More than half a century ago, a mysterious and tragic event took place in the mountains of the Northern Urals. At the beginning of February 1959 for an unknown reason nine tourists died.

After this tragedy, three deputy chairmen of the KGB lost their posts at once, which was an unprecedented event in the history of the most powerful intelligence service in the world.

A FEAT ON A SCHEDULE

Ski trip to one of the peaks of the Poyasovyi Kamen ridge of the Subpolar Urals, Mount Otorten, was conceived by members of the tourism section of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. S. M. Kirov in the autumn of 1958. The route belonged to the highest category of difficulty.

The group had to overcome more than 350 km in severe winter conditions in 16 days and climb the Otorten and Oiko-Chakur mountains. The campaign was timed to coincide with the XXI Congress of the CPSU and was supported by the leadership of the Ural Polytechnic University.

The initial composition of the group consisted of twelve people, but in the end, on January 23, 1959, ten people set off from the Sverdlovsk railway station: Igor Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, Yuri Doroshenko, Georgy (Yuri) Krivonischenko, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles, Lyudmila Dubinina, Semyon (Alexander) Zolotarev, Alexander Kolevatov and Yuri Yudin. It must be said that the group was only nominally considered a student group, since four of them were no longer students by that time, and some had nothing to do with UPI at all.

The composition of the group was diverse. The youngest was 20-year-old Dubinina. The instructor of the Kourovskaya camp site Zolotarev, who joined at the last moment, turned 37. The head of the group, Dyatlov, was 23. Despite his youth, Igor Dyatlov was already a very experienced tourist and had more than one route of varying difficulty behind him. And the rest were far from newcomers. In addition, they already had experience of joint campaigns and all of them, with the exception of Zolotarev, knew each other well and were a solid, friendly and proven team of like-minded people.

Each person was on the account, and it was all the more insulting to lose one of the participants in the very first days of the campaign. Due to aggravated sciatica, already after the first transition from the settlement of the 41st quarter to the non-residential settlement, the 2nd Northern mine was forced to leave the route of Yu. Yudin. A sharp pain did not allow him to move at the planned speed, even without a backpack.

The loss of one of the experienced male hikers forced the group leader to reconsider the schedule and postpone the date of the group's arrival back to Sverdlovsk in case of a successful completion of the trip from February 10 to February 12. However, no one doubted this outcome. And no one could have foreseen that this unfortunate absurdity would save Yuri Yudin's life - the only one of the whole group.

Based on diary entries, it is only possible to partially restore the picture of what happened: on the evening of February 1, 1959, a group led by Dyatlov set up a camp near Mount Otorten in order to climb to its summit the next morning. However, subsequent events did not allow the group to fulfill the intended ...

Neither on February 12 nor later did the group get in touch. Some delay did not particularly alarm the leadership of the institute. Relatives were the first to sound the alarm. At their request, a search and rescue operation was organized, which began only on February 22. Everyone took part in the search for the missing people: from students and tourists to army units and special services.

Moreover, all further events took place under the close control of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the KGB. The level of what happened is evidenced by the fact that to investigate the tragedy near Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, a state commission was created, which included: Major General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs M.N. Shishkarev, Deputy Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Regional Executive Committee V.A. F. T. Yermash, prosecutor of Sverdlovsk N. I. Klinov and Major General of Aviation M. I. Gorlachenko.

Pay attention to the last figure in this list. It would seem, what is a military pilot to do here? Nevertheless, some data allow us to assert that the Major General of the Air Force was not included in the commission by chance. The case was under the personal control of the 1st Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU A.P. Kirilenko.

TERRIBLE FINDINGS

The official investigation on the question of the causes of the tragedy on the night of February 1 to 2 could not give an answer. Or didn't want to. The criminal case was closed on May 28, 1959. In a document compiled by an employee of the Ivdel procurator L. Ivanov, it was said: "... it should be considered that the cause of their death was an elemental force, which people were not able to overcome."

Nevertheless, enthusiasts continued the search. Today, there are several dozen versions of the reasons for the death of the Dyatlov group. Among them:

Unfavorable weather conditions;

Quarrel between tourists;

Death at the hands of the local population;

Attack by escaped prisoners;

Clash with special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;

Paranormal phenomena (mysticism and UFOs);

Technogenic catastrophe (version by G. Tsygankova);

Avalanche (version by E. V. Buyanov);

Special operation of the KGB during the Cold War (A. I. Rakitin's version).

I must say that the investigations conducted by volunteers are respected, and some of them answer, if not all, then many questions.

On February 27, one and a half kilometers from a tent found half-buried and frozen in snow, set up on the slope of Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, the bodies of Yury Doroshenko and Yury Krivonischenko were found. Almost immediately, three hundred meters above, the body of Igor Dyatlov was found. Then, under a thin layer of dense snow, the body of Zina Kolmogorova was found, and on March 5, the body of Rustem Slobodin was found.

The next two months of searching yielded no results. And only after the warming, on May 4, they found the rest. The bodies were at the foot of the mountain under a layer of snow 2.5 m thick in the channel of a stream that had already begun to melt. First, the body of Lyudmila Dubinina was found, and the rest were found a little downstream: Alexander Kolevatov and Semyon Zolotarev were lying at the edge of the stream in an embrace “chest to back”, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolles was downstream, in the water.

The first assumption was that the tourists were caught in severe bad weather. With a hurricane gust of wind, part of the group was blown down the mountainside, the rest immediately rushed to their aid. As a result, people were swept up the slope by a hurricane, and as a result, everyone froze. However, later the investigation abandoned this version, since subsequent findings did not fit into it.

There could be no question of psychological incompatibility. Who would go on such a difficult and dangerous route with untested or conflicting people? This should be known at least then in order to understand: all members of the group trusted each other, each of them deserved the right to be among the lucky ones, and everyone stood up for each other with a mountain. Thus, the version about the death of all members of the group as a result of a quarrel also did not stand up to criticism.

A careful examination of the camp revealed several signs pointing to a crime. At the same time, it cannot be said that it was like a robbery, as if the group was faced with some criminal elements. Enough large sum money, as well as watches, cameras and even alcohol remained intact. Only one camera disappeared, along with a refilled film. But at the same time, the tent was torn and beyond repair. The examination showed that it was disabled from the inside.

But by whom and for what purpose? However, valuables left behind and a damaged tent indicate that the criminal version is untenable. It is unlikely that fugitive criminals would have left themselves without a roof over their heads, when at night the thermometer could drop to the 50-degree mark.

It has been suggested that the group was mistakenly destroyed by a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which confused tourists with criminals who had escaped from places of detention. But knowledgeable people say: in this case, small arms would definitely be used, and it would not have happened without gunshot wounds. And they were not on the bodies.

The idea was put forward that tourists went to the sacred slope of the prayer mountain and were killed by representatives of the local population (Mansi). However, as it turned out, there is no prayer mountain in these places, and all the witnesses described the indigenous population as calm and tourist-friendly people. As a result, the suspicion with Mansi was removed.

People who are prone to mysticism and sincerely believe in the other world, argue with fervor: everything happened because the group violated the boundaries of a sacred place guarded by spirits. Like, it’s not for nothing that they say: this zone is forbidden for a person, and the name of Mount Otorten (the Mansi call it Lunt-Khusap-Syahyl), where the group was going to move in the morning, is translated “Do not go there.”

However, A. Rakitin, who devoted several years to research, claims: in fact, "Lunt-Khusap" means "Goose's Nest", and it is connected with the lake of the same name Lunt-Khusap-Tur at the foot of the mountain. Fans of the other world insisted: the tourists recklessly set up their last camp on the slope of Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, which means “Mountain of the Dead” in the Mansi language. Confirmation is that even Mansi hunters do not enter these places.

Tourists were killed by something unknown and terrible. In particular, the nephew of Igor Dyatlov later testified: all the dead had gray hair. However, the lack of people in this area is also explained in a very prosaic way: these regions are too scarce in game, and there is simply nothing for hunters to do here. Yes, and the terrible name of the Mountain of the Dead, with a more accurate translation, turns into "Dead Mountain".

V. A. Varsanofyeva, a geologist, doctor of sciences, who worked for a long time at the Institute of Geology of the Komi Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, argued that the gloomy name was given to the mountain only because there was nothing on its slopes, not even vegetation - only scree and stones covered with lichen . Thus, the mystical version looks untenable.

Adding to the mysteries was the fact that all the bodies were found far from the camp, while most of the people found themselves on this extremely frosty night (up to -30°C) half-dressed and without hats, six were barefoot, on their feet were only socks. Some were not dressed in their clothes, two were only in their underwear. The version of E. Buyanov was seriously considered, who claimed that an unexpected avalanche had occurred, and it was this event that forced people to leave the camp in a hurry, half-dressed.

However, according to other experts, with a slope of only 15 degrees, the formation of an avalanche is unlikely. Although this does not rule out snow shifts, and with sufficient density, there is a possibility of serious compression injuries found on the bodies found. However, the skis stuck in the snow remained in a vertical position, which worked against this version.

Everyone agreed on one thing: some extraordinary circumstances forced the tourists in extreme haste to leave the sleeping bags and the tent for the sake of saving lives. But what hostile force made them do it? What could be stronger than the fear of death from the cold? The motives of the behavior of hardened and psychologically mature people at the moment when their fate was being decided have not yet been identified.

Unanswered questions multiplied. Some frozen bodies were in the position of defenders. But from whom or from what? It did not add clarity, and the fact that some of the bodies were found large burnt areas and traces of serious injuries, both intravital and post-mortem. Strong indentation of the sternum, numerous fractures of the ribs and other bones of the body were noted, which could be obtained as a result of compression, the powerful impact of external forces.

Yu. Krivonischenko and L. Dubinina had damaged eyeballs, S. Zolotarev had them completely absent, and the girl also had no tongue. A. Kolevatov has a broken nose, deformed neck and damaged temporal bone. Tourists received all these injuries during their lifetime, as evidenced by hemorrhages in nearby organs. All the clothes had a strange purple tint, and experts found traces of gray foam in Y. Doroshenko's mouth.

It should be noted that serious contradictions were revealed already at the very initial stage. Some experts claim that the holes in the tents were made by the tourists themselves for the fastest possible evacuation due to a sudden danger. Others insist that the tent was deliberately damaged by some hostile force in order to exclude the possibility of its use in the future, which, under the conditions of the Northern Urals frosts, which reached critical levels, would have guaranteed to lead to death of people.

And both of these statements are in direct contradiction with the statements of the third: the tent frozen in the snow was originally intact and damaged already during the clumsily conducted search operation. At the same time, they refer to the conclusions of the investigator of the prosecutor's office, V.I. Tempalov, who, in his most detailed description of the scene of the incident, did not say a word about its damage.

ON GUARD OF THE HOMELAND, BUT NOT PERSON

The most popular version is associated with weapons testing, in particular with the launch of missiles. They talked about the components of rocket fuel, the impact of the blast wave, explaining the compression injuries. In confirmation, the excessive radioactivity of the clothes of tourists recorded by the investigation is given.

But this version looks strange. Weapon tests are usually carried out at special test sites with the appropriate infrastructure capable of recording the damaging effect. In addition, not a single document on the tests carried out in that area has been published since then. On the contrary, data have become available that refute this version.

At that time, there were no rockets in the USSR capable of flying from the launch site (Tyura-Tam, later Baikonur) to the site of the tragedy, and spacecraft carrier rockets were oriented to the northeast and, in principle, could not fly over the Northern Urals. And in the period from January 2 to February 17, 1959, there were no launches from Tyura-Tama.

Sea-based missiles, which were tested at that time in the Barents Sea area, had a flight range of no more than 150 km, while from the place of death to the coast was more than 600 km. Air defense missiles, adopted at that time, could fly at a distance of no more than 50 km, and the nearest launcher was deployed only a year later. However, we will return to air defense.

OIL FOR BLOOD

It is impossible not to take into account another serious version. She claims that the reason for the death of tourists is a man-made disaster caused by a tragic combination of circumstances. In part, this version echoes the version of the above-mentioned E. Buyanov about the avalanche.

The whole country was preparing for the opening of the XXI Congress of the CPSU. At that time, it was customary to report on new labor achievements. The discovery of a new oil and gas field and, most importantly, a timely report about it promised considerable privileges to all those involved.

But there was little time left. To carry out urgent reconnaissance work on the order of the government, the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources Protection of the USSR and the Ministry of Aviation, methanol was delivered by the world's largest An-8T aircraft, which was specially converted for the transport of dangerous goods.

Methanol is extremely toxic and, when exposed to humans, causes respiratory paralysis, swelling of the brain and lungs, and vascular collapse. In addition, the optic nerve and the retina of the eyeball are affected. An emergency situation that arose in flight forced the crew commander to get rid of the cargo and, loitering, merge it in hard-to-reach and deserted places. Unfortunately, the group's route passed in the An-8T flight area, and the tourists were exposed to a poisonous substance intended for completely different purposes.

Methanol has the ability to dissolve snow and ice, turning them into a fluid mass. It is used in gas and oil fields to prevent clogging of oil wells, underground gas storages and main gas pipelines with crystalline hydrates resembling ice. In addition, for geophysical work in special cases, the method of radioactive tracers was used. There is reason to believe that the An-8T was carrying radioactive methanol.

A large amount of the substance that settled on the snow cover in the highlands contributed to the liquefaction of huge masses of snow. And this is what provoked the formation of a heavy ice-snow landslide on a slope with a steepness of only 12-15 degrees. According to the version, it was precisely such a mass of liquefied snow that covered the tent with tourists on that February night. And it is the sprayed methanol that is the cause of the purple tint of the clothes.

Given the traces of radioactive contamination and the nature of the injuries, this version seems much more realistic than the UFO version. Although she does not answer the question why only part of the clothes of the dead
was radioactive. True, the author of the version explains this as follows: clothes soaked in a poisonous radioactive substance were removed from the corpses in order to hide the cause of the death of the group. And yet there were questions that this version could not answer.

KGB VS CIA

From a certain moment, testimonies about strange fireballs observed in the area where tourists died began to appear in the criminal case. They were repeatedly seen by residents of the Northern Urals, including search engines. According to eyewitnesses, a fireball larger than two lunar diameters grew in the sky. Then the ball faded, blurred across the sky and went out.

It is on the basis of this evidence that the supporters of the "Martian" version insist that the tragedy is connected with UFOs. But that was later, but for now, a decision is being made to conduct a radiological examination of the clothes of the dead. The results showed that there were traces of radioactive substances on the clothes of two participants in the campaign. In addition, it turned out that G. Krivoni-shchenko and R. Slobodin were the bearers of state secrets and worked at the secret enterprise Mailbox 10, which develops atomic weapons.

Things began to take a completely unexpected turn. The reason for the creation of the state commission with such a high status became clear. Subsequently, it turned out that a specialist in radioactive contamination, A. Kikoin, took part in the examination of the scene of the incident as a team leader, and even with unique equipment.

The international situation of that time should also be remembered: in the conditions of the escalating Cold War, the USSR hastily forged a nuclear shield. At the same time, the conclusions of the official investigation become more understandable, because everything that was connected with state secrets was carefully hushed up. Still would! After all, nothing that can carry radioactive traces of top-secret production should not leave the restricted area.

Because isotopic traces carry comprehensive information about what and how reactors produce. In those days, for foreign intelligence, there was nothing more valuable than this data. Especially since we are talking about the late 1950s, when the nuclear potential of the USSR for Western intelligence was a secret behind seven seals. All this gave a completely unexpected direction for researchers.

Among the dead was another difficult figure: Semyon (Alexander) Zolotarev. He introduced himself as Alexander when meeting the rest of the group. A. Rakitin in his study claims: Zolotarev was a KGB agent and carried out an absolutely secret mission with Krivonischenko and Slobodin. His goal was to control the transfer of clothes with traces of radioactive substances to a group of American agents.

Based on their analysis, it was possible to establish what exactly was produced at the secret factory. The whole operation was developed by specialists from the Lubyanka and pursued one goal: disinformation of the main enemy. The campaign itself was only a cover for an operation of national importance, and the students were used in the dark.

Apparently, during the meeting of agents and couriers, something went wrong as planned by the special services, and the entire Dyatlov group was destroyed. Their death was staged in such a way that the tragedy looked as natural as possible. That is why everything was done without the use of firearms and even edged weapons.

It was not difficult for the elite fighters. According to the position of some of the bodies and the nature of the injuries, it can be assumed that the dead had to deal with masters of hand-to-hand combat, and burn marks indicate that the presence of signs of life in the victims was checked in this way.

But the question arises: how did foreign intelligence agents get into the deserted and hard-to-reach region of the Northern Urals? Unfortunately, there is a very simple answer to this: until the early 1960s, NATO planes flew into the territory of the USSR from the North Pole almost without hindrance, and throwing a group of paratroopers into deserted places was not particularly difficult.

It is no longer a secret that in the middle of the 20th century the USSR had no effective system Air defense, and the availability of "strato jets" in NATO countries - RB-47 and U-2 aircraft capable of climbing to a height of more than 20 km - made it possible to carry out agents and aerial reconnaissance with high efficiency in almost any area of ​​interest to them. The following facts testify to the impunity of the NATO Air Force: on April 29, 1954, a group of three reconnaissance aircraft made a daring raid along the route Novgorod - Smolensk - Kyiv.

On Victory Day - May 9, 1954 - an American RB-47 flew over Murmansk and Severomorsk. On May 1, 1955, reconnaissance aircraft appeared over Kiev and Leningrad. May Day demonstrations of Soviet workers were photographed, sincerely believing that "the Red Army is the strongest of all, and not even aware of the flights of spy planes literally over their heads.

According to American aviation historians, in 1959 alone, the intelligence of the US Air Force and the CIA made more than 3 thousand flights! The situation looked absurd: the center was flooded with reports of foreign aircraft flying over the country, and domestic aviation experts declared that “this cannot be.” But this concerned not only the USSR. The technical superiority of the U-2 over the then existing air defense systems was so obvious that the CIA, with undisguised cynicism, used these aircraft around the world.

As it turned out, the fireballs had nothing to do with UFOs either. These are just huge flare bombs parachuted for lighting to photograph large areas and secret objects at night. Now the inclusion of the general of aviation in the composition of the commission becomes understandable.
However, another question arises: how could the CIA agents leave the scene? After all, without escape routes and evacuation, this operation lost all meaning.

And if the air defense forces were powerless, then you can’t say the same about the KGB. Blocking train stations, combing all possible places of appearance of strangers for the special services did not work. And to pass hundreds or even thousands of kilometers unnoticed in the winter in the conditions of the Subpolar Urals is beyond the power of anyone. And here a truly unique know-how comes to the fore.

HEAVEN HOOK

In the autumn of 1958, with the help of parachutes, the Americans landed two scouts on the drifting Soviet polar station "North Pole-5", mothballed two years earlier. The Americans were interested in all the draft documentation related to meteorological observations in the Arctic and the means of communication used by Soviet polar explorers.

And here - attention! After completing the mission, the scouts were evacuated and taken on board the aircraft using a unique system developed by designer Robert Fulton and installed on the P2V-7 Neptune reconnaissance aircraft. This device was designed to pick up a person who is on the surface of the earth and deliver him on board an aircraft flying over him. The device was dubbed the "skyhook" and proved to be surprisingly simple, safe and effective to use.

The evacuee was dropped a container, which contained a warm overall with a special harness, a mini-aerostat and a balloon with compressed helium. All this was accompanied by a nylon cord about 150 m long. One end of the cord was attached to a mini balloon, and the other to a harness. Dressed in overalls and filling the balloon with helium, the passenger launched it into the sky. The evacuator aircraft, using a special device installed outside the fuselage, at a speed of about 220 km / h, cut a stretched nylon cord and, using a winch, lifted a person aboard the aircraft.

The first US Marine Corps Sergeant Levi Woods to be flown aboard an aircraft in this manner was. It happened on August 12, 1958. Subsequently, the "sky hook" was tested in various conditions of use: on the water, in the mountains, in a forest area. The reviews were the most positive. At least two such interceptors are known to have been based in Europe.

With a flight range of 7,000 km, the Neptunes could carry out an emergency evacuation of scouts from almost anywhere in the European part of the USSR. This version is indirectly indicated by the loss of a camera with refilled film. Perhaps he was taken as one of the evidence of the meeting of agents with couriers.

To date, many who are interested in this topic recognize that A. Rakitin's version looks the most realistic. However, opponents of such conspiracy theories retort: ​​this is impossible, since the authorities did not prevent a wide range of civilians from participating in the search operation, from whom in this case it was necessary to hide the true causes of the tragedy.

Perhaps, over time, new data will appear that reveal the mystery of the death of nine tourists on a February night in 1959. However, the number of those who know the true causes of the tragic events more than half a century ago is steadily approaching zero. Will we ever know the truth? Unknown. Do we have a right to this? Undoubtedly. This would be a worthy manifestation of respect for the memory of the dead. Along with the Dyatlov Pass already existing in the Northern Urals and marked on the maps.

Alexander GUNKOVSKY

Igor Dyatlov

At the end of April 2013, the last member of the legendary Dyatlov group, Yudin Yury Efimovich, died. The only surviving member of the 1959 expedition team led by Igor Dyatlov, a student at the Ural Polytechnic Institute. For 58 years, this mysterious and mystical story haunts everyone who has heard at least something about it. For 58 years, scientists, researchers, enthusiasts have been trying to unravel the mystery of the death of the detachment. A powerful surge of interest in this topic was caused by the feature film "The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass" (English director Renny Harlin), which was released in the same 2013. The picture received mixed reviews from the press and the audience, but in general the film turned out. The ending really blows the tower. But the film still did not aim to tell the truth. As in any work of art there's a lot of speculation. Let's restore the real course of events.

The role of chance in human life

At the end of January 1959, students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic University started climbing the ridges of the Northern Urals.

Igor Dyatlov, a fifth-year student of the radio faculty, led the team.

After a third of the way, and remained in the village "lucky" Yuri Yudin.

He was saved by banal sciatica, thanks to which he outlived his comrades by more than half a century.

The group continued on their way. There are nine of them left. At the right time, the Dyatlovites did not get in touch, and did not get out later, so a rescue team went in search.

Found them four days later. , which the rescuers saw, was strange and scary.

The first impression was that the members of the expedition in horror, forgetting about everything and not understanding what was happening, fled away from their tent.

They fled naked in the cold (clothes and food were left inside).

The corpses of two guys, stripped to their underwear, were found one and a half kilometers from the camp. Then they found the bodies of two more boys and a girl.

One (Rustem Slobodin) was broken. This was the end of the first rescue expedition.

In May, snow began to melt in the mountains, and only then were the rest of the Dyatlov group found.

Only one of them had no injuries, the bodies of others were terribly mutilated.

Everyone had broken ribs, the girl had no tongue, the guys had no eyes. In addition, the corpses were of a dark brick color, which pathologists had not encountered before.

So, in a thirty-degree frost, half-naked students, having torn open the tent with a knife, jumped out and fled in horror, to certain death. What happened?

The reason for the death of the Dyatlov group

Versions:

The official investigation admitted their helplessness, stating that the cause of death was an elemental force, which the participants of the hike could not overcome. So what is the power?

An avalanche is a common cause of death for climbers, but there are no steep slopes on the pass.

There was a version that local convicts dealt with the students. However, food and valuables remained in the tent.

An attack by wild animals? No trace of them was found.

They talked about the intrigues of foreign intelligence groups, KGB agents, but these conspiracy theories also did not find confirmation.

Preface.

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

Therefore, with light hand investigators, in the materials of the investigation, official documents, fiction, and later on the Internet, the opinion was established for a long time that the death of the group occurred between 20 and 21 hours on February 1, 1959, at night. However, after careful analysis of all information available to me, I did not find a single fact that could unequivocally testify that the Dyatlov group died on the evening of February 1, or on the night of February 1-2, 1959, as the investigation suggested. It was especially annoying that the analysis of student behavior showed absolutely clearly that all their actions were conscious and sighted, that is, tragic events could not have happened at night. 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 students occurred precisely 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 after analyzing and decoding seismograms, we received absolute and irrefutable evidence that the death of the Dyatlov tourist group occurred at 8:41 am, 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 to reconstruct the events that took place in the area Mount Kholat Syahyl. In this regard, I was forced to edit the text for the new book, which I propose to the reader.

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

"It is not necessary to multiply entities unnecessarily."

Okama's law.

The reason for this tragedy, which resulted in the complete death of a student tourist group led by Igor Dyatlov, is still a mystery that neither the investigators who had this criminal case in hand, nor numerous subsequent researchers, could uncover. repeatedly covering the events of this incident over the fifty years that have passed since the tragedy. Meanwhile, a retrospective study of the events that took place 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 materials of the investigation and documented facts.

Most full information about this incident was collected and summarized by M.B. Gershtein in his book "Secrets of UFOs and Aliens" (M-SPb 2006, ed. "Owl"), although he, as well as other researchers, could not understand the reason for the death of the Dyatlov group.

In fairness, 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 the periodical press with many conflicting details. About this case, with the most fantastic additions, I was also told in the city of Serov, Sverdlovsk Region.

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

Let me remind you that as a result of the investigation, based on the revealed facts and numerous eyewitness accounts, prosecutor Ivanov came to an unequivocal and completely fair conclusion about the involvement of mysterious luminous fireballs 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 the 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 coloring. As a result of this circumstance, the criminal case was ordered to be closed, all the testimonies of witnesses about the "glowing balls" were withdrawn from the case, and the case itself was classified as "secret" and archived. All this was immediately implemented, but later, this decision caused a lot of questions and comments from modern researchers, who considered that they still "Fool in full."

Meanwhile, in this extraordinary story there is nothing mysterious and 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.

And now let's restore the facts and the 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 in the course of the story, we will accompany the story of the events that took place with our own small commentary.

Start of the hike.

This organized group of tourists included ten young people: the head 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, Nikolay 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 journey of the Dyatlov group was to climb the mountain Otorten(lit. with 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 students occurred at the foot of the mountain Holotsakhl, (Kholat Syahyl)(lit. "mountain of the dead" ). According to the Vogul legend, the name of the mountain was given long before the death of the Dyatlov group, because of the Mansi group that died here, which also included 9 people.

The Dyatlov group left by train from Sverdlovsk to Serov, from there to Ivdel, then to Vizhay, from which the group reached the 2nd Northern settlement on foot. In this village, due to an attack of sciatica, Yuri Yudin lagged behind the group, and this, in the end, 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 rest of the guys from the Dyatlov group.

The last entry in the diary of the tourist group, made by Dyatlov on January 31: “We are developing new methods of more productive walking. ... We are gradually separating from Auspiya, the ascent is continuous, but rather smooth. And now the spruces ran out, we went to the border of the forest. West wind, warm, piercing... Nast, bare places. You don’t even have to think about the device of the storehouse. About 4 hours. You have to choose accommodation. We descend to the south - to the valley of Auspiya. This is apparently the snowiest place. The wind is light, the snow is 1.2 - 2 meters thick. Tired, exhausted, they set about arranging an overnight stay. Firewood is scarce. Weak, raw spruce. The fire was lit on logs, reluctance to dig a hole. We dine right in the tent. Warm. It is hard to imagine such comfort somewhere on a ridge, with a piercing howl of the wind, a hundred kilometers from settlements.

We can draw a preliminary conclusion, and highlight the most important information for us, based on this record. The Dyatlov group is literate. This is evidenced by the fact that the members of the Dyatlov group, as experienced taiga dwellers, lit logs in deep snow. (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 hours, the Dyatlov group began to choose a place to spend the night. This also testifies to the maturity of the group leader Igor Dyatlov. Note the maximum thickness of snow in the forest is 1.2 - 2 meters, and on the slope of the mountain - crust. The next day, February 1, 1959, the group built a storehouse, and, leaving some of their things and food in it, went light to Mount Otorten.

Last night.

On their last night, the Dyatlov group settled down approximately three hundred meters from the top of Mount Holat Syahyl, digging a hole and pitching a tent on an open mountain slope. Here is what the decision to dismiss the criminal case says about this: “In one of the cameras, a photo frame (taken last) was preserved, which shows the moment of excavation of snow to set up a tent . Considering that this shot was taken with a shutter speed of 1/25 second at aperture 5.6, with a film sensitivity of 65 units. GOST, and also taking into account the density of the frame, we can assume that the installation of the tent has begun around 5 p.m. on February 1, 1959. A similar picture was taken with another camera. After that time, not a single record and not a single photograph was found.”

We can specify the time of setting up the tent. Given that people's behavior always standard, and there was no reason to break the usual daily routine, the group, like the day before started setting up the tent about 16 hours evenings.

Setting up a tent.

The tent was set up soundly and was believed to be in an absolutely safe place. A little later, the 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, 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 Yevgeny Polikarpovich Maslennikov, one of the leaders of the search: The tent was stretched out on skis and poles crammed into the snow , its entrance was facing the south side, and on this side the stretch marks were intact, and the stretch marks on the north side (from the side of the mountain) ripped off therefore, the entire second half of the tent was littered with snow. There was little snow, what is poured by snowstorms during the February period.

Why did the stretch marks of the tent break?

I emphasize streamers torn from the side of the mountain. And we note one inaccuracy. Throughout February, according to weather reports, snow and blizzards were not observed. And looking ahead, we will immediately reveal the secret. The stretching of the tent was torn off by an explosive wave of a fragment of a comet that exploded over the mountain, as a result of which a little snow blew into the torn tent. Here is the weather report for the Ivdel region on the day of the death of the group: “Precipitation was less than 0.5 mm. Wind north-northwest, 1-3 meters per second. Snowstorms, hurricanes, snowstorms were not observed. That is a weak wind maximum speed which was less than 11 kilometers per hour, could not damage the stretching of the tent, which, moreover, was in a conscientiously dug snow hole, and had practically no windage. But some, and, moreover, a considerable force, nevertheless tore the stretch marks of the tent. Anyone who has seen such tents knows that the hemp stretching ropes on them, in terms of strength, can replace the towing cable of a car. And the energy of an electric-discharge cosmic explosion should have considerable force, to cut off all the stretch marks at once.

The beginning of the search.

The search for the Dyatlov group began February 21, and the tent abandoned by tourists was found only on the fifth day of the search, 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: Among the search engines, our group was the youngest. ... I remember that we were the first to arrive in Ivdel. Then we were thrown by helicopter into the mountains, but not to Otorten, as planned, but south. We had a radio operator and a hunter with us. Local people, older than us. They assumed that nothing good was expected at 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, they sit, they wait. There were three of us that day: the local forester Ivan, me and Misha Sharavin. … We went from the pass obliquely to the north-west, until we saw ... The tent stands, the middle of it is failed, but it stands. 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 accumulated into the tent through the open entrance and the cut. There was a windbreaker at the entrance to the tent. As it turned out, Dyatlovskaya. There is a metal box in his pocket ... There is money, tickets in it. We were pumped up: Ivdellag, bandits all around. And the money is in place. So it's not so scary anymore. They dug a deep trench in the snow near the tent, but found no one there. Terribly happy. We took a few items with us so that we wouldn’t get hit by the guys for “fantasies” ... We reported the discovery by radio. We were told that all groups would be transferred here…”

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

Versions about the murder of students are false.

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

Below the tent throughout up to 500 meters traces of people walking from the tent to the valley and into the forest were preserved in the snow ... Examination of the traces showed that some of them were left with an almost bare foot (for example, in one cotton sock), others had a typical display of felt boots, feet shod in a soft sock, etc. The paths of the tracks were located close to one another, converged and again diverged not far from one another. Closer to the border of the forest, the tracks ... turned out to be covered with snow. Neither in the tent nor near it were found signs of a struggle or the presence of other people.

And this extract from the criminal case is absolute documentary evidence that the Dyatlov group left the tent almost instantly, due to some real threat life. But Pay special attention to the fact that ".. Neither in the tent nor near it were found signs of a struggle or the presence of other people. That is, all versions about the murder of students by outsiders are false.. And the authors of all the criminal versions just sucked them out of their fingers. After all, none of these authors relied on facts, but colorfully, with breathtaking details, expounded only their own fantasies.

The location of the bodies of the dead and a description of the injuries.

Later, the rescuers who were walking down to the northeast traces, found the bodies of the dead. IN 850 meters from the tent they found the body of Kolmogorova, sprinkled with ten centimeters 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, which were lying slightly powdered with snow by the fire, bred under the cedar. Witnesses noticed a small puddle of blood near Kolmogorova's head, which was running down her throat.

The rest of the 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 according to the position of the bodies of Slobodin, Dyatlov and Kolmogorova, it could be assumed 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 lay on his back, head towards the tent, grabbing a birch trunk with his hand.

The remaining four: Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolles and Kolevatov were found after the hardest persistent search, May 4 only. They lay 75 meters from the fire, by the stream, perpendicular to the path from the tent, under 4.5 meters of snow.

From the materials of the criminal case: “A forensic medical examination established that Dyatlov, Doroshenko, Krivonischenko and Kolmogorova died from the effects of low temperature (frozen), none of them had any injuries, not to mention small scratches and abrasions. Slobodin had a skull fracture, 6 cm long, which spread to 0.1 cm, but Slobodin died of 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 path of movement of tourists from the tent, under a layer of snow of 4 - 4.5 meters, the bodies of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolles and Kolevatov were found. Krivonischenko and Doroshenko's clothes - trousers, sweaters - were found on the corpses, as well as a few meters from them. All clothes have traces of even cuts, as they were already removed from the corpses of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko. The dead Thibault-Brignolles and Zolotarev were found well-dressed, Dubinina was worse dressed - her faux fur jacket and cap ended up on Zolotarev, Dubinina's unboiled leg was wrapped in Krivonischenko's woolen trousers. Krivonischenko's knife was found near the corpses, with which young firs were cut near the fires.

Two watches were found on Thibaut's hand - one of them shows 8 hours 14 minutes, the second - 8 hours 39 minutes. A forensic autopsy established that Kolevatov's death was caused by low temperature (frost). Kolevatov has no injuries. Dubinina has a symmetrical rib fracture: 2,3,4,5 on the right and 2,3,4,5,6,7 on the left. In addition, extensive hemorrhage in the heart. Thibaut-Brignoles has an extensive hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle, corresponding to him - 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.

The strange color of the skin of the dead.

All search engines and forensic experts note strange skin color dead members of the Dyatlov group. Here is what the 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 call names. And then Yura Doroshenko was mistaken for Zolotarev. I knew Yura, but I didn't recognize him here. Even his mother didn't recognize him. And they also wondered about the fifth corpse - is it Slobodin or Kolevatov. They were completely unrecognizable.,skin of some strange color ... "

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

As another commentary, it should be said that the changed color of the open areas of the skin, members of the Dyatlov group, unambiguously testified to a burn with light-thermal radiation from an electric discharge explosion of a meteorite and the investigators were obliged to pay attention to it. However, the strange skin color of the students was thought to be 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, autopsies were performed on thawed bodies than was possible at the time and explained the strange discoloration of the skin.

The students left the tent without any injuries.

And here is how prosecutor Lev Nikitovich Ivanov covers the events: “As a forensic prosecutor, I had to be involved in the investigation or lead the investigation in the most difficult cases. … So I ended up in the impenetrable Ural taiga in a canvas tent ... Inspection of the tent showed that the outer clothing of tourists was preserved intact in it - jackets, trousers, backpacks with all their contents. It is known that tourists even in winter, settling down for the night in a tent, take off their outer clothing ..... . From the tent from the mountain to the valley there were sometimes 8, sometimes 9 paths of tracks. In conditions of mountains with supercooled snow, the tracks are not swept up, but on the contrary, they look like columns, since the snow under the tracks is compacted and blown around the track.

Let's break 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 the tent and near it, which indicated that all tourists left the tent without injuries... .»

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

Autopsy results: fatal injuries received from exposure to an air blast wave.

But let’s continue Ivanov’s quote: “ And then there was a mystery. 1.5 km from the tent, in the river valley, near the old cedar, after escaping from the tent, the tourists lit a fire and began to die here, 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 went out for small needs. He went out barefoot, wearing only woolen socks (“for a moment”). Then this trace of unshod feet is traced down into the valley. There was every reason to build a version that it was this person who gave the alarm, and he didn't have time to put on his shoes.

So, there was some kind of terrible force that frightened not only him, but also all the others, forcing them to leave the tent in an emergency and seek shelter below, in the taiga. Finding this force, or at least approaching it, was the task of the investigation. February 26, 1959 below, at the edge of the taiga, we found the remains of a small fire and here we found the bodies of the tourists Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, stripped to their underwear. Then a body was found in the direction of the tent Igor Dyatlov, not far from him two more - Slobodin and Kolmogorova. Without detailing, I will say that the last three were the most strong and strong-willed personalities, they crawled from the fire to the tent for clothes - this is quite obvious from their postures. Subsequent autopsy showed that these three courageous people died from hypothermia - they froze, although they were better dressed than others. Already in May, near the fire, under five meters of snow we found dead Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brignolles and Kolevatov. Externally, there are no injuries on their bodies. The sensation came when, in the conditions of the Sverdlovsk morgue, we performed an autopsy of these corpses. Dubinina, Thibaut-Brignolles and Zolotarev had extensive, completely incompatible with life bodily internal injuries. Luda Dubinina, for example, has 2,3,4,5 broken ribs on the right and 2,3,4,5,6,7 on the left. One piece of a rib even penetrated the heart. Zolotarev has 2,3,4,5,6 broken ribs. Note that this is without visible bodily harm.

Such damage, as I have described, usually occurs when a large directed force acts on a person, for example, a car at high speed. But such damage cannot be received from falling from a height of one's own height. In the vicinity of the mountain ... there were boulders and stones of various configurations covered with snow, but they were not in the way of tourists (remember the footprints), and, of course, no one threw these stones ... There are no external bruises. Therefore, there was a directional force that selectively acted on individuals ... "

Let's pause for another explanation.

Here is the response of the 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 is a multiple fracture of the ribs: in Dubinina it is bilateral and symmetrical, in Zolotarev it is unilateral, as well as hemorrhage into the heart muscle in both Dubinina and Zolotarev with hemorrhage into the pleural cavities indicate their survival and are the result of a great force, approximately the same as that which was applied to Thibaut. These injuries ... are very similar to the injury caused by an air blast wave..

Indeed, the nature of the injuries of all members of the Dyatlov group suggests that these injuries were obtained from exposure extremely powerful air blast wave. And here is what is typical. At the moment of exposure to 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 significant distance from each other. That is, it really was the impact of a powerful blast wave.

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

We continue the quotation of L.N. Ivanova: “When already in May E.P. Maslennikov examined the scene, they found that some young fir trees on the border of the forest have a burnt mark, but these traces were not concentric or otherwise systemic. There is no epicenter. This once again confirmed the directionality of a kind of thermal ray or a strong, but completely unknown, in any case, to us, energy acting selectively, - the snow was not melted, the trees were not damaged.

Let's break the quote again for one more little comment.

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

I repeat, the selectivity of a powerful light effect 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 investigation 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 short quote from Radika Mann's book "The Punishment of Heaven, or the Truth About the Tunguska Disaster" ": "Another incomprehensible feature of the effects of radiation ( Tunguska explosion ) on the vegetation the selectivity of this effect. Trees almost unaffected by the heat could be located almost next to badly burned ones. And such an incomprehensible alternation was observed over the entire area of ​​the burn. Researchers could not understand the regularity of this phenomenon and despaired. How should a flash shine if one tree is burned, and the rest nearby are not touched?

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

Estimated power of space electric discharge explosion.

As you know, air 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 space explosion in the area of ​​Mount Kholat Syahyl, was comparable to a small nuclear explosion.

It must be said that academic scientists try to determine the power of cosmic electric discharge explosions in different ways, 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 funnel left at the site of the explosion (the volume of the funnel is considered approximately equal to the amount of explosive in TNT equivalent). Others estimate the power of an air blast by the amount of damage that remains around the epicenter of the explosion. Therefore, the power of the Tunguska explosion, some academic scientists determined only ten kilotons of TNT, while others, focusing on the area of ​​forest fall at the site of the Tunguska disaster, estimate the power of the Tunguska explosion at hundreds of megatons of TNT.

The 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 exposure on the tent, but all students received burns - sunburn of exposed skin. According to the Ivdel prosecutor Tempalova, flying around the area of ​​the death of students in a helicopter, he saw numerous craters on the back slope of Mount Kholat Syahyl, that is relatively close to the tent.

Why were the materials of the investigation classified?

And now we will again give the floor to the prosecutor L.N. Ivanov, who quite clearly explains by whom and why the criminal case was classified: “It seemed that when the tourists on their feet passed 500 meters down the mountain then someone dealt with some of them in a directed way ... 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 - to classify all work, and not a single word of information should leak out. Kirilenko ordered to bury the tourists in closed coffins and tell their relatives that the tourists died from hypothermia... When the investigation was underway, a tiny note appeared in the Tagil 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? For the publication of such a note, the editor of the newspaper was fined, and in the regional committee they suggested that I not develop this topic. A.F. Eshtokin, the second secretary of the regional party committee, took over the leadership of the investigation in my case. At that time, we still knew very little about unidentified flying objects, we did not know about radiation either. The ban on these topics was caused by the possibility of even accidentally deciphering information about rocket and nuclear technology, the development of which at that time was really just beginning, and there was a period in the world that was called the period of the Cold War.

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

We continue to quote the revelations of L.N. Ivanova: " And the investigation must be carried out, I'm a professional forensic specialist and must find a clue. I nevertheless decided, despite the ban, to work on this topic with the highest degree of secrecy, since other versions, including the attack of people, animals, a fall during a hurricane, etc., were excluded by the extracted materials. It was clear to me who died and in what sequence - all this was given by a thorough examination of the corpses, their clothes and other data. Only the sky and its filling remained - an energy unknown to us, which turned out to be higher than human strength.

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

To our deep regret, the conclusion suggests itself that modern researchers either did not read the materials of the investigation, or deliberately lie. For, without burdening themselves with facts, they composed dozens of their own versions that contradicted the reasonable conclusions of the investigation, replacing them with their own fantasies.

Is a UFO to blame for the deaths of students?

L.N. Ivanov tried sincerely to understand the cause of the death of the students, and on the basis of the materials of the investigation 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 matters, I discarded the version of an atomic weapon test in this zone. It was then that I began to closely engage in "fireballs". I interrogated many eyewitnesses of the flight, hovering and, simply speaking, visiting by unidentified flying objects of 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 only in this way. Many data suggest that these may be bundles of energy that are not understood by modern people and are not explained by modern data of science and technology, affecting living and inanimate nature encountered on their way. Apparently, we met with one of them ... It was already a matter of technique - to find other people who, at night and in the evenings in January-February 1959, did not sleep on duty, but were on duty in the open. Now it's no secret to anyone that the Ivdel zone at that time was a continuous "archipelago" of camp points that formed Ivdellag, which was guarded around the clock. ... The study of 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 quite obvious ...

If I used to think that the ball exploded, releasing unknown to us, but radioactive energy, now I believe that the action of energy from the ball was electoral, it was directed at only three people. When I reported to A.F. Eshtokin about his findings - fireballs, radioactivity, he gave a completely categorical instruction: to classify absolutely everything, seal it up, hand it over to the special unit and forget about it. Is it necessary to say that all this was exactly done? … And one more time about fireballs. They were and are. It is only necessary not to hush up their appearance, but to deeply understand their nature. The vast majority of informants who met with them speak of the peaceful nature of their behavior, but as you can see, there are also tragic cases. Someone had 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 (!?). But were there "people" 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 inadequately assessed the events that had taken place. On the whole, however, his reasoning was not far from the truth. At the same time, one 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, in fact, was "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 the 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, and the power, and the 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 site), which, using a seismogram from the nearest weather station, could reliably determine the power of the Sasovo explosion.

The reason for the death of the Dyatlov group was a comet.

Thus, the materials of the criminal case unequivocally testified that the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was the “fireballs” that L.N. Ivanov identified 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 stage of investigation, as completely untenable. 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 sky 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, on the day of the death of the Dyatlov group.

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

Chapter 2

Investigator Karataev's version.

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

But here again an explanation is needed.

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

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

And again a small comment.

FROM investigator Karataev, as well as prosecutor Ivanov, was absolutely convinced that there were two blast waves. And it really was a cosmic tandem explosion. Explosions occurred at intervals of approximately half an hour. The first explosion caught the guys on the slope, 500 meters from the tent, when they were descending from the mountain. AND the victims of this blast wave were Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. Clock Krivonischenko stopped at 8 hours 14 minutes , And the second explosion, which killed the remaining seven members of the Dyatlov group, according to the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, occurred at 8 hours 41 minutes, after 27 minutes (plus or minus the error of Krivonischenko's clock).

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

Again, let's give the floor to Karataev himself : “The first thing they began to make a fire. They broke such thick branches of cedar that we, healthy peasants, could not even bend. Apparently, not only the instinct of self-preservation worked, but a deep emotional shock. The most 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. (??? This is an inaccuracy, because the materials of the investigation indicate at 850 meters). Below Igor Dyatlov and Rustem Slobodin ... I refused to write off the death of tourists for hypothermia. And that's exactly how 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 longer any forensic medical examination data, nor eyewitness accounts who 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 in the investigation of this case.

However, information about an unknown celestial body that flew 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 going outside, which gave some reason for everyone else to hastily abandon the tent. The reason could be some extraordinary natural phenomenon, meteorological rocket flight (!?) seen on 1.02. in Ivdel, and saw a group of Karelin. We will continue our search tomorrow. …

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

As you can see, the official answer is categorical: “… the fall of a rocket or its fragments into the specified area is impossible.”

And this should be known to supporters of the rocket version, who unsubstantiatedly claim that the rocket was the cause of the students' deaths. 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 "fireball".

But unknown luminous objects were indeed observed on the day of the death of the Dyatlov group. Here is what Rimma Kolevatova, the sister of Alexander Kolevatov, told the investigation at a time when the four missing had not yet been found : “I had to bury each of the dead, found tourists. Why do they have such dark brown hands and faces? How to explain the fact that four of those who were at the fire and remained, according to all assumptions, alive, made no attempt to return to the tent? If they were much warmer dressed (according to those things that are missing among those found in the tent), if it's a natural disaster, of course, having stayed by the fire, the guys would certainly crawl to the tent. The entire group could not have been killed by the blizzard.

Why did they run out of the tent in such a panic? A group of tourists from the Pedagogical Institute, the Faculty of Geography (according to them), which was on Mount Chistop (southeast), I saw some kind of fireball these days, in the first days of February, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bMount Otorten. The same fireballs were recorded later. What is their origin? Could they have caused the death of the guys? After all, experienced and hardy people gathered in the group. Dyatlov was in these places for the third time. Luda Dubinina herself led a group to the town of Chistop in the winter of 1958, many of the guys (Kolevatov, Dubinina, Doroshenko) were on campaigns in the Sayans. They could not die only from a raging storm"

Unfortunately, the investigation did not give an answer to these natural questions of Rimma Kolevatova.

Testimony of Luda Dubinina's father about the explosion.

An excerpt from the interrogation of Alexander Dubinin, the father of Luda Dubinina, is also curious: “I heard conversations of UPI students that the flight of undressed people from the tent was caused by an explosion and large radiation ... The statement of the head The administrative department of the regional committee of the CPSU comrade Yermash, made to the sister of the deceased comrade Kolevatova, that the rest not found now 4 people could live after the death of those found no more than 1.5 - 2 hours, makes you think that forced, sudden flight from the tent due to the explosion of a shell (?!) and radiation... "stuffing" which forced ... to run away from it further and, presumably, affected the life of people, in particular, vision ".

I.e 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 carried out on some of the clothing samples taken by the forensic expert Dr. showed excessive amounts of radioactive substances. And to the question of the investigator: Is it possible to consider that this clothing is contaminated with radioactive dust?”, expert replied: “Yes, the clothes are contaminated or radioactive dust has fallen from the atmosphere, or clothing has been contaminated by handling radioactive materials... this pollution exceeds ... the norm for persons working with radioactive substances.

Based on this, believing that the incident could somehow be accidentally connected with ballistic missile crash and, being afraid to accidentally light up top-secret information, as well as 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 materials of the investigation.

As a result, just in case, all evidence regarding "fireballs", a blinding flash and a mysterious radioactive contamination of the area were destroyed. Accordingly, the results of the forensic medical examination were also classified.

The verbose justification of prosecutor Ivanov about his unseemly role in the illegal destruction of investigation materials becomes clear. : “So that the current generation does not judge us very strictly 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 super-secret information, I still can not understand why it was necessary to lie to the people? I don't want to justify my actions on classifying events with fireballs and the death of a large group of people. I asked the correspondent to publish my apologies to the relatives of the victims for distorting the truth, hiding the truth from them, and since there was no space for this in four issues of the newspaper, I offer this publication to the families of the victims, especially Dubinina, Thibaut-Brignolles, Zolotarev, my apologies. 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, it became possible to defeat it only now. Unfortunately, this is a belated but honest confession of the prosecutor L.N. Ivanov about the situation in which the country and all of us lived at that time.

Testimony of M.A. Axelrod about fireballs.

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

Thus, without fear of making a mistake, we can assert 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 forces of gravity 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 up in the Earth’s atmosphere was observed by numerous eyewitnesses in February-March 1959. ( Detailed description This phenomenon, which occurs when comets collide with planets, is described by me 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 secrets of the past.)

In the drop zone two fragments comets that run out flashes of air electric discharge explosions, accidentally turned out to be a group of Dyatlov, unsuccessfully located for the night not far from the top the mountains Holat Syakhil.

At the same time, it should also be recalled the place of an electric discharge explosion always has an increased radioactivity of the soil, about which I have repeatedly spoken in my previous works devoted to 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 region of the Otorten and Kholat Syahyl mountains.

From the interrogation of witness Krivonischenko Alexei 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 first of February in the evening.

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

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

Testimony of investigator Ivanov: "... a similar ball was seen on the night of the death of the guys, that is from the first to the second of February students-tourists of the Faculty of Geology of the Pedagogical Institute."

According to the students, R.S. Kolevatova also spoke about the fact 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" and what "a flare would hardly have illuminated the area like that".

Fireballs were seen later.

February 17.

In a note by A. Kissel, Deputy. Head of communications Vysokogorsky mine "Unusual celestial phenomenon", dated February 18, 1959, in the newspaper "Tagil worker", it is written:

“At 6:55 local time yesterday in the east-southeast at an altitude of 20 degrees from the horizon, a luminous ball the size of the apparent diameter of the moon appeared. The ball was moving towards the northeast. About seven o'clock there was an outbreak near him., and the very bright core of the ball became visible. He himself began to glow more intensely, a luminous cloud appeared near him, rejected towards the south. The cloud spread over the entire eastern part of the sky. Shortly thereafter, a second outbreak occurred., she looked like a crescent of the moon. Gradually, the cloud increased, a luminous point remained in the center (the glow was variable in magnitude). The ball was advancing in an east-northeast direction. The highest altitude above the horizon - 30 degrees - was reached at about 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 sought out and interrogated servicemen of the internal troops, who also observed the flight of "fireballs", at six forty in the morning February 17, 1959 described in the newspaper "Tagil worker". According to the soldiers on guard, the luminous object was clearly visible for eight to fifteen minutes. Surrounded by a cloud of fog, it had a variable brightness, and moved slowly at a very high altitude in a northerly direction, like the object that the searchers observed 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 6:50 a.m. 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 to swell, a large ball was formed, shrouded in haze. Then a star lit up inside this ball, from which at first a crescent moon was formed, then a small ball was formed, not so bright. The big ball gradually began to fade, became like a blurry spot. At 7:05 a.m. he completely disappeared. The star was moving from south to northeast .

An excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of a serviceman Alexander Dmitrievich Savkin, conducted by the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel, junior justice adviser Tempalov.
The witness testified: "February 17 1959, at 6:40 in the morning ... a ball of bright white light appeared from the south side, which was periodically shrouded in white thick fog, inside this cloud there was a brightly luminous dot the size of an asterisk.
Moving towards the northern direction, the ball was visible for 8-10 minutes.
The protocol of interrogation was filled in with his own hand on April 7, 1959 by Savkin
An excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of a serviceman of military unit 6602 "V" Malik Igor Nikolaevich, the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel, junior counselor of justice Tempalov.
The witness testified: “On February 17, at 6:40 am, while on duty, I noticed a moving ball of bright white color, which appeared south side. The ball was bright white, in a thick fog of white. The misty cloud grew thicker and lighter, and in the white cloud a bright white ball was shining, which moved north. The ball was visible for 10-15 minutes, after which the ball was not visible in the northern part.
The protocol of interrogation was filled in by hand. April 7, 1959 goal. Malik (signature)

An excerpt from the protocol of the interrogation of the witness Georgy Ivanovich Skorykh, born in 1925, head of the Karaul section of the subsidiary farm of the Bumkombinat, 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.
" … about 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 called out to me through the window: “Look. A ball flies and turns. At 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 how a large luminous ball was moving north, the alternation of red and green light was carried out periodically. The ball was removed very quickly, and I only watched it for a few seconds. Then he disappeared over the horizon.
I did not hear any noise from the flight of this balloon. and I believe that the ball flew from us at a very large distance.
This ball, I imagine walked along the Ural ridge from south to north, however, I cannot indicate the exact direction of the flight, it was the size of the Sun or the Moon. I can describe the picture of what I saw, ... this luminous ball was like a bright sun in a fog. The ball moved 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.

Hence, 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 could not even orient myself, ... "Skorykh (Signed)

Testimony of George 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 having done everything necessary, they began to wait for the food to be ready. The sky was overcast, there were no clouds and clouds, but there was a slight haze, which usually dissipates with the sunrise. Sitting facing north and accidentally turning his head to the east, he saw that in the sky at a height of 30 ° a milky-white blurred spot of about 5-6 lunar diameters and consisting of a series of concentric circles. The shape resembled a halo around the moon in clear frosty weather. I made a remark to my partner that, they say, how the moon was painted. He thought and said that, firstly, there is no moon, and besides, it should be in the other direction. 1-2 minutes have passed since we noticed this phenomenon. I don’t know how long it lasted before and how it looked initially. At that moment, an asterisk flashed in the very center of this spot, which remained the same size for several seconds, and then began to increase sharply in size and move rapidly in a westerly direction. Within a few seconds it grew to the size of the moon, and then, tearing apart the smoke screen, or clouds, appeared as a huge fiery disk of milky color, 2-2.5 lunar diameters in size, surrounded by the same rings of pale color. 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 began. The clock was 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 proportions, 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 testimonial:

« … I jumped out sleeping bag and from a tent without shoes in only woolen socks and, standing on the branches, I saw a large bright spot. It grew. A small star appeared in the center of it, which also began to increase. All this stain moved from northeast to southwest and fell to the ground. Then it disappeared behind a ridge and forest, leaving a bright streak in the sky. This phenomenon produced different impressions on different people: Atmanaki claimed that it seemed to him that now the earth would explode from a collision with some planet; This phenomenon seemed to Shavkunov “not so terrible”, it did not make a special impression on me, - the fall large meteorite and nothing else. The whole thing happened in a little 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 volume. Backpacks are strewn along the walls. Sleeping bags. Closer to the oven felt boots. Storm coats, quilted jackets, underwear and other wet clothes hang on a rope. And people are everywhere. All frozen, dirty, with red weather-beaten faces.
On the left - we, students of UPI. Right from the entrance, a group of 6 people in black sheepskin coats, black quilted jackets. Many have pistols. They are from the group of state security troops. On the right are 9 people in white short fur coats and green quilted jackets. Brushed hair, young faces. These are the guys of military service of the railway troops. They are here instead of sappers. command the military lieutenants Potapov and Avenburg.
Here is one of the typical days: "...Today, like yesterday, and all the previous days, we worked on the slope. We lined up, pierced the snow with long two-meter rods to the stop every 40-50 cm. In some places, snow was knee-deep, in places waist-deep "We move slowly. And so - for several hours. Then we return to the camp". And here is the diary entry of the 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, it does not go further, but pushes even further to the end.
Full impression - found the body. Feverishly we dig snow. I put the tool. Roam with hands. The snow falls back into the hole. The rest, huddled around, help widen the hole. Here they rested, raked. Ah, damn! Big log. Let's take a breath 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. It was still dark early in the morning. Orderly Viktor Meshcheryakov came out of the tent and saw a luminous ball moving across the sky. Woke everyone up. For 20 minutes we watched the movement of the ball (or disk) until it disappeared behind the mountainside. We saw him in the southeast of the tent. He moved in a northerly direction.
This phenomenon shocked everyone. We were sure that the death of the Dyatlovites had something to do 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 orderly Meshcheryakov noticed a large fiery ring, which moved towards us for 20 minutes, then disappearing behind a height of 880.
Before disappearing beyond the horizon from the center of the ring a star appeared, which gradually increased to the size of the moon, began to fall down, separating from the ring.
An unusual phenomenon was observed by the entire personnel, alerted.
Please explain this phenomenon and its safety, as in our conditions it produces an alarming impression.
(lieutenants) Avenburg Potapov Sogrin"

Certificate of a full member of the Geographical Society of the USSR O. Strauch:
"03/31/59. At 04:10, the following phenomenon was observed: from the southwest to the northeast, a spherical luminous body passed quite quickly over the village. A luminous disk, almost the size of a full moon, of a bluish-white color was surrounded by a large bluish halo. At times this halo flared brightly, resembling flashes of distant lightning.When the body disappeared beyond the horizon , the sky in this place was illuminated with light for several more minutes".

Reconstruction of tragic events.

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

With the onset of darkness, everyone slowly began to settle in the tent, taking off their outer clothing and shoes. Evening and night passed quietly. The tragedy occurred on the morning of February 2, after the group woke up and prepared for breakfast.

And the further events of February 2, 1959, up to the moment of the death of students, we can reproduce almost every minute.

Space explosion.

A fireball appeared in the sky above Mount Holat Syakhil at about half past eight in the morning on February 2, 1959. At that time, there was only one person from the group on the street, who came out "for a minute" from the tent in woolen socks and with flashlight, (according to the investigation, presumably, Thibaut-Brignolles), because it was dark in the tent, which had no windows. He probably managed to see how a fireball was rapidly approaching the top of the mountain from the southwest, the flight of which ended 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 important remark. On the side of the mountain loose there was no snow, there was. 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 only 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 and panic. Because almost instantly, the side of the tent was ripped open with knives in two places at once to the 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, was coming, the brightness of which far exceeded the brightness of the sun. In principle, a few moments would be enough for one of them to get a retinal burn. But in any case, they still had a margin of time, because in order for retinal edema to develop, and complete or partial blindness to occur, it usually takes at least 30-40 minutes. (Similar phenomena are observed when working with electric welding without protective glasses).

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

About the cause of skin burns.

According to Alexander Nevsky's theory of an electric discharge explosion, at the moment of formation of a column of an electric discharge explosion powerful ultraviolet, infrared, x-ray and neutron radiation. Therefore, on open areas of the skin of the face, neck and hands of the children from the Dyatlov group, an "sunburn-tanning", 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 yet 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 8 o’clock in the morning, I was going to hay, and I needed a nail. I went out into the yard and began to pull the nail out of the window casing with tongs, suddenly something severely burned ears.

Grabbing them and thinking that the roof was on fire, I raised my head and immediately ran to the hut. It is useful to cite one more eyewitness account. E.L. Krinov in the 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 summer, during the plowing of fallows, at breakfast, I was sitting on the porch of the house, facing north ... a fire appeared that covered the entire northern part of the sky. I felt as hot as if my shirt was on fire. I wanted to break it 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 the Dyatlov group turned out to be very close to the epicenter of the explosion, as a result of which people were subjected to a stronger effect 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 the rising cloud of snow dust of the blast wave, which the guys mistook for an avalanche, the whole group of Dyatlov rushed down the slope to the seemingly saving forest, while a blinding light hit them in the back. Footprints in the snow showed the direction to the northeast therefore, the flash of the electric discharge explosion was southwest of the tent. And a little later, about 500 meters from the tent, blast wave caught up and knocked over the fleeing group of Dyatlov to the ground.

Losses and injuries from the first blast wave.

Doroshenko and Krivonischenko died from the impact 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 crack in the skull from the same blast wave. The rest escaped with scratches and abrasions.

The stopped watch 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 to live about half an hour. Having risen after the fall, they continued to move towards the forest, reaching which, some began to build a fire and prepare firewood, while others carried the dead Doroshenko and Krivonischenko to the fire. Here they cut off their clothes, sweaters and trousers, which were divided among themselves by Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibaut-Brignolles, in order to put them on themselves, to try to keep the remnants of the heat of their bodies. Then Thibaut-Brignoles took and stopped clock Yuri Krivonischenko to give them to the relatives of the deceased.

The members of the Dyatlov group were well aware that in the conditions hard frost and the wind they had an extremely limited time to save. They were half-dressed, 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 freezing within 1.5-2 hours or even earlier.

Harvest spruce branches, make flooring out of it, dig a snow hole and keep the fire going remained Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles.

Leaving for the spruce branch, the guys filled the fire with firewood, which, as the search engines will later testify, continued burn from one to two hours. Physically stronger ones went to the tent, Zinaida Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, and Igor Dyatlov. Kolmogorova was the first to go to the tent from the fire lit under the cedar, followed by Slobodin a couple of minutes later, and a minute later, having given the last orders to the remaining ones, Igor Dyatlov.

Second explosion.

And after a while, close to Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolle, 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, dragging an avalanche of snow with it, literally threw the stream into the rocky, tree-covered valley, which had moved away from the fire behind the spruce branches, and were on edge of a cliff Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles, whose stopped clock recorded for us the time of the 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. (A slight discrepancy in time is due to the error of the Krivonischenko clock)

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

And Kolmogorov, Slobodin and Dyatlov, lightly dressed and located farther from the epicenter of the explosion, were literally frozen by the second explosive wave of the meteorite, which clogged the lungs and pierced through with icy cold, after passing which, the guys did not find the strength to rise. Let me remind you that the air temperature that day dropped to minus twenty-eight degrees, and the gale-force ice space 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 the Dyatlov group, the fire went out.

The fire was the last to go out.

During the investigation, the father of Yuri Krivonischenko, according to the search engines, said: “The guys claim that the fire near the cedar went out not from a lack of fuel, but from the fact that the people who were at the fire did not see what to do, or were blinded. According to the students, there was a dry tree a few meters from the fire, and under it deadwood, which was not used. In the presence of a fire, not using ready-made fuel - it seems to me more than strange ... "

The stored fuel really remained intact. But there was no one 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 traces of burns on single-standing trees. In order for tree trunks to receive thermal burns, the short-term effect of 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 the Dyatlov group received light burns of their eyes from the bright flash of the explosion, then blindness did not have time to develop. For until the last minute, all the actions of the members of the Dyatlov group were meaningfully 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 guys, the 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 was was cleared of branches at a height of 4-5 meters. But these raw branches were not used and partly rolled on the ground, partly hung on the lower branches of the cedar.

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

But, not knowing about it, Atamanka's search engine interprets this fact differently: “It looked like people made something like a window so that they could see from a height the direction from which they came and where their tent was.

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

However, G. Atamanka’s further reasoning is already 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 comrades found, 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 were engaged in the manufacture of something like a hole, where the prepared spruce branches were used to wait out the bad weather and wait for the dawn... (?!)"

Here G. Atamanki made another mistake, which was repeated by absolutely all researchers of the death of the Dyatlov group, for, the death of the students did not occur at night, but at 8:41 am 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 anymore. For it was an ordinary article, one of many on my site, 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. The readers had many questions, and they insisted for more detailed coverage of the topic. The result of a deeper immersion in the topic was the writing by me of several new articles devoted to individual episodes of this criminal case.

Chapter 3

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 took place on Mount Kholat Syahyl, on the morning of February 2, 1959. And initially, my first article was designed for a Soviet-style reader who is used to thinking about the text and meticulously delving into its content. I regret to state that the modern Internet user differs sharply from the image of the Soviet reader, kind and wise. Indeed, for a smart reader, it was enough just to state the basic scheme 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 can 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 are 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 far outpaced the development of its users.”

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

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

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

The extraordinary power of the air electric discharge explosion that occurred in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl, which I indirectly considered to be approximately comparable to the Sasov explosion, made me 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 a cosmic explosion that killed the Dyatlov group. The guess turned out to be correct, and this allowed us to establish the exact astronomical time of the 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 Syahyl occurred at 8:41 am, February 2, 1959. by local time.

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

In the morning, before breakfast, one of the participants in the campaign (according to the investigators, it was Thibaut-Brignoles), who was too lazy to put on outer shoes, wearing only woolen socks, grabbed a Chinese lantern, with which he illuminated himself, getting out of the tightness of the dark tent, leaves small tents. Let's fix this moment as a conditional starting point for further events. Leaving the tent, he sees a flying luminous object in the morning sky, and decides to take a picture of it. Thibault-Brignoles informs the group about this, asks to give him a camera, after which he puts a flashlight in the fold of the slope of the tent, photographs the object, closes the camera case, passes the camera back, and he himself begins to relieve his small need, continuing to observe the approaching luminous object. And after a short period of time, in the sky, not far from the top of Mount Holat Syahyl, an explosion occurs, similar to the explosion in Sasovo. He must have sounded the alarm after all, even though it was useless.

The fact is that at the time 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 photo of the tent shows how many stupid knife blows were inflicted on the sides of the tent and what convulsive cuts-ruptures were made.

That is, when someone managed to cut through the side of the tent, others, grabbing the edges of the cut, helped to break the cut tarp. But any fabric is torn more easily in the longitudinal than in the transverse direction. That is why one of the cuts - gaps has an overturned U-shape. These are not clean cuts, but cuts-ruptures.

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

And now let's pause to comment on the last thirty-third frame taken by Thibaut-Brignolle, preserved on the film loaded into the camera.

Thirty-third frame.

In my first article, I did not cover the issue of the thirty-third frame, due to the fact that now most users are practically unfamiliar with film cameras like "Zorkiy" or "FED", but use digital photo and movie cameras. It is easy to understand that this photograph captures a fast-flying, brightly glowing "fireball", which was taken at an exposure of 25 \ 5.6 or 30 \ 5.6, because in the center of the picture there is a flare from the petal aperture window, and the luminous 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 object were less bright and moved very slowly, then there would be no lens flare on the frame, and the object itself would not look blurry. If we assume that it was a rocket, then a dark spot would have been visible in the center of the luminous object, since the rocket nozzle in this case would have been at the back. It is characteristic that slow speed of the camera shutter, showed the position of the object in the form of five positions. In addition, given its distance from the photographer, and the 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 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, as 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 restore the further events of that tragic day as closely as possible, we must consistently answer a number of fundamental questions.

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

Let's try to restore the events in the tent, after a meteorite flash and its electric discharge explosion occurred in the sky. A. Nevsky's calculations 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 stab blows with knives on the sides of the tent. At the same time, it should be noted that most of the blows with knives were made on the side of the tent, facing the foot of the mountain. And the cut made on the side of the tent, facing the top of the mountain, apparently for observing a celestial object, due to the unbearable heat, was immediately stuffed with a fur jacket. For the same reason, the group got 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 assume that after getting out of the tent, the guys did not linger at the tent, but only for a moment, looking around, rushed down with all their might, running away from the resulting blast wave and blinding burning light.

The investigation found that the snow remained only traces of students, No traces of outsiders were found at the scene.

The footprints of students leaving the tent showed the direction to the northeast therefore, we can confidently assume that the electric discharge pillar of the cosmic explosion was located behind the students, that is, on the southwestern slope of Mount Kholat Syahyl. Downhill running limits stride length, because you have to run, slightly leaning back, "from the heel." This is slightly different from the usual "toe" running, but does not limit the speed of running. In addition, the sense 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 assert 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 been sitting at the computer all their conscious lives and have never run from the mountains, and therefore have no idea about it. In addition, for half-dressed members of the group, “slow walking” in twenty-eight-degree frost was simply impossible, because it threatened with serious frostbite of the legs, already 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 space explosion by comparing it with the speed of the wind 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 speeds over 90 km per hour, the wind already knocks down, turns upside down, or breaks trees. Considering that only thick boughs of cedar, and the tree itself was not affected, it is most logical to assume 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 reach the cedar?

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

Comparison with Sasovsky explosion.

To make our story about the events that took place in the vicinity of Mount Holatchakhl more objective and clear, we will try to find a more or less intelligible analogy for the explosion that killed the Dyatlov group, and very conditionally compare it with the Sasovsky explosion, about which quite a lot of witness testimony has been preserved.

Space explosion in Sasovo.

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

First there was a growing rumble, then the ground shook. High-rise buildings swayed, furniture fell, doors and frames were knocked out, people were thrown from their beds. On the streets, sewer manhole covers were torn off, underground water pipes. Before the catastrophe, numerous witnesses observed a bright white ball, and half an hour before the explosion, some residents living on the outskirts of the city saw two fireballs in the sky.

Luminous balls were also seen in the village of Chuchkovo, located 30 kilometers from Sasovo. Unusual balloons in the sky were seen by police officers, locomotive drivers, train passengers, cadets of the civil aviation school, railway workers, fishermen and bystanders. Residents of the city heard the explosion and saw a pillar of fire, five kilometers high, on the site 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 in the explosion. For a long time, until the article by A.P. Nevsky about the explosion in Sasovo, (see the article on the site), no one could understand what exploded in Sasovo. Indeed, some destruction created the impression that the blast wave was directed not only from the funnel, but also towards the funnel. For example, 30 tons of fertilizers lay 70 meters from the epicenter of the explosion, paper bags with which were transferred by an unknown force to the very edge of the funnel

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

Two nights after the explosion, the crater glowed, as if it was artificially illuminated from the inside, and in the area of ​​​​the crater, elevated level beta radiation.

On the night of June 28, 1992, residents of the village of Frolovskoye, located near Sasovo, heard the roar of another space explosion but no damage was recorded. And only a week later on the corn field of the state farm " New way"A funnel from a space alien was discovered, 4 meters deep and about 12 meters in diameter. Uprooted clods of earth scattered for half a kilometer, but the oak trees that grew a dozen and a half meters away were not affected at all.

Let's note the coincidences of the Sasovo space explosion and the space explosion in the vicinity of Mount Kholtsakhl.

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

Well, now let's go back to the events on Mount Holatchakhl.

Footprints in the snow.

Witnesses of the explosion in Sasovo report that the height of the column of the electric discharge explosion over five kilometers and the power of the explosion was estimated by experts from twenty to three hundred tons of TNT. (See the article "The mystery of the explosion in Sasovo"). We will conditionally assume that in our case, the parameters of the explosion were about 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 stretch, and no one was carrying anyone. Further, the tracks disappear under the snow, which was swept by the blast wave. And this suggests that the first blast wave overtook the fleeing students only when they ran five hundred meters from the tent.

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

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

To understand this, let's compare the collision of an object moving at a speed of 90 km / h with an immovable 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 this speed are minimal. And for comparison, let's say 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 damp road, it increases to 150 meters or more. On this basis, it can be assumed that the blast wave could drag students along the mountainside. at least 150 meters.
Let me remind you that the fall of the students took place on the side of the mountain 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 remaining members of the group escaped with multiple longitudinal abrasions and scratches, as well as bruises of the body of various localization.

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

At the cedar.

Footprints left in the snow show that the members of the group ran close enough 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 located on the edge of the ravine and towering over the area of ​​​​the cedar, to which the whole group headed, taking both victims with them.

Reconstruction of further events, it seems to me simple. While four men from the group carried the unconscious Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, the other three went ahead, to build a fire in the forest and prepare deadwood and fallen wood for firewood, after all, a quickly made fire was their only chance for 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 declared the death of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, and decided to take off the clothes from the dead, and partially use them to warm the rest of the guys, and the rest of the clothes were later found by the searchers on the floor, where they spread them out as seats. Krivonischenko's watch was also removed from the cedar to give it to the relatives of the deceased.

They worked dexterously and quickly, for everyone understood the seriousness of the situation in which they found themselves. After all, a real danger hung over them to freeze stupidly just one and a half kilometers from the saving tent, in which their food and warm clothes remained. Trying to warm their very cold hands and feet as quickly as possible, they thrust them directly into the open flame of a 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 need only 10 minutes, I know from my own experience. And it was the time that the guys spent by the fire. Apparently, pieces of film helped them quickly kindle a fire, the torn remnants of a roll of which were found by search engines near the tent. For young Internet users, I will inform you that in 1959, photographic and film film was produced flammable, which allowed us in childhood to use it to kindle fires, and various unsafe pyrotechnic entertainments.

Meeting by the fire next to the cedar.

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

They had only a ghostly chance half-dressed, half-shod and hungry , wait out the time by the fire, bred in a snow pit while others, the more enduring, try to reach the tent to fetch as much food, clothes, and shoes as hastily left there. An ax and at least one metal bucket were also desirable to heat water from the snow. And for a more tolerable and almost "comfortable" overnight stay, it would be nice to have a piece of fabric from the tent to arrange a "chipper" for the fire.

But a place for a 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 nighttime the frost can intensify, and everyone will be tormented by hunger and thirst. So the group split in two. At this point, there were approximately 15 minutes. But none of them knew about it and everyone, until the very last moment, fought for their salvation.

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

Zolotarev, Dubinina, Kolevatov and Thibaut-Brignolles, led by Dyatlov, taking the clothes of the dead with them, went to look for a place for a snow pit and prepare spruce branches. Why with Dyatlov? Because it was he, as the commander of the group, who was obliged to determine and approve a safe place for the snow pit. Kolmogorova remained by the fire, and Slobodin, who received a head injury. A little later, Dyatlov was supposed to catch up with them. But why the choice fell on them? I guess it's because they were all shattered. And the guys assumed that having managed to quickly run to the tent, they would be able to immediately put on shoes, and thereby reduce the time spent in socks on the snow, and avoid serious frostbite. After all, if others were sent to the tent, then the time until the shoes were brought would be doubled for them.

Kolmogorova and Slobodin, gaining warmth from the fire, before throwing themselves into the icy cold, did not stay near him for long. Kolmogorova was the first to leave, having stayed by the fire for about five minutes, then, after a couple of minutes, Slobodin, who had a head 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 and the fire. It is impossible to run uphill through the snow drift left after the blast wave, you can only go fast, that is, its speed could presumably be about 3.9 km per hour, and it could overcome 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. And what was Dyatlov doing at that time? Having determined a place for a snow pit, which was located in a ravine 75 meters northeast of the cedar, and ordered to prepare spruce branches before his return and light a fire near the pit, he left 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 in order to warm himself and put more firewood into the blazing fire. Dyatlov's body was found 180 meters from Slobodin, that is, he left the fire about three minutes after Slobodin. And he managed to go only 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-Brignolles.

The last fifteen minutes of the life of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault-Brignolles.

After the departure of Dyatlov, Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibaut-Brignolle, they split into two groups, one of which began to trample the snow pit, cook firewood and kindle a fire, and the second, prepare spruce branches and carry it to the pit. Lapnik was harvested along the edge of the ravine, not far from the snow pit, and immediately laid in the form of 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 put the things taken from Krivonischenko and Doroshenko at the corners of the flooring, thus designating places to sit. And then, having warmed their hands over the burning 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 get far. The powerful blast wave of the second explosion threw everyone off the cliff to the very bottom of the ravine. And the whirlwind of snow raised by the blast wave, along 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 the distance at least 10-12 meters, and moreover, fell from the edge of the ravine, which had a depth of five meters.

But, allegedly Dubinina's "torn tongue", about which numerous bloggers are still "breaking spears", as I have repeatedly reported, is clearly posthumous in origin. After all, such intravital injuries are accompanied by massive heavy bleeding, including arterial. And in this case, all the clothes and snow around the place of the fall would be literally flooded and saturated with blood, which Internet users stubbornly do not want to pay attention to, defending the right to their fantasies.

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

The fact that the flight of the "fireballs" that make up the "pearl string" of the comet, over the course of a month, passed over the same place, forced us to assume that the trajectory of the flying comet almost completely coincided with the axis of rotation of the Earth. And the slow speed of the “fireballs” in the sky indicates that the fragments of the comet were catching up with the Earth in its orbit, and did not fly towards it. My assumptions are consistent with the conclusion of the investigation that the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was the elemental force emanating from the fireballs, which the students were not able to overcome.

The absolute certainty that the cause of the death of the Dyatlov group was a cosmic explosion made me turn to for help to the archive of the Yekaterinburg seismic station. Such archives have no restrictions on the storage period, and that is why the seismograms of the Tunguska explosion have come down to us. And I was convinced that the answer from the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station would allow us to accurately determine the time of the space catastrophe 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 a response. And in order to show that it was the explosion in the area of ​​Mount Kholatchakhl that was recorded on these seismograms, we publish this information along with a seismogram and an explanatory note.

Chapter 4

Response and seismogram from the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station

Through extremely long searches on the Internet, the administrator of our site, nevertheless, 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 a single question: Are any explosions recorded on the seismograms of the Sverdlovsk seismic station on February 1 and 2, 1959?

Here is the verbatim answer we received:

Dear Mikhail Dmitrievich!

In response to your request dated March 19, 2013, I inform you that the specialists of 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). 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 Mean Time). .

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

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

Time of occurrence (hour, min, sec), focus depth	Coordinates epicenter
0=03:56:12 h=150 km	6.5°S 126°E	Tp= 04:08:16

Records of other seismic events were not found on the seismograms of the SH for February 1–2, 1959.

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

It should be noted that the Sverdlovsk station is 550 km away from the Kholat-Syakhyl mountain.

Director of the GS RAS

Corresponding Member of the RAS A.A. Malovichko

Use L.S. Chepkunas

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

click on the seismogram to 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 received answer, in my opinion, is objective and impeccable proof of the fact of a cosmic explosion on Mount Holat Syahyl. But this requires a little further explanation.

On the time of the 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 this seismogram shows air space explosion over Mount Holat Syahyl.

Here is the necessary calculation.

Air shock waves over long distances propagate at an average speed slightly above the speed of sound (approximately 340 m/s). The distance from the seismic station "Sverdlovsk" to Mount Kholat-Syakhyl, reported to us by corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.A. Malovichko in the sent answer 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 Holat Syahyl 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.).

Move on. During electric discharge explosions, according to the theory of A.P. Nevsky, exists three well-defined air shock waves. Let's just purely hypothetically, identify them by the time indicated on the seismogram, like air shock waves formed over Mount Holat Syahyl.

1. Ballistic air shock wave, which always accompanies the fall in the atmosphere of a meteorite flying at cosmic speed 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 by 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 the electric discharge explosion. (9 hours 11 minutes 14 seconds - 27 minutes = 8 o'clock 44 min. 14 sec.

That is, on the seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, not deep seismic waves, which are not formed at all during cosmic air explosions, but in air shock waves of a cosmic explosion over Mount Kholat Syahyl.

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

About the group hours.

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

In the light of the foregoing, it is easy to understand that the Dyatlov clock stopped spontaneously, after the spring resource was exhausted.

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

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

A slight discrepancy between the time on the students' watches and the astronomical time recorded by the seismographs of the Sverdlovsk seismic station can be easily explained by the error of the clock.

About clock accuracy.

The Dyatlov group left Sverdlovsk on January 23 and on the night of January 25 the guys arrived in Ivdel. This was the last settlement where the guys could check the clock based on the radio signal.. January 26 students left Ivdel, and further until the very moment of the space catastrophe on the morning of February 2, within seven and a half days they didn't have a chance to check their watch.

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

That is, the total clock error accumulated over seven and a half days, on average, could be (45 sec x 7.5 days = plus or minus 337 sec (5.5 min), and the real one could be twice as much ( 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-Brignolles. And a slight discrepancy (+46 seconds for Slobodin's watches, and - 4 minutes 46 seconds for Thibault-Brignolle's watches) is due to the error of the watch, usual for wrist mechanical watches of that time.

My conclusion is logical and quite obvious. The seismogram of the Sverdlovsk seismic station recorded the time of a cosmic explosion over Mount Holat Syahyl, and the interpretation of this airborne cosmic explosion by the employees of the seismic station as an earthquake in Indonesia turned out to be thoughtlessly written off from the American seismological bulletin, only so that this explosion would not turn out to 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 "remote deep earthquake", which occurred at a distance of more than 9100 kilometers, simultaneously with the explosion over Kholat Syahyl? What other evidence is required to confirm the cosmic explosion that occurred over Mount Kholat Syahyl? Is it possible that in this case, the supporters of Rakitin's version will argue that the cunning "American Spies" deliberately summed up the clocks of the students they killed in order to combine their readings with the clocks of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, and thus mislead us?

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

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

Firstly, I drew attention to the selective burn of trees located at the edge of the forest, which is a feature and a distinctive feature inherent in only electric discharge space explosions. No other known radiant burn explosions form.

In addition, the analysis of the incident showed that space air burst was powerful enough, and, moreover, quite clearly the impact of two blast waves on the dead group was traced. The bodies of students with severe injuries found under a 4.5-meter layer of snow, and the conclusion of a forensic expert that these injuries could only be received from exposure to a powerful air blast wave, as well as the allegations of prosecutor Ivanov, what "the death of students came from the influence of elemental force, which they were unable to overcome", gave reason to believe that we can only talk about cosmic explosions.

And the periodic appearance of fireballs over the same area for two months indicated that we are talking about a “pearl string” 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 space 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 circuit diagram the events that took place on Mount Holat Syahyl.

Secondly, I noticed on the surprisingly "sighted" behavior of group members, indicating that the space accident happened during daylight hours. But I could not find any absolute evidence of this in the materials of the investigation, except for a number of indirect ones. Therefore, initially, despite my doubts, I had to focus on the assumption of the investigation that the death of the tour group occurred on the evening of February 1, especially since 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 members of the Dyatlov group were meaningful and logical» . Somewhat later, analyzing additional facts, I again drew attention to the fact that they do not coincide with the version of the evening explosion. Moreover, circumstantial evidence unequivocally testified that the explosion took place on the morning of February 2, when the students woke up but had not yet had time to get dressed. And I was forced write carefully, what "After analyzing all information available to me, I did not find a single fact that would unequivocally testified that the explosion occurred on the evening of February 1, as suggested by the investigation,(on which I also relied ), and not on the morning of February 2. In addition, the version that the tragedy could have happened on the morning of February 2, in in the light of new facts may turn out to be more consistent».

And sending your request to the archive of the Sverdlovsk seismic station, I was almost convinced that the explosion happened on the morning of the second of February, and not the first 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 Syakhil, according to my assumption, must have coincided in time with the time recorded on the stopped clock of the guys.

And the only objective and irrefutable evidence of the time of the explosion that occurred over Mount Kholat Syahyl could only be a seismogram of this explosion. And when I sent the request, I understood very well that only the time of the explosion can be objective on the seismogram, and the explosion itself can be interpreted in any way: both as industrial, and as military, and as technical, and as nuclear ... that it is being interpreted as an earthquake in the region of Indonesia.

Let me explain. In principle, modern seismographs make it possible to determine the epicenter of an explosion and, by comparing the readings of several seismographs, at one station. In this case, the most correct amplitude (displacement) of oscillations can be recorded only by the seismograph whose pendulum oscillations coincide with the direction of the seismic beam. Indeed, when recording waves from other directions, “the amplitude of their oscillations will be the smaller, the larger the angle but between the direction of the beam and the swing of the pendulum. This angle is determined by the formula: tg α \u003d X2 / X1, in which X1 and X2 are the amplitudes of the oscillations of longitudinal waves recorded by two mutually perpendicularly located seismographs ".

That is, it is possible to determine the direction of the seismic ray of the longitudinal wave, and by setting aside the epicentral distance on it, determine the place of the explosion. However, we must make one small clarification. Even one seismic station can really 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 9100 kilometers at all.

Fortunately, we have a great opportunity to clarify the date and time of the explosion and according to testimony.

The date of the death of the group according to the testimony of Luda 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 materials of the investigation contain a copy of the interrogation of the father of Lyudmila Dubinina, carried out in March 1959, “... I heard the conversations of 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 statement of by the administrative department of the regional committee of the CPSU comrade Yermash, made to the sister of the deceased comrade Kolevatova, that the remaining 4 people, not found now, could live after the death of those found 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 mountain 1079, the “stuffing” of which forced ... to run further from it and, presumably, affected the life of people, in particular, vision.

The light of a projectile was seen on February 2 at about seven o'clock in the morning in the city of Serov... I am surprised why the tourist routes from the city of Ivdel were not closed. .. If the projectile deviated and did not hit the planned range, in my opinion, the department that fired this projectile should send aerial reconnaissance to the place of its fall and rupture to find out what it could have done there. ...If aerial reconnaissance was done, then it can be assumed that she picked up the other four people. I have not shared my personal opinion with anyone, deeming it undisclosed."

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 of the witnesses who rightly and reasonably linked the outbreak of an explosion over Mount Kholat Syakhil, on the morning of February 2, with the death of students. And, it must be assumed that in the provincial Serov, located at a distance of 200-250 kilometers from Mount Kholat Syahyl, this outbreak was seen by many residents, that is, the outbreak 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 just above Mount Kholat Syakhil, which occurred at 8:41 am, on the morning of February 2, 1959.

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

Accordingly, the assumption of academic scientists that an earthquake was recorded on the seismogram in the Banda Sea region in Indonesia is also is the biggest 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 will have to admit that they are all just the fruit of logical constructions, based on an initially false fact.

Date of death of the group according to Axelrod.

In Nikolai Rundkvist's book "100 Days in the Urals" there is a quote from Axelrod:
“Yes, no doubt, it is their tent that stands on the gloomy slope of Solat-Syakhla. I myself took part in its sewing in the 56th. Under the tent neatly, without haste, skis are laid. The date of the death of the guys was set elementarily simply. In the far corner of the tent was a diary with the date of the last entry - February 2 1959. That is, the tourists just started the route. In the valley of Auspiya, they built a storehouse - laying food and equipment that is unnecessary above the border of the forest.

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

Of course, we can assume that this date was meticulously put down by the students of the Dyatlov group immediately after 00.00. nights, but usually it is customary to set the date of the new day in the morning, after waking up. However, for our study this is not fundamental, because the death of the group, according to the stopped clock, could occur only in period from 20 to 21 pm February 1, or from 8 to 9 am on the second of February.

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

Chapter 6

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

Location of the first explosion.

On the Internet, I noticed one message: "South of the Mountain (Kholat Syakhil ) already modern tourists stumbled into several deep craters "obviously from missiles". With great difficulty in the remote taiga, we found two of them and explored as best we could. Under the rocket explosion of the 59th, they obviously did not pull, in the funnel birch grew age 55 (counted by rings), that is, the explosion thundered in the remote taiga rear no later than 1944. Remembering what year it was, one could write it off as bombing drills or something like that, but... funnel, we made an unpleasant discovery using a radiometer, strong background».

I will discuss the causes of radiation at the site of the explosion below, in a separate article, but for now we will give one more message.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

official investigation

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

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

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

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

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

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

And now the versions:

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

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

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

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

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

7. Death at the hands of Mansi

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

Or a conflict with hunters:

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

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

Or, for example, testing a nuclear weapon:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. This is the work of the KGB.

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

15. Military poachers

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

16. Crime, gold.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Or like this:

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

21. "Controlled Delivery"

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

Rakitin's version

22. Meteorite

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

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

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

What other versions did I miss?

Which version do you think is more likely?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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