In the Soviet Union, sports tourism received large-scale government support. They were engaged in it en masse, and ski tourism gained particular popularity in the late 1950s. And it is with him that one of the most mysterious tragedies of that time is associated - the death of the Dyatlov group.
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How it was is now almost impossible to establish. An official investigation into the deaths of nine experienced tourists at the end of May 1959 ruled that the cause of the tragedy was "the force of the elements, which people could not overcome." However, the investigation was unable to explain many completely incomprehensible facts.
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The official chronology of the tragic campaign is as follows. On January 23, a group of ten tourists went to conquer the top of the Otorten ridge of the Belt Stone of the Northern Urals. The group was led by Igor Dyatlov, a fifth-year student of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. The hike was planned for two weeks. Its participants, experienced skiers of the institute's tourist club, were physically and mentally prepared for a long transition of the highest category of complexity.
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In the village of Vizhay, where the Dyatlovites stopped to replenish supplies, a sick Yuri Yudin remained. A tour group of nine people went further along the route. On February 1, tourists built a base storage, left some of the food and equipment in it, spent the night and moved on. On February 12, the Dyatlovites did not return either to Vizhai or to Sverdlovsk. Concerned relatives initiated a search.
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On February 26, 1959, at the pass at the foot of Mount Kholatchakhl, the search team found the tent of the Dyatlov tourist group, half-crushed by snow and cut with a knife. Slightly lower down the slope, the naked, charred and skinned corpses of two Yuriys - Krivonischenko and Doroshenko - were found. Up the slope, two more dead tourists were found. Igor Dyatlov died reclining on his back, Zinaida Kolmogorova - lying on his stomach 300 m higher. The impression was that they were trying to return to the tent. And on March 4, at some distance, the body of Rustem Slobodin was found, who had received a serious head injury before his death.
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Despite the frightening appearance of the dead, the investigation established that they died from hypothermia. The burns were most likely received while trying to warm up by the fire, and they peeled off the skin of the hands when breaking off branches for a fire.
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The bodies of the remaining tourists were found only in the spring, when the snow began to melt. They were closer to the forest, by the stream. Most likely, tourists tried to hide there from the piercing icy wind. In the stream bed was the body of Lyudmila Dubinina. Her eyeballs and tongue were missing. Alexander Kolevatov and Semyon Zolotarev lay down the river bed, huddled together. Even lower was Nicholas Thibault-Brignoles. This entire group had an unnatural red-orange skin tone. And later, the laboratory established the presence of radioactive radiation on the skin and clothing, as well as internal injuries that could have been received as a result of the shock wave.
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There are many versions of the tragedy that happened. Investigators suspected of the murder of the Dyatlovites escaped prisoners of Ivdellag, a camp located nearby, as well as representatives of the Mansi tribe, who revered Mount Holatchakhl as a holy place. In favor of these versions, the cuts on the tent spoke - they were made by the Dyatlovites, who in panic ran away from their shelter half-naked. However, no traces of the presence of strangers were found.
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The avalanche, which was also called the reason for the flight of the Dyatlovites, does not explain the cuts made on the tent - it was possible to escape through the entrance without wasting extra time, as well as radioactive contamination on the skin and clothes of tourists.
Step 9
There are many incredible versions - from death at the hands of aliens to death from the curse of the ancient Mansi deity Sorni Nai. However, the truth is likely to remain unknown.
