a Mysterious incident on the Dyatlov Pass many years harbored a variety of crazy theories. Family members and some experts are suspicious of the official inquiry, which ended after 61 years after the events, the author writes.
“While you sit and sing songs. Those guys play guitar, rustic accompanies on the mandolin. Just for the soul takes. This is the last place of civilization.” Circular letters of the diary of Ludmila Dubinina describe the evening of January 27, 1959. “In fact, I think the last time I heard so many new good songs”, prophetic she writes on one of the last pages. Four days before that Dubinin, a serious young girl with long braids and a group of nine students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute went on a trip to go skiing in one of the regions of the Urals, a mountain range, which is considered the natural border between Europe and Asia. They wanted to reach the mountain Kholat syakhl, known among the local Mansi people as a Dead top or the mountain of the dead.
They moved from Sverdlovsk. Passed two trains, truck, bus and sled. During the trip Yuriy Yudin, the former as Dubinina, a student of economic faculty, was ill and decided to return. The rest was divided between his food and continued the journey that was to last for three weeks. They were all experienced climbers, especially the twenty-three year old Igor Dyatlov, just graduated from radio engineering faculty. He led the group. After the hike the students had to obtain a certificate of the third class, indicating the highest level of excellence in mountaineering in the USSR at the time. The night of 1 to 2 December, the group has set up camp 10 km from the destination. They did not return home.
Back at the base, Dyatlov promised to send a telegram to the sports club of Sverdlovsk, which was. When was the date and think that the band was late in the campaign, it became impossible, it was decided to start a search operation. Rescuers followed the route of the group and found a tent. Inside was discovered the belongings of travelers, diaries Dubinina and Zinaida Kolmogorov, twenty-two year old student of radio engineering faculty, the mandolin of Rustem Slobodin (Rustica), shoes and a plate of food. In addition, the slope of the tent was a huge cut with a knife made from the inside, as if someone was in a hurry to get out that could not spend time undoing, as described later Mikhail Sharavin, part of the search team.
Half a kilometer from the tent below the hill was discovered two bodies — Yuri Doroshenko, 21 years old, and Yuri krivonischenko, 23. They were in their underwear. A little further found the body of Igor Dyatlov. He was in clothes, but without shoes, was lying face down in the snow and about��imal birch trunk. To Kolmogorov. Her body was lying in such a pose, as if, according to Sarafino, the girl tried unsuccessfully to return back to the tent. A few days later found Rustica, he was dressed warmer than everyone. His watch stopped at 8:45.
Others were able to detect only three months later in the hollow. Neck Alexander kolevatova, studying nuclear physics and even been to a secret Institute in Moscow, was curtailed, behind the ears, found a big wound. Nicholas Thibault-Brignoles, Kolka, the son of a French Communist who was repressed by Stalin, was a fractured skull. Autopsy Seeds Zolotarev, sports instructor for 38 years, past world war II, revealed multiple rib fractures. In addition, he had an open wound on the right side of the skull. Lyudmila Dubinina was missing the tongue and, as the veteran Zolotarev, eye sockets was empty. The bodies of all nine members of the group have been found traces of radiation.
The incident with the tourists — greatest mystery of modern Russia. It is known as devil’s Pass, on behalf of the head of the group. This story is popular among climbers, lovers of mysteries and conspiracy theories. The investigation of the Soviet authorities lasted only a few months. In June 1959 it was concluded that the group died due to “natural forces, to overcome that tourists were not able to”, and the access to the territory of the accident was closed for three years. Abstract conclusion did not satisfy the family, but in those times of fear and repression, as explained to the younger sister of Igor Dyatlov Tatyana Perminova, citizens had little space to maneuver.
Yuri Yudin, the sole survivor of that expedition, who returned midway due to illness, always said that living with trauma. Yudin said that if he had the opportunity to ask something from God, he would have asked what happened to his friends. Yudin died in 2015, and not knowing the truth.
Last year, 60 years after the tragedy, the Prosecutor’s office made an unprecedented step in deciding to dust off the archives and to reopen the case. It seemed that the mystery is close. Press Secretary of the Prosecutor General Alexander Kurennoy, explained that the aim was to do away with the legends, and, in addition, to ensure the safety of the scene, which became a place of pilgrimage for climbers and lovers of mysteries. However, the Colonel hinted that to scan only hypotheses related to weather events, beginning with “snow Board” and before the storm. A few days later the report was published and the case was closed: tourists killed by an avalanche.
This conclusion, however, again did not like the remaining members of the families that filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General. Tatyana Perminova now 74, she lives in Pervouralsk. The woman says that her family always thought that the death of her brother, Igor Dyatlov, who dreamed of becoming an astronaut, was somehow mixed in the military. Also most of the real experts in this business and enthusiasts cautious refers to the official conclusion. A discussion of the possible and the most crazy theories became popular again. Now Sverdlovsk, which is a group of tourists left on the night train, changed its Soviet name and became Yekaterinburg. It is the headquarters of the regional Fund “in memory of Dyatlov’s group”. Its Director Sergey Fadeev categorically rejects the idea that tourists killed by an avalanche.
“We spent years investigating the case. This conclusion is illogical. They are trying to cover up the violations in the previous investigation. They try to hide what has really happened,” — said Fadeev.
His hair and beard very thick, he is surrounded by books, papers, and items of the era. On the walls of the main hall hang portraits of dead tourists.
The legend was mainly fueled by secrecy, the decades surrounding this tragedy. After Soviet power ended the strange lengthy report, the topic is no longer rising. In 1990, when I got some time left before the fall of the Soviet Union, the main investigator on the case, Lev Ivanov opened Pandora’s box. He first spoke about the tragedy and told a local newspaper that the autopsy results surprised him. What happened was a few strange moments. Among them reports of “fireballs” in the sky that night. Ivanov apologized to the families and explained that the authorities ordered him to classify the findings and to forget everything. He said that he had done everything possible, but at the time there were “insuperable force”.
The publication in the newspaper was the cause of the mysteries of Dyatlov Pass. There were various legends: starting with the one where tourists were attacked by escaped prisoners, or Mansi, to the extent where the group was killed by the KGB. There are legends claiming that tourists were the victims of a secret military experiment, aliens or that they killed each other themselves. There was the assumption about the shock wave of low-flying aircraft. The tragedy served as the inspiration for TV series, films (e.g., “the Pass of the devil”, 2013) and various books.
The avalanche were among the most popular “real” reasons, but it does not satisfy Nicholas Varsegov, who for many years engaged in the investigation of this case along with his wife, journalist Natalia Ko. Together they have published several articles and the book “Who’s hiding the truth about the death of Dyatlov’s group”.
“the Prosecutor’s office believes that students, hearing the noise of the avalanche, for some reason ran in the opposite direction. If��and heard her in the night, they had to run right to the foot of the hill, not left,” says Wakegov.
He explained that climbers have made an experiment and set up camp in an area with low bias.
Business files were made available for review only in the nineties of the last century, when the Soviet Union collapsed. The problem is that they are incomplete. According to Fadeyev, it was the cause of the legends. The historian does not adhere to any one theory: “There is evidence on the balloons or light aircraft, so maybe there was a missile launched from Kapustin Yar. Another likely version is that the plane or helicopter. The KGB and the Prosecutor’s office stopped the investigation. And those who came after, was spreading stories about Bigfoot and aliens to hide the truth. There was something that could harm the Soviet Union, so everything was kept secret,” insists Fadeev, rummaging in the backpack. Fadeev and his associates are doing final preparations before their own campaign. They go in a few hours to explore the area of the incident, like they do every year.
Today on the scene there is a small granite monument with the names of travelers and the date of death. “Memory left and never returned we gave this pass the name of the group Dyatlova”.
