A 30-year-old tourist Maria Gagarina has disappeared at the Dyatlov Pass, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda on Wednesday, June 22.
The publication was told about the disappearance of Gagarina by her colleagues. “Maria went to the Dyatlov pass with a group of tourists. On June 22, she was supposed to go to work. Nevertheless, she never got in touch. The girl's mother works with us at the same enterprise, and she sounded the alarm,”the newspaper quotes their words.
The woman went hiking on June 18. Before the campaign, Gagarina registered with the rescue service of the city of Ivdel. There, the publication was informed that they received information about the disappearance of the tourist, but there has not yet been an official statement about the disappearance, so no searches are being conducted.
According to Life, Gagarina went on a solo hike - in two days she planned to get to the Dyatlov pass, and then climb Mount Otorten. However, according to the rescuers, the girl would not have had time to reach the pass in such a short time.
Gagarina lives in Yekaterinburg and works as a design engineer.
In January, tourists found the body of a man near the Dyatlov Pass. The deceased was not wounded, his clothes also remained intact. It was later established that the deceased was a 47-year-old resident of the Chelyabinsk region, a native of the city of Rudny, Kostanay region of Kazakhstan, Oleg Borodin. Since the summer of 2014, he has lived near the pass. Hypothermia became the cause of his death.
The pass is named in memory of a tourist group led by Igor Dyatlov, who died in the winter of 1959 in the Northern Urals. The cause of death of nine Soviet ski tourists is still unclear. According to the investigation, the death was caused by "a natural force that people were unable to overcome." The versions of what happened were put forward, including the test of radioactive weapons and contact with aliens.