Another person is buried in the grave of Semyon Zolotarev from the Ivanovskoye cemetery in Yekaterinburg - this is the result of a DNA examination. It was aired on May 16 on the "Actually" program on Channel One. “Close relationship on the female line is excluded,” the talk show host Dmitry Shepelev read out the expert's conclusion.
Geneticist Aleksey Garkovenko, who carried out this examination, commented on these results as follows: “The initial sample was of poor quality - the bone was soft, and this raised concerns that nothing would work out,” the expert said. - There are two hypervariable areas, good data was obtained only for one of them. But even in it, in one case in the bone profile there are 4 differences from the standard reference sequence, in the other case - 10. If they were female relatives, then the differences should be the same - completely coincide. 14 inconsistencies in one area 100% exclude [relationship]."
As the expert explained, due to the poor quality of the original sample, it was not possible to isolate "total DNA" - the expert had to analyze the mitochondrial DNA. According to the geneticist, a fragment of the bone still remains, and other experts can double-check its results.
DNA samples for comparison were taken from the living relatives of Semyon Zolotarev - the grand-niece of Yulia Skulbida and her mother. “I am shocked, I didn’t expect that it wasn’t him,” Yulia said on the recording of the program. - Moreover, not only I passed the DNA test, but also my mother, who is the direct heiress.
The results of the DNA test did not really surprise Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Natalya Varsegova, who initiated the exhumation of the remains of Semyon Zolotarev in Yekaterinburg a month ago. “Everything about Semyon is always very ambiguous,” said a journalist who has been investigating the mystery of the death of Dyatlov's group for many years. "And what happened with the result was expected for me."
On the program, Varsegova said that at the cemetery, right during the exhumation, forensic expert Sergei Nikitin used the method of photomixing. “When we took Semyon's bones out of the grave, washed and dried his skull, we made an overlay through a computer and a camera,” said the journalist, “at 12 main points the skull coincided with the photograph, and already at the cemetery we knew that it was Semyon Zolotarev. But this photo was taken after the war.
To know for sure whether this is Semyon or not, we needed the results of a DNA examination."
Andrey Guselnikov
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