In February 1959, a group of tourists led by Igor Dyatlov went on a hike in the Northern Urals. One late evening something so terrible happened that seasoned travelers were frightened. The question of what made the young people rip open the tent and, despite the cold, rush down the slope, without even dressing, is still open, because not one of them escaped. And the circumstances of the death of the Dyatlovites are such that you cannot call them otherwise than mystical.
There are many versions of what happened at the Mountain of the Dead. In the novel by Anna Matveeva, published in the edition of Elena Shubina (AST), in a separate chapter, probably without exaggeration, all the hypotheses are collected. We invite you to familiarize yourself with them, and then vote in the comments for the most believable, in your opinion.
Aryan, or Treasures of the ancient Aryans
Probability Index: 0.001%.
Developer, source: newspaper "MKUral", authors Y. Tishchenko, S. Kazakov.
The bottom line: during the campaign, the Dyatlovites accidentally went to one of the entrances to the ancient Aryan bowels and were killed by its guardians.
Literally in the text: “There are supporters of the“Aryan version”in scientific and near-scientific circles. The descendants of the ancient Aryans who inhabited the Urals several millennia ago, retaining a strong genetic memory, exist to this day. Their mission is to preserve their kind and to protect the Urals as the territorial successor to their homeland. Protect from both "poaching" intrusions and paranormal attacks. Dyatlov's group came into the possession of the organization of the descendants of the Aryans.
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If we assume that Dyatlov's tourist group (like the previously killed Mansi) came into dangerous proximity with one of the guarded entrances to the cherished Aryan bowels, then the death of the participants in the campaign was the result of the use of one of the means of protection. The horror and panic that gripped the expedition could have been caused by a mirage initiated by the "watchmen", and the same massive hallucination, and the sudden appearance of "snowmen", and a tsunami of snow, and the arrival of aliens."
Commentary: the version seems completely absurd, although, subject to creative refinement, it can be in demand in Hollywood. However, due to its name, or rather, the capital letter of the name, this version marked the beginning of the list of all versions of the case.
Initially, 10 people went to the mountains, but one of them was forced to return home due to illness (archive photo taken by the Dyatlovites themselves during a ski trip)
Nuclear explosion
Probability Index: 0%.
Developer, source: mass.
The bottom line: on the night of February 1 to 2, 1959 in the Northern Urals, in the Ivdel region, near the Kholat-Syakhyl mountain, in the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva river, an atomic weapon was tested. It was at this time that the nuclear space boom began, tests, most likely, were carried out throughout the country, in its "deserted" regions. Dyatlovites could become victims of a real nuclear explosion.
Commentary: if an atomic explosion really occurred at the Dyatlov pass, its consequences would significantly affect the environment. Let us recall that in 1959 no one noted any significant changes in the flora and fauna of the Northern Urals. There could have been an explosion - and undoubtedly there was, but it was not atomic weapons that were tested, but something else.
Household quarrel
Probability Index: 5%.
Developer, source: the general public.
The bottom line: the guys from the Dyatlov group had a falling out over the girls. This led to tragic consequences.
Commentary: the version seems to be the most cynical, nevertheless, theoretically it is quite consistent, therefore it is also included in the list and receives a high percentage. However, everyone who knew Igor Dyatlov and tourists from his group indignantly rejects this possibility. This could happen to anyone but them. In addition, the version does not explain the contamination of clothing with radioactive dust, and so on.
The version of an everyday quarrel seems unlikely to us (archive photo taken by the Dyatlovites themselves during a ski trip)
Vacuum weapon
Probability Index: 50%.
Developer, source: I. Tsarev, the book "Encyclopedia of Miracles" (1998) and many others.
The bottom line: the reason for the death of the Dyatlovites is that they were in the test area of the "vacuum weapon".
Literally in the text: “By a strange coincidence, it was on the slope of the Mountain of the Dead on February 2, 1959, under mysterious circumstances, that a group of tourists, led by Igor Dyatlov from the Ural Polytechnic Institute, died. In attempts to explain the death of nine experienced hikers, a variety of versions were put forward … One of the assumptions is that the guys entered the area where secret tests of the "vacuum weapon" were carried out. The fact is that the deceased had a strange reddish skin tone, the presence of internal injuries and bleeding. The same symptoms should be observed when a "vacuum bomb" is struck, which creates a strong rarefaction of air over a large area. On the periphery of such a zone, a person's blood vessels burst from internal pressure, and at the epicenter the body is torn to pieces."
Commentary: it could very well be. Impossible to check.
Freezing
Probability Index: 5%.
Developer, source: in 1959 - the party and military authorities, as well as everyone else who was disadvantaged by another cause of the tragedy.
The bottom line: on the night from February 1 to February 2, tourists from the Dyatlov group for some reason suddenly left the tent, could not find their way to it and simply froze.
Literally in the text: "Death … occurred as a result of exposure to low temperatures (freezing)."
Commentary: Three of the dead tourists lay in the so-called dynamic poses, that is, death caught them while trying to crawl through the snow. Perhaps they really froze, but this freezing is not a cause, but a consequence of another reason.
Evidence: a significant level of contamination of clothing with radioactive substances, hemorrhages and fractures in Dubinina and Zolotarev, a fracture of the base of the skull in Thibault Brignoles, and a fracture in the skull in Slobodin.
February in the Northern Urals is almost never warm, but it is hard to believe that tourists are simply frozen. This version does not explain in any way the contamination of their clothes with radioactive dust (still from the film "The Secret of the Dyatlov Pass")
Stripping
Probability Index: 50%.
Developer, source: the general public.
The bottom line: mopping is one of the most terrible versions of the Dyatlov case. There is a number of circumstantial evidence that, in addition to the group of Dyatlovites, there were other people on the pass near peak 1079. This is evidenced by the trail of a heel, an ebony scabbard found at the pass and not identified as a thing that belonged to any of the participants in the campaign. According to the cleansing version, this was the case. On February 1, 1959, one of the missile tests took place. Perhaps the rocket was launched from Plesetsk. However, the weapon lost its course and fell near the Dyatlov group's camp. The tourists were injured in the explosion and the immediately spreading radiation, but did not die.
According to the rules of that time, an air group (one officer and several soldiers) arrived at the place of the unexpected landing of the rocket to check if the environment, people and, most importantly, the secrecy of the event were not damaged.
Seeing nine people at the site of the missile's fall, the military decided to act according to the instructions - there should be no witnesses. Perhaps the most affected by the explosion, and most likely these were Doroshenko, Krivonischenko, Dyatlov, Kolmogorova and Slobodin, were allowed to freeze to death, and the remaining four - Dubinin, Zolotarev, Kolevatov and Thibault Brignolle - were killed. This explains the terrible injuries on the bodies of the last four. Then they were buried in the snow, under the spruce branches, from under which the water moved the corpses.
Commentary: The cleanup version is often referred to in conjunction with the stage version, they do not replace, but complement each other.
The version of the sweep has a lot of variations: perhaps a fundamentally new weapon was tested - the weapon of fear, and the military got the opportunity to test it on living people. In addition, an option is being considered, according to which the air group arrived at the site immediately, as it accompanied the missile on two planes on both sides of the ridge.
The cleanup version seems to be quite plausible.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that, in addition to the group of dead tourists, there were other people on the pass near summit 1079 (archive photo taken during the search for Dyatlovites)
Staging
Probability Index: 35%.
Developer, source: tourist Yuri Kuntsevich and others.
The bottom line: after an explosion, which led to severe injuries to some and the death of other tourists from the Dyatlov group, an air group appeared at the pass, accompanying the rocket (which one, in this case, does not matter). Assessing the situation, the officer ordered the soldiers to finish off the still living tourists. The tent with things was moved to the place where the search engines later found it, and the bodies of the guys were scattered from a helicopter, from a low height. Hence, they say, the fractures that had no external manifestations came from - people were already dead. The purpose of the performance is clear - to confuse the investigation and divert suspicion from space tests.
Commentary: The version is spectacular, and at first it seemed very tempting to trust her. But there are many “buts”. In particular, what to do with the absence of extraneous traces at the scene of the tragedy? In addition, the adherents of this version refer mainly to the fact that the tent was set up incorrectly. At the same time, the opinion of experienced tourists is completely at odds with the above: the actions that the group performed, arranging an overnight stay on the slope of mountain 1079, are absolutely adequate and professional. And to move the tent and not leave a single footprint - it smells like something unearthly. Or extraterrestrial.
Arctida dwarfs
Probability Index: 0%.
Developer, source: M. Burleshin, "The Horror of the Northern Latitudes", "Globus" (published in the "Energy of the Arctic").
The bottom line: the guys from the Dyatlov group were killed by evil dwarfs from the Arctida mainland (in the Arctic Ocean) with extrasensory abilities. The dwarfs could put a psychological barrier at the entrance to their shelters: this explains the expression of horror frozen on the faces of the dead.
Literally in the text: “On one of the passes of the Kola Peninsula, near Svidozero, not so long ago four tourists died. Experienced, athletic guys lay in a chain stretching from the pass to the nearest housing. There were no signs of violence on the bodies, but horror froze on all faces. And around there were imprinted footprints, not similar to those of an animal, but too large for humans.
The tragedy that happened in 1998 resembles like two drops of water another one that happened about 30 years ago in the same latitudes, in the Northern Urals. A group of Sverdlovsk tourists disappeared in the upper reaches of the Pechora River. Rescuers who urgently left for the route found them a few days later. On the pass of Mount Otorten there were two tents, their back walls were cut, and down the side of the mountain lay half-naked tourists who died with horror on their faces. There is also another detail that unites these cases. Near Mount Otorten there is a tract sacred to the Mansi peoples. Svidozero on the Kola Peninsula is also known as a gathering place for shamans.
Commentary: even if we assume that the dwarfs of Arctida really exist, the meeting with Ural tourists raises serious doubts. Mount Otorten, as well as Holat-Syakhyl, are not sacred tracts. Nor are there any near these geographical objects. The expression of horror on the faces, about which the author of the article writes with such ecstasy, is also in question: almost none of the witnesses of the search notes this very "expression of horror", there is nothing about it in the detection protocols and autopsy reports.
Avalanche
Probability Index: 3%.
Developer, source: M. Akselrod, a tourist who personally knew the Dyatlovites, who took part in the search (see "Dictionary 1959").
The bottom line: tourists from the Dyatlov group were killed by an avalanche that descended from the mountains as a result of some kind of explosion of military origin.
Literally from the text: “From what is in the file and not in the newspapers, I will note one thing: at the end of the tent far from the entrance there was a field bag with documents belonging to Dyatlov, and near it - Kolmogorova's diary. There, it seems, they slept. Before reading the materials of the case, I, like everyone else, believed that four were injured when they ran, falling, down the slope from the tent. But the nature of the injuries themselves does not fit into this scheme.
It is known that when falling, they usually break arms or legs, which in this case is not. And it was strange to expect such falls from trained guys who ran in socks, without shoes. And how to explain the parallel symmetric fracture of the ribs in Dubinina, Zolotarev? They could only be from the skis on which the tent was pitched. Cold overnight stay. The tent stands on skis turned with runners up, with 25–30 cm between them. In essence, spending the night in the snow, in the open air, a thin fabric protects only from the constantly blowing strong wind. The tent is set low, its far edge is almost completely covered with a cover, which turned out when the tent was leveled on the slope.
And suddenly, on the part of the tent, which is closer to the entrance, some kind of weight rolls smoothly and, perhaps, without preliminary noise and rumble, pressing it against the snow (to the skis) with such force that Dubinina and Zolotarev's ribs can not stand. Perhaps Thibault and Slobodin managed to raise their heads or even try to get up, but they were also pressed to the bottom of the tent, or rather, to what was hard there (skis or parts of a disassembled stove). Both suffer skull injuries. If there was a shock wave, the tent would have been blown away. The explosion version does not explain why the tent remained in place. It seems to me that what hit the tent at night is very similar to an avalanche.
And everyone went down … Because in the darkness and the blizzard they thought that they were returning to the storage shed, to which it was 15–20 minutes to go down, and there was wood, silence, things, food. But the forest was not the same and too far away. Not because the group had risen high the day before, but because constant winds from the top of 1079 "knocked out" the slope so that it turned out to be more than a kilometer from the tent to the underbrush. The rest is clear. We got to the border of the forest, found a place behind the wind, laid the wounded on the spruce branches, and the three went up to look for a tent. They left and did not return …"
Commentary: Moisey Abramovich himself noted that "there were no traces of an avalanche, let alone an avalanche release." Experts say that there could not have been an avalanche in those places; an avalanche requires a steady pile of snow. Two facts stand against Axelrod's slender and convincing version:
- not a word is said about broken skis in the case (and they would hardly have survived under the weight of such a force);
- it is impossible to explain the heavy contamination of tourists' clothes with radioactive substances. Even if the avalanche was caused by an explosion, how exactly?..
The version of an artificially induced avalanche could be believed if it were not for a number of facts that do not fit into this theory (frame from the film "The Secret of the Dyatlov Pass")
Mansiysk
Probability Index: 5%.
Developer, source: the general public.
The bottom line: the Dyatlovites violated the sacred prohibition, for which they were punished by the Mansi. In addition, the Mansi could covet the alcohol that the guys had with them.
Literally in the text(the first investigator in the case, Vladimir Korotaev, in an interview with MK): “Then the Mansi were accused of all their sins - they got close to the tourists, knowing that they had alcohol and money. While I was working on the pass, the police began to "stab" Aboriginal families. They were tortured, can you imagine! They stripped naked and drove out into the cold, did not feed them. Moscow needed a decent version. And probably, as a result, everything would be blamed on the Mansi. But once the local dressmaker Aunt Nyura accidentally came to the Ivdel prosecutor's office. They decided to use her as an attesting witness when inspecting an immediately laid out tent. Aunt Nyura examined the stripped tarpaulin and declared authoritatively: "And they whipped from the inside." I invited experts from Leningrad, and they confirmed the version of Aunt Nyura. Meanwhile, the shaman, Stepan Kurikov, did not let his fellow tribesmen go to waste. He got up on skistook the direction to the south and reached them directly to the Sverdlovsk regional party committee. In general, the Mansi had nothing to do with it."
Comment:Mansi aroused suspicion among the "authorities" for several reasons. First, the residential places closest to the scene are from Mansi. But: in January - February, Mansi rarely go out into the forest - this is not the time for hunting. Secondly, supposedly only Mansi hunters could get into the tent from the outside, cutting it with a knife. But: the Mansi are extremely friendly people, they are always willing to help tourists, in addition, the tent was cut from the inside. Thirdly, the name of Mount Kholat-Syakhyl in Mansi means "Mountain of the Dead", and the Dyatlovites could allegedly be sacrificed. But: the Mansi do not accept human sacrifices, in addition, neither Kholat-Syakhyl nor Otorten are sacred mountains. So the Mansi version, very convenient for all interested persons, did not come true, although in March and May 1959, when the Dyatlovites were buried, many said in Sverdlovsk,that the guys were killed by the Mansi.
People who dealt with Mansi during expeditions or hiking trips confidently declare that it is impossible to imagine Mansi as cold-blooded killers. Let us also recall the presence of radiation contamination of clothing and that the Mansi from Suevatpaul - the Kurikovs, Anyamovs and others - took an active part in the search for the missing tourists.
The Mountain of the Dead is today called the Dyatlov Pass (archive photo taken during the search for Dyatlovites)
Bear
Probability Index: 0.001%.
Developer, source: writer V. Myasnikov and others.
The bottom line: on the night of February 1 to February 2, 1959, a connecting rod bear accidentally wandered into the pass. He became the reason for the sudden escape from the tent, frightened the first group and attacked the second.
Commentary: the version is unlikely, since no animal tracks were found on the pass, other than those left by the search dog. In addition, there are no traces of a wild animal attack on the bodies of the dead. The Dyatlovites could hardly have been afraid of the bear: as E. Zinoviev, who knew the tourists from the Dyatlov group closely and who had repeatedly been with them on hikes, recalls, once, during one of such trips, a bear came to the tent. Yura Doroshenko was the first to react - he grabbed a geological hammer and ran at the bear, and the others followed him. The bear immediately retreated.
Satellites, or Sodium Cloud
Probability Index: 70%.
Developer, source: tourist Alexey Koskin, expedition radio operator Yegor Nevolin.
The bottom line: in the winter months of 1959, sodium rockets were tested in the Northern Urals. It was their locals, tourists and hunters who took them for "fire" or "glowing" balls.
One of these "balls" could well have landed in the area of the pass, where Dyatlov's group spent the night.
A quote from a letter from A. V. Boboleva (Surgut): “I was familiar with Y. Gagarin and his wife Valentina. He was at that time a student of the ChVAU. We had their summer training airfield in our city. Thanks to this acquaintance, he subsequently had frequent meetings with people dealing with space problems. Here's what they explained to me from the flying balls of Ivdel.
According to one version, the tourists encountered a UFO (still from the film "The Secret of the Dyatlov Pass")
The first launch vehicles were launched from the European part of the Union, 68th parallel is the Kola Peninsula. S. P. Korolev programmed their fall in the north of the Tyumen region, the Subpolar Urals 68 parallel, on which Alaska is also located. The polygon was suitable, incl. on condition of secrecy and collection of debris for their analysis. All satellites were launched in winter - the atmosphere is less dense. But in February 1958, our second satellite crashed into Alaska. From his remains, the United States recognized our fuel and materials. This played a negative role - the first person on the moon was an American. Then the secrecy was increased, special groups were involved to collect the remains of the carrier rocket and the satellite, they collected them on helicopters. The materials of the rockets and the satellite themselves were programmed to burn, they could not cause much trouble. The special groups were given a lot of money and alcohol to encourage local residents who found the remains. Falling, they left a trail of fire behind them. The launch of satellites began to be carried out to the south - 64th parallel, the Arkhangelsk region. On this parallel is the north of the Sverdlovsk region and the test site, the Nadym region. Then the issue was resolved to preserve secrecy and land astronauts - the construction of a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the area of the 51st parallel - Baikonur. On the 68th and 64th parallels, there is the taiga and the closest distance from Alaska. This was one of the main reasons for the construction of Zvezdograd. The special groups could not destroy the students, there were highly educated people, this is absurd. S. P. Korolev, a former prisoner, would never forgive anyone for this. In January 1959, another satellite was launched; burning, he fell in the Ivdel taiga,not reaching the Nadym test site. Flying balls in Ivdel and tailed rockets are the Earth's UFO Queen."
Comment:let's say right away, this is the only version of the listed ones that seems plausible. If you do not go into technical details, but speak in an extremely accessible language, it looked like this. At that time, there were massive tests of launch vehicles with satellites around which there was a so-called "sodium" cloud. It was used to track flights (sodium vapor - shiny, reflecting light), in addition, as you know, the valence of the alkali metal sodium is +1. This means that sodium is the most active metal in existence, as it reacts with literally every substance that comes its way. No traces in the air or on the ground remain from it. The sodium cloud was released in portions during movement, burned and glowed in the night atmosphere. An unsuccessful test of one of these satellites could have killed the guys.
The first to express this version was Alexey Koskin, an engineer and tourist who visited the Dyatlov Pass. Here are excerpts from his letter to the editorial office of a Moscow newspaper: “… there is a high probability that the witnesses in their testimony described the flight of the sodium cloud.
In addition, it can be seen from the literature that these experiments were carried out in the 50s by different departments, perhaps not even knowing about each other's work (in an atmosphere of strict secrecy of everything and everyone). The description of how the "sodium comet" was created in the Korolev design bureau shows a very "simple" (in our time, it can be called frivolous) attitude to the development of such projects. Although the tests of "sodium rockets" were carried out in theoretically deserted areas, no one thought about the fact that there might be people in this area. The sodium rocket version explains it all.
Anna Matveeva is sure that the most plausible version is the assumption that the Dyatlovites met with the so-called sodium cloud (still from the film "The Secret of the Dyatlov Pass")
Everything, or almost everything - questions about the contamination of clothes with radioactive substances, about the group's sudden decision to leave the tent, about the absence of an explosion crater at the site of the tragedy disappear … Only one thing remains unclear: why Luda did not have a language.
Again from Koskin: “The tourists urgently left the tent. One was dressed quite warmly, two were worse, the rest were half-naked. Obviously, one person left the tent calmly, two - quickly, but without panic. The rest left the tent in a matter of seconds (through the cut sides of the tent). This suggests that the first person left the tent on his own business (indirect confirmation - traces of urine were found near the tent). He saw "something interesting" and called the others. Two went out to his call. At this moment, "something interesting" began to rapidly turn into "something dangerous." Tourists, dressed warmly, suffered the most serious injuries. The people who came out of the tent screamed, but they themselves could not avoid the danger. Obviously, the first dangerous factor was the shock wave, which threw the standing people on the stones,subsequent - exposure to the eyes and mucous membranes of burning sodium vapor”.
UFO
Probability Index: 2%.
Developer, source: the general public; the version was also adhered to by the forensic investigator Ivanov.
The bottom line: on the night of February 1 to 2, 1959, a UFO landed on the future Dyatlov pass, killing tourists in an indirect or direct way. Aliens, quickly assessing what had happened, went back.
Commentary: Well, what can you say? However, quite educated comrades insisted on the anomalous nature of the tragedy, for he could explain the inexplicable.
Alcohol poisoning
Probability Index: 0%.
Developer, source: the general public.
The bottom line: the guys from the Dyatlov group were poisoned, confusing ethyl alcohol with methyl alcohol.
Comment: absolutely could not be. Firstly, there were no alcoholics in Dyatlov's group. Secondly, the jar of alcohol was in place and the alcohol in it was “correct”. Thirdly, during the autopsy, no traces of alcohol were found on any of the Dyatlovites.
Fireball
Probability Index: 0.2%.
Developer, source: the general public.
The bottom line: ball lightning flew into the tent of the Dyatlov group, frightened tourists ran out, could not find their way back and froze.
Commentary: as stated in TSB, ball lightning is “a rare phenomenon, which is a luminous spheroid of dia. 10–20 cm and more, usually formed after a linear lightning strike and apparently consisting of nonequilibrium plasma. It exists from 1 second to several minutes. Nature Sh.m. has not yet been studied. " Isn't it a "fireball"?.. Nevertheless, the version is absurd. Ball lightning is a moving electrical charge and therefore reacts to the slightest physical movement. This means that fireball would have killed the guys while still in the tent.
What do you think caused the tragedy? (still from the movie "The Secret of the Dyatlov Pass")
Death squad and escaped prisoners
Probability Index: 25%.
Developer, source: the general public.
Essence: The place where the tragedy happened in January 1959, which led to the death of nine tourists from Sverdlovsk, belonged (and still applies) to the Ivdel district. The name "Ivdel" in those days can be compared with the name "Kolyma", only it, of course, was not so well-known, "promoted". “Ivdel” is the same as “Ivdellag”, here prisoners from all over the USSR “roamed” in the camps. Stalin, like an evil witch from a fairy tale, left a rich legacy to a blinkered and frightened country - the lessons of management and conversion. A small piece of that legacy is the death squads.
Death squads are not courageous soldiers ready to crouch their chest against the embrasure; the opposite is true. Squadrons consisted of professional punishers, whose bread was fugitive criminals - prisoners, ZK, prisoners. How many criminals in the camps at that time were, and how many victims, many wrote and talked about this. And one more thing - well-known, which, nevertheless, is worth repeating. Whatever the prison, even if there are thugs on the island, and there are thugs in the guard, and a machine gun is shaking on the tower, and still they fled from there, they run and will run away.
It was for these fugitives that they signed a decree on the creation of death squads. And it doesn't matter that in 1959 they were officially abolished: on paper - yes, but in the forests of Ivdellag and on a fuzzy, black and white, like a photo of Soviet times, snow-covered land - yes, have mercy, who will cancel such a convenient thing? Death squads had a wide range of actions up to the very one that is reflected in the name and, in fact, is the prerogative of the Lord God.
In February 1959, a prisoner, a thief in law named Ivan, was allegedly wanted from Ivdellag. Several accomplices fled with Ivan - no less dangerous. A death squad was sent to find them.
Now let us recall Lucy Dubinina's diary: do you remember how she described her agitated meeting with geologists - adults and intelligent men who sheltered tourists on the 2nd North site?
The geologists shared with the guys not only bread, worldly wisdom and Mansi words - they taught them several "forbidden", prison songs. The Dyatlovites copied these songs on their knees instead of sleeping.
February 1, 1959. Mount Holat-Syakhyl. Tent. Crazy with anger, hunger and by their own nature, the squadrons go straight to the Dyatlov camp. Evening. Dinner. Let's say one of the guys sings new songs (and they sang always and everywhere).
It is possible that at first several guys (the last four) had already been seriously injured, after which the jailers realized that these were not prisoners - there were more of them, among them girls, and so on …
Commentary: I wonder why the punishers could not immediately understand that fugitive convicts are unlikely to be equipped with a tourist tent? And in general, they had the right to immediately shoot to kill - and not beat to death! There is hardly anyone who wants to drag a dead body through the snow.
And why didn't they kill everyone? Or did five of them manage to hide, and then froze?.. This, by the way, explains why the survivors looked at the tent through the same "screen" near the cedar, remember? Waiting for it to end? Doesn't look like Dyatlovites.
Maybe the squadrons have already found the thief and accomplices and now they are just getting rid of unwanted witnesses?..
And why then there were no traces left, except for that strange line left by bare feet? It was said clearly in the protocols: except for the Dyatlovites, there was no one at the pass. Even if we write it off as witness fear of the Motherland and the party, it still does not add up - many search engines in our time completely relaxed and told everything that happened, and even more. No mention of outsiders! In addition, no matter how scary it is to write such things, thanks to literature and cinema, we all know a little about prison manners - even by hearsay (let it be, let it!). Probably, they would have robbed the Dyatlovites, took alcohol with them (the untouched bottle remained in the tent), would have raped the girls (the autopsy reports indicate that they are both virgins). And then, prisoners are prisoners, but sports,It is somehow difficult to imagine strong people from the Dyatlov group as frightened and submissive - they would have fought to the last, for their life and for the life of a friend.