Among the versions of the tragedy with the Dyatlovites, the most popular is about a UFO attack.
Every year, on the day of the death of a group of Ural tourists led by Igor Dyatlov, researchers of the mysterious tragedy gather in Yekaterinburg. Among the participants of the conference-2018 there was also a correspondent from URA. RU, who recorded how the investigation had progressed over the year. Was there a second criminal case about Dyatlovites, what unidentified object scared the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, and why Napoleon wanted to seize the Ural mountain Otorten - in the URA. RU review.
They photographed their killer themselves
Among the many hypotheses, what happened on the night of February 2, 1959 on the slope of Mount Holatchakhl in the Northern Urals (the murder of tourists by Mansi hunters, tests of military weapons, fireballs, a nuclear explosion), the UFO version has always been considered one of the most exotic. Gray-haired woodpeckers (many of them are already in old age) always listened with a grin to the arguments of ufologists that the Dyatlovites could meet aliens. But, surprisingly, it was this version that became the most popular at the 2018 Dyatlov conference: as many as three speakers spoke in its defense.
A researcher from Severouralsk, Yuri Yakimov, who has repeatedly come out with the idea that the Dyatlovites died from "UFO aggression" (he put forward it back in 2006), shared his impressions of the meeting with the "light object", which he personally experienced, as well as the forester from Severouralsk Rudkovsky in 2002.
“This object reacts to a person’s gaze and sends swinging lanterns to him,” recalled the Severouralian. "They, like homing missiles, approach a person by his gaze."
According to Yakimov, all the circumstances of the death of the Dyatlovites fit well into this version (especially the radiation on the clothes of the victims and the spots of light on the last frames of the Dyatlovites' films). “They photographed their killer themselves,” Yuri is sure, noting that a lot of footage from a meeting with similar objects has been published on the Internet and in the media (for example, he compares footage taken by Chilean helicopter pilots in the sky and Dyatlovites).
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"We need to follow the example of Chile: create a state committee, study the films of the Dyatlov group and draw the right conclusions!" - urged the adherent of the version about aliens.
He was actively supported by the chief Ural ufologist, the head of the Paranormal Russia project, Alexei Korolev: he shared his experience in winter swimming and told how he and a friend recently froze their fingers. "This is a hell of a pain!" - he admitted. - And now imagine what pain the Dyatlovites experienced, who were rapidly moving towards the fourth stage of frostbite!
But at the same time they look at the tent and do not make any attempts to return, although there are warm clothes and a first-aid kit for sure! " According to the ufologist, only fear of the supernatural could drive tourists out of the tent and prevent them from returning. "How was the group going to survive further in the Northern Urals without clothes, without skis, without food, without medicine?" - he wonders.
The chief editor of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" met a UFO
But the most unexpected thing was that the "alien version" was supported by the journalist of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (the publication that more than others dealt with the topic of the mystery of the death of Dyatlovites). “No matter how comical it may seem, this version also needs to be worked out,” said KP special correspondent Natalya Varsegova, after which she told a story about a meeting with a UFO that the current editor-in-chief and general director of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Vladimir Sungorkin, experienced in Soviet times.
“In 1979 he was a correspondent at BAM and got into an expedition that consisted of nine people,” Varsegova said. - During the passage through the taiga from the village of Zolotinka to Chania, they witnessed a very strange phenomenon. We were driving four large tracked all-terrain vehicles and stopped in a clearing. Late in the evening, when it got dark, an object appeared in the sky. Today, two members of the expedition have already died, but I interviewed everyone else: people live in very different places, but everyone gives exactly the same "testimony". The object appeared from the south and walked strictly north. Someone remembers several "spotlights", one ray was "walking".
At first they decided that they were looking for them from a helicopter (the group did not meet the deadline). But when they realized that there was no sound from this "helicopter" (and in the gully where they were, it would have been heard for kilometers), it became clear that something was wrong here."
According to Natalia, one of the BAM members was so scared that he ran behind the all-terrain vehicle. The object at this time continued to approach, covering them with its light, and then the driver Nikolai Minyuk ran up to his all-terrain vehicle, began to blink headlights and yell at him with a “three-story obscenity”. “And suddenly this object smoothly disappears into the sky,” says Varsegova. - One of the guys had a good Zeiss binoculars brought from Germany, and they made out a chrome-plated smooth bottom and something like "light music" around the circumference of this bottom. There was also some kind of gas plume, which then dissipated."
When we returned from the expedition, a month later the foreman approached the driver and asked him to take the scientists who had arrived from Moscow to the place where they saw the "devilry". “We measured the level of radiation - exactly in the place where this object passed above them, the radiation went off scale,” says Natalya. - For 50-100 meters from this place, the background was normal. But the most interesting thing is that scientists learned about this phenomenon not from this brigade, but from completely different people who lived nearby in the village of Skovorodino. Scientists then followed the trail of this object from Skovorodino to the Laptev Sea."
There was a second criminal case about Dyatlovites
However, the backbone of the Dyatlov experts continues to adhere to the military-criminal version of the tragedy: the Dyatlovites witnessed the testing of a certain weapon, after which they were eliminated by a "cleansing group". The last idea, which the researchers are discussing in detail, is that there was a second, real case about the death of the Dyatlovites, and what we were shown in the 2000s is a "dummy".
Vladimir Ankudinov (a former forensic expert at the Central Ural Scientific Research Laboratory of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of the RSFSR, who at one time worked together with a forensic expert from the Dyatlov case, Boris Vozrozhdenny), points to a number of inconsistencies in the criminal case of the death of tourists. So, the protocol of interrogation of witness Popov was drawn up on February 6 (when the Dyatlovites had not even been lost yet). Moreover, the date was put down twice, and the decision to initiate the case was drawn up on the letterhead of the regional prosecutor's office, which the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel Tempalov could not have.
The researcher recalls the Moscow climbers, who were involved in 1959 as experts, who back in March in their conclusion (it is in the file) refer to the conclusions of experts, according to which the tent was ripped open from the inside with a knife. But the order to conduct an examination of the tent was given to expert Churkin only on April 3 (completed on April 16). Also, Ankudinov notes that in the criminal case in the archive, some documents are presented in the form of copies.
“Where are the originals? Where they are more needed, in the materials of the second, but in fact, the main criminal case,”the researcher is sure.
The presence of such a case, in his opinion, puts everything in its place. Most of all, he is struck by the behavior of the prosecutor, who personally "spent four days in the morgue," which, according to Ankudinov, was an unprecedented case for Soviet times. “Only the Prosecutor General could have encouraged him to do this,” the researcher suggests, naming the “candidates” for initiating the “main” criminal case from here - these are the military prosecutor's office and the special prosecutor's office. “The main case could even be completed,” the woodpecker suggests. "Perhaps there was a trial, and the verdict, perhaps, will be found someday."
“On the documents from the archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU (which Komsomolskaya Pravda published a year ago) Galina Sazonova (a researcher from Vietnam - editor's note) found on the protocol of the regional committee the signatures of all members of the Politburo,” says Natalya Varsegova. - It turns out that when the paper from the protocol of the regional committee came to the Central Committee, there was imposed a resolution of Aristov (the second person after Khrushchev) to familiarize all the secretaries of the Central Committee of the CPSU. And there are the signatures of Brezhnev, Furtseva, Suslov - all six members who were at that time. Did Brezhnev and the others know how the Dyatlovites died? Why did everyone know then, but we know nothing now?
According to Natalya, the main emphasis in the research of her and her husband Nikolai Varsegov in the near future will be placed on the study of the identity of a member of the Dyatlov group, Semyon Zolotarev, who arouses many suspicions in research (many consider him a KGB spy in a group of tourists). “The more you immerse yourself in the biography of Semyon Zolotarev, the more contradictions,” says the journalist. "Doesn't even match his biography, his real date of birth."
Napoleon wanted to take Otorten
As always, at the Dyatlov conference there was a place and time for the speeches of researchers who seem to be eccentrics. So, this year everyone was amazed by Alexander Korolev, who introduced himself as a retired lieutenant colonel - a former analyst at the military headquarters. According to him, the secret of Stalin's omnipotence lies in the fact that he owned a "place of power", which, according to the retired, is located in the Northern Urals - on Mount Otorten. Khrushchev, in his opinion, dreamed of taking possession of this place, for which he sent an expedition of tourists there. All of them were KGB agents and were doomed to die, because "when people get there, they are hit by an unknown force."
According to Korolev, this was exactly the reason Napoleon went to Russia in the 19th century: it was not the Patriotic War of 1812 at all, but the French expedition to the Urals in search of "Matreya", which was supposed to be Mount Otorten. Despite the fact that many listened to the "military analyst" with a smile (and someone did twirl his finger at his temple), they applauded him heartily.
Kuntsevich still wants two billion
During the Dyatlov conference - 2018, the head of the memory fund of the Dyatlov group, Yuri Kuntsevich, spoke, reporting on the results of the organization's activities for the year: the grave of the Dyatlovites at the Mikhailovsky cemetery was cleaned up, a plaque in memory of the tenth member of the Dyatlov group, Yuri Yudin, was replaced at the pass itself during the expedition, as well as the author of the memorial plaque on the obelisk Gennady Ptitsyn is noted. Several books about the Dyatlovites were published, including those in Czech and English (by Donnie Eichar from the USA), and the Yekaterinburg printing house started printing the second volume of the almanac “Dyatlov Pass. Research and materials.
The plans to resume the criminal case on the death of Dyatlovites are the most serious ones. True, lawyer Leonid Proshkin did not come to the conference, but passed on a message in which he confirmed that he was ready to take on this case, but this would require considerable effort (and money).
Kuntsevich also spoke about plans to create a "Dyatlov trail" for which the foundation intends to ask the state for a grant in the amount of two billion rubles. The trail will pass along the banks of the Auspiya river and will lead to the Dyatlov pass. It will be designed both to help tourists (to give them a comfortable shelter while traveling) and to protect nature from people.
“The tourist flow there is now very large,” said the activist of the fund Yelizaveta Kuzmina. “There is a big load on the ecosystem - the taiga does not have time to cope”.
According to her, there is an idea to organize a "glazed space" on the pass itself, where in the future it will be possible to transfer the gathering of woodpeckers: it will "overlook the pass." "New Vasyuki!" - one of the conference guests commented skeptically.
“By the way, this will help to develop the North: we will forward a pipeline with gas from the Tyumen region, and gas will finally appear in Ivdel, which is still not there! - said Kuntsevich with humor. The fundraisers plan to organize a museum or even a Mansi ethnopark in the Mansi village of Ushma, and attract the Mansi themselves to the tourist business - servicing the flow of tourists. Moreover, Kuntsevich and the company plan to develop in the area of the Dyatlov Pass not only hiking, but also rafting (rafting on northern rivers), as well as excursions to the "bear caves". “There will be runways for small aircraft, as well as a laboratory for the study of updrafts so that light aircraft (paragliders and hang gliders) can fly there!”
In order to imagine at least a little what it will be like, Kuntsevich's assistant showed the guests of the conference a 3D installation of the terrain she created in the area of the Dyatlov Pass: from a bird's eye view you can see the mountains Kholatchakhl, Otorten, the Dyatlov pass, the valleys of the Auspiya and Lozva rivers, as well as flying over this beauty a rocket crashing into a mountainside, and a huge Yeti figure, curiously looking at everything that happens from the top of the mountain.
Andrey Guselnikov