Mount Otorten Legends. Mount Otorten - beauty and mystery of the mysterious mountain (10 photos). "Under unclear circumstances ..."

At the top Cut off  (it is located in the northernmost part of the Sverdlovsk region on the border of the Republic of Komi and Khanty - the Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug) there is another name, local, in the Mansi language - Kholat Syakhil, Mountain of the Dead.

Places around the forest - deserted and deaf. Winter frosts reach 50 degrees, and deep snow makes it difficult to approach. But local hunters rarely look here for another reason: the mountain has a bad reputation - people often died here.

A new one was added to the old disastrous glory: in February 1959, on mysterious circumstances, on a mountainside, death overtook a group of tourists. They were healthy young people, more than once went hiking. A variety of assumptions were put forward regarding the cause of their unexpected, strange death: poisoning, ball lightning, the harmful effects of some gases, rays. There is one such thing: we went into the area where secret tests of the "vacuum weapon" were conducted. The fact is that the dead had a strange reddish skin tone, there were internal injuries and bleeding. “The same symptoms should be observed when struck by a“ vacuum bomb, ”creating a strong discharge of air over a large area,” the Encyclopedia of the Unknown reports on this subject. “On the periphery of such a zone in a person blood vessels burst from internal pressure, and at the epicenter the body is torn to pieces.”

None of the put forward versions found confirmation. The tragic incident remained a mystery to researchers of anomalous phenomena and to law enforcement agencies.

But all the secret, if it does not become apparent, then sooner or later opens the curtain. In connection with the tragedy on Woe of the dead  a prosecutor’s investigation was launched. However, for reinsurance or for some other reasons, it was classified. Only forty years later there was an opportunity to study these materials and to some extent imagine what happened.

A group of students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, headed by experienced leader Igor Dyatlov, went camping in the Northern Urals. It was necessary to go through the route of the third category of difficulty (according to the sports classification of mountain-tourist routes of those years, it was the highest category of difficulty).

Why did tourists go to the top of Otorten? Perhaps they were attracted by its mystery, stories of hunters, even the translation of the name itself - "do not go there" ...

As the investigation established, “using daylight hours to climb to the top of“ 1079 ”in conditions of strong wind, which is common in this area, and a low temperature of about 25-30 degrees below zero. Dyatlov found himself in unfavorable overnight conditions and decided to pitch a tent on the slope “1079”, so that the next morning, without losing height, go to Mount Otorten, to which 10 km remained in a straight line. In one of the cameras, the photo frame (made last) was preserved, which shows the moment of excavation of snow for setting up a tent. ”

By frame density, it could be assumed that the tent was set up at five in the evening. After that, not a single record and not a single photograph. At least nothing else was discovered.

The lack of news from the Dyatlov group for several weeks caused alarm, and several search groups went along the route of tourists, and then teams from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, airplanes and helicopters of civil and military aviation.

On February 26, on the eastern slope of the “1079” peak, they found a group tent with all the equipment and food. The location and availability of items in the tent — almost all the shoes, all the outer clothing, personal belongings, and diaries — testified to the fact that she was left suddenly, simultaneously by the whole group, and, as later established by the forensic examination, the leeward side of the tent was cut from the inside, two places, in areas providing easy access.

In the snow below the tent for 500 meters, human tracks from the tent into the valley and into the forest are well preserved. Inspection of the tracks (they were eight to nine pairs) showed that some were left with almost bare feet (for example, in a sock), and others with felt boots. Neither in the tent, nor near it were found traces of the struggle or the presence of strangers. One and a half kilometers from the tent, near the border of the forest, the remains of a fire were discovered, and near it corpses of members of the group Doroshenko and Krivonischenko, naked to underwear. At 300 meters from the bonfire, towards the tent, the corpse of Dyatlov was found, another 180 meters from it - the corpse of Slobodin, and 150 meters from Slobodin - the corpse of Kolmogorova. The last three corpses are located in a straight line from the campfire to the tent. Woodpeckers lay on his back, his head toward the tent, his hand clutching the trunk of a small birch. The poses of Slobodin and Kolmogorova testified to the fact that they were crawling to the tent. Money and personal items (pens, pencils, etc.) were found in their pockets.

The forensic medical examination found that they died from the effects of low temperature, none of them had bodily injuries, not counting minor scratches and abrasions. True, Slobodin had a crack in his skull, but he died of cooling.

75 meters from the fire, towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva River, under a layer of snow of 4-4, 5 meters, the corpses of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault - Brenol and Kolevatov were found.

The protocol contains a description of the clothes of the deceased, the time on the stopped watch is marked - for everyone. And still very significant - for the four dead: as the autopsy established, death occurred as a result of many bodily injuries (fracture of ribs, depression of fracture of the bones of the skull). All of these protocol details are important in connection with the conclusion.

“... An investigation was carried out on February 1 and 2, 1959, in the region of the“ 1079 ”altitude, but other people, except for a group of tourists from Dyatlov, were found. It was also established that the Mansi population living 80-100 km from this place is friendly to Russians provides tourists with an overnight stay, assists them, etc. The place where the group died in the winter is considered in Mansi unsuitable for hunting and reindeer husbandry. Given the absence of external injuries and signs of struggle on the corpses, the presence of all the group's values, and also taking into account the conclusion of the forensic medical examination on the causes of death of tourists, it should be considered that the cause of the death of tourists was a spontaneous force, which the tourists were not able to overcome ” .

This text was signed by the prosecutor-criminalist Ivanov and the head of the investigative department Lukin.

Inexplicable "elemental force" ... And what did the newspapers write in those days? It turns out that on February 18, 1959, the newspaper “Tagilsky Rabochiy” published an article entitled “An Unusual Celestial Phenomenon” signed by A. Kiselyov, deputy chief of communications at the Vysokogorny mine. It stated: “At 6 hours 55 minutes local time yesterday, a luminous ball the size of the apparent diameter of the moon appeared in the east - southeast at an altitude of 20 degrees from the horizon. The ball moved in a northeast direction. About seven hours a flash occurred near him, and a very bright core of the ball became visible. He himself began to shine more intensely, a luminous cloud appeared near him, bent towards the south.

The cloud spread throughout the eastern part of the sky. Soon after, a second outbreak occurred, it looked like a crescent moon. Gradually, the cloud increased, in the center there was a luminous dot (the glow was variable in magnitude). The ball advanced east - northeast. The highest height above the horizon - 30 degrees - was reached at about 7 hours 05 minutes. Continuing movement, this unusual celestial phenomenon weakened and eroded. Thinking that it was somehow connected with the satellite, they turned on the receiver, but there was no signal reception. ”

For this publication, the leading comrades of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU imposed a serious penalty on the newspaper editor - he did not report, did not consult.

Therefore, the search engines of the disappeared group of tourists did not turn to meteorologists, seismologists, or astrophysicists, but to the Sverdlovsk city committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union with the following telephone message: On March 31, 59 at 4.00 in the southeast direction, the duty officer Meshcheryakov noticed a large ring of fire that moved for 20 minutes to us, then hiding behind a height of "880". And before that, a star appeared from the center of the ring, which gradually increased to the size of the moon and began to fall down, moving away from the ring. An unusual phenomenon was observed by many people, raised by alarm. We ask you to explain this phenomenon and its safety, since in our conditions this makes a disturbing impression. Avenburg, Pogapov, Sogria. "

Gorkomov’s comrades could not answer without consulting the Obkomov’s comrades, and they could not answer their decision with the top leadership. And the "valuable instruction" was released.

Here is what the former prosecutor L.N. Ivanov told us: “When we examined the surroundings of the scene, we found that some of the young trees on the border of the forest were burnt - as if these tracks were not of a concentric or other form, there was no epicenter. This was also confirmed by the directivity of the beam or the strong, but completely unknown, at least to us, energy acting selectively: the snow is not melted, the trees are not damaged. It seemed that when the tourists went down five hundred meters down from the mountainthen someone dealt with some of them in a targeted way ... We with the regional prosecutor reported the initial data to the first secretary of the regional committee, he gave a clear command - to keep the work secret, bury tourists in boarded-up coffins and tell relatives that everyone died from hypothermia. "

Ivanov then conducted extensive research on clothing and individual organs of the deceased for radiation. According to the expert opinion, the studied clothing samples contained a somewhat overestimated amount of the radioactive substance caused by beta radiation. But suspicions of induced radioactivity or neutron beam flux have not been confirmed. Geologists with radiometers carefully combed Mount Otorten and the surrounding area, but did not find excessive radiation.

They also analyzed the version of a nuclear explosion somewhere in the area - there were constantly rumors among the local population. But there were no nuclear tests in the atmosphere at that time in Russia. Experts also rejected the assumption associated with a radioactive cloud that came from Novaya Zemlya, where nuclear weapons were tested since 1954 (the last nuclear explosion was recorded there on October 25, 1958).

Later it turned out that one of the participants in this campaign, A. Kolevatov, was dealing with radioactive substances, and the other, Y. Krivonischenko, worked in Chelyabinsk-40 and was near Kyshtym when a container with radioactive waste exploded there in 1957. So the radioactive dust on their clothes could remain from those times.

With the death of climbers or tourists on hikes and climbs, questions naturally arise: what is the reason for what happened, who is responsible for the misfortune? Investigations, as a rule, are carried out by employees of sports organizations and law enforcement officials. But the incident at Mount Otorten was so unusual that any evidence was important.

Here is the story of the technologist and meteorologist Tokarev: “On February 17 at 6 hours 50 minutes an unusual phenomenon appeared in the sky - the movement of stars with a tail. The tail looked like dense cirrus clouds. Then this star freed itself from its tail, became brighter than all the stars and flew, gradually began to swell. A large ball formed, shrouded in haze. Then, inside this ball, a star caught fire, from which a small ball was first formed, which was not so bright. The big ball gradually fell, became like a blurry spot. At 7.05 it disappeared completely. He moved from south to northeast. ”

Similar information about the unusual movement of objects observed in the sky then was reported to the prosecutor's office by servicemen Savchenko and Atamaki, students of the geographical faculty of the Sverdlovsk Pedagogical Institute. The prosecutor L.N. Ivanov was engaged in this case not only on duty. Interest in "flying saucers" and mysterious objects was then universal. And in this regard, Otorten’s state of emergency, Lev Nikitich began to relate to “fireballs” with increased attention. He collected information from many eyewitnesses about the spans, UFO hovering in the Subpolar Urals. A thorough study of the case led to the conviction that the death of tourists is associated with the impact of UFOs.

“And I suppose everything happened like this,” Lev Nikitich told Ural journalists. - The guys had dinner and went to bed. One of them came out of natural need (there were traces) and saw something that made everyone leave the tent and run down. I think it was a luminous ball. And yet he overtook them at the edge of the woods ... Three receive serious injuries. The case must be evidence of a medical examiner. In his opinion, it was something like a strong shock wave or shock, as in a car accident. Well, then the struggle for survival began ... I never met a more vivid manifestation of courage, such a fierce struggle for my life and comrades. But the force breaks the force ... Two, who were found under the cedar, tried to light a bonfire, climbed the cedar for knots, and pieces of their skin and muscles remained on its bark ... Their comrade, who lagged behind the group due to illness, helped a lot. He knew who was wearing what, helped establish who was in what. All the clothes were mixed up - they undressed the dead in order to save the living. "

Ufologists have suggested this. It is possible that tourists who ran out of the tent were blinded by the rays of a UFO. They experienced a sense of horror comparable to what people experience in earthquakes: when speechlessness is lost. There are cases when, under the influence of UFO rays, eyewitnesses worsened vision, even temporary blindness occurred.

If you accept this version, it becomes clear the reason for the stampede of the guys from the cut tent. Some time after the shock, they began to recover. But blindness disoriented them. Perhaps among the stronger members of the group, it began to pass - they crawled towards the tent. But to overcome the upsurge was not enough. The unnatural color of the skin in the dead also indicates the received radiation. Similar cases of burns and exposures similar to laser ones are also known to ufologists.

However, it’s now that the former prosecutor Ivanov can aloud suggest that the tourists were killed by a strong shock wave from an exploding UFO. Then he was forced to tear out sheets with expert conclusions unsuitable for the “spontaneous” version (the experts themselves gave a non-disclosure subscription), classified the case and handed it over to the archive. And there was something to show extra vigilance. After all, the course of the investigation was controlled by Moscow, the allied and Russian prosecutors. Former correspondent of the Ural Worker G. Grigoriev claims that Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev himself was in the know. And the then second secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee, Comrade, was directly "supervised" the investigation. Eshtokin: listened to Ivanov's reports, gave valuable instructions. These are the high ranks involved in the death of an ordinary tourist group.

When searching for the causes of the tragedy, they also remembered the amazing phenomenon that the inhabitants of the North often encounter. In winter, during a long polar night, when the aurora appears, some people fall into a strange state. They completely alienate themselves from the world around them, talk excitedly with an invisible interlocutor, swing only to the sound of music they hear. Often roam, like sleepwalkers, without choosing a path, leave the house in the tundra. Having come to their senses after some time, they vaguely recall that they heard sounds of fabulous beauty and obeyed the North Star, calling into a true habitat - the ancient land of their ancestors. The phenomenon was called “Call of the Ancestors”.

There are attempts to scientifically explain the strange effect of the aurora on the human psyche. The reason for this may be, firstly, low-frequency electromagnetic waves reproduced by the aurora. Their range is 8–13 hertz, akin to the frequencies of the alpha and beta brain rhythms. Hence the irresistible desire of man to merge with something more reliable than himself. Secondly, such a natural phenomenon as the aurora is accompanied by infrasound. It is indistinguishable by ear, but biologically active. The human brain and cardiovascular system perceive sound in the infrasound range in a peculiar way, so the consequences for the body can be the most unpredictable. The existence of the “Flying Dutchmen” —ships without a crew — is also explained by the birth of infrasounds from storm surges. Under their influence, people experience incomprehensible fear and even horror, and in a panic, in the end, leave the ship. Maybe something similar happened with tourists in the Urals in 1959? ..

There is another version linking all the evidence and documentary evidence. It is quite earthly, not abnormal, however, also from the category of "X-Files". A rocket exploded in the air near the mountain, where the group spent the night. Perhaps with a warhead. This could explain the blast wave, and the radioactivity, and the strange skin color of the victims, and the mysterious glow in the sky - they say that such phenomena are also observed in the region of the Plesetsk test site. However, it has not yet been possible to find out if any tests were carried out in that region. True, many eyewitnesses testify that missiles flying in the sky were not uncommon in the 50s and 60s in those parts.

Subsequently, not far from the site of the death of the Dyatlov group in the remote taiga, several duralumin fragments were found (they say one of them is in the editorial office of the Ural Worker).

Mount Otorten is known in a tourist environment due to the campaign of the Dyatlov group in 1959, which ended in a tragic outcome (all nine participants died).

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References

•   - “Earthly heat. Mansi Tales. " Recording and processing by M. Anisimkova. Leningrad. "Children's literature". 1979

Otorten passage

The general, behind whom Pierre rode, going downhill, turned sharply to the left, and Pierre, having lost sight of him, jumped into the ranks of the infantry soldiers walking ahead of him. He tried to leave them right and left; but there were soldiers everywhere, with equally worried faces, busy with some sort of invisible, but obviously important business. Everyone with an equally displeased questioning look looked at this fat man in a white hat, it is not known why he was trampling them with his horse.
  - What goes around the battalion! - shouted at him alone. Another pounded his horse with the butt, and Pierre, clinging to the bow and barely holding the shy horse, jumped forward a soldier, where it was more spacious.
  There was a bridge ahead of him, and other soldiers stood at the bridge, firing. Pierre drove up to them. Without knowing it, Pierre drove to the bridge over Kolocha, which was between Gorki and Borodin and which in the first battle action (occupying Borodino) was attacked by the French. Pierre saw that there was a bridge ahead of him and that on both sides of the bridge and in the meadow, in the rows of lying hay that he had noticed yesterday, soldiers were doing something in the smoke; but, despite the incessant shooting taking place in this place, he did not think that there was a battlefield here. He did not hear the sounds of bullets screeching from all sides, and the shells flying over him, did not see the enemy on the other side of the river, and for a long time did not see the dead and wounded, although many fell near him. With a smile that never left his face, he looked around him.

The tent of Dyatlovites stood in the zone of white ellipses (or close to them) below the steep talus discharge of the top of the spur - a zone of grassy mounds and steps. The center of the red circle is the installation site of the red flag of Timur and Shura, 150 meters from the Sharavin tours along the slope. The center of the yellow circle is Timur’s “yellow flag” at one of the possible places of the tent. The position of the photographer when shooting a photo of the excavation of a tent by all indications is in the area between the two red lines, and the tent is 10-20 m lower. The lower white oval is the “crater” position zone in the photo of the search works. To the left is the yellow ellipse — the red tape of adhesive tape on A. Koshkin’s fir, the red circle is “Sharavin fir” with the flag, the red ovals are “Sharavin tours”

I myself found the points indicated by the flags in the pictures and compared the photographs with my marks from the photos of Timur and Shura and came to the conclusion that the control points indicated by the flags coincide. In the photo Timur and Shura their designations of these points. The point T10 of the PSA is, apparently, “the place of the tent according to Borzenkov” (to Vladimir Alekseevich - hence the PSA). The circles in the photo are not very clear, but they can be seen with a larger image. On their photo points T22 (yellow flag) are marked, T30 - the place of detection of the bowler and the "groove" of the fuzzy talus corridor. “Christmas tree with scotch tape” is a fir with a “red ribbon” marked by Sasha Koshkin.

Morning exit preparations

On August 7, our whole group was supposed to start going downstairs, so that on the morning of the 9th we would leave for Ivdel by car, and in the evening of the same day - by train to Yekaterinburg. There are two days left for the campaign to Otorten - 5th and 6th. Only Igor Ivlyaev expressed a desire to go with me. Having collected food and equipment the day before, at about 10 a.m. on August 5 we left. Behind the pass, the road went a little downhill, bypassing the scree below Mount Holachahl. Then she climbs to the left to the ridge west of the peak and smoothly rises along the ridge towards Mount Otorten. We cut off the lowermost section of the descent by crossing a stream flowing to the left from the slopes of Kholatchahl. Water scooped up from the stream, - higher on the ridge, on a considerable part, as I expected, there is no water (of course, there is no forest on the ridge either - it is high here, and only small firs are found among this tundra). Having ascended to the jumper to the west of the peak and having passed a couple of ridges, we stopped for lunch. It’s so nice to relax after the transitions and it’s a pleasure to cook on gas, on a compact burner Mfx (Multy Fuel EX) A small pot boils instantly. But the soup, nevertheless, had to boil 25 minutes before cooking.

As you “digest” food and at night “fall on your side” - so “pass”  (the truth of mountain tourists)
As you fall asleep, you eat, you drink, you will climb a mountain, vigorous louse!  (truth climbers)

Climbing the ridge is not cool. And the sky, though frowning, was not raining. The conditions for the transitions were ideal: neither hot nor cold. Cooking dinner. It's nice to throw off your boots and walk along the moss in socks ... The last scree ridge of the ridge on the way to Otorten.

To get to the lake, you need to go around it on the right, and right through it you can continue to climb to Otorten along the southern spur. Three more uvolts of the ridge could be seen two more, and behind them - the top of Mount Otorten. The road crossed the next ridge and before the last hill, beyond which Otorten was visible, turned to the left, bypassing stone screes on the slope of the uval. We dodged along the road, although it was better to go around the talus hill (see the photo of the “last fall”) on the right and go along the slope to the Lunt-Khusap lake - the “mountain goose lake”, from which the Mansi name of Mount Otorten came from: “Lunt -Husap-Syakhyl ", -" a mountain near the lake of a goose nest. " The name on the Otorten maps comes from the name of another mountain, Ot-Tarkhan-Syakhyl, or “the mountain from which the wind blows”, located a few kilometers from Otorten. The false name “Do not go there” came, by all indications, from an article by Ivan Sobolev “Legends of the Northern Urals in No. 11 of the journal“ Youth Technology for 2003. The hill could also be circled to the left with access to the right to the spur leading to Otorten. But we must take into account that there is no water along the spur along this path. There is water at the lake, and for sure there are convenient parking for an overnight stay. Walking along the road is physically easier and easier than walking along the moss because the road is hard and fairly flat. But the moss fails, and walking along it for a long time with a backpack is quite tiring. Scrubs of grasshoppers are hard, but uneven, and walking on them requires attention and accuracy. During rain, kuramniki stones become very slippery due to the wetting of lichens with which the stones are covered. Everyone can choose their own path here, based on the addictions of the “walking style”. Since the slopes are not steep. Before the talus hill, the road went down with a swampy area - if you wish, you can draw water here in a brook. Behind the swamp, the road turned left and, after descending with a long arc, climbed slightly to the right to the side spur, dividing the main source of the Elima River, visible below, from its right tributary, flowing west from the slopes of Otorten. After reaching the spur, we deviated to the right - towards the visible peak of Otorten. On the slope of the spur, the mountains stopped for the night, choosing a flat place for a tent. At the crossing there was another swampy area with a small stream, in which, if desired, you can draw water. There you have to go down to a large stream in the gorge about a kilometer down with a return back.

Sunset west view

Top of Otorten Mountain - view from the south. A group of large rocks is located on the eastern side of the peak (on the right in the photo), and from the west on the lower part of the peak plateau is another group of high rocks (including the Black Gate). In the morning after gathering along the slope of the spur from Otorten, we climbed the peak in an hour or so . To the right we reached the highest group of large cliffs of the peak. They climbed the two highest cliffs and left notes on tours. There was no tour on the highest rock, and on another high rock the tour was empty. The peak of Otorten is a fairly flat plateau covered with moss, with rock outcrops from black rock. The western part of it has a lowering and there has its own group of rocks, standing at some distance from the high, apical part. There is an interesting in shape rock "Black Gate". "According to the legend" with those who pass through them, misfortune will happen. To "deceive the tradition" we went through them both there and back. The "tradition" in relation to us, apparently, was that on the way back a little "plutanized" to the wrong place.
  At the top, a strong wind blew with a slight smell of burning. We have not heard of any major local fires. Kuntsevich later told me that it could be smoke from peat smoldering on the Yamal Peninsula, not extinguishing even in winter. And over the mountains there was a strong haze that prevented us from taking clear photographs during the whole trip. Peak rock groups had bizarre shapes — worth a look at this. They are not as large as the “boobs” of the Malpupuner plateau (up to 80 m high), up to 20 m high. After examining the top cliffs, we went down to the lower part of the western part of the mountain and examined the Black Gate rock. From the height of the ridge - a view of the endless distances of the mountains of the Northern Urals. The haze made it difficult to see at a great distance, especially to the north. But in the evening, views of the west were visible quite far. To the south and north, the main ridge is treeless, but at a lower height - mountains under the green cover of mixed forests. The highest peak of the peak is the eastern peak rock of Mount Otorten (“Birds”) Large rocks of the peak of Otorten Rock “Black Gate”. For some reason, she remembered the lines of Vizbor:
  “Through the rocky Wolf Gate” We passed along a high path.
  There was something very gloomy in them, and I wanted to go and not sing ... ”This time, these forest“ charms ”often presented us with gifts ...

On the way back, we thought to cut off part of the transition, but at first we got a way out a bit “wrong way”. Understood when he took out a card, and had to return. But then, nevertheless, they cut off the path, and went out onto the road. They also cut it off when going around the Holatchahl mountain towards the pass. They went to the Dyatlov pass in complete darkness, and went down to the camp with lanterns. Very tired, but very satisfied. Bartholomew! Do not hang around at night and do not pretend to be “holy”! .. Igor endured the difficulties steadily, although he had a hard time. And it was easier for me simply because I had long been accustomed to such marching "adventures." He seems to have understood that “the romance of tourism is not a sin and get infected”, but on good equipment “it’s not a sin to go broke” ... It became clear to me that the Dyatlov group needed at least one day to go to Otorten. And to return to their storehouse - too. And at least half a day, or even a day, to reach the top. Especially taking into account the short duration of the winter day, and with the “summer schedule” we had more running time in this regard. Moreover, the strong headwind blowing on the ridge could seriously hinder the Dyatlovites. In general, climbing Otorten during a winter ski trip was rather difficult and lengthy. And the “vagaries of the weather" here could significantly slow down, and even frustrate this radial transition with a significant increase in wind. In general, in the open part of the mountains, the Dyatlov group fell into a situation of complicated conditions of the campaign, which required time, effort and caution. I better felt the problems of their transition, albeit in the "lightweight-summer version" of the campaign. Of course, we had no “special” problems on this route.

Supporters of heavy backpacks enjoy the severity of their shackles!
  With weighting we storm peaks! Backpacks are our “chains” ...

After visiting the museum, Margarita drove us in her car through the evening Yekaterinburg - as an experienced driver, I appreciated her cool driving! The tour turned out wonderful. I did not think that in Yekaterinburg there is such a large historical museum of military equipment. I involuntarily compared it with two other large and familiar open-air expositions in my native cities: the Museum of Artillery and Engineering Troops in Leningrad and the museum on the hill of military glory in Saratov. All three expositions are very large, but the museum in Yekaterinburg in terms of the number of large exhibits (standing in the open air) is by far the largest (and we did not see the internal exhibition of light weapons in the pavilion - the pavilion was closed).

At the station in Ivdel 08/08/13: in the upper row A. Alekseenkov, S. Davydov, M. Cherepkov, Yu. Shadrina, V. Watto, in the middle row: T. Voskoboinikov, E. Buyanov, I. Ilyaev, lower number: D. Vedernikov, A. Gaysin, D. Antonov

Yes, maybe someone will consider that all we did was “mouse fuss”. But we did a thing that interests us. And talked with people with whom it was interesting. And thanks to this, such trips and studies are obtained. Drink the tv! ..
  Here is what along this path and after it he still jokingly composed about "boobs":

"Boobies" (Otortena and Mulpupuner Plateau)

Something very “strange” happened
  In the whole history of the Earth, -
  When the funny "boobs"
  They came to the "stone blocks", - The stars in the sky shone for us,
  And warmed the light-heat of bonfires
  We rocks songs sang along
  Crazy melody of the winds! "Doodles" friendly family
  I sat down in the evening with a crowd:
  "Hello," blockhead - pour some tea,
  And the song of Vizbor sing to us! .. Hit the strings - do not regret it!
  Let the song soften the stone
  And our long "bench"
  Hearts pounding Candy, gingerbread, give a waffle,
  Where are you going - explain,
  And fill the joke
  And in a pile of vodka mold! - “Stump-stone” - and not boring, -
  "Millions of years" to stand like that, -
  Cheeky better cheeky
  Hike and escape? - What do we do fate is -
  Crap longevity given
  Stay on guard without "moaning"
  Since our life is the “wall” ... But there are good neighbors here, -
  To eat, drink and sing
  Dinosaurs, then bears
  Come to sit with us ... Our guard for tourists is important, -
  All visitors are friends, -
  We are "stumps" - an exotic landscape -
  And without it you can’t! In it are “awesome” sunsets,
  White outfits in winter, -
  You have been given the inheritance to walk, guys, -
  And "stumps" nice work: "Wait! .."
Buyanov E.V., MS of the USSR

July 28 - October 10, 2013

In the Urals there is Mount Otorten (in the Mansi language - Kholat Syakhyl, Mountain of the Dead). It got its name because of a long-standing tragedy when nine Mansi found their death on its summit ... And on February 2, 1959, on mysterious circumstances, on a mountain slope, a group of tourists overtook death. By a strange coincidence, their number was also nine.

A group of students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute, headed by experienced leader Igor Dyatlov, set off on a hike. It was necessary to pass the route of the third category of difficulty (according to the sports classification of mountain-tourist routes of those years, it was the highest category of difficulty).

The lack of news from the Dyatlov group for several weeks was alarming, and several search expeditions were sent along the route of the departed tourists, and then teams of soldiers and officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, planes and helicopters of civil and military aviation.

The prosecutor’s report says:

“On February 26, on the eastern slope of“ peak 1079 ″, a group tent was found with all the equipment and food. The tent and everything that was in it was well preserved. The location and availability of items in the tent (almost all shoes, all outer clothing, personal belongings and diaries) indicated that the shelter was left suddenly by all the tourists at the same time, and, as established by the subsequent forensic examination, the leeward side of the tent where the tourists were located heads, it was cut from the inside, in two places, in areas that provide a free exit of a person through these sections.

Below the tent, over 500 meters, in the snow, traces of people walking into the valley and into the forest are well preserved. Inspection of the tracks (there were eight to nine pairs) showed that some of them were left almost with their bare feet (for example, in one toe), and others with felt boots. Neither in the tent, nor near it were found traces of the struggle or the presence of other people. At 1500 meters from the tent, near the border of the forest, the remains of a fire were found, and near it the corpses of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko stripped to their underwear. At 300 meters from the bonfire, towards the tent, the corpse of Dyatlov was found, another 180 meters from it - the corpse of Slobodin, and 150 meters from Slobodin - the corpse of Kolmogorova. The last three corpses are located in a straight line from the campfire to the tent. Woodpecker was lying on his back, his head in the direction of an abandoned shelter, with his hand clutching the trunk of a small birch. Slobodin and Kolmogorova were lying face down, their pose testified to the fact that they were crawling to the tent. Money, personal items (pens, pencils, etc.) were found in pockets.

The forensic medical examination established that they died from the action of low temperature (froze), none of them had bodily injuries, not counting minor scratches and abrasions. Slobodin noted a crack in the skull, but he died of cooling. 75 meters from the fire, towards the valley of the fourth tributary of the Lozva River, under a layer of snow of 4-4.5 meters, the corpses of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brenol and Kolevatov were found. ”

A wide variety of assumptions were put forward about the deaths of young people: poisoning, a ball of lightning, the harmful effects of some gases, rays, etc. One version says that perhaps tourists were in the area where secret tests of vacuum weapons were conducted. The fact is that the dead noted a strange reddish skin tone, the presence of internal injuries and bleeding. The same symptoms should be observed when hit by a vacuum bomb, which creates a strong discharge of air over a large area. Blood vessels burst on the periphery of this zone in a person from internal pressure, and at the epicenter the body is torn to pieces. We also analyzed the version of the nuclear explosion. But there were no nuclear tests in the atmosphere at that time in Russia.

The most plausible version looks like a rocket explosion, possibly with a nuclear warhead. Many eyewitnesses testify that rockets flying in the sky were not uncommon in those parts in the 50-60s of the last century. By the way, subsequently, not far from the place of death of the Dyatlov group, in the remote taiga, several dural fragments were found (one of them is stored in the editorial office of the newspaper Uralsky Rabochiy).

Alas, not one of the hypotheses put forward explaining the tragedy has ever found official confirmation. Despite a detailed investigation of the circumstances of the case and all the efforts of journalists and enthusiasts, the mystery of the terrible events of half a century ago still remains unsolved.

One of these places is Mount Otorten, famous for the terrible tragedy - the death of 9 people from the expedition of Professor Dyatlov ... Since 1959, this topic has not been fully disclosed, and no one can say for sure why the expedition members died, but the circumstances of the death were very strange ...
In perestroika, the results of a criminal investigation into the death of students were announced. The investigators called a certain "elemental force", which people were not able to overcome, as the official cause of the death of the Dyatlovites. As you can see, the wording can be interpreted very broadly: either frost is to blame for everything, or an avalanche, or flaws in the organization of the expedition. All this adds fuel to the atmosphere of mystery and mysticism, which is thickening every year.
  Today, there are many versions related to the death of the group. From the mysterious UFOs that many saw in the area in early February to testing new weapons systems.
  A. Sobyanin and other inspectors involved in the discovery of the Dyatlovites told Grigory Lyzlov that the students' skin was painted in some unusual orange color. There is an assumption that the guys who escaped from the tent were blinded for some reason. To light a fire, they had to climb a tree and break off dry branches from it, while on the ground there were many ready-made branches.
“All this information collected from our old inspectors together gives me reason to believe that the guys died as a result of some military tests,” said Grigory Lyzlov. - Although it is possible that everything happened by chance. Over the area where the guys spent the night, at that moment a sound barrier crossed a supersonic plane. As I serve in the missile forces, I know what kind of blow to the psyche is caused by an unexpected explosion overhead: the Universe seems to have exploded. The panic could begin, and the students, jumping out of the tent naked, rushed wherever their eyes looked. And the case was completed by severe frost and an avalanche.
  Former director of the Pechora-Ilych reserve Cornelius Ottovich Megalinsky is also convinced that the military was somehow involved in the deaths of students. True, the evidence for this is only indirect.
  - Usually, the military was reluctant to respond to our requests to help in the search for one or another lost group of tourists. And that time, on their own initiative, they organized a very large-scale search, ”he recalls.
  Versions, one more exotic than the other, appear today. Woodpecker is becoming one of the leading topics in Russian ufology. More and more voices are heard in the Urals to re-examine the remains of tourists who have been resting in Sverdlovsk cemeteries for almost half a century.

edited news Oliana - 21-02-2012, 16:36