The Dyatlov Pass incident is an enormous enigma on which countless articles, books, interviews, podcasts, tv shows, and even a few movies have spawned from. If you think circumstances encompassing the incident are strange at first glance, the rabbit hole only gets deeper after eliminating the wild y…
Dyatlov Pass Search LoginCreate account HOMEStart from here »·Reference table·Timeline·Current events·Updates·Articles·Donate·1079·WHOISКто есть Кто·Investigators·People·Russian abbreviations·MAP·HIKERSYuri Doroshenko·Lyudmila Dubinina (Lyuda)·Igor Dyatlov·Aleksander Kolevatov·Zinaida Kolmogorova (Zina)·Yuri Krivonischenko (Georgiy)·Rustem Slobodin (Rustik)·Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle (Tibo)·Semyon Zolotaryov (Sasha)·Yuri Yudin *·Hiking experience·SEARCHRescuers·The Tent·The Cedar·Labaz·The Den·The Ravine·Search photos·DEATHYuri Doroshenko·Yuri Krivonischenko·Igor Dyatlov·Zinaida Kolmogorova·Rustem Slobodin·Lyudmila Dubinina·Semyon Zolotaryov·Aleksander Kolevatov·Nikolay Thibeaux-Brignolle·Funerals 1959·Post mortem photos 18+·PHOTOSCameras·Krivonischenko's camera (films 1 & 6)·Thibeaux-Brignolle's camera (film 3)·Slobodin's camera (film 4)·Unknown camera (film 5)·Loose photos·Zolotaryov's camera (damaged)·CASE FILESCase files vol.1·Case files vol.2·May 1959 Radiograms·CPSU special reports·Maslennikov notebook 1·Maslennikov notebook 2·Weather reports·Grigoriev notebook 1·Grigoriev notebook 2·Grigoriev notebook 3·DIARIESDyatlov group diary·Unknown diary·Zinaida Kolmogorova diary·Lyuda Dubinina diary·Rustem Slobodin diary·Yuri Yudin diary·THEORIESControversy (FAQ)·•••Dyatlovmania·Expedition 2022·Expedition Unknown·Forum·Facebook·YouTube·Newsletter·Mansi, Mansi, Mansi·About·R.I.P.·Contact·Contemporary photos·Music·3D model by Vasilii Zyadik·In color·Cedar tree - then and now·Articles·Search·Donate 1959 Jan23 Jan24 Jan25 Jan26 Jan27 Jan28 Jan29 Jan30 Jan31 Feb1 EXPEDITION UNKNOWN through the lens of EVAN B STONE » While waiting for the UPI to realize the Dyatlov group are missing I am going to follow Expedition Unknown that took place in February 2019, one day at a time. If you see a different video it means I have uploaded another day. YEKATERINBURG » IVDEL » USHMA » NIGHT @ DYATLOV PASS » SHOOT @ DYATLOV PASS » YEKATERINBURG Your browser does not support the video tag. On this date Excerpts © "1079 The overwhelming force of Dyatlov Pass" Feb18 On February 18, Gordo informed the UPI party committee of the situation with the missing group and asked to file a request for an air search with the 123rd flight detachment. Dyatlov's sister came to the party committee meeting with a request to begin the search. For some reason, the information was not brought to the attention of Nikolay Siunov, the Rector of the Institute. As a result, the application was most likely issued on behalf of the UPI sports club. The city committee telegraphed an official request to Vizhay. At the same time, Gordo was calling Vizhay again. He was informed that a group of locals was preparing for the search and that recently someone had seen a group of hikers. Probably that was the Dyatlov group and everything was OK with them. This gave Ufimtsev a reason to tell the parents of Dubinina, who by that time had managed to put through a call to the city committee, that there was no reason to fret. The desperate relatives of the missing hikers had nothing left but to turn to the authorities for help. Aleksander Dubinin appealed to the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU to bring the situation to the attention of Afanasiy Eshtokin, the Secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU. Rimma Kolevatova called the city committee of the CPSU. Appeals to party authorities had provoked counter-moves by the authorities. It is possible that the professional standing of some of the parents of the missing hikers had something to do with it. Aleksander Dubinin was a senior engineer at the Office of the Timber Industry Sovnarhoz. His wife was the secretary of Nikolay Semihatov, the director of the Sverdlovsk Research Institute of Automatics, which was developing missile control systems. It appears that an appeal from Georgiy’s (Yuri) father– Aleksey Krivonischenko – could have been the most efficient. He had the rank of Major General of the Engineering Corps, serving as the head of the Urals Power Construction Mechanization which was building the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant. However, his career was not all roses: soon after the death of his son he would be laid off for mishandling his job, and in the spring of that same 1959 he would be transferred to the city of Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR, to serve as head of construction management office of the Yermakovskaya State Hydroelectric Power Plant. According to the reminiscences of the relatives, after his appeal, Krivonischenko was summoned to the Sverdlovsk regional or city party committee. After that, there were no more complaints or appeals. Feb17 Worried by the absence of his son, Vladimir Mihaylovich Slobodin, the father of Rustem Slobodin, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, head of the department of the Ural Research Institute of Agriculture, telephoned the UPI sports club. He was told that the return of the Dyatlov group might be delayed until February 16. Most likely, such an answer was based on Blinov’s assumptions. On February 15, the UPI students Galina Radosteva, who was a member of the routing commission of the UPI sports club, and Igor Krivonischenko, the brother of Georgiy Krivonischenko, requested that the UPI labor union committee should send an official inquiry to the Vizhay settlement – the final destination of the Dyatlov group. On February 16, alarmed by the lack of information about the Dyatlov group, Yuri Blinov and Lev Gordo, board chairman of the UPI sports club, initiated an inquiry. Blinov telephoned Valerian Ufimtsev, inspector of the city committee. It was ascertained that no telegram confirming the completion of the route had been received from the Dyatlov group. The UPI sports club requested a long-distance call with Vizhay. Late in the evening, they were put in touch with Zakiy Hakimov, the head of the Vizhay corrective labor camp branch, who reported that the Dyatlov group had not returned to Vizhay and that they had not planned to return before February 15. On February 17 in Sverdlovsk, there was a mounting concern. Blinov telephoned Ufimtsev for the second time. Rimma Kolevatova, the sister of Aleksander Kolevatov, also called the City sports committee. There had not yet been any telegram from the group, however, Ufimtsev felt certain that there was nothing to worry about. Kolevatova was trying to reach Lev Gordo, but the latter was absent from his office. Later, Gordo would explain that at the time he was trying to arrange for the allocation of an aircraft for the group’s search. Fast forward, Gordo was fired for his role in the Dyatov case. Among the 5 people who were reprimanded upon closing the case he was the one most severely punished. The other four were Siunov, Zaostrovskiy, Slobodin, and Kurochkin. (Case files 384-387) Feb16 The groups of Karelin and Dyatlov had a common point in their routes - the top of Oyko Chakur, however, on February 16, while climbing it, Karelin did not find any traces of the Dyatlov group. Please take a look at the planned route of the Dyatlov group on the map below. See how far south Oyko Chakur is. Now think about where would you leave a cache with supplies (labaz). Where do routes to and from Otorten intersect? That's right, where the tent will be found on February 26. Food for thought. Feb13 For some part of the UPI students, the winter vacations were only beginning. On February 13, a UPI group led by Evgeniy Chubarev set off by a night train from Sverdlovsk on a ski hike along the route of the city of Pokrovsk Uralskiy – Mt. Olvinskiy Kamen – Mt. Konzhakovskiy Kamen – Kytlym settlement – the city of Karpinsk. They would return to Sverdlovsk only on February 27. Maybe at this point his name is not familiar to you, so skipping forward, on the instruction of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region, he printed photographs from the films of the Dyatlov group together with Boris Bychkov and Yuri Yudin. Feb12 On February 12 Slontsov's group returned. Boris Slobtsov was a third year student of the UPI Department of Power Engineering. They had been to the South Urals, to the Taganay peaks 200 km (124 miles) from Sverdlovsk. February 12 was as well the deadline for the return of the Dyatlov group. Igor had not sent a telegram from Vizhay with a notification of the end of their trek, however, that didn’t ring any alarm bells at the UPI sports club, nor at the city committee for physical culture and sports. Blinov assumed that given the actual situation along the route, a realistic date for the return of the Dyatlov group to Sverdlovsk might be February 15-16. Feb11 On February 11, some of the UPI courses and departments have already started classes. The UPI hikers were returning from their treks. Yuri Blinov’s group had returned with a two-day delay after the deadline. They had covered more than 200 km (124 miles), conquering the peaks of Molebniy Kamen (Prayer Stone), Martay, Beliy Kamen (White Stone), and Denezhkin Kamen (Money Stone). They had met with the Mansi in the headwaters of the Vizhay River and with a group of Moscovites traversing from the Perm Region towards the Denezhkin Kamen. The temperatures had dropped to -50°С (-58°F), but the hikers had overcome all hardships. Open in new window In the region of Vizhay-Burmantovo-District 41 there are 6 groups that hiked in late January 1959: Pyotr Shtiglits - not confirmed, not on the map, Igor Dyatlov (10), Yuri Blinov (10) - he did not keep a diary for this trek, Anatoliy Shumkov (10), Igor Fomenko (7), and Vladislav Karelin (8) The events Solter describes took place in early February 1959 Nurse Pelageya Ivanovna Solter, to whom Vadim Chernobrov reached in his research, opened a whole new area for speculations. Testifying to the arrival of corpses in the morgue at the medical facility where she worked, she led many researchers to the idea that not one group of hikers, not only the Dyatlov group, but also another group perished in Kholat Syakhl mountain. Unfortunately, Solter's testimony and accompanying evidence didn't bear each other out. The work with the bodies of surgeon Prudkov and nurse Solter is very difficult to clearly put in a timeline - the testimonies are very confusing. During the interview, the well spoken Victor Solter, sincerely wishing to bring clarity, only confused his wife and led the conversation astray. Pelageya Solter is now a widow, and due to her very advanced age she is not to be bothered with questions. Keep reading > Another trek to Otorten cancelled end of January 1959 Lyudmila Vsevolоzhskaya was waiting in city of Serov for her group top arrive from Perm to head on a trek to Otorten. At the same time Dyatlov group spent Jan 24 1959 in Serov. Two days after they took the train to Ivdel Lyudmila Borisovna got a telegram that their trek has been rerouted to Isherim. Keep reading → "1079. The Overwhelming Force of Dyatlov Pass" Sixty-four years will pass on February 1, 2023, since nine experienced hikers mysteriously perished in the Northern Ural mountains. This is also the one year anniversary of the publication of "1079: The Overwhelming Force of Dyatlov Pass". The volume is a detailed encyclopedia on this coldest case of the 20th Century, and includes a groundbreaking theory, based on well-documented evidence rather than wild speculations, that finally ties together all known facts about the Dyatlov mystery into a credible sequence of causes and effects. More about the book → "1079. 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Read the article → The labaz found by Aleksander Konstantinov 25 January 2023 With a great probability the last unknown landmark location in the Dyatlov Pass incident - the labaz, is found. The cache site was made their last day alive, to unburden the ascent to Otorten. Until recently it was believed that this penultimate campsite of the hikers would never be found. Read the article → 64 Years In Memory Conference Yekaterinburg 2 February 2023 On February 2, 2023, in Yekaterinburg (organized by the trade union committee of UrFU employees), a conference was held in memory of the Dyatlov group perished in the Northern Urals 64 years ago, and a traditional gathering at the Mihaylovskoe cemetery at the the Dyatlov group Memorial, laying flowers. The conference was held at: Lenin Ave, d.66 in the UrFU hall called "The Boiling Point". Read more → Teodora Hadjiyska presenting at the 64 years conference in Yekaterinburg 2 February 2023 Teodora Hadjiyska presenting at the 64 years conference in Yekaterinburg on Feb 2, 2023. She reported the results from the examination of the findings under the cedar tree which she brought with her from the expedition to the Dyatlov Pass in August-September 2022, and appealed to the public for help with the ongoing research. See the video → Mysterious flash - article by Komsomolskaya Pravda 1 February 2023 Publishing for the first time diaries of friends of the dead hikers from the Dyatlov group. A flash in the sky keeps appearing in witness recollection. Also that the tent found from the air - all this gives new food for thought. What is the value of such records? Because they are documentations. Contemporaries of the events are old, and often they are confused in their memories. But the paper keeps everything - how they learned about the tragedy, how they searched, how various versions were discussed at the time. There are interesting details that can bring us closer to solving the mystery. Read the article → "PASS without DYATLOV" by Aleksandr Bobrikov I received this book as a Christmas present from Vladimir Askinadzi. I was touched by his warm and considered words. It turned out after consulting on the book with the author Aleksandr Bobrikov for quite some time, the latter went incommunicado, presumed dead. Vladimir Askinadzi quoted Pushkin ("Boris Godunov") when he gave me the book to publish on the site: "The duty laid on me, a sinful man, by God, is done. Not vainly did the Lord for many years set me as witness, and give me understanding of the bookish art." Needless to say that to me the best present was getting to know Askinadzi. Read more → "PASS without DYATLOV" by Aleksandr Bobrikov Interview with Victor Potyazhenko 28 May 2014, interview by Olga Potyazhenko's landing site was near the outlier rock on the saddle between Auspiya and Lozva. He transported the bodies in March and May to the Ivdel airfield. Potyazhenko is the only one we know by name that claims to have seen the last document written by the Dyatlov group while still in the tent. Combat leaflet "Evening Otorten" is dated February 1st, 1959. In the case files there is only a typed copy of the document. Read the interview → Interview with Victor Potyazhenko 2 April 2014, interview by Helga "I helped load them and broke someone's heel. I had a heel in my hands! It hanged inside the sock and I could not stick it back. After that I stopped helping. I was afraid I might break someone's arm off. It's all important for the autopsy." Read the interview → Questions to Victor Vasilyevich Potyazhenko 20 March 2014, interview by Irina One of them said: "They found the students in the water, the corpses lay in the stream." But they were drinking water from the stream. I asked - which stream? And they said to me - not here, there is another group. I was surprised then, I knew that there was only one group. And there was still another group - looking for something. They were just there at the source of Lozva, and they found these corpses, two or three, in the stream that flows into Lozva, at the beginning of the source. One was there, maybe still in the water. The rest were already on the ridge. Read the interview → Interview with helicopter pilot Victor Potyazhenko 15 March 2014, interview by Navig NAVIG: You say Otorten everywhere, but this rock was on the nameless mountain, 1079. VP: I was told to fly to the Otorten area, 12 km away. NAVIG: In fact, it was not on Otorten itself. VP: No, in the Otorten area. NAVIG: Why did you estimate the steepness of the slope at 40-50 degrees? VP: Because it was very difficult to land, when the second helicopter arrived, it hovered for a while, I told him to fly away from there. Read the interview → Interview with Commander Potyazhenko 5 March 2014, interview by Maria Piskareva Men in black fur coats, reluctant search dogs, broken off heel from frozen body... If you wonder where did all this come from here is the answer. Victor Potyazhenko claims that it was he who discovered the tent on the slope during flying over the pass with Ortyukov. A group of comrades in black sheepskin coats were on the ground, with a small tent pitched in the forest i.e. there were people present already. It can be assumed that Ortyukov was in the dark about the big game, started by someone... Victor Potyazhenko was then a flight commander. He is also supposed to be the pilot Ortyukov threaten with a gun, but Potyazhenko says that this never happened. Read the interview → "Live" avalanche January 2013 Researcher Aleksander Konstantinov published this theory in Ural Stalker in January 2013. He is pointing out the behavior of the reindeer which when fleeing form a danger prefer to follow a trail and that the Dyatlov group may have pitched their tent on one. According to Konstantinov all the injuries could be explained with a reindeer tripping over the tent. The weight of an adult deer is 100–200 kg. Read the article → Yuri Yudin was tormented by the mystery 4 May 2013 If the hikers walked down for a mile form where the tent was found why are their feet unscathed and their socks clean? "The legs are bare, not damaged, not torn to blood (1.85 km through the snow and stones and the socks are intact!), and then so much work by the fire!" It is obvious that Yuri Yudin wrote these lines about the deceased Doroshenko and Krivonischenko. He couldn't understand how the guys went from the tent to the cedar without shoes, without injuring their feet on sharp stones, without tearing their socks. After all, according to the official investigation, the hikers scrambled in the dark. Read the article → "The footprints were left by shod feet" 29 August 2022 The conclusion of a forensic expert with 27 years of experience in the field of criminal law is that the footprints outside the Dyatlov group tent were left by shod feet walking, not running. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lyudmil Georgiev, forensic expert, specialist in traceology, was asked to examine these photos from the case files and give his opinion on the following questions: 1. Were these prints left by people who were barefoot or shod? 2. How many people were the footprints left by? 3. In what direction did the people who left the traces move? Read the article → Canned time August 11, 2022 The findings of the 2022 expedition to the Dyatlov Pass may reveal a new version of the death of the hikers in 1959. Leader of the expedition Aleksey Korolyov says: "We found a rusted tin can, presumably fro… truncated (75,571 more characters in archive)