourists came across 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."

The Dyatlov Pass Incident

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.

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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 hike participants and developed by the investigation.

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

These are the most latest photos that were 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 right leg- a woolen sock, a cotton sock on the left. 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. According to the position of these objects on the flooring, four spots were exposed, made 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 found. 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 windy 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.

6. Mount Kholatchakhl – mountain of the dead.

Initially, the local population of the northern Urals, the Mansi, was 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; 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
– a version about the impact of a certain weapon being tested
– version of “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:
– http://pereval1959.forum24.ru
– http://aenforum.org/index.php?showtopic=1338&st=0
– http://www.murders.ru/Dyatloff_group_1.html
– http://perdyat.livejournal.com/4768.html
– http://pereval1959.forum24.ru/?1-9-0-00000028-000-0-0-1283515314 (case)
– Wikipedia materials

Materials dedicated to the death of Dyatlov's tourist group on the night of February 2, 1959 in the Northern Urals are collected in our magazine under the label.

Publications on the topic of the death of Dyatlov’s tourist group:
– a detailed review publication on the topic of the death of the Dyatlov group.
– 30 chapters of a most interesting investigation into the mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group: the “controlled delivery” version.
– the publication “Interlocutor” together with colleagues from “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and “Channel One” took part in an expedition to Northern Urals.
– Why is it easier to believe in the incredible, what kind of secret document are the participants in the conflict waiting for from Bastrykin and when will they come face to face - in the material “URA.Ru”.
- version of the death of students on the night of February 2, 1959 from a missile test, from an explosion in the air, which caused the movement of crust and snow on Mount Kholatchakhl.
- feature film directed by Renny Harlin “The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass” ( The Dyatlov Pass Incident), released in 2013, shows a group of American students trying to unravel the mystery of the death of Dyatlov's tourist group in Russia's Northern Urals in 1959.
- fragments of the rocket fell near the group, and in order to avoid the discovery of any evidence proving the involvement of the government and the military in this matter, the Dyatlovites were maimed and killed.
- a film examining and arguing the version of the involvement of the government and the military in the death of Dyatlov’s tourist group.

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INTRODUCTION .

In the early morning of February 2, 1959, on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl in the vicinity of Mount Otorten in the Northern Urals, dramatic events occurred that led to the death of a group of tourists from Sverdlovsk led by 23-year-old student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute Igor Dyatlov.

Many circumstances of this tragedy have not yet received a satisfactory explanation, giving rise to many rumors and conjectures, which gradually grew into legends and myths, based on which several books have been written and a number of feature films have been made. We think we succeededto restore the true development of these events, which puts an end to this protracted story. Our version is based on strictly documentary sources, namely on the materials of the Criminal Case of the history of the death and search of the Dyatlovites, as well as on some everyday and tourist experience. This is the version we offer to the attention of all interested persons and the organization, insisting on its authenticity, but not claiming a new coincidence in detail.

BACKGROUND

Before ending up at the site of a cold overnight on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl on the night of February 1–2, 1959, a number of events occurred with Dyatlov’s group.

So, the very idea of ​​this trek III, the highest category of difficulty, came to Igor Dyatlov a long time ago and took shape in December 1958, as Igor’s senior tourism comrades spoke about. *

The composition of the participants in the planned hike changed during its preparation, reaching up to 13 people, but the core of the group, consisting of UPI students and graduates with experience in tourist hikes, including joint ones, remained unchanged. It included - Igor Dyatlov - 23-year-old leader of the campaign, 20-year-old Lyudmila Dubinina - supply manager, Yuri Doroshenko - 21 years old, 22-year-old Alexander Kolevatov, Zinaida Kolmogorova - 22 years old, 23-year-old Georgy Krivonischenko , 22-year-old Rustem Slobodin, Nikolai Thibault - 23 years old, 22-year-old Yuri Yudin. Two days before the hike, 37-year-old Semyon Zolotarev, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a front-line soldier, graduated from the Institute of Physical Education, and a professional tourism instructor, joined the group.

At the beginning, the hike went according to plan, with the exception of one circumstance: on January 28, Yuri Yudin left the route due to illness. The group made the further journey with nine members. Until January 31, the hike, according to the general diary of the hike, the diaries of individual participants, and the photos given in the File, was proceeding normally: difficulties were surmountable, and new places gave the young people new impressions. On January 31, Dyatlov’s group made an attempt to overcome the pass separating the valleys of the Auspiya and Lozva rivers, however, encountering strong winds at low temperatures (about -18) they were forced to retreat for the night to the forested part of the Auspiya river valley. On the morning of February 1, the group got up late, left some of their food and belongings in a specially equipped storage area (this took a lot of time), had lunch, and at approximately 15:00 on February 1, set out on the route. The materials on the termination of the Criminal Case, apparently expressing the collective opinion of the investigation and interviewed specialists, say that such a late start on the route was first Igor Dyatlov's mistake. At the beginning, the group most likely followed its old trail, and then continued moving in the direction of Mount Otorten and at about 17 o’clock settled for a cold night on the slope of Mount Kholatchakhl.

To facilitate the perception of information, we present a wonderfully compiled diagram of the scene of events given by Vadim Chernobrov (Ill. 1).

Ill. 1. Map of the scene.

The materials of the criminal case say that Dyatlov “came to the wrong place where he wanted”, making a mistake in the direction and taking much to the left than required to reach the pass between heights 1096 and 663. This, according to the compilers of the case, was the second mistake of Igor Dyatlov.

We do not agree with the investigation’s version and believe that Igor Dyatlov stopped the group not by mistake, by accident, but SPECIFICALLY in a place previously planned in the previous transition.

Our opinion is not alone - an experienced tourist student, Sogrin, who was part of one of the search and rescue groups that found Igor Dyatlov’s tent, stated the same during the investigation. Modern researcher Borzenkov also speaks about the planned stop in the book “Dyatlov Pass. Research and materials", Yekaterinburg 2016, p. 138. What prompted Igor Dyatlov to do this?

COLD NIGHT.

Arriving as we believe , to the point pre-designated by Dyatlov, the group began setting up a tent, according to all “tourist and mountaineering rules.” The question of a cold overnight stay baffles the most experienced specialists and is one of the main mysteries of the tragic campaign. Many different versions are put forward, including the absurd, saying that this was done for “training”.

Only we managed to find a convincing version.

The question arises whether the participants in the campaign knew that Dyatlov plans cold night. We think that they didn’t know*, but they didn’t argue, knowing from previous campaigns and stories about them about the difficult behavior of their leader and forgiving him for it in advance.

*This is indicated by the fact that the fire accessories (an axe, a saw and a stove) were not left at the storage shed; moreover, a dry log of wood was even prepared for kindling.

Taking part in the general work on arranging an overnight stay, only one person expressed his protest, namely, 37-year-old Semyon Zolotarev, a professional tourism instructor who went through the war. This protest was expressed in a very peculiar form, indicating the high intellectual abilities of its applicant. Semyon Zolotarev created a very remarkable document, namely Combat leaflet No. 1 " Evening Otorten.

We consider Combat Leaflet No. 1 “Evening Otorten” to be the key to solving the tragedy.

The name itself speaks about the authorship of Zolotarev “ Combat leaf." Semyon Zolotarev was the only veteran of the Great Patriotic War among the participants in the campaign, and a very well-deserved one, having four military awards, including the medal “For Courage”. In addition, according to the tourist Axelrod, reflected in the Case, the handwriting of the handwritten “Evening Otorten” coincides with the handwriting of Zolotarev. So, at first“Combat leaflet”, it is said that “according to the latest scientific data Bigfoot people live in the vicinity of Mount Otorten.”

It must be said that at that time the whole world was gripped by the fever of searching for Bigfoot, which has not subsided to this day. Similar searches were also conducted in the Soviet Union. We think that Igor Dyatlov was aware of this “problem” and dreamed of meeting Bigfoot and for the first time in the world and take a photo of it. From the materials of the Case it is known that Igor Dyatlov met with old hunters in Vizhay, consulted with them on the upcoming campaign, perhaps they were talking about Bigfoot. Of course, experienced hunters* told the “young” the whole “truth” about Bigfoot, where he lives, what his behavior is, what he loves.

*The case file contains the testimony of Chargin, 85 years old, that in Vizhay a group of Dyatlov tourists approached him as a hunter.

Of course, everything that was said was in the spirit of traditional hunting tales, but Igor Dyatlov believed what was said and decided that the outskirts of Otorten were just the ideal place for Bigfoot to live and all it took was a small matter - to get up for a cold night, exactly cold, since Bigfoot loves the cold and out of curiosity he himself will approach the tent. The place for a possible overnight stay was chosen by Igor in the previous transition on January 31, 1959, when the group actually reached the pass separating the basins of the Auspiya and Lozva rivers.

A photo of this moment was preserved, which allowed Borzenkov to accurately determine this point on the map. The picture shows that, obviously, Igor Dyatlov and Semyon Zolotarev are arguing very fiercely about the future route. It is obvious that Zolotarev is against logically difficult to explain Dyatlov’s decision to return back to Auspiya and offers to “take the pass,” which was a matter of about 30 minutes, and go down for the night into the Lozva River basin. Note that in this case the group would have camped for the night just about in the area of ​​that same ill-fated cedar.

Everything becomes logically explainable if we assume that already at that moment Dyatlov was planning a cold overnight stay, right on the slope of Mountain 1096 *, which, if he spent the night in the Lozva basin, would have been on the sidelines.

*This mountain, called Mount Kholatchakhl in Mansi, is translated as “ Mountain of the 9 Dead". The Mansi consider this place “unclean” and avoid it. So from the Case, according to the testimony of student Slabtsov, who found the tent, the Mansi guide who accompanied them flatly refused to go up this mountain. We think that Dyatlov decided that if it’s impossible, then he needs to prove to everyone that it’s possible and he’s not afraid of anything, and he also thought that if they say it’s impossible, that means exactlyhere The notorious Bigfoot lives.

So, at approximately 5 pm on February 1, Igor Dyatlov gives unexpected the team, the group that had rested for half a day, to get up for a cold night, explaining the reasons for this decision scientific task searching for Bigfoot. The group, with the exception of Semyon Zolotarev, reacted calmly to this decision. In the time remaining before bedtime, Semyon Zolotarev produced his famous “Evening Otorten”, which is actually a satirical work, sharply critical established order in the group.

In our opinion, there is a justified point of view on the further tactics of Igor Dyatlov. According to the experienced tourist Axelrod, who knew Igor Dyatlov well from joint hikes, Dyatlov planned to raise the group in the dark, at about 6 o’clock in the morning, then go to storm Mount Otorten. Most likely this is what happened. The group was getting ready to get dressed (more precisely, put on shoes, since people slept in clothes), while having breakfast with crackers and lard. According to numerous testimonies from participants in rescue operations, crackers were scattered throughout the tent; they fell out of crumpled blankets along with pieces of lard. The situation was calm, no one, except Dyatlov, was seriously upset that the Bigfoot did not come and that, in fact, the group had undergone such significant inconvenience in vain.

Only Semyon Zolotarev, who was located at the very entrance to the tent, was seriously outraged by what had happened. His discontent was fueled by the following circumstance. The fact is that February 2 was Semyon’s birthday. And it looks like he started “celebrating” it by drinking alcohol from the night before, and it looks like one, because According to Doctor Vozrozhdenny, no alcohol was found in the bodies of the first 5 tourists found. This is reflected in the official documents (Acts) given in the Case.

About a feast with chopped lard and empty flask with The smell of vodka or alcohol at the entrance to the tent where Semyon Zolotarev was located is directly indicated in the Case by the prosecutor of the city Indel Tempalov. A large flask of alcohol was seized from the discovered tent by student Boris Slobtsov. This alcohol, according to student Brusnitsyn, a participant in the events, was immediately drunk by the members of the search group who found the tent. That is, in addition to the flask with alcohol There was a flask with the same drink in the tent. We think that we are talking about alcohol, and not about vodka.

Warmed up by alcohol, Zolotarev, dissatisfied with the cold and hungry night, left the tent to go to the toilet (a trace of urine remained near the tent) and outside demanded an analysis of Dyatlov’s mistakes. Most likely, the amount of alcohol consumed was so significant that Zolotarev became very drunk and began to behave aggressively. Someone must have come out of the tent in response to this noise. At first glance, this should be the leader of the campaign, Igor Dyatlov, but we think that it was not he who came to the conversation. Dyatlov was located at the farthest end of the tent; it was inconvenient for him to climb over everyone and, most importantly, Dyatlov was significantly inferior in physical characteristics to Semyon Zolotarev. We believe that the tall (180 cm) and physically strong Yuri Doroshenko responded to Semyon’s demand. This is also supported by the fact that ice ax, found near the tent, belonged to Yuri Doroshenko. So, in the materials of the Case there was a note made in his hand: “go to the trade union committee, take mine ice ax." Thus, Yuri Doroshenko, atthe only one from the whole group as it turned out later, it was time to put on my boots. The footprint of the only person wearing boots was documented in the Act by prosecutor Tempalov.

There is no data on the presence or absence of alcohol in the body of 4 people found later (in May), and, specifically, Semyon Zolotarev in the Acts of Doctor Vozrozhdeniy, because The bodies had already begun to decompose at the time of the study. That is, the answer to the question: “Was Semyon Zolotarev drunk or not?” There is no case in the materials.

So, Yuri Doroshenko, wearing ski boots, armed with an ice ax and taking with him a Dyatlov flashlight for illumination, because... it was still dark (it was light at 8-9 am, and the action took place around 7 am), he crawls out of the tent. A short, harsh and unpleasant conversation took place between Zolotarev and Doroshenko. It is obvious that Zolotarev expressed his opinion about Dyatlov and the Dyatlovites.

From Zolotarev’s point of view, Dyatlov makes serious mistakes. The first of these was Dyatlov’s passage of the mouth of the Auspiya River. As a result, the group had to make a detour. It was also incomprehensible to Zolotarev that the group retreated on January 31 to the bed of the Auspiya River instead of going down to the bed of Lozva and, finally, absurd, and, most importantly, ineffective cold night. The dissatisfaction hiddenly expressed by Zolotarev in the newspaper “Evening Otorten” spilled out.

We think that Zolotarev proposed to remove Dyatlov from the post of leader of the campaign, replacing him with someone else, meaning primarily himself. It is difficult to say now in what form Zolotarev proposed this to us. It is clear that after drinking alcohol the form should be sharp, but the degree of sharpness depends on the person’s specific reaction to alcohol. Zolotarev, who knew war in all its manifestations, of course had a disturbed psyche, and could simply be excited to the point of alcoholic psychosis, bordering on delirium. Judging by the fact that Doroshenko left an ice ax and a flashlight and chose to hide in a tent, Zolotarev was very excited. The guys even blocked his way into the tent, throwing a stove, backpacks, and food at the entrance. This circumstance, including the term “barricading,” is repeatedly emphasized in the testimonies of participants in the rescue operation. Moreover, at the entrance to the tent there was an ax, absolutely unnecessary in this place.

It is obvious that the students decided to actively defend themselves.

Perhaps this circumstance infuriated the drunken Zolotarev even more (so in the tent at the entrance the canopy of the sheet was literally torn to pieces). Most likely, all these obstacles only infuriated Zolotarev, who was rushing into the tent to continue the showdown. And then Zolotarev remembered about the gap in the tent on the “mountain” side, which everyone had repaired together at the previous campsite. And he decided to get inside the tent through this gap, using “psychological weapons” so that he would not be hindered, as was done at the front.

Most likely he shouted something like "I'm throwing a grenade".

The fact is that the country in 1959 was still overflowing with weapons, despite all the Government Decrees on their surrender. Getting a grenade at that time was not a problem, especially in Sverdlovsk, where weapons were taken for melting down. So the threat was very real. And in general, it seems very likely that this was not just an imitation of a threat.

MAYBE THERE WAS A REAL COMBAT GRENADE.

Apparently, this is exactly what investigator Ivanov had in mind when he spoke about a certain “piece of hardware” that he did not investigate. A grenade could be really useful on a hike, in particular, for killing fish under the ice, as was done during the war, since part of the route passed along rivers. And, quite possibly, front-line soldier Zolotarev decided to take such a “necessary” item on the campaign.

Zolotarev did not calculate the effect of his “weapon”. The students took the threat seriously and, in a panic, made two cuts in the tarpaulin and left the tent. This happened around 7 o'clock in the morning, as it was still dark, as evidenced by the flashlight in the lit condition, dropped by students and subsequently found by searchers 100 meters from the tent down the slope.

Zolotarev walked around the tent and, continuing to imitate a threat, decided to drunkenly teach the “young people”. He lined up the people (as witnessed by all the people who observed the tracks) and commanded “Down,” giving the direction. He gave me one blanket with him, saying, keep warm with one blanket, as in that Armenian riddle from “Evening Otorten”. This is how the cold night of the Dyatlovites ended.

TRAGEDY IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS.

People went down, and Zolotarev climbed into the tent and apparently continued to drink, celebrating his birthday. The fact that someone remained in the tent is evidenced by the subtle observer student Sorgin, whose testimony is given in the Case.

Zolotarev settled down on two blankets. All the blankets in the tent were crumpled, with the exception of two, on which they found skins from the loin that Zolotarev had snacked on. It was already dawn, the wind had risen, passing through a hole in one part of the tent and cutouts in another. Zolotarev covered the hole with Dyatlov’s fur jacket, and had to deal with the cutouts in a different way, since the initial attempt to plug the cutouts with things, following the example of the hole, failed (so, according to Astenaki, several blankets and a quilted jacket were sticking out of the cutouts of the tent). Then Zolotarev decided to lower the far edge of the tent by cutting the stand - a ski pole.

Due to the severity of the snow that fell (the fact that there was snow at night is evidenced by the fact that Dyatlov’s flashlight was lying on the tent on a layer of snow about 10 cm thick), the stick was firmly fixed and it was not possible to pull it out immediately. The stick had to be cut with the long knife used to cut lard. They managed to pull out the cut stick, and parts of it were found cut from the top of the backpacks. The far edge of the tent sank and covered the cutouts, and Zolotarev positioned himself at the front pole of the tent and, apparently, fell asleep for a while, finishing off the alcohol from his flask.

Meanwhile, the group continued to move down in the direction indicated by Zolotarev. It is attested that the tracks were divided into two groups - to the left of 6 people, and to the right - two. Then the tracks converged. These groups apparently corresponded to the two openings through which the people had climbed out. The two on the right are Thibault and Dubinina, who were located closer to the exit. On the left are everyone else.

One man walked in boots(Yuri Doroshenko, we believe). Let us remind you that this is documented, in the Case, recorded by Prosecutor Tempalov. It also says that there were traces eight, What documented confirms our version that one person remained in the tent.

It was getting light, it was difficult to walk because of the snow that had fallen and, of course, it was desperately cold, because... the temperature was about -20 C with wind. At approximately 9 o'clock in the morning, a group of 8 tourists, already half-frozen, found themselves next to a tall cedar tree. Cedar was not chosen by chance as the point near which they decided to build a fire. In addition to the dry lower branches for the fire, which we managed to “obtain” with the help of cuts, an “observation post” was equipped with great difficulty to monitor the tent. For this purpose, Finnish woman Krivonischenko cut out several large branches that obstructed the view. Below, under the cedar tree, with great difficulty, a small fire was lit, which, according to the concurring estimates of various observers, burned for 1.5-2 hours. If you were at the cedar at 9 am, it took an hour to make a fire and plus two hours - it turns out that the fire went out around 12 noon.

Still taking Zolotarev’s threat seriously, the group decided not to return to the tent for now, but to try to “hold out” by building some kind of shelter, at least from the wind, for example, in the form of a cave. It turned out to be possible to do this in a ravine, near a stream that flowed towards the Lozva River. 10-12 poles were cut for this shelter. What exactly the poles were supposed to serve for is not clear, maybe they planned to build a “floor” out of them, throwing spruce branches on top.

Zolotarev, meanwhile, was “resting” in the tent, lost in an anxious drunken sleep. Having woken up and sobered up a little, at about 10-11 o’clock he saw that the situation was serious, the students had not returned, which meant they were “in trouble” somewhere, and he realized that he had “gone too far.” He followed the tracks downwards, realizing his guilt and already without a weapon (the ice ax remained at the tent, the knife in the tent). True, it remains unclear where the grenade was located, if indeed there was one. At about 12 o'clock he approached the cedar. He walked dressed and wearing felt boots. The footprint of one person in felt boots was recorded by observer Axelrod 10-15 meters from the tent. He walked down to Lozva.

The question arises: “Why is there no or not noticed ninth trail? The issue here is most likely the following. The students descended at 7 o'clock in the morning, and Zolotarev at about 11. By this time, at dawn, a strong wind arose, drifting snow, which partly blew away the snow that had fallen at night, and partly compacted it, pressing it to the ground. It turned out thinner, and most importantly, more dense layer of snow. In addition, felt boots are larger in area than boots, and even more so feet without shoes. The pressure from felt boots on the snow per unit area is several times less, so the traces of Zolotarev’s descent were barely noticeable and were not recorded by observers.

The people at the cedar, meanwhile, met him in a critical situation. Half-frozen, they unsuccessfully tried to warm themselves up by the fire, bringing their freezing hands, feet and faces close to the fire. Apparently from this combination of frostbite and mild burns, an unusual red skin coloration of the exposed parts of the body was observed in the five tourists found in the first phase of the search.

People placed all the blame for what happened on Zolotarev, so his appearance did not bring relief, but served to further escalate the situation. Moreover, the psyche of hungry and freezing people, of course, worked inadequately. Possible apologies from Zolotarev, or vice versa, his command orders, obviously, were not accepted. Lynching has begun. We think that Thibault first demanded, as an initial measure of “retribution,” to remove his felt boots and then demanded that he give up the “Victory” watch, which reminded Zolotarev of his participation in the war, which, obviously, was a source of pride for him. This seemed extremely offensive to Zolotarev. In response, he hit Thibault with a camera, which he may have demanded to give up. And again he “didn’t calculate”, obviously there was still alcohol in the blood. I used the camera as sling* he pierced Thibault's head, effectively killing him.

* This is evidenced by the fact that the camera strap was wound around Zolotarev’s hand.

In the conclusion of Dr. Vozrozhdeniy it is said that Thibault’s skull is deformed in a rectangular area measuring 7x9 cm, which approximately corresponds to the size of a camera, and the torn hole in the center of the rectangle is 3x3.5x2 cm. This approximately corresponds to the size of the protruding lens. The camera, according to numerous witnesses, was found on Zolotarev’s corpse. The photo was saved.

After this, of course, everyone present attacked Zolotarev. Someone was holding hands, and Doroshenko, the only one with boots kicked him in the chest and in the ribs. Zolotarev desperately defended himself, hit Slobodin so that his skull cracked, and when Zolotarev was immobilized by collective efforts, he began to fight with his teeth, biting off the tip of Krivonischenko’s nose. This is apparently what they taught in front-line intelligence, where, according to some information, Zolotarev served.

During this fight, Lyudmila Dubinina for some reason she was counted among Zolotarev’s “supporters”. Perhaps at the beginning of the fight she sharply objected to lynching, and when Zolotarev actually killed Thibault, she fell into “disgrace.” But, most likely, the rage of those present turned to Dubinina for this reason. Everyone understood that the beginning of the tragedy, its trigger point, was Zolotarev’s intake of alcohol. The case contains evidence from Yuri Yudin that, in his opinion, one of the main shortcomings in organizing Dyatlov’s campaign was no alcohol, which it was he, Yudin, who failed to obtain in Sverdlovsk, but, as we already know, there was alcohol in the group after all. This means that the alcohol was bought on the road in Vizhay, in Indel, or, most likely, at the last moment before setting out on the route from the lumberjacks in the 41st forest area. Since Yudin did not know about the presence of alcohol, it was obviously kept secret. Dyatlov decided to use alcohol under some emergency circumstances - such as an assault on Mount Otorten, when his strength was running out, or to celebrate the successful completion of a campaign. But the supply manager and accountant Dubinin could not have known about the presence of alcohol in the group, since it was she who allocated public money to Dyatlov to buy alcohol on the road. People or Dyatlov personally decided that she was talking about it spilled the beans Zolotarev, who slept nearby and with whom she willingly communicated (photos have been preserved). In general, Dubinina actually received the same, even more severe injuries than Zolotarev (10 ribs were broken in Dubinina, 5 in Zolotarev). In addition, her “chatty” tongue was torn out.

Considering that the “opponents” were dead, one of the Dyatlovites, fearing responsibility, gouged out their eyes, because there was and still is a belief that in the pupil of the deceased violent death the image of the killer remains. This version is supported by the fact that Thibault, who was mortally wounded by Zolotarev, had his eyes intact.

Let's not forget that people acted on the verge of life and death, in a state of extreme excitement, when animal instincts completely turn off acquired human qualities. Yuri Doroshenko was found with frozen foam at his mouth, which confirms our version of his extreme degree of excitement, which reached rabies.

It looks very much like Lyudmila Dubinina suffered without guilt. The fact is that with almost 100 percent probability Semyon Zolotarev was an alcoholic, like many of the direct participants in the fighting in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The fatal role here was played by the “People’s Commissar” 100 grams of vodka, which were issued at the front every day during hostilities. Any narcologist will say that if this continues for more than six months, then dependence of varying severity inevitably arises, depending on the physiology of a particular person. The only way to avoid the disease was to refuse the “People's Commissars”, which, of course, is something that a rare Russian person can do. So it’s unlikely that Semyon Zolotarev was such an exception. An indirect confirmation of this is an episode on the train on the way from Sverdlovsk, described in the diary of one of the participants in the campaign, which is given in the Case. A “young alcoholic” approached the tourists, demanding the return of a bottle of vodka that, in his opinion, had been stolen by one of them. The incident was hushed up, but most likely Dyatlov “figured out” Zolotarev and, when buying alcohol, strictly forbade Lyudmila Dubinina to tell Zolotarev about it. Since Zolotarev nevertheless took possession of Dyatlov’s alcohol, and then everyone else decided that Dubinin’s caretaker was to blame for this, who let it slip, spilled the beans. Most likely this was not the case. Students in their youth did not know that alcoholics develop a supernatural “sixth” sense for alcohol and they successfully and accurately find it in any conditions. Just by intuition. So Dubinina most likely had nothing to do with it.

The described bloody tragedy occurred at about 12 noon on February 2, 1959, next to the ravine where a shelter was being prepared.

This time of 12 noon is defined as follows. As we already wrote, tourists in panic left the tent through the cutouts at about 7 o'clock in the morning on February 2, 1959. The distance to the cedar is 1.5-2 km. Taking into account the “nakedness” and “barefoot” and the difficulties of orientation, the difficulties of orientation in the dark and at dawn, the group reached the cedar in an hour and a half or two. It turns out 8.5-9 o'clock in the morning. It's dawn. Another hour to prepare firewood, cut branches for the observation post, prepare poles for the flooring. It turns out that the fire was lit around 10 o'clock in the morning. According to numerous testimonies from search engines, the fire burned for 1.5-2 hours. It turns out that the fire went out when the group went to sort things out with Zolotarev to the ravine, i.e. at 11.30 - 12 o'clock. So it comes out around 12 noon. After the fight, having lowered the bodies of the dead into the cave (dropping them), a group of 6 people returned to the cedar.

And the fact that the fight took place near the ravine is proven by the fact that, according to the expert opinion of Dr. Vozrozhdeniy, Thibault himself could not move after the blow. They could only carry him. And it was difficult for dying, half-frozen people to carry even 70 meters from the cedar to the ravine. obviously I can't do it.

Those who retained their strength, Dyatlov, Slobodin, and Kolmogorov rushed to the tent, the path to which was now clear. Exhausted from the fight, Doroshenko, the fragile Krivonischenko and Kolevatov remained at the cedar and tried to rekindle the fire near the cedar, which had gone out during the fight in the ravine. So, Doroshenko was found fallen on dry branches, which he apparently carried to the fire. But it seems they were unable to rekindle the fire. After some time, perhaps very short, Doroshenko and Krivonischenko froze to death. Kolevatov lived longer than them, and finding that his comrades were dead, and it was not possible to re-light the fire, he decided to meet his fate in the cave, thinking that one of those who were in it might still be alive. He cut off some of the warm clothing of his dead comrades with a Finn and carried them to the “hole in the ravine” where the rest were located. He also took off Yuri Doroshenko’s boots, but apparently decided that they were unlikely to be useful and threw them into a ravine. The boots were never found, as were a number of other things of the Dyatlovites, which is reflected in the Case. In the Kolevatov cave, Thibo,

Dubinina and Zolotarev met their death.

Igor Dyatlov, Rustem Slobodin and Zinaida Kolmogorova met their death on the hard way to the tent, fighting for life to the last. This happened around 13 o'clock in the afternoon on February 2, 1959.

The time of death of the group, according to our version, 12-13 o'clock in the afternoon, coincides with the assessment of the remarkable forensic expert Dr. Vozrozhdenny, according to whom the death of all victims occurred 6-8 hours after the last meal. And this reception was breakfast after a cold night at approximately 6 am. 6-8 hours later gives 12-14 hours of the day, which almost exactly coincides with the time we indicated.

A TRAGIC CONDITION HAS COME.

CONCLUSION .

It is difficult to find right and wrong in this story. Sorry for everyone. The greatest blame, as it was stated in the materials of the Case, lies with the head of the UPI Gordo sports club; it was he who should have checked the psychological stability of the group and only after that given the go-ahead to go out. I feel sorry for the perky Zina Kolmogorova, who loved life so much, the romantic, dreaming of love Luda Dubinin, the handsome foppish Kolya Thibault, the fragile Georgy Krivonischenko with the soul of a musician, the faithful comrade Sasha Kolevatov, the home boy of the mischievous Rustem Slobodin, sharp, strong, with his own concepts of justice, Yuri Doroshenko. I feel sorry for the talented radio engineer, but the naive and narrow-minded person and the useless leader of the campaign, the ambitious Igor Dyatlov. I feel sorry for the honored front-line soldier, intelligence officer Semyon Zolotarev, who did not find the right paths so that the campaign would go as he probably wanted, as best as possible.

In principle, we agree with the conclusions of the investigation that “the group was faced with natural forces that they were unable to overcome.” Only we believe that these natural forces were not external, but internal. Some were unable to cope with their ambitions; Zolotarev did not make psychological allowances for the young age of the participants in the campaign and its leader. And of course, Violation of Prohibition played a huge role during the campaign, which apparently officially operated among UPI students.

We believe that the investigation ultimately came to a version close to the one we voiced. This is indicated by the fact that Semyon Zolotarev was buried separately from the main group of Dyatlovites. But the authorities considered it undesirable to publicly voice this version in 1959 for political reasons. Thus, according to the memoirs of investigator Ivanov, “In the Urals, there probably won’t be a person who in those days did not talk about this tragedy” (see the book “Dyatlov Pass” p. 247). Therefore, the investigation was limited to an abstract formulation of the reason for the death of the group, given above. Moreover, we believe that the materials of the Case contain indirect confirmation of the version of the presence of a combat grenade or grenades in the possession of one of the participants in the campaign. So in the Acts of Doctor Vozrozhdeniy it is said that multiple fractures of the ribs in Zolotarev and Dubinina could have arisen as a result of the action air shock wave, which is precisely generated by the explosion of a grenade. In addition, the prosecutor-criminologist, Ivanov, who conducted the investigation, as we already wrote about this, spoke about the “underinvestigation” of some piece of hardware found. Most likely we are talking about Zolotarev’s grenade, which could end up anywhere from a tent to a ravine. It is obvious that the people conducting the investigation exchanged information and, perhaps, the “grenade” version reached Doctor Vozrozhdeniy.

We also found direct evidence that already at the beginning of March, that is, in initial phase searches, the version of the explosion was considered. So investigator Ivanov writes in his memoirs: “There were no traces of the explosion wave. Maslennikov and I carefully considered this” (see in the book “Dyatlov Pass” the article by L.N. Ivanov “memories from the family archive” p. 255).

This means that there were grounds for searching for traces of the explosion, that is, it is possible that the grenade was found by sappers after all. Since the memoirs are about Maslennikov, this determines the time - the beginning of March, so Maslennikov subsequently left for Sverdlovsk.

This is evidence very significant, especially if you remember that at that time the main one was the “Mansi version”, that is, that they were involved in the tragedy local residents Mansi. The Mansi version completely collapsed by the end of March 1959.

The fact that by the time the bodies of the last four tourists were discovered in early May, the investigation had come to certain conclusions is evidenced by the complete indifference of Prosecutor Ivanov, who was present when the bodies were dug up. The leader of the last search group, Askinadzi, speaks about this in his memoirs. So, most likely, the grenade was found not near the cave, but somewhere along the stretch from the tent to the cedar in February-March, when a group of sappers with mine detectors was working there. That is, by May, by the time the bodies of the last four dead were discovered, everything was already more or less clear to the prosecutor-criminologist Ivanov, who conducted the investigation.

Obviously, that this tragic incident should serve as a lesson for tourists of all generations.

And for this, the activities of the Dyatlov Foundation should, as we believe, be continued.

ADDITION. ABOUT FIREBALLS.

The monster is loud, mischievous, huge, yawning and barking

It is no coincidence that we cited this epigraph from the wonderful story of the enlightener A.N. Radishchev "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow." This epigraph is about the state. So how “evil” was the Soviet state in 1959 and how did it “bark” at tourists?

That's how. Organized a tourist section at the institute, where everyone studied for free and received a scholarship. Then this “evil one” allocated money in the amount of 1,300 rubles for the trip of his students, gave them free use of the most expensive equipment for the duration of the trip - a tent, skis, boots, windbreakers, sweaters. Helped with planning the trip and developing the route. And even arranged a paid business trip for the leader of the campaign, Igor Dyatlov. The height of cynicism in our opinion. This is how our country, in which we all grew up, barked at tourists.

When it became clear that something unexpected had happened to the students, they immediately organized an expensive and well-organized rescue and search operation involving aviation, military personnel, athletes, other tourists, as well as the local population of Mansi, who showed their best side.

What about the famous BALLS OF FIRE? Which tourists were allegedly so afraid of that they barricaded the entrance to the tent, and then cut it open in order to urgently get out of it?

We also found the answer to this question.

We were greatly helped in finding this answer by images that, using a unique technique, were obtained by processing film from Semyon Zolotarev’s camera, a group of researchers from Yekaterinburg. Recognizing the significant importance of this work, we would like to draw attention to the following easily verifiable and obvious data.

It is enough to simply rotate the resulting images to see that they do not depict mythical"fireballs" and real and quite understandable plots.

So if we rotate 180 degrees one of the images from the book “Dyatlov Pass” and called “Mushroom” by the authors, then we can easily see the dead face of one of the Dyatlovites who was the last to be found, namely Alexander Kolevatov. It was he who, according to eyewitnesses, was found with his tongue hanging out, which can be easily “read” in the photo. From this fact it is obvious that Zolotarev’s film, after the footage he shot during the campaign, filmed by the Askinadzi search group.

Ill. 3. “Mysterious” photo No. 7 *. Kolevatov's face.

This is the “Mushroom” object in Yakimenko’s terminology.

*Photos 6 and 7 are shown in the article by Valentin Yakimenko “Films of the Dyatlovites”: Searches, finds and new mysteries” in the book “Dyatlov Pass” p.424. This is also where the numbering of pictures comes from. This position is further proven by this frame called “Lynx” by the authors.

Let's rotate it 90 degrees clockwise. In the center of the frame, the face of a man from the Askinadzi search group is clearly visible. Here is a photo from his archive.

Ill.4 Asktinadzi group. By this point people already knew where the bodies are located and they made a special dam - the trap "in the photo" - to detain them in the event of a sudden flash flood. A snapshot from late April – early May 1959.

Ill. 5 “Mysterious” photo No. 6 (Lynx object) according to Yakimenko’s terminology and an enlarged image of the search engine.

We see that, in the center of the frame, from Zolotarev’s film, a man from the Askinadzi group.

We think that it was no coincidence that this person turned out to be in the center frame. Perhaps it was he who played the key, main, central role in the search - figured out where the bodies of the last Dyatlovites were. This is also evidenced by the fact that even in the group photo of the search engines he feels like a winner and is positioned above everyone else.

We believe that All other photographs given in Yakimenko’s article have a similar purely earthly origin.

So, thanks to the joint efforts of specialists from Yekaterinburg, primarily Valentin Yakimenko and ours, the mystery of the “fireballs” was resolved by itself.

It simply never existed.

As well as the “fireballs” themselves in the vicinity of Mount Otorten on the night of February 1–2, 1959.

We respectfully present our work to all interested individuals and organizations.

Sergey Goldin, analyst, independent expert.

Yuri Ransmi, research engineer, specialist in image analysis.

https://www.site/2017-06-20/voennyy_medik_rasskazal_svoyu_versiyu_gibeli_gruppy_dyatlova

“Death was due to paralysis of the respiratory center”

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

Photo taken by Dyatlov's group on the last trip

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

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

- Let's start with the map... A military paramedic, he served in the missile forces and I know about this matter. I'm tired of hearing: either the aliens arrived, or the bear came out and attacked everyone.

- In fact, there are more versions, and most of them are not so fantastic.

— In those years, military tests were carried out in the Ivdel region, missiles were tested. All local residents knew this well. They were often called fire snakes. I myself, when I lived in Maslovo, saw 5-6 launches every winter. In the summer, by the way, there were none. Only carried out in winter. They walked from the Serovsky district to the north, approximately along railway Serov - Ivdel. Once, by the way, I saw two missiles flying at the same time. What does this mean? That these were not only tests of ballistic missiles. According to the instructions, they cannot test two ballistics simultaneously. Yes, everything was classified, but even our last poor students knew that weapons, including nuclear weapons, were being tested in the north. We were strongly advised not to walk in the rain, not to walk in the snow. And why? Because the fallout was radioactive.

— Do you want to say that the entire north of the Sverdlovsk region is infected?

- It’s less now. Listen further. When I graduated from medical school, I was sent to Vizhay. But I didn’t get to Vizhay, I worked in the village of First Severny. I was housed there with geophysicists, or at least that’s how they were introduced to me at first. Supposedly they make some kind of maps and all that stuff. On weekdays, these people disappeared in the taiga, and on weekends they rested in the village. One fine day, it was Monday and I had a day off, one of them, the youngest, stayed at the base. He was probably 25 years old. He offered me a drink, I didn’t refuse, we sat down. I asked him why he didn’t go with everyone. And then he began to talk. I won’t go, he says, not at all anymore, how do you live here, they say? He says you can’t live here, there’s radiation all around. It turned out that they are not geophysicists at all. They walk through the taiga and collect all sorts of junk left over from the launches. “I want to live,” he says. The next day he planned to go to their office, get a payment and leave the village. Only when I came home the next day after work, I was no longer able to get into the apartment. It turned out there was a shot. He locked himself in a room and shot himself. This is instead of going home. Two uncles arrived and took the body. Me for interrogation. I pretended to be, as we called it then, a “rag.”

— How does this relate to the Dyatlov Pass?

“The problem is that people have absolutely no idea what an explosion is.” They think that these are, relatively speaking, fragments, a bunch of holes and all that jazz. Absolutely no one knows exactly what a blast wave or hydrodynamic shock is. Even I, who worked as a medic for seven years and served in missile units from the Caucasus to the Urals, until some point I studied this only as an elective. I want to say that the four wounded from Dyatlov’s group (Rustem Slobodin, Lyudmila Dubinina, Alexey Zolotarev, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolle - website) are not a bear or aliens, they are a blow from a blast wave.

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

— All these combinations of injuries suggest this idea: rib fractures, head injuries. This is what happens with a blast wave. If he fell, for example, on a backpack, on a stone, or on another person during an explosion, he broke his ribs and injured his head. True, if we describe these injuries separately, and this is exactly what was done in the pathologist’s report, then nothing is clear. It is possible that the pathologist could have known about everything, but he was simply forbidden to write as it is. (Forensic medical examination of all the dead was carried out by the forensic expert of the regional bureau of forensic medicine, Boris Vozrozhdenny. At the same time, the forensic expert of the city of Severouralsk, Ivan Laptev, also took part in the examination of the first four bodies on March 4, 1959, and an expert took part in the examination of the last four bodies on May 9, 1959 - criminologist Henrietta Churkina - website).

— Do you want to say that a rocket explosion occurred near Mount Kholatchakhl, on the slope of which on February 1, 1959 Igor Dyatlov’s group camped for the night?

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

— The disadvantage of the missile version is that the Ministry of Defense assures that there were no launches that day.

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

— The strange reddish-orange skin tone that was seen on the bodies of the dead tourists speaks in favor of the missile version. Allegedly, these are traces of exposure to rocket fuel.

“When a tank with this fuel was opened, smoke or orange vapor instantly appeared from there. Vapors were pouring out like a fountain, ranging from orange to brown depending on the lighting. They are quite heavy. On the one hand, they slowly settle, on the other, they are slowly blown away by the wind. In general, it turned out that after the rocket explosion, the group still found itself under a cloud of vapor from this fuel.

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

— It is a mistake to believe that a rocket falls into pieces when it self-detonates. The rocket body itself went a little further. According to the instructions, helicopter pilots picked him up at the first opportunity, but no later than three days later. They, as a rule, flew behind. Large parts were collected at the earliest opportunity, and small parts were collected even before the 70s.

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

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

- Stop, just right.

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

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

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

We caught our breath a little and looked around. It's freezing, there aren't enough clothes. We have to go back. But there is strong irritation in the eyes, they can’t really see. Plus a cough and runny nose. Here you need to understand one more thing: each person’s sensitivity is different. For example, I tolerate acid more easily than alkali. Then they decide to leave part of the group by the river, the rest climbed a little higher up the slope to the edge of the forest, where they break branches and light a fire..

- Why didn’t anyone return? It wasn't much of a walk to the tent.

“The oxidizing agent I told you about does not cause burns as such. It is quickly absorbed into the body and causes poisoning, accompanied by a red-orange coloration of the skin. Within half an hour, a person dies from paralysis of the respiratory center. That's why none of them reached the tent.

“When the bodies were found, they were lying on the slope one after another. Zinaida Kolmogorova was closest to the tent. Why?

— There may be several versions. They received the same amount of poisoning, but everyone’s tolerance is different. A woman’s body’s resistance is usually higher, which is why she climbed the farthest.

“The missile version, however, does not explain why some of the victims were missing eyes, and Dubinina was missing her tongue and part of her lower lip.

“Everyone took notice and became fixated on it.” In fact, the bodies were not immediately covered with snow. Eyes, lips, tongue - all these are the softest tissues; they could really be pecked out by birds or chewed out by mice. There is an explanation why, for example, there was no tongue - they were suffocating, and this girl simply died while inhaling. The mouth remained open, and the animals could easily take advantage of this.

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

— The launch of the S-75 complex flies one to one like those fiery snakes that we saw in my native village. This is the missile, by the way, that was used to shoot down Powers (pilot of the American U-2 spy plane - website) on May 1, 1960 in the sky over Sverdlovsk. It is possible that it was tested in 1959. By the way, around the same years, the S-125 complexes were tested. I think this question could be addressed to the Ministry of Defense.