60 years ago in the Northern Urals under strange circumstances, a group of students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute - nine people - died. The incident was instantly classified, although there were a lot of stories with a similar plot and no one ever made a secret of them. And when in the late 80s - early 90s the law enforcers started talking, investigating the death of tourists in hot pursuit, it turned out that the story was dark and, perhaps, mystical.
Recently, the press reported that the Prosecutor General's Office had resumed the investigation into the death of Igor Dyatlov's group, but an official of the supervisory agency clarified that the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region had started not a new investigation, but a check. And it is connected with the date of the beginning of the investigation into the death of the group - February 15, 1959. If this is not a slip of the tongue, as the prosecutor’s office assures, it turns out that the security officials became aware of something like this two weeks before the start of the official investigation. After all, confirmation of the death of Dyatlov's group on the night of February 2, 1959, according to the documents, was received towards the end of the month, on the 20th of February. So there will be no new investigation. Like, everything is clear - there was an accident. In fact, there is no clarity in this story and never has been. But oddities - more than enough.
No tongue, no eyeballs, no examination results
The author of these lines was told about these oddities at one time by two people who were directly involved in the investigation of the death of the group - forensic scientist Lev Ivanov and investigator Vladimir Korotaev. Both are convinced materialists. Meanwhile, both admitted: while studying the circumstances of the death of the Ural students, they almost believed in the other world. In any case, they did not find a clear explanation for several episodes established during the investigation.
Lev Ivanov recalled that the father of the deceased student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Lyudmila Dubinina was a "big shot" (he worked in high positions in the Ministry of Forestry and made friends with the Moscow authorities). The dead on the Mountain of the dead were buried in ordinary coffins, but with lids tightly boarded up (why - more on that below). On the eve of the funeral, Alexander Dubinin was summoned to the regional party committee and persuaded not to open the coffin at the funeral. The secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee Vladimir Kuroyedov personally persuaded - they say, you are an old party member (AN Dubinin was a member of the CPSU (b) since 1930), why do you need these priestly "last goodbyes"? Dubinin promised that he would not seek to open the coffin and show his daughter. But, apparently, the student's mother, Iya Dubinina, did not suit such a situation. She begged her husband to get the coffin open. And Dubinin broke the word of the party member - at the burial ceremony at the Mikhailovsky cemetery of the Ural capital, he literally ordered Lev Ivanov, who was there, to open the coffin of his daughter. The investigator could not refuse - two workers from the funeral team threw back the lid. The father saw his daughter's face and lost consciousness, although he was considered a man of tough disposition, who had seen a lot in life. The skin of Lyudmila Dubinina's face was not pale, like all the dead, but a reddish-purple color. Her eye sockets were empty. Moreover, as follows from the medical report, the girl's mouth was missing a tongue. No, she didn't bite it off to herself - it wasn't there at all! The eyeballs were, as recorded in the description of the body, "carefully removed." Such an operation could only be performed by a surgeon on the operating table, explained Lev Ivanov. If Dubinina had lost her eyes in an accident, the nature of the damage would have been fundamentally different. The tongue and eyes were removed professionally, shall we say.
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For some time Dubinin kept in touch with Ivanov - the father of the deceased student was interested in the results of chemical and histological analysis of internal organs - after the autopsy of the corpses, samples were taken from all nine of the dead. For several years, before his death in 1967, Alexander Dubinin tried to find out what the samples showed. But the results of the samples were classified. However, thanks to the stubbornness of the student's father, one strange detail was revealed. Four of the victims, who had their clothes on (yes, the bodies of several students turned out to be completely naked - this is in the February cold, in the Ural Mountains!), Took samples for the content of radioactive substances. Lev Ivanov and Vladimir Korotaev also confirmed that the students' clothes were desperately "phono". It was established quite by accident: four sets of clothes were covered with a strange dust - sticky,reddish brown tint. Snow all around. Where did this dust on clothes come from? Conducted an examination - indeed, radiation! So, Alexander Dubinin believed that his daughter could become a victim of some secret tests. To confirm or refute these guesses of his, Dubinin now and then demanded to acquaint him with the results of the radiological examination (the documents stated as follows: "physical and technical examination for the content of radioactive elements"). So, to his surprise, the results of this examination were seized several times from the investigation materials, and then returned there. Dubinin every now and then demanded to acquaint him with the results of the radiological examination (the documents indicated as follows: "physical and technical examination for the content of radioactive elements"). So, to his surprise, the results of this examination were seized several times from the investigation materials, and then returned there. Dubinin every now and then demanded to acquaint him with the results of the radiological examination (the documents indicated as follows: "physical and technical examination for the content of radioactive elements"). So, to his surprise, the results of this examination were seized several times from the investigation materials, and then returned there.
As a result, they were classified, as were the histological tests.
"Model case" declassified for a diversion?
Lyudmila Dubinina was buried together with Nikolai Thibault-Brignolle, a recent graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, where she also studied. The official version says that their bodies were found a little later than others, in early May, and not in March. Therefore, de and the funeral took place only on May 12. However, there is reason to doubt the official version: the bodies of Dubinina and Thibault-Brignoles (as well as Semyon Zolotarev) could have been found along with others in March, but the nature of their injuries was such that it required careful study, and most importantly, a clear subsequent explanation.
On May 9, 1959, the forensic medical commission (forensic experts Boris Vozrozhdenny, Henrietta Churkina and Ivan Laptev) issued an official conclusion on the death of the group members. Six of its members, as established by experts, died "as a result of freezing from exposure to low temperatures." At the same time, some had burns (!),
others have bodily harm. But three - Dubinina, Zolotarev and Thibault-Brignolle - died as a result of "the impact of great force." What kind of "force" and how it "worked", the experts could not specify. Here, for example, what Lev Ivanov said. Expert Vozrozhdenny told him that all the injuries of those who died as a result of "the impact of great force" could not be received when falling "from the height of their own growth" - such injuries could be inflicted on them, say, by a car moving at high speed. But where is the car in the mountains, and even rushing at full speed? Option - the impact of a blast wave. But in the place of the death of the Dyatlov group, nothing seemed to explode - in any case, there is no evidence of this. The revived one swore that neither he nor his colleagues had encountered anything similar in their practice and did not know how to classify the nature of injuries.
Zolotarev's ribs were broken, but there were no scratches or abrasions on his body. Thibault-Brignoles has a skull fracture - 17 centimeters. “Investigator Ivanov asked me a question,” Boris Vozrozhdenny recalled, “from what force could Thibault-Brignolle get such an injury? I answered - as a result of a throw, a fall, but not from the fact that he slipped, fell and hit his head. An extensive and very deep fracture of the vault and base of the skull resulted from a huge impact. Maybe a very large stone? No, the expert assured, in this case soft tissues would inevitably be damaged. And no such damage was recorded. The blow, one might say, is inexplicable."
Not so long ago, experts expressed a version: the injury could have been received by Thibault-Brignole as a result of a missile fragment falling to the ground.
In those parts, tests were just carried out. That is why, they say, they classified the documentation - a military secret, after all. But even in this case, soft tissue damage would be inevitable. Yes, by the way, and with the secrecy of the death of the Dyatlov group, not everything is clear either. Formally, the case has never been classified as classified - at least this is how the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region explains. But - here's another oddity! - the part of the file containing information about the results of the radiological examination, namely pages 370-377, is stored separately from the rest of the file, in a certain “special sector”, and access to it is limited. Today the documents of the investigation have been submitted to the State Archives of the Sverdlovsk Region, but, as it turns out, not all of them. A dark story and with nondisclosure subscriptions:at least two such subscriptions (signed by Yarovoy and Maslennikov) are reliably known, which prohibited the disclosure of materials from the preliminary investigation. The case is not classified, but the nondisclosure agreement was taken. So, just in case? Lev Ivanov confirmed that the second secretary of the regional committee, Afanasy Yestokin, ordered "absolutely everything to be classified, sealed, handed over to the special unit and forgotten about it." In 1984, the "unclassified" case of the death of the Dyatlov group was almost destroyed (and the explanation is simple - 25 years of secrecy expired), but the then regional prosecutor Vladislav Tuikov ordered the materials not to be destroyed as "socially significant." However, everything that is in the public domain today (in fact, in a limited access mode, with the permission of the regional prosecutor) is,as the former senior investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office Leonid Proshkin admitted, only a "mock case". To divert the eyes.
I am greatly guilty before the children 's relatives
Forensic scientist Ivanov, who until the end of his days meticulously collected and systematized all the data on the death of the Dyatlov group, at the end of his life compiled a picture of the last seconds of the tourists' lives - controversial, but at the same time remarkable. From his conclusions, it was like this: in the evening the guys had supper and were going to go to bed. One of them came out of his natural need (there were footprints in the snow) and saw something that made everyone immediately leave the tent and run down the mountain - in the opposite direction from the place where they had buried food. “I think it was a luminous ball,” Ivanov assured. And this ball overtook them at the edge of the forest. An explosion followed. Three or four were seriously injured and died immediately. It was like a shock wave or a shock, like in a car accident. But the rest seem to have gone through something like a struggle for survival.“You know, so many years have passed, I have seen all kinds of cases in my prosecutor’s life, but I don’t forget this story … Two who were found under the cedar … They tried to light a fire, climbed the cedar for twigs, and there were scraps of their skin and muscles on the bark … Their comrade, who had fallen behind due to illness, helped a lot. Yudin, it seems. He knew who was wearing what and helped to establish who was wearing what. All the clothes were mixed up. They stripped the dead to save the living. " “I have my own explanation for the death of the Dyatlov group,” the expert insisted, “you can even put it in the title of your article: the criminal prosecutor believes that the tourists were killed by UFOs. Incidentally, I assumed it then. They are directly related to the death of the guys, I'm sure. I am guilty, very guilty before the children’s relatives, I didn’t allow them to see their bodies”. I've seen all kinds of cases in my prosecutor's life, but I can't forget this story … Two who were found under the cedar … They tried to light a fire, climbed the cedar for the knots, and on the bark were left scraps of their skin and muscles … Their comrade, who had fallen behind because of illness. Yudin, it seems. He knew who was wearing what and helped to establish who was wearing what. All the clothes were mixed up. They stripped the dead to save the living. " “I have my own explanation for the death of the Dyatlov group,” the expert insisted, “you can even put it in the title of your article: the criminal prosecutor believes that the tourists were killed by UFOs. Incidentally, I assumed it then. They are directly related to the death of the guys, I'm sure. I am guilty, very guilty before the children’s relatives, I didn’t allow them to see their bodies”. I've seen all kinds of cases in my prosecutor's life, but I can't forget this story … Two who were found under the cedar … They tried to light a fire, climbed the cedar for the knots, and on the bark were left scraps of their skin and muscles … Their comrade, who had fallen behind because of illness. Yudin, it seems. He knew who was wearing what and helped to establish who was wearing what. All the clothes were mixed up. They stripped the dead to save the living. " “I have my own explanation for the death of the Dyatlov group,” the expert insisted, “you can even put it in the title of your article: the criminal prosecutor believes that the tourists were killed by UFOs. Incidentally, I assumed it then. They are directly related to the death of the guys, I'm sure. I am guilty, very guilty before the children’s relatives, I didn’t allow them to see their bodies.we climbed the cedar for knots, and on its bark there were scraps of their skin and muscles … Their comrade, who had fallen behind due to illness, helped a lot. Yudin, it seems. He knew who was wearing what and helped to establish who was wearing what. All the clothes were mixed up. They stripped the dead to save the living. " “I have my own explanation for the death of the Dyatlov group,” the expert insisted, “you can even put it in the title of your article: the criminal prosecutor believes that the tourists were killed by UFOs. Incidentally, I assumed it then. They are directly related to the death of the guys, I'm sure. I am guilty, very guilty before the children’s relatives, I didn’t allow them to see their bodies”.we climbed the cedar for knots, and on its bark there were scraps of their skin and muscles … Their comrade, who had fallen behind due to illness, helped a lot. Yudin, it seems. He knew who was wearing what and helped to establish who was wearing what. All the clothes were mixed up. They stripped the dead to save the living. " “I have my own explanation for the death of the Dyatlov group,” the expert insisted, “you can even put it in the title of your article: the criminal prosecutor believes that the tourists were killed by UFOs. Incidentally, I assumed it then. They are directly related to the death of the guys, I'm sure. I am guilty, very guilty before the children’s relatives, I didn’t allow them to see their bodies”. All the clothes were mixed up. They stripped the dead to save the living. " “I have my own explanation for the death of the Dyatlov group,” the expert insisted, “you can even put it in the title of your article: the criminal prosecutor believes that the tourists were killed by UFOs. Incidentally, I assumed it then. They are directly related to the death of the guys, I'm sure. I am guilty, very guilty before the children’s relatives, I didn’t allow them to see their bodies”. All the clothes were mixed up. They stripped the dead to save the living. " “I have my own explanation for the death of the Dyatlov group,” the expert insisted, “you can even put it in the title of your article: the criminal prosecutor believes that the tourists were killed by UFOs. Incidentally, I assumed it then. They are directly related to the death of the guys, I'm sure. I am guilty, very guilty before the children’s relatives, I didn’t allow them to see their bodies”.
How do you like these details of the investigation into the death of the group? Two officers of the Ivdel Prosecutor's Office who carried out the investigative actions at the initial stage, before investigator Ivanov took up the case, went crazy. Two more of those who investigated the case later, in Sverdlovsk, committed suicide in the same 1959, leaving strange posthumous notes. Coincidences? May be. But very strange, you see.
In the fall of 1959, the criminal case on the death of the Dyatlov group was unexpectedly combined with another criminal case - related to the death of several West Siberian and Ural villages as a result of the fall of some unidentified "fireballs" on them. Investigator Vladimir Korotaev, who participated in preliminary investigative actions into the death of Dyatlov and his comrades, assured that both cases were related to military trials, as he reported to the members of the government commission. "But nobody was interested in this data, everyone was satisfied with the version that the students died from the cold." By the way, shortly before his death in 2012, Korotaev got acquainted with the "secret" file stored in the archive. And I did not find in it the protocols of interrogation of witnesses, which he drew up with his own hand! The protocols were either simply "not preserved", as the archive explained,or were removed from there. Today, Korotaev's acquaintances recall that he was allegedly summoned to the KGB and forced to write a conclusion that the students died of hypothermia. And the case is to hand over to Lev Ivanov. Which, in turn, has repeatedly confessed, including "on record": "I have issued the acts of death as demanded of me."
Who and how killed Rustem Slobodin?
So, let's summarize. One investigator who conducted the case believed that the military was to blame for the death of Dyatlov's group. Another is that the tragedy was set up by a UFO. Perhaps some classified object. So the conclusions of Korotaev and those of Ivanov are in many ways similar. Neither one nor the other, in any case, believed that the group died from hypothermia. Ivanov could deliberately conceal that the military was involved in the case, passing off the secret object for a UFO. And Korotaev to the end of his days cut the truth - the tests of "fireballs" and the death of Dyatlov's group - links in one chain.
Meanwhile, there are a great many questions. Why did Yuri Doroshenko and Georgy Krivonischenko climb the cedar again and again, breaking branches, and leaving traces of not only blood and peeled skin on the bark of the tree, but also muscle tissue? How did Thibault-Brignoles get his fatal injury? Where have Dubinina's eyes and tongue gone? Where and why did the members of the group jump out of the tent - naked in the cold? Well, and one more important touch, which researchers almost never mention. It is connected with the body of the deceased member of the group Rustem Slobodin. In the conclusion of the medical examination it is said that he died "as a result of exposure to low temperatures - freezing." At the same time, the "factor contributing to death" is indicated: "closed craniocerebral injury - a crack in the frontal bone on the left side." And clarification - "posthumous divergence of the sutures of the skull and skin wounds, received both in vivo,and in an agonal state and posthumously. " Wow "freezing"! And here's another passage from the conclusion: "Closed trauma to the skull caused by a blunt instrument." What kind of tool? Caused by whom? Someone deliberately killed Slobodin? But who? And whose extra pair of skis was found at the base of the tent, from which the students fled in the last seconds of their lives - was there someone else with them? The surviving Yuri Yudin did not report anything about another member of the expedition. But whose skis then? The killers? One of the killers? The nature of Slobodin's head injuries indicates that he was beaten with his head against a stone, as if it were a ball. And on the back of his head - not a single injury, as if someone was holding the guy by the scruff of the neck and hitting his head against a stone! If Slobodin - as the experts insisted - received his injuries as a result of a fall, there would also be injuries on the back of his head, but not. But that's not all. Not for nothingSpeaking about Slobodin's injuries, we write that the head is damaged, not the face. There is damage inside the head. They are not outside! Surprisingly, this is true. A blow with a blunt object of this strength - a hammer or a stone, even the sole of a boot - would cause an imprint on the skin and almost certainly cut it. But on the skin in the area of impact - no abrasions, no bruises. What kind of stupid object is this?
Actually, all these questions asked above could (and should!) Be addressed to the investigation.
Ruslan Gorevoy