Happy 89 Birthday Askinadzi Comments (3)

Today, April 10, Vladimir Askinadzi is turning 89. Special greeting for the members of Dyatlov Pass Forum! Notice the tshirt.

You can pin his greeting card if you haven't done it yet. This used to be the card to wish him well after his latest stroke. Now we are turning it into a Birthday Greeting card. You don't have to be precise with the pin, just make one. I like it when they are spread all over the globe, but you don't have to pinpoint your home if you don't want to. You can easily create a pin from your profile page. Existing forum members can interact with the map from their profile. If you are not a member you may consider registering. To put a pin click on the map and don't forget to click "Change profile" or else the pin won't be saved.

I consider Vladimir Askinadzi one of the best, if not the best witness of the search operation in 1959. If we apply the investigative motto "Means, Motive, and Opportunity" not for a suspect in a crime but for a witness, then Vladimir Mihaylovich checks all the boxes to be our best witness, that is. Here are the three most important things, in my opinion. First, he remembers, his mind is intact, but most importantly, his recollections are not biased by any theory. Second - he actually had the chance to find the bodies that had the injuries that couldn't be explained by anything else but "overwhelming force". Third, not the least, he agreed to answer our questions. I have always urged you to read what he has said throughout the years, but now we both agree that, in order to have consistent documents, it won't be a bad idea to revisit all his answers. It is a cart following tracks. If we try to continue where we ended, i.e., come up with new questions, then we presume that what has been said (the tracks) is firmly established. But they are not. So fire away! You can ask your questions in a comment here, in the Dyatlov Pass forum, in Taina.li, or on Facebook.

The idea is borrowed by Maya Piskareva and her 100 questions to Yudin. She died in 2017. Piskareva and Askinadzi shared a special bond.