New reasons for the death of the Dyatlov group and the fate of the tenth member of the expedition

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Fans of the conspiracy theory might assume that after the death of the Dyatlov group, the only survivor was "under the hood" of the special services. In reality, there was nothing of the kind.

At the beginning of 1959, a group of tourists-skiers from the tourist club of the Ural Polytechnic Institute planned to make a hike in the Northern Urals, which the participants intended to devote to the XXI Congress of the CPSU.

In a little more than two weeks, the participants of the hike had to ski at least 300 km in the north of the Sverdlovsk region and climb two peaks of the Northern Urals: Otorten and Oyka-Chakur.

The final point of the route - the village of Vizhay - the group was supposed to reach on February 12, from where the leader of the campaign, Igor Dyatlov, had to send a telegram to the sports club of the institute.

But there was no telegram, and the tourists did not return to Sverdlovsk. Relatives sounded the alarm, after which a large-scale search operation was launched, in which not only the forces of other tourist groups were involved, but also police units, as well as the military.

Nine dead

On February 25, 1959, a tent with the belongings of the missing tourists was found on the Northeastern slope of height 1079 at the headwaters of the Auspiya River. The next day, the first bodies of the dead were found one and a half kilometers from the tent. The final search work was completed only in May.

The bodies of nine members of the group were found: the 5th year student of the radio engineering faculty Igor Dyatlov, the 5th year student of the radio engineering faculty Zinaida Kolmogorova, the UPI graduate, and at that time the engineer of the secret enterprise Rustem Slobodin, the 4th year student of the radio engineering faculty Yuri Doroshenko, a graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the UPI Georgy Krivonischenko, a graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Nikolay Thibault-Brignolle, a 4th year student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Lyudmila Dubinina, an instructor at the Kourovka camp site Semyon Zolotarev and a 4th year student of the Faculty of Physics and Technology Alexander Kolevatov.

The investigation established that all nine members of the group died on the night of 1 to 2 February 1959.

Survivor

There was a tenth member in Dyatlov's group - the only one who survived. A fourth-year student of the Faculty of Engineering and Economics, Yuri Yudin, parted with his comrades four days before the tragedy.

Many years later, when Yudin was asked what he remembered about the moment of separation, he honestly admitted that he did not remember anything special. There was only annoyance that participation in the campaign was frustrated. It was not even thought that friends were leaving forever - the trip was considered difficult, but it was not associated with the word “death”.

Today, the "Dyatlov Pass" has turned into a kind of Russian "Bermuda Triangle", attracting a huge number of lovers of mysticism and conspiracy theories. The story of the death of the Dyatlov group is declared a mystery that has no analogues.

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Meanwhile, for its time, the death of tourists was not an exceptional event. In the same 1959, in the USSR, a total of more than 50 members of tourist groups died, for various reasons. In 1960, this figure reached 100, and forced the authorities to start introducing prohibitive measures.

It worked exactly the opposite - in 1961, in the absence of any registration of tourist groups, the death toll exceeded 200.

Only the introduction of new standards, the revision of the principles of organizing tourism, the creation of the Central and local councils for tourism and excursions and the system of tourist clubs, the emergence of the route qualification commission (ICC) and the control and rescue service, has reduced the number of tragic cases.

Reduce - but not exclude. For even a well-trained participant in campaigns is not immune from unforeseen circumstances that are stronger than him.

As scary as it sounds, the "Dyatlovites" were, to a certain extent, lucky - they were found quickly enough and buried with dignity. The final resting places of other missing people sometimes remain unknown for decades.

Extreme with poor health

At this point, we will finally say goodbye to the lovers of mysticism, and talk about the only member of the Dyatlov group who survived.

Yuri Yudin from childhood did not differ in good health. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, he said: “Even at school, I got rheumatic heart disease while harvesting potatoes on a collective farm. And while he was being treated, he contracted dysentery. I was in the hospital for several months. But it is not completely cured."

Despite this, while studying at UPI, he became a member of the tourist club, and by the beginning of 1959 he was considered an experienced and prepared person.

The candidacy of 21-year-old Yudin as a participant in the campaign did not cause doubts among the head of the group, Igor Dyatlov.

On January 23, 1959, all ten members of the group left by train from Sverdlovsk to Serov. On the evening of January 24, the group left Serov for Ivdel by train and arrived at the destination station at about midnight.

On the morning of January 25, the "Dyatlovites" took a bus to the village of Vizhay, where they arrived at about 14:00 and stayed at a local hotel.

On January 26, at about one o'clock in the afternoon, the group hiked to the village of loggers. Tourists reached it at half past five. "Dyatlovtsy" spent the night in the room of the workers' hostel.

“Yurka Yudin is going back home. It's a pity to part with him, but nothing can be done."

Day 26 January and decided the fate of Yudin. “Before Vizhay, we rode in an open truck. Blown through. So it took from me, as Zina Kolmogorova wrote in her diary, the sciatic nerve,”he told the journalists of Komsomolskaya Pravda.

There are some discrepancies here: according to other sources, as already mentioned on the ride, which was an open-top truck, tourists were driving from Vizhai to the village of procurers. But this is not of fundamental importance. The main thing is that the aggravation of the disease deprived Yudin of the opportunity to participate in the active part of the campaign.

Yuri hoped to the last that he would "let him go." In the second half of January 27, Dyatlov's group received a cart from the head of the forest area, with the help of which they got to the abandoned village of the 2nd Northern mine. Here the group spent the night in an empty house.

On the morning of January 28, it became clear that Yuri's hopes were not justified - his leg did not allow him to move normally on skis.

In the found diaries of Dyatlov's group there is such an entry dated January 28: “After breakfast, some of the guys, led by Yura Yudin, our famous geologist, went to the core storage, hoping to collect some materials for the collection. There was nothing but pyrite and quartz veins in the rock. It took a long time to get together: we smeared the skis, adjusted the mounts. Yurka Yudin is leaving home today. It is a pity, of course, to part with him, especially for me and Zina, but nothing can be done."

Among the things found in the group were cameras with films. Among the footage was a scene of farewell to Yudin. Then it seemed that friends were parting for several days, so smiles never left the faces of tourists.

The Prosecutor General's Office announced the possible reasons for the mysterious death of the Dyatlov group

The Prosecutor General's Office on Thursday summed up the results of a large-scale audit of a criminal case on the reasons for the death of a group of tourists at the so-called Dyatlov Pass in 1959.

This was announced by the official representative of the department, Alexander Kurennoy, on the Efir channel.

“At present, we have moved to a key stage - to establish the real cause of death of tourists. And we intend to check out of 75 versions as the most probable, three, and all of them are somehow connected with natural phenomena, Kurennoy said on the Efir video channel.

“Crime is completely ruled out. There is not a single proof, even indirect, which would speak in favor of this version, he stressed.

According to him, "it could be an avalanche, the so-called snow sheet (a layer of fine-grained snow on the surface of the snow cover, consisting of densely packed crystals and often causing avalanches - Ed.), Or a hurricane."

“By the way, the wind is a very serious force in that area, and the locals know about it, the representatives of the indigenous peoples,” said the representative of the supervisory authority.

He said that in March a group of prosecutors are planning to fly to the scene of the tragedy, who intend to establish the exact location of the tent, the slope of the mountain, the depth of the snow and other details. Part of the examinations will be carried out directly on the spot.

“And finally, one more examination, the final one, will be appointed after this departure, a special medical examination, which will have to finally establish the causes of injuries on the bodies of the victims,” Kurennoy said.

The death of the Dyatlov group

On the night of 1 to 2 February 1959, a group of tourists, led by Igor Dyatlov, mysteriously died at the pass in the Northern Urals. Initially, there were ten people in the group, but about the middle of the way, due to pain in his leg, Yuri Yudin left it, becoming the only survivor.

Dyatlov's group consisted of two girls, six young men and one male front-line soldier - his name was Semyon Zolotarev, but he asked to call himself Alexander.

Dyatlov was a fifth-year student of the radio engineering faculty of the Sverdlovsk UPI. The rest, besides Zolotarev, were also students or graduates of this university. Only Dyatlov had the experience of winter hiking. The planned trek belonged to the highest category of complexity - there was a 300-kilometer ski trip and an ascent to two peaks - Otorten and Oyka-Chakur.

Mount Otorten, by the way, was the end point. Translated from the Mansi language - the indigenous population of this area - the name is translated as "do not go there."

The search for tourists began only on February 16. Rescuers stumbled upon a cut and torn tent on the pass. After that, the bodies of two students, stripped to underwear, were found. A little higher up the pass, Dyatlov's body was found - without shoes and outerwear. The next rescuers dug up the body of Zinaida Kolmogorova, it was covered with a layer of snow.

Both Dyatlov and Kolmogorova were also frozen. As well as Rustem Slobodin, found later - in warm clothes. When the snow melted, the bodies of Alexander Zolotarev, Nikolai Thibault-Brignolle, Alexander Kolevatov and Lyudmila Dubinina were found in the stream. Kolevatov froze to death, but the rest were seriously injured, from which they died.