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Was the criminal case fake? 14-04-2018 2-Jan-2014
Evgeniy Fyodorovich is 94 years at the time this interview was taken. Despite his advanced age, he perfectly remembers the vents in 1959, when he was Deputy Head of the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Sverdlovsk Region. Leonid Proshkin, prominent lawyer and former criminal investigation prosecutor is asking the questions.

«We were told to say that they were killed in an accident» 14-04-2018 15-Aug-2013
Evgeniy Fyodorovich Okishev remembers those events very well, because in his prosecutor’s practice the case of the death of Dyatlov group became the most mysterious. In 1959, Evgeniy Okishev was the Deputy Chief of the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Sverdlovsk Region. This is what he remembers.

The court refused to reopen the case 8/31/2018 02-11-2018 Court’s decision from 8/31/2018 to refuse the application to reopen the case. This is the translation of the court’s decision to refuse the application to have the case reopened. An appeal has been filed. Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation - Court Decision Letter

They died with dignity 10-10-2018 Do you know what shocked me most in this story? - asked Moisey Abramovich. - The first question of Krivonischenko's mother: "Tell me, did Yura die as a man?" They died with dignity.

Analysis of frame 34 from Krivonischenko film 1 13-04-2018 The notorious frame 34 has been a favorite subject of wild conspiracy theory ambassadors but never backed up with real photography facts. Vladimir Borzenkov believes that there is nothing mysterious in this frame and here his take on the specifics of the photo. He himself is a Dyaltov Pass tragedy researcher and an avid photographer which makes it a very good start for the discussion.

Vladimir Askinadzi: To hide the truth about the murder of Dyatlov group, the authorities came up with a missile version 28-01-2014 Vladimir Askinadzi: It was convenient for the authorities to let out a rumor about the missile version, because this version justified all the secrecy surrounding this case. It somehow calmed people and even relatives of the deceased. This version was taking the search away from the real truth.

Metal fragment with «waffle» design supports the rocket launch theory 13-04-2018 Aluminum construction more than one square meter was found four years ago. As experts explained, a similar "waffle" design is used on the rocket tanks for durability. Head of the Dyatlov Foundation is one of the adamant defenders of the rocket version of the tragedy on Dyatlov Pass.

The rocket theory 13-04-2018 Unsuccessful military trials could have caused the death of Dyatlov group in 1959.
"A number of very serious facts and findings lead us to that conclusion" - Komsomolskaya pravda and Channel 1 are investigation, Head of the Dyatlov Foundation Juri Kintsevich seem to be adamant about it.

Zolotaryov's meltdown 14-04-2018 Aleksandr Surkov's scenario explores the idea of two opposites clashing, Igor and Semyon. Semyon does not suspect that Igor leads the toughest and most strenuous hikes in the UPI tour section. Semyon's age and physical fitness are not able to withstand the demands of Igor, as he hikes not to get sports awards, but to test himself under the most difficult conditions. If we take into account Igor's authoritarianism and Semyon's unruly nature, the conflict would only be a matter of time.

Semyon's explanatory note 14-04-2018 This document shows Zolotaryov, no longer as a reckless adventurer, but as a calculating, intelligent careerist. He was a pragmatic person who wouldn’t take the stupid risk that the tragedy at the pass has been associated.

Tried for bribery and traitor brother 14-04-2018 The role of the combatant Semyon Alekseevich in the fateful expedition could have become fatal. His character was a difficult one, hot-tempered and unruly. We do not exclude that a confrontation between the leader of the trek and its most senior participant could have led to the tragic events.

Could Zolotaryov be a saboteur? 14-04-2018 Semyon Zolotaryov was a versatile senior sergeant with some holes and discrepancies in his military dossier. If this could be attributed to wartime staff shortcomings, then it is hard to explain why he lied about the number of his siblings in official documents. He also claimed orders he didn't receive. There are some alphabetical lists where his name appears added at the document's bottom at a subsequent time as if someone was inserting him into events he didn't belong to. Was this the contrived life of a saboteur?

Dyatlov Pass: the results of the second DNA tests of the remains of the alleged Semyon Zolotaryov 14-04-2018 Second examination, this time conducted by such an authoritative scholar as Pavel Ivanov, showed that the DNA of the person buried under the sign "Semyon Zolotaryov" matches the DNA of his niece. But this fact does not exclude the version of other researchers suspected that under the name of Semyon his brother Nikolai could be buried, who, according to archival documents, worked with the Germans and disappeared without a trace during the war. Therefore, we can not yet put a end on this investigation.

DNA resuts exclude kinship of the person laying in Zolotaryov’s grave with Zolotaryov’s niece 14-04-2018 The first DNA test results came out and they exclude kinship of the person laying in Zolotaryov’s grave with Zolotaryov’s niece. This is huge implication on Dyatlov case. If Semyon Zolotaryov is not buried at the Ivanovskoe Cemetery in Yekaterinburg, then who? And where did Zolotaryov go from the scene of the tragedy? Or where did the body of Semyon Zolotaryov go?

"Komsomolskaya Pravda" received the first results of exhumation of the body of Semyon Zolotaryov 14-04-2018 First results of exhumation of the body of Semyon Zolotaryov conducted on 12 April 2018 shows that this is indeed him. The skull superimposition performed by expert Sergey Nikitin matched 13 points of max 24 only 12 are needed to declare perfect fit. The speculations are now that a large mass of snow had collapsed on top of the hikers while they were hiding in the den.

Komsomolskaya Pravda - Zolotaryov exhumation at Ivanovskoe Cemetery in Yekaterinburg 14-04-2018 12 April 2018 Komsomolskaya Pravda (aka KP, huge Russian periodical following and as we can see, reviving the case) exhumed the body of Semyon Zolotaryov at the Ivanovo Cemetery in Yekaterinburg. In the following days KP will conduct an examination of the DNA of the person buried under Zolotaryov's obelisk to establish his kinship with the alleged nephews. And also KP will study together with experts fractures of the ribs of Semyon. It turned out that the autopsy reports don't quite match the injuries they found during the exhumation.

Hakimov interrogation 14-04-2018 On April 15 Yuri Yudin denied knowing about any changes in the return date of the trek. Who else could have Dyatlov discussed this with? The head of the logging camp department Hakimov is one of the last people to see Dyatlov alive. Immediately after Yuri Yudin's testimony Tempalov flies out to question Hakimov on the same issue. What was Hakimov doing at the time when he had to start looking for the Dyatlov group? How come the interrogation protocol is not in the case files?

The White Crematoriums 14-04-2018 Victims of the red revolution: The haunting faces of prisoners worked to death in Stalin's slave camps. Trudging through mud in sub-zero temperatures, digging the earth with their bare hands and heaving huge rocks with the most primitive of tools, these horrifying photos have revealed life inside Joseph Stalin's gulag prisons, where people were worked to death in Soviet labour camps through the mid-1900s. When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin rose to power and became the state's authoritarian leader.

The Gulag Camps 14-04-2018 The Ivdellag (Ivdel Gulag) is often used in the context of the Dyatlov Pass incident. Similar to the Mansi, this is a multifaceted subject that could be relevant or not, but is part of the picture nevertheless. Learning more about it will help us understand the surroundings of the events. There should be no stone left unturned. This is the first of a series of publications that will end with a direct link from a document related to the case to the Ivdellag.

Solomonovich interview2008 19-04-2018 © NGO "INTERNET CENTER of the Dyatlov group tragedy", 2008. The text of the conversation of the "Center for Civil Investigation of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy" NAVIG, with historian-ethnographer, expert of the Ivdellag Felix Yakovlevich Solomonovich, in Ivdel on the case of Dyatlov Pass incident on 13 May 2008 by phone.

Solter interview 2008 09-04-2018 © NGO "INTERNET CENTER of the Dyatlov group tragedy", 2008.
The text of the conversation of the "Center for Civil Investigation of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy" (NAVIG, Verden), Tuapse and others with the former nurse N-240 in 1959 Solter Pelageya Ivanovna and Victor Konstantinovich on the case of Dyatlov Pass incident 04-05 July 2008

Taranova interview 2008 16-04-2018 © NGO "INTERNET CENTER of the Dyatlov group tragedy", 2008.
The text of the conversation between "Center for Civil Investigation of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy" (NAVIG, ALATAO), with former gynecologist at N-240 Ivdel in 1959 Anna Petrovna Taranova on 9 August 2008 about Dyatlov Pass case on 9 August 2008, Yekaterinburg

Prudkovа interview 2008 13-04-2018 © NGO "INTERNET CENTER of the Dyatlov group tragedy", 2008.
The text of the conversation of the "Center for Civil Investigation of the Dyatlov Pass tragedy" NAVIG, with widow Prudkova V.I. Yekaterinburg on the case of Dyatlov Pass incident 11 July 2008 г. by phone.

Letter Pelageya Solter (written by Victor Konstantinovich) to Yudin on 15 March 2006 13-04-2018 S.Peterburg 15 March 2006
Dear Yuri Efimovich - Hello!
First of all, excuse us for not responding to your letter in time. We are already old people, often sick, so the response was delayed. We do not know how to help you and the relatives of the victims, after a tragedy that occurred 45 years ago. Why did not you raise this issue in time? After all, many articles were written about this tragedy in the local newspaper "Severnaya Zvezda" (Nortern Star - ed. note), "Lesnoy Industrii" (Forrest Industry - ed. note), and even in "Komsomolskoy Pravde".

Letter Pelageya Solter to Yudin (2006) 13-04-2018 St. Petersburg
Dear Yuri Efimovich
I am sorry to have waited to answer your questions. We received a newspaper from Ivdel, and our daughter Lyudmila made a copy we are sending you so that you can see what the Northern Star of the city of Ivdel is writing !!! Have you graduated from the institute?

The Route Not Traveled 14-04-2018 The mystery of Oleg Vavilov's death - the son of the famous Soviet geneticist A group of nine hikers in the Causasus mountains suffered a deadly incident on February 4, 1946, with Oleg Vavilov the sole casualty. A senior instructor (Schneider) joined the group at the last moment. He was alone with the victim at the time of the incident, where he was supposed to secure him with a rope. There is the mention of a blow with an ice ax in the death certificate. Schneider was allegedly included in the group by NKVD to execute the elder son of a famous Russian scientist, Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov. Stalin is known to have gone after the children of people he hated. Was the incident in the Caucasus Mountains ordered from above? People are still conflicted over this controversy.

Dropped On Orders From Above 14-04-2018 The famous Russian scientist Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov had two children from two marriages. The youngest son, Yuri, is still alive and working on the study of archives, collecting bit by bit the life story of his father. But until recently, very little was known about the eldest son Oleg. Almost everything that was known more concerned Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov himself. Candidate of Historical Sciences Yakov Grigoryevich Rokityansky, biographer of Vavilov, for many years sought evidence of the life of Oleg Vavilov. He got lucky. He met Oleg’s widow, Lidiya Vasilyevna Kurnosova. Based on her stories and documents, which she managed to save, he collected unique information about the life of the eldest son Nikolay Vavilov.

Memories of Georgiy Karpushin about the events of 1959 13-04-2018 "I am 81 years old. Now you understand why I want to tell you the little that I know? "- asks Georgy Karpushin. In 1959 Karpushin was the senior navigator of the 123rd flight detachment of the Ural Civil Aviation Administration. According to him, he was the first to spot the tent of dead tourists. The story of G. Karpushin fills an unknown page of an old tragic history, although it is in many respects at odds with the well-known versions.

The Death of Hikers 1959 - Kizilov Gennadiy Ivanovich 13-04-2018 This summary on the investigation of the tragedy with the Dyatlov group was compiled on the basis of new facts set forth in the article. The new facts were obtained entirely from the analysis of the documents of the criminal case (CF), the protocols of the debriefing of the search parties and the relatives of the hikers of the Dyatlov group, as well as publications in the press about this incident.

Interview with Gamatina (Patrusheva) V. N. from the movie "In search of the missing Yak" 13-04-2018 In the aftermath of the terrible tragedy and the mystery surrounding it, 26-year-old Sverdlovsk pilot Gennadiy Patrushev made an independent investigation into the causes of the death of the Dyatlov group. He knew personally the students, met them in Ivdel, he warned them about the danger of the route to Otorten and he also first discovered their bodies on the mountainside.