The members of the expedition to the Dyatlov Pass delivered to Yekaterinburg a metal part measuring about one meter by one meter, found in the area of the pass. Perhaps this is a fragment of a rocket (fragments of which are still falling in the Northern Urals). The head of the memory fund of the Dyatlov group, Yuri Kuntsevich, informed URA. RU about the find. In the opinion of him and his associates, the found object can help in solving the mystery of the death of the Dyatlovites in 1959.
This find has a whole history: it turns out that it was discovered 10 years ago (in 2008), about four km from the Dyatlov Pass towards Mount Otorten. For ten whole years she waited for her to be taken away. “We then walked along the ridge not along paths, but directly - using a compass and a navigator,” the author of the find, tourist Alexander Zarubin from Norilsk, told the agency. - There was a thick fog. We stopped near a large rock-remnant - we look, it lies right next to him."
Tourists photographed a strange object, but decided not to take it, but to hide it, marking the point in the GPS-navigator. “It seems light only for the first 100 meters - in fact, it is hard and very uncomfortable to carry it,” Alexander told URA. RU. “This time, too, we got it through with difficulty, although we were specially preparing.” The sortie for a piece of the rocket lasted almost a whole day, and then for two more days the members of the expedition descended with it to the point of release, from where the "shift crew" took them.
Researchers agree that, most likely, this is a fragment of the fuel tank of the UR-100 rocket Photo: Andrey Guselnikov, URA. RU
Photo: Andrey Guselnikov, URA. RU
Photo: Andrey Guselnikov, URA. RU
There is no exact data on what part of the found piece of metal is. “I myself am not an expert, but I know people who have already found such things in the area of the Dyatlov Pass,” says Zarubin. “When the photos they posted were discussed on the Internet, the majority agreed that they were fragments of a rocket's fuel tank.” According to woodpeckers, most likely, we are talking about the UR-100 rocket. Now the artifact is at the headquarters of the Dyatlov Foundation in Yekaterinburg. “We will definitely involve experts in order to find out the exact composition of the metal and the year of its production,” Yuri Kuntsevich, the head of the fund, told the agency.
A group of tourists led by Igor Dyatlov, a student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, disappeared on February 2, 1959 in the mountains of the Northern Urals. Soon, a cut tent and five bodies of tourists were found on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl, and four more were found under the snow two months later. The deceased had broken ribs, and one had a dent in the skull. What happened on the mountain is still unknown. The most popular version among woodpeckers: tourists became victims or witnesses to the tests of new weapons, after which they were eliminated by a cleaning group.
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See the photo report from the expedition to the Dyatlov Pass in 2018 and the search for a piece of the rocket:
In the place where the piece of the rocket was found Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
Together with the find at the Dyatlov Pass Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
An attempt to establish the exact location of the Dyatlov group tent Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
The experiment is commanded by Sergey Fadeev Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
View from the "tent site" to the Dyatlov pass Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
Approximately in the place where the red awning was installed, there was a tent of the Dyatlovites Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
The results of the experiment are analyzed on the spot Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
Residential mountain modules on Mount Otorten Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
Inside the mountain module Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
On Mount Otorten Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
View from the mountain Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
Expedition members - at the obelisk on the Dyatlov pass Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
Yeti warning Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
In the camp Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
Expedition base camp Photo: Alexander Zarubin.
Return after collecting the artifact Photo: Sergey Fadeev.
Selfie with a piece of rocket Photo: Sergey Fadeev.
Text: Andrey Guselnikov