Discrepancies in Stanislav Tipikin's recollections

The first misunderstanding - Stanislav Aleksandrovich's story about how he witnessed two bodies being lifted to the outlier: his group - the body of Georgiy Krivonischenko, and another group - the body of Yuri Doroshenko, was partially resolved. Stanislav Aleksandrovich explained that "he wanted to show that we immediately upon arrival joined the main search team, taking direct part in the main event of the day - the ascent of two bodies to the pass. I admit that I did it awkwardly and I apologize. From the previous answers, please exclude the name Doroshenko."

But, reading further the answer of Stanislav Aleksandrovich, we again see that he insists that two bodies were raised that day! First, not his group, they raised someone's body to the outlier (we will now conditionally call it Doroshenko), then drags were lowered down to the cedar and Stanislav Aleksandrovich's group began to raise the body of Georgiy Krivonischenko:
"Soon, a group of searchers who had arrived earlier came down the slope with a homemade drag, on which, perhaps, they raised the bodies of Dyatlov and Kolmogorova, they packed and loaded Doroshenko's body onto the drag, and dragged it up to the pass. One of the searchers stayed below and I heard him grumble that they couldn't send a light sled. Then, after some time, Moisey and Sergey came up. .... Soon they lowered the drag and it was our turn to lift up the body of Yuri Krivonischenko. So Sergey Sogrin is right: he saw three bodies at the top, including Doroshenko, who was lifted before Krivonischenko."

But according to the materials of the Criminal Case, it is said that the bodies of three people (Igor Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova and Yuri Doroshenko) were lifted on February 28. Look at the radiograms, interrogation protocols. Sogrin and Akselrod, who arrived, saw three bodies already at the outlier:

Radiogram 158
Received by Temnikov
28.2 13.05
Sulman
So far no one else has been found, they dug up the tent, sorted out their things in Dyatlov's tent, now they are drawing up a report. We are taking the bodies up to be sent by helicopter
Maslennikov

Radiogram 160
Received by Temnikov
28.2 17.07
Sulman
Couldn't get in touch with Akselrod, from him that is Akselrod a helicopter flew off... 3 bodies were transported to the heli pad. The fourth will be picked up tomorrow his face - completely unrecognizable therefore there is an opinion that this is Doroshenko and not Zolotaryov. They are both the biggest guys. We examined the place of the tent and made a report, the items were let down to the heli pad. They will be sent to you... Hikers belongings are ready to be transported you need send a helicopter for them. All documents of the group except the map sketches (topos) and personal notebooks were taken away by the prosecutor including three copies of the route book...

From the interrogation protocol of Vladislav Karelin:
The next day (2/28) the Dyatlov group's tent was dismantled and three corpses were taken to the pass.

From the interrogation protocol of Georgiy Atmanaki:
February 28...
A group of five people took three corpses to the pass for subsequent transportation to Ivdel.

From the interrogation protocol of M. Akselrod:
Around five o'clock in the evening on February 28, the entire group was transferred to Ivdel... and the next day, together with the regional prosecutor-criminologist Ivanov L.N. Sogrin, Tipikin and I were dropped off by helicopter in the search area... Three bodies - Kolmogorova, Dyatlov and Doroshenko, were already lying brought from the valley near the rock-outlier on the pass.

From the interrogation protocol of Sergey Sogrin:
On March 1, I, Akselrod, Tipikin, Ivanov L.N. were dropped off at the scene of the accident... Behind a large rock lay 3 corpses already pulled up to the helipad... Returning to the tent in the camp, they took Krivonischenko's corpse to the helipad.

In light of all this, the memories of Stanislav Tipikin are very important. He contradicts the previous testimony of the student searchers, and therefore the materials of the Criminal Case.

The second misunderstanding is about the story about the tent. According to the searchers' recollections, the tent was assembled on February 28 and delivered to the outlier.

According to the materials of the Criminal Case, the Dyatlov group's tent was discovered by student searchers on February 26, 1959.

On February 27, the first bodies of the dead were discovered and the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel, V. Tempalov, flew out to the slope, drew up a report on the inspection of the scene and the discovery of the bodies. They were not busy with the tent that day, they had no time for it.

According to Brusnitsyn, this photo was taken before the tent was inspected by prosecutor Tempalov. That is, the photo could have been taken on February 27 or 28.

On February 28, prosecutor Tempalov finally begins to inspect the tent, draws up the so-called Protocol of Discovery of the Tourists' Camp, and gives instructions to collect the Dyatlov group's belongings into backpacks, dismantle the tent, and prepare all the things for sending by helicopter, for which purpose all the things and the tent are moved to the helicopter landing site - the outlier. This algorithm of actions is recorded in the interrogation protocols of the searchers who were unpacking things in the tent, radiograms sent from the slope to Ivdel and the Protocol of discovery of the tourist camp itself, dated February 28, 1959.

From the interrogation protocol of V. Brusnitsyn:
Our group and the two groups that arrived, Karelin and Captain Chernyshov...
The next morning, the 27th (note: there are also contradictions in the testimony of Brusnitsyn and Lebedev - the dates of the events have been shifted back a day) continued searching with dogs. The rest, having dismantled the tent, began to probe the snow cover of the heights with ski poles.
After the Ivdel prosecutor took inventory of the group's property, Mikhail Sharavin and I were asked to collect things and transport them to the helicopter landing site...
We removed the snow with skis and ski poles. About ten people worked without any system. Most of them pulled everything out right from under the snow, so it is very difficult to determine where and how each thing was lying.

As we can see from the photograph, the tent is dismantled, the things are put into backpacks, the groups of Chernyshev, Karelin and Slobtsov are busy probing the snow cover of the slope. The things have not yet been lifted to the platform where the helicopters landed.

Brusnitsyn to Navig, 2007:
Sharavin and I were instructed to collect all the things and transport them to the helicopter landing site. We collected all the things and carried them to the pass.

From the interrogation protocol of V. Lebedev:
The next day, February 26, part of the group, having left the overnight camp early in order to find a place for a camp closer to the scene of the incident, having crossed the Auspiya-Lozva pass, discovered two half-naked corpses near a cedar tree, one of which turned out to be Krivonischenko.
That day, having dismantled part of the tent, we, having collected all the things in a blanket, put them in the tent in order to dismantle the tent the next day in the presence of the prosecutor, who flew to the scene of the incident on February 2.
The next day, in the morning, in the presence of Comrade Ivanova, all things from the tent were taken out by Lebedev (signature)

Note: The Dyatlov group's tent was found on February 26, the bodies near the cedar and two on the slope were found on February 27, the tent was inspected on February 28 by Ivdel prosecutor Tempalov, not Ivanov. Prosecutor of the regional prosecutor's office Ivanov arrived at the scene of the accident together with Akselrod's group (March 1-3, the exact date remains in question).

From the interrogation protocol of V. Karelin:
On February 27, we were dropped off by helicopter at the tent discovered the day before.
On that day, four bodies were found: Kolmogorova, Dyatlov, Krivonischenko and Doroshenko.
The next day (2/28) The Dyatlov group's tent was dismantled and three corpses were taken to the pass.

From the interrogation protocol of G. Atmanaki:
On February 28, the entire personnel, with the exception of those on duty and several people left to prepare firewood and further equip the camp, went beyond the pass to search. Some of the people, together with the Ivdel city prosecutor, went to the tent to sort out things and draw up a report. This took the whole day.

Note: A group of five people took three corpses to the pass for subsequent transportation to Ivdel.
Things belonging to the deceased group were taken to the pass and prepared for shipment.

The next day, in very bad weather (cold, wind and no visibility), the group reached the pass, a helicopter arrived and sent the things and equipment of the dead.

Atmanaki says that on March 1, a helicopter arrived and took the things and equipment of the Dyatlov group. Even if it didn't take the tent, we saw from the photo that the tent was assembled. That is, it was lying on the snow in the form of a flattened empty sheet. And all the things from it were pulled out and laid out in backpacks and lay separately from the tent on the snow. Atmanaki does not say whether this helicopter brought Axelrod's group. Let's assume that it did, then...

Where is the tent? And it was dismantled.

From the interrogation protocol of the prosecutor of the city of Ivdel V. Tempalov:
On February 27, 1959, I was informed that one body was found on Mount 1079 and a tent of student tourists was found. I immediately flew by helicopter to an altitude of 1079.
I photographed the bodies, drew up a report of the scene of the incident, and lifted the bodies from the site to the helipad.
On 2/28/59, in the presence of witnesses, I inspected the tourists' tent.

From the interrogation protocol of A. Chernyshev:
On 2/27, we were found by a helicopter, which took us on board and dropped us off at Dyatlov's tent. Slobtsov's group, Karelin were already at the tent, Maslennikov was there...
On the second day, search groups were organized, and I, prosecutor Tempalov, and about 10 people with him went to excavate the tent.

From the interrogation protocol of E. Maslennikov:
On 2/28/59, Dyatlov's tent was inspected... When the inspection of the tent was finished, we dragged it to the helicopter pad, a distance of 600-700 meters.

Now the testimony of the members of Akselrod's group

M. Akselrod:
Around five o'clock in the evening on February 28, the group in full force was transferred to Ivdel... and the next day, together with the regional prosecutor-criminologist Ivanov L.N. Sogrin, Tipikin and I were dropped off by helicopter in the search area. We immediately had to put on felt boots instead of shoes and take part in loading the tent and things of the Dyatlov group into the helicopter. Three corpses - Kolmogorova, Dyatlov and Doroshenko, were already lying brought from the valley near the rock-outlier on the pass... I stood for a long time with a group of tourists at the place of the tent with a group of tourists (Sogrin, Korolev, Baskin, Shuleshko)

Note: a group of Moscow masters Bardin, Baskin, Shuleshko arrived on the slope on March 3.

S. Sogrin:
On March 1, I, Akselrod, Tipikin, Ivanov L.N. were dropped off at the accident site. We were met by a large group of people heavily wrapped in balaclavas. They quickly loaded Dyatlov's things and several people's things into the helicopter. Behind a large rock lay 3 corpses already pulled up to the helipad. Despite the bad weather, we went on a search... Returning to the tent in the camp, we took Krivonischenko's body to the helipad... On March 4, I, Akselrod, Korolev and three Muscovites climbed to the place where Dyatlov's tent was set up.

Note: these are Moscow tourist masters Bardin, Baskin and Shuleshko

Sogrin. From the correspondence, 2014:
We took off early in the morning. Our guys met our tourists, and we immediately, accompanied by several people, went to the place where the tent was found. Why it was taken down so hastily without a proper inspection and other actions required in such cases, and who gave such an order, I do not know. The tent and things and the first corpses were prepared for shipment and lay under the outlier. The rest of the guys unloaded the helicopter and began to send what was prepared for shipment. What they loaded, we did not see, because they walked away from the helicopter along the slope to the place where the tent was set up. On the way back to the outlier, Maslenikov and Ivanov discussed what they had seen and made their assumptions and conclusions. The guys were busy pulling Krivonischenko to the outlier.

Radiogram 161
3/1 18:00
Maslennikov
1. Akselrod and his group were taken to Ivdel...
Zaostrovskiy
Sulman

Radiogram 163
3/1 18:00
To Maslennikov
If the weather is good, a helicopter will be sent to you at 13:00, prepare to send the corpses and if there are sick people and people you don't need in your work. Your proposal is correct, we will take measures to renew the group by March 2-3
Sulman
Zaostrovskiy
Artyukov

Radiogram 166
Received by Temnikov
3/1 16:35
To Sulman
The weather is expected to deteriorate on March 2-4. If not, we will be only happy because there is a strong snowstorm raging behind our tent and the weather is getting worse with each passing hour. We also inform you that on the way back from the search at 4 o'clock in the afternoon we took the food sent by the flight and lowered it down
Maslennikov

Radiogram 171
3/3 1240
Sulman
The group of sappers arrived 8 people safely arrived to the camp period Bodies were sent by helicopter comma the same way the prosecutor and correspondent flew out period 17 people are participating in the search period In the morning the weather was better now the wind is intensifying period The search continues
Chernyshev
Nevolin

And now the document (Action Plan for March 1, 1959):
- On the first flight, MI-4 will send Comrade Axelrod and his group of three people to help you. On the return flight, you must send two dog handlers with dogs, a radio operator with an inoperative R-114 radio station, and some of the property found in Comrade Dyatlov's tent from the camp;
- On the second flight, 150 kg of bread, cereals, meat, and other food products will be dropped off for the entire camp, you must send the bodies of four comrades and all of Comrade Dyatlov's group's property.
If you have sick people, take steps to send them by helicopter; the same should be done with people you don't need. Please be very careful, as the weather is expected to worsen on March 2, 3, and 4, and then improve. If you have time, write briefly what's new and what requests you have. Greetings to you and all comrades from our group
03/01/1959     Ortyukov
10.00'

Note: It seems to me that it is based on this Plan that Akselrod and Sogrin name the date when they were brought to the slope on March 1.

But a Plan is a plan. The weather on March 1-2-3 had already changed. It is quite possible that the group was not brought to the slope on March 1. It was only taken from Otorten to Ivdel. And the next day, March 2, they were brought to the slope. But these are all assumptions. And the exact date of M. Akselrod's group's arrival on the slope does not play a special role. The main thing is that the group was brought in early March, when the tent and things were packed. But one body was still near the cedar.

Journalist G. Grigoriev:
03/02/1959
If the weather permits, two helicopters will be sent to you. They will deliver 12-15 of Busygin's fighters with probes. If possible, sappers with mine detectors will be sent on the second flight. You must send the corpses and 5-6 tired comrades.
Three masters of sports who had been to these places flew in from Moscow and Sverdlovsk.
The helicopters are returning. They are unloading the corpses. Everything is covered in snow. Hair is covered in ice and snow.
The belongings of the dead. Andrey Vishnevskiy, Nikolay Pletnev and I On the morning of March 3, we were listing the things of the dead that were lying in the airfield storage room. They were all frozen together, piled high with snow. Vishnevskiy took out one backpack after another, and I wrote down what was in them.
Interview with Yuri Evgenyevich Yarovoy.
I returned today, March 3, a helicopter brought them along with Ivanov and 4 corpses.

Bottom line, from the recollections of witnesses, it turns out that the bodies of Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, and Doroshenko were raised to the helipad at the outlier on February 28.
And at the beginning of March, Krivonischenko's corpse was raised to the outlier.
All four corpses were taken out later, on March 3.
And following the testimony of Victor Potyazhenko, they were taken out on his helicopter.
The corpses, all four. Ivanov and Yarovoy flew out with them that same day.
This is what we know.