The death of group of Dyatlov - the tragedy that became an intellectual hobby

The Death of Dyatlov's group is one of the most interesting mysteries of the twentieth century. Not an exaggeration the idea that the study and investigation of the circumstances of the tragedy became a kind of hobby, an intellectual exercise for many people.

The history of the last camping trip of Igor Dyatlov

In January 1959, a group of Soviet students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, going on a camping trip to mount Otorten in the Sverdlovsk region. The group consisted of ten people, six students (including the team leader – Igor Dyatlov), three graduates and one instructor nearby tourist base. From Sverdlovsk they left by train on January 23. The last Bastion of civilization for young men were geological settlement Second North. By the way, here one of the participants tourist trip 28 Jan experienced health problems and was forced to return to Sverdlovsk. Looking ahead, say that it saved the life of Yuri Yudin. He lived to venerable years and died in April 2013. The other nine members of the group moved from the village on skis on the way to the mountain Kholat syakhl and Otorten.

The Death of the Dyatlov group

When tourists didn't come home at a reasonable time and didn't even give any signals that they are safely returned to civilization, the Institute began to panic. And had to return February 12. The first steps for the organization of search works was undertaken on 19 February 1959. The tent guys were found February 25, empty and strangely cut a few times with one hand. The bodies of the participants of the campaign was even until the beginning of may. At different distances from the tent, with strange sign of death – some had horrific injuries to the skull or chest, while others froze in the snow, one of the members of the group literally was no language (with a compressed jaw, and it indicated that it could not be animals). Moreover, they very quickly left the tent literally no clothes on, what was at the time. In fact, the reasons that forced tourists to flee or to leave (and the traces at a distance of hundreds of meters from the tents indicate that they are not ran) from your shelter in the night and frost are the Central issue of this story, which came from a group of Dyatlov.

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The Cause of death of children for more than fifty years is hidden from the General public. Moreover, there is no single coherent theory that would fit all the features of the incident: the strange color of the skin was found later, the position of the bodies, no obvious traces of strangers, of unknown origin cranial and thoracic trauma, the strange slits of the tent, it is unclear from grafted traces of radiation on the jerseys guys. And I must say that versions of these, there are several dozen. Among the most elaborate: all relevant man-made disaster, criminal (tourists can be victims of high-ranking military poachers, escaped prisoners, and even foreign spies), avalanche, ball lightning, and many others. But none of the theories of the death of Dyatlov's group, to date not able to logically and consistently to describe all the events of that day. And particularly the circumstances that forced the tourists to leave the tent. However, supporters of a number of conspiracy theories believe that the truth about the death of the Dyatlov group known to the government, which has sheltered in due time, the real causes of the tragedy. The investigator Lev Ivanov, who led the case in 1959, and could not reveal the true picture of the incident (or couldn't tell?). In the conclusion of the case till today there is strange wording that the death of Dyatlov's group was caused by unknown natural power which tourists are unable to overcome.