Petition to The Prosecutor General Dyatlov case to be reopened

June 2, 2026

Relatives of the deceased Dyatlov group hikers, represented by lawyer Evgeniy Chernousov, demand reopening of the investigation into the incident that took place in February 1959.

MOSCOW, June 2. /TASS/. Relatives of members of Igor Dyatlov's group, who died in the mountains of the Sverdlovsk region in 1959, will seek to open a new criminal case. This was reported to TASS by lawyer Tatyana Perminova, who represents the interests of Igor Dyatlov's sister, Tatyana Perminova, and several other relatives of the hikers who died on the pass.

"We want to ensure that a criminal case is opened and an investigation is conducted," the agency's source said.

"Forensic examinations and autopsies on the nine bodies of the deceased hikers were conducted in the case. Chemical and histological examinations are mandatory attached to the autopsy reports for every criminal case. But they weren't attached (*). Therefore, they weren't conducted," the lawyer said. He believes these examinations could have confirmed one or another possible cause of the hikers' deaths.

On April 12, 2018, the body of Semyon Zolotaryov was exhumed in Ivanovskoe cemetery.

In February 2019, 60 years after the hikers' mysterious deaths, the Prosecutor General's Office announced an investigation into the Dyatlov group's death. On July 11, 2020, it announced that the Dyatlov group had perished in an avalanche.

The star lawyer for the relatives of the deceased hikers from the Dyatlov group has filed two previous petitions, in 2019 and 2020. In 2023 he wrote an appeal to president Putin. New moments in 2026 petition are the (*) missing hystological results from the autopsies in March, 1959, and the demand that federal television channels stop broadcasting theories about the Dyatlov group's demise.

If this is going to help the government to put an end to the endless speculations, the relatives would agree to an exhumation of all nine bodies.