Reincarnation of a terrible secret - otherwise you cannot name the discovery of another nameless corpse on the mysterious Dyatlov pass. Moreover, to date, communication has been lost with the group that discovered this very corpse. What happened there is unknown, but you can remember what happened there on January 23, 1959, when this whole terrible story began. A group of skiers from the tourist club of the Ural Polytechnic Institute under the leadership of Igor Dyatlov went on a hike in the north of the Sverdlovsk region. They had to ski 350 kilometers and climb the Otorten and Oiko-Chakur mountains. But they never reached the final point of the route. On the night of 1 to 2 February, the entire group died under unexplained circumstances. The experts concluded that the ascent too late was a fatal mistake for tourists. But the forensicsmystics and scientists had a completely different opinion and vision of what happened.
The search operation began on February 20th. After 6 days of searching, rescuers found a tent with cut walls and the bodies of Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko almost one and a half kilometers from it. There were practically no clothes on the tourists, both bodies were badly burned in places. In the course of further searches on the slope in the direction of the tent, the bodies of three more tourists were found: Igor Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova and Rustem Slobodin. It was established that before his death, Slobodin received a head injury, and numerous edema and abrasions were also found on his body.
The tent was cut in three places
Doctors recorded cadaveric spots on the upper side of the bodies, which suggests that after death someone turned the bodies over. The official cause of the death of tourists, forensic experts called hypothermia, attributing the burns to an attempt to warm up by the fire.
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The bodies of other participants in the campaign were found only in May. Presumably, tourists took refuge in a hollow by the stream. Lyudmila Dubinina and Semyon Zolotarev had crushed chests and had no eyeballs. The girl also had no tongue. Nicholas Thibault-Brignolle had a depressed fracture of the temporoparietal region. Doctors did not find external injuries in Alexander Kolevatov, according to experts, death came from freezing. The three remaining hikers died from fatal injuries sustained by a force comparable to the blast wave. All four tourists had an unnatural orange-red skin color, the cause of which could not be determined.
For a long time, local residents of Mansi remained the main suspects. But during the elaboration of the version, investigator Vladimir Korotaev found out that the tent was not cut from the outside, but from the inside. In addition, only nine pairs of tracks were found in the area of the camp, and all of them belonged to the participants in the Dyatlov campaign.
During interrogations, the Mansi said that they saw "balls of fire" over the place where the tourists died. During the search, the strange balls were also observed by rescuers.
“We got up and looked over to where the students' tent was; there were two mountain peaks. And then from one peak in complete silence a fireball flew out, it spun and went to another peak. When he reached the top and hit it, as it were, sparks went out and a roar was heard, like from an explosion,”- Viktor Klimenko.
Muncie even sketched the balls. They were attached to the case file, but after the case was handed over to investigator Ivanov, the drawings disappeared from it.
The last shot from Zolotarev's camera, causing a lot of controversy. Some believe that this is just a defect, others see in the photo the very danger that forced the tourists to leave the tent.
The version of an avalanche has become widespread. According to her, when setting up the tent, the tourists provoked the snow to melt, as a result of which they had to hastily leave the tent, cutting it, and try to survive in the forest. However, during the reconstruction of events, no reasons for the formation of an avalanche on the slope of Kholat-Syakhyl were identified. The fact that part of the group moved one and a half kilometers from the tent was also contrary to the version, although with the injuries found on them, they would not have lived more than 20 minutes.
Burnt footprints can be seen on young trees at the border of the forest. Moreover, they did not have a concentric shape or other system, and there was no epicenter nearby. All this gave reason to believe that they arose under the influence of a directed heat ray or somehow strong energy.
In favor of the "military" version associated with weapons testing, there is a railway line near the village of Polunochnoye, abutting against the mountainside, missile debris and strange craters, found in the Kholat-Syakhyl region. In addition, in the first days of the search, the sounds of cannon fire were discernible, but after a few days it died down.
Developing a "technogenic" version of the death of people, investigator Lev Ivanov decides to send the belongings and biological material of the victims for radiological examination. The researchers did not find any traces of radiation on the bodies of the participants in the hike, but radioactive dust was found on three items of clothing. This information became the basis for another version, the supporter of which is the researcher Alexei Rakitin, linking the death of tourists with a controlled delivery. He believes that Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Krivonischenko were undercover KGB officers, and the real purpose of the campaign, which most tourists did not know about, was the controlled delivery of radioactive samples to the CIA group. However, during the transfer, something went wrong, as a result of which all members of the Dyatlov group were killed.
Later, investigator Lev Ivanov admits that he deliberately let the case down on the brakes, carrying out an order coming from the highest ranks of the communist hierarchy.
Taking into account the absence of signs of struggle, extraneous traces and the conclusion of the forensic medical examination on the causes of death, the case was closed. The reason for the death of students was called "a spontaneous force, which they were not able to overcome." From those who visited this place during the search, they took a nondisclosure agreement for 25 years. The area of the Kholat-Syakhyl and Otorten mountains was closed to the public until 1963. Coincidence or not, but in the same year, the missile division was closed, which, among other things, was engaged in the manufacture of the MR-12 meteorological rocket and the Onega complex, after which the area was reopened for tourists.