Valley of the Tumpja tributary from the top of Otorten
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http: //www..jpgOn the border Sverdlovsk region and the Komi Republic is Mount Otorten. It is far from the highest in the Urals, one might say - one of many. But it is precisely its name that is known to climbers and tourists thousands of kilometers from the Northern Urals.
Ural Alps
This peak rises 1234.2 meters above sea level (see photo). Local residents of the Mansi people have many poetic legends about Mount Otorten.
All who have been here do not hide their admiration. Yes, the area looks harsh, there are strong winds, showers and frosts, tourist routes are not equipped. But everything is bathed in a picturesque landscape. Scattering of stones in lichen spots, bizarre driftwood and a dwarf forest on the slopes of Otorten. Huge, up to five meters in height, boulders at its top.
These places have been nicknamed the "Ural Alps": here, even in July, you can ski on snowfields of dazzling whiteness, see deer, or even a bear. After going down to the lake, plunge into the purest water... The Lozva River starts from it, where they catch swift handsome grayling (see photo).
Tourists usually get here like this: by train from Yekaterinburg to Ivdel, then by passing or ordered transport - to the village of Ushma, and from there it starts hiking trip into the mountains.
But we must honestly say that many are attracted to these harsh lands not only by the beauty of nature, but also by the echoes of the tragedy that played out here more than half a century ago.
"Under unclear circumstances ..."
On January 23, 1959, a group of skiers headed by Igor Dyatlov left Sverdlovsk for the north of the region. Ten people, students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute and a tourism instructor decided to ski 350 km in the north of the region and conquer two Mountain peaks... One of them is Otorten, the second is Holat-Syakhyl, "the mountain of the dead", as its name is sometimes translated (see photo). By all standards, this trip belonged to the highest category of complexity.
Three days later, in the village of loggers, one sick comrade had to be sent home. The rest in the morning began to ski, put on heavy backpacks and hit the road. For four days they walked along the river bank, along the reindeer and sleigh trail; spent the night in a tent. Here is Kholat-Syakhyl. But the powerful wind did not allow to rise.
We began to spend the night right on the slope, so as not to “lose altitude” and the next day to climb the neighboring Otorten. It was only 10 km in a straight line before it, but the path was difficult and very dangerous. At the parking lot, they set up a warehouse for things that were unnecessary during the ascent, and on February 2 went to the pass.
According to the plan, the final destination was to be a village north of Ivdel. From here, the tourists were going to send a telegram to their sports club on February 12 and go to Return trip... Not having received any news, people in Sverdlovsk got worried. After waiting a few days, they contacted the village and found out: the group did not appear! The search began - with the participation of local residents, the military, geologists, hunters, climbers, aviation and service dogs.
On February 25, on the slope of the same Holat-Syakhil, an empty tent with a tarpaulin ramp cut was found. It contained the belongings and documents of the missing tourists. The next day, the bodies of four of them, including Igor Dyatlov, were found a kilometer away. The search did not stop, the last bodies were found on May 4.
What happened?
Dyatlov group (incomplete composition)
The death of Dyatlov's group near Mount Otorten had a great public outcry. It is not surprising: under unclear, largely mysterious circumstances, a large group of people died. The investigation lasted three months, dozens of examinations were carried out, including even a radiological one. It was necessary to restore the events, all participants of which were killed. What conclusions did the investigation come to?
It was clear that at night all nine tourists had suddenly left the tent. What made them hastily go out into the cold (down to –30 °) and into darkness remains unknown. Perhaps a thick layer of snow has slid onto the top of the tent.
The tourists lit a fire, cut branches and young trees, and tried to make a flooring down the slope. Alas, most died from hypothermia, and some from serious injuries, possibly after falling from a height.
As it happens, people try to make up for the lack of information by creating all sorts of versions, sometimes fantastic. Some say that the tragedy is the result of her collision with fugitive prisoners, wild animals, Bigfoot and even aliens. Others blame ball lightning, a tornado, tests of secret weapons, and the intrigues of special services. All of these assumptions are based on the imaginations of their authors, and none can plausibly paint the whole picture.
About two dozen tragedies documentaries and television programs, modest obelisks in the cemeteries of Yekaterinburg remind of her. And a new name appeared on the map of the Northern Urals - the Dyatlov pass near the Otorgen mountain, not far from the place of death of tourists.
Mount Otorten on the map
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Many articles have been written about the tragedy on Mount Otorten, and a film has been made. Experts from various fields are still wondering what happened on February 1, 1959 on one of the slopes of the mountain, the name of which is translated from the Mansi language quite unambiguously - “don't go there”. For young, healthy people eager to fight, such a name is akin to a spell. The mountain, where the ancients did not advise to go, still attracts. Experienced and novice climbers correspond in the forums: I'll go, take the ninth. Then, at the end of the 50s of the last century, there were also nine climbers. They started from the village of Vizhai, Sverdlovsk region, and locals did not fail to tell about nine Mansi hunters who died on the accursed mountain. The Komsomol members only laughed at the superstitions. And let's go.
High ground with low frequencies
It is noteworthy that ten people had to go. But just before the start of the hike, one of them felt unwell and left the route.
Mount Otorten is located on the border between the Komi Republic and the Sverdlovsk Region. From the conquest of this peak, a group of students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute planned to start a hike across the Northern Urals. Today, Mount Otorten has two more names - unofficial: "Mountain of the Dead" and "Dyatlov Pass" - in honor of the leader of a group of tourists who died here in 1959. This is evidenced by the materials of the prosecutor's office, declassified 40 years after the death of tourists. "Using the daylight hours to climb to the" top 1079 "in conditions strong wind, which is common in this area, and a low temperature of about 25-30 degrees below zero, Dyatlov found himself in the disadvantageous conditions of spending the night and decided to pitch a tent on the slope "1079" so that in the morning of the next day, without losing altitude, go to the mountain Otorten, which was 10 km away in a straight line ”.
After the tourists did not get in touch, several rescue teams were organized. It was only three weeks later, on February 26, that the camp of the Dyatlov group was discovered. “The group's tent was found with all the equipment and food. The location and presence of objects in the tent testified that the tent was abandoned suddenly, simultaneously by all tourists, and the leeward side of the tent was cut from the inside in two places, in areas that provide free access for a person through these cuts.
Below the tent, for 500 m in the snow, traces of people walking from the tent to the valley and the forest are well preserved. Inspection of the footprints (there were 8-9 pairs) showed that some of them were left almost with bare feet (for example, in one sock), and others - with felt boots. Neither in the tent, nor near it were found signs of a struggle or the presence of other people. "
The footprints of the people running down the mountainside diverged and converged in such a way as if the fugitives were blinded or completely disoriented. The forensic medical examination established that several people died from the effects of low temperature (froze to death), while none of them had any bodily harm, except for minor scratches and abrasions. However, the death of three of the victims occurred as a result of many severe injuries (fractured ribs, depressed fracture of the skull bones).
Some researchers blame infrasound for the sudden panic flight and death of the guys from the Dyatlov group. It turns out that the aurora reproduces low-frequency electromagnetic waves. It was found that when a person is exposed to infrasound with frequencies close to 6 Hz, the pictures created by the left and right eyes may differ from each other, the horizon begins to "break", problems with orientation in space, unexplained anxiety, fear arise.
Disclosure session
There is a lot of mysterious and incomprehensible in the evidence of the death of the Dyatlov group. For example, some rescuers who went in search of the group claimed that the skin of the corpses was "an unnatural purple or orange color." This, like the strange flares in the sky observed at the same time, confirms the "rocket version". It lies in the fact that at this time in this area, secret tests of new weapons were carried out. They killed the tourists. Supporters of the version of the UFO encounter refer to the same facts.
However, doctor Maria Ivanova Salter, who helped with the autopsy of the dead, says that in fact the skin "was just dark, like ordinary corpses."
One of the researchers of the death of the Dyatlov group, Evgeny Buyanov from St. Petersburg, is also extremely skeptical about these fantastic assumptions. According to him, an avalanche forced the tourists to leave the tent. The exit from the tent was packed with things, so I had to cut it open in order to get out faster and, fleeing from a new avalanche wave, head towards the forest. There, not having the equipment and the ability to make a fire, some of the guys died from hypothermia. Several people have died from their injuries. “The nature of the injuries of all the participants, especially Dubinina and Zolotareva,” explains E. Buyanov, “directly indicates the mechanism of squeezing, and not simple squeezing, but impulsive. A mass of snow rolled over them and went down. And the static weight of the snow residue was already less, otherwise they would not have been able to free themselves and quickly suffocated ... ”The version of E. Buyanov, it would seem, completely clarifies the situation. However, as one of the evidence in support of the "avalanche version", the researcher cites a photo taken at the scene of the tragedy. In the photograph, behind a tent crushed by snow, one can clearly see some dense foggy formations - light and dark. Most of all, it resembles a photo from a haunted house.
The fog did not dissipate
E. Buyanov's version, however, raises doubts. On the one hand, the death of tourists is, of course, tragic, on the other hand, at all times, many people have become victims of a sudden avalanche. But usually the circumstances of their death were not hidden. What actually happened if all the results of the investigation of the tragedy were classified for forty years? The already mentioned doctor M.I.Salter spoke about the autopsy of the bodies of the dead, which was carried out in a closed hospital. Then a certain military man, turning to Dr. Prutkov, whom Salter had assisted, asked to remove her from the premises. From Maria Salter, who did not have time to really see anything, they took an agreement "on nondisclosure and non-discussion of the incident." And they didn’t even show one of the bodies, they immediately took it to Sverdlovsk.
Criminalist LN Lukin, who took part in the investigation, recalls what surprised him most in 1959: “When with the regional prosecutor I reported the initial data to the first secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, A.S. Kirilenko, he gave a clear command - to classify all the work. Kirilenko ordered to bury the tourists in boarded up coffins and tell the relatives that everyone died from hypothermia. " In the conclusion of the experts, it was noted that the samples of clothing examined contain a slightly overestimated amount of radioactive material.
And on February 18, 1959, that is, even before dead tourists discovered, in the newspaper "Tagil Worker" there was an article entitled "An unusual heavenly phenomenon." It reported: “At 6 hours 55 minutes local time yesterday in the east-southeast at an altitude of 20 degrees from the horizon, a luminous ball appeared the size of the apparent diameter of the moon. The ball was moving towards the north-east. At about seven o'clock, a flash occurred near him and a very bright core of the ball became visible. He himself began to glow more intensely, a luminous cloud appeared near him, bent towards the south.
The cloud spread over the whole eastern part the firmament. Soon after, a second outbreak occurred, in the form of a crescent moon. Gradually, the cloud increased, and a luminous point remained in the center (the glow was variable in magnitude). The ball moved east-northeast. Highest height above the horizon - 30 degrees - was reached at about 07.05. Continuing to move, 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. " This information was signed by the Deputy Head of Communications of the Vysokogorny Mine A. Kiselev. This note echoes the story from the investigation file of the meteorological technician Tokarev: “On February 17, at 6 hours 50 minutes, an extraordinary 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 away, gradually began to swell. A large ball enveloped in haze formed. Then a star lit up inside this ball, from which at first a small ball was formed, not so bright. The large ball gradually descended, became like a blurry spot. At 7.05 he disappeared altogether. Moved from the south to the northeast. "
So far, there are many versions, from completely skeptical to fantastic. But none of the researchers over the past 10 years has come close to solving the tragedy that happened 50 years ago.
At the top Otorten(it is located in the northernmost part of the Sverdlovsk region on the border of the Komi Republic and the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug) there is another name, local, in the Mansi language - Holat Syakhyl, Mountain of the Dead.
The places around are forest - deserted and deaf. Frosts in winter reach 50 degrees, and deep snow makes it difficult to approach. But local hunters rarely drop in 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 the slopes of the mountain, under mysterious circumstances, death overtook a group of tourists. They were healthy young people, they went on mountain hikes more than once. A variety of assumptions were put forward about the cause of their unexpected, strange death: poisoning, ball lightning, the harmful effects of some gases, rays. There is such a thing: we entered the area where the secret tests of the "vacuum weapon" were carried out. The fact is that the deceased had a strange reddish tint of the skin, there were internal injuries and bleeding. “The same symptoms should be observed when a“ vacuum bomb ”is struck, which creates a strong vacuum over a large area,” says the “Encyclopedia of the Unknown” in a brief note on this matter. “On the periphery of such a zone, a person’s blood vessels burst from internal pressure, and at the epicenter, the body is torn to pieces.”
None of the put forward versions have been confirmed. The tragic incident remained a mystery both for researchers of anomalous phenomena and for law enforcement agencies.
But if everything secret does not become clear, then sooner or later it opens the veil. In connection with the tragedy on Woe of the dead a prosecutor's investigation was launched. However, for reinsurance or for some other reason, it was classified. Only forty years later did it become possible to study these materials and, to some extent, imagine what happened.
A group of students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute, led by an experienced leader Igor Dyatlov, set off on a campaign in the Northern Urals. 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).
Why tourists headed to the top of Otorten? Perhaps they were attracted by her mystery, the stories of the hunters, even the translation of the name itself - “don't go there” ...
As established by the investigation, “using the daylight hours to climb to the top of" 1079 "in a strong wind, which is common in this area, and low temperatures of the order of 25-30 degrees below zero. Dyatlov found himself in unfavorable conditions for spending the night and decided to pitch a tent on the slope "1079", so that in the morning of the next day, without losing altitude, he could go to Mount Otorten, to which 10 km remained in a straight line. In one of the cameras there is a photograph (taken by the last), which depicts the moment of excavation of snow to set up a tent. "
From the density of the frame, one could assume 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 has been found.
The lack of news from Dyatlov's group for several weeks caused alarm, and several search groups, and then teams from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, planes and helicopters of civil and military aviation, set off along the route of tourists.
On February 26, on the eastern slope of summit "1079", a group tent was found with all equipment and food. The location and presence of objects in the tent - almost all shoes, all outer clothing, personal belongings and diaries - testified that she was left suddenly, simultaneously by the whole group, and, as the forensic examination later established, the leeward side of the tent was cut from the inside, in two places, in areas providing free exit.
In the snow below the tent, for 500 meters, human footprints are well preserved, going from the tent to the valley and into the forest. Inspection of the footprints (they counted eight - nine pairs) showed that some were left almost with bare feet (for example, in a sock), and others - with felt boots. Neither in the tent, nor near it were found signs of a struggle or the presence of strangers. One and a half kilometers from the tent, at the border of the forest, the remains of a fire were found, and near it the corpses of members of the Doroshenko and Krivonischenko group, stripped to their underwear, were found. In 300 meters from the fire, in the direction of the tent, the body of Dyatlov was found, another 180 meters from him was the body of Slobodin, and 150 meters from Slobodin — the body of Kolmogorova. The last three corpses are located in a straight line from the fire to the tent. Dyatlov was lying on his back, his head towards the tent, his hand clasped the trunk of a small birch. The poses of Slobodin and Kolmogorova indicated that they were crawling towards the tent. They found money and personal belongings in their pockets (fountain pens, pencils, etc.).
The forensic medical examination established that they died from the effects of low temperature, none of them had any bodily injuries, apart from minor scratches and abrasions. True, Slobodin had a fractured skull, but he died from a chill.
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 bodies of Dubinina, Zolotarev, Thibault-Brenol and Kolevatov were found.
The protocol contains a description of the clothes of the deceased, the time is noted on a stopped clock - for each. And another very important thing - for the four victims: as the autopsy established, death occurred as a result of many bodily injuries (fractured ribs, depressed fracture of the skull bones). All of these protocol details are important in relation to the conclusion reached.
“... An investigation carried out on February 1 and 2, 1959, in the area of the" 1079 "height, did not establish other people, except for the Dyatlov group of tourists. It was also established that the Mansi population, living 80-100 km from this place, treats Russians friendly , provides tourists with accommodation, helps them, etc. The place where the group died is considered by the Mansi unsuitable for hunting and reindeer herding in winter. Taking into account the absence of external bodily injuries and signs of struggle on the corpses, the presence of all the values of the group, 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 criminal prosecutor Ivanov and the head of the investigation department Lukin.
An inexplicable "spontaneous force" ... And what did the newspapers write in those days? It turns out that on February 18, 1959, the newspaper Tagilskiy Rabochiy published an article titled "An Unusual Celestial Phenomenon" signed by A. Kiselev, Deputy Head of Communications of the Vysokogorny Mine. It reported: “At 6 hours 55 minutes local time yesterday in the east - southeast at an altitude of 20 degrees from the horizon, a luminous ball appeared the size of the apparent diameter of the moon. The ball was moving towards the north-east. At about seven o'clock, a flash occurred near him, and a very bright core of the ball became visible. He himself began to glow more intensely, a luminous cloud appeared near him, bent towards the south.
The cloud spread over the entire eastern part of the sky. Shortly thereafter, a second outbreak occurred, it looked like a crescent moon. Gradually, the cloud increased, and a luminous point remained in the center (the glow was variable in magnitude). The ball moved east-northeast. The highest altitude above the horizon - 30 degrees - was reached at about 07.05 hours. Continuing to move, 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 editor of the newspaper - he did not report, did not consult.
Therefore, the search engines of the disappeared group of tourists turned not to meteorologists, seismologists or astrophysicists, but to the Sverdlovsk city committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union with the following telephone message: 03/31/1959, at 4:00 in the southeast direction, Meshcheryakov on duty noticed a large ring of fire, which for 20 minutes moved on us, then hiding behind the height "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. Unusual phenomenon watched by many people raised on alarm. We ask you to explain this phenomenon and its safety, as in our conditions it makes a disturbing impression. Avenburg, Pogapov, Sogrii ".
The city committee comrades could not answer without consulting the regional committee, and those - without coordinating their decision with the top leadership. And the "valuable instruction" was issued.
Here is what the former prosecutor LN Ivanov told us: “When we examined the surroundings of the scene, we found that some young trees on the border of the forest were burned, as it were - these tracks did not have a concentric or other shape, there was no epicenter. This was also confirmed by the direction of the beam or 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 descended five hundred meters down from the mountain, then some of them were dealt with in a directed manner ... The regional prosecutor and I reported the initial data to the first secretary of the regional committee, he gave a clear command - to classify the work, to bury the tourists in boarded up coffins and to tell the relatives that everyone died from hypothermia. "
Ivanov then conducted extensive studies of clothing and individual organs of the victims for radiation. According to the expert opinion, the examined samples of clothing contained a slightly overestimated amount of radioactive substance due to beta radiation. But suspicions of induced radioactivity or neutron beam flux were not confirmed. Geologists with radiometers carefully combed Mount Otorten and the surrounding area, but they did not find excess radiation.
They also analyzed the version of a nuclear explosion somewhere in the area - this was constantly rumored among local population... But nuclear tests in the atmosphere at that time were not carried out on the territory of Russia. Experts also rejected the assumption associated with a radioactive cloud that came from Novaya Zemlya, where tests were carried out since 1954 nuclear weapons(last nuclear explosion there was recorded on October 25, 1958).
Later it turned out that one of the participants in this campaign, A. Kolevatov, dealt 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 have remained from those times.
When climbers or tourists die while hiking and climbing, questions naturally arise: what is the reason for what happened, who is to blame for the misfortune? Investigations are usually 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 technician-meteorologist Tokarev: “On February 17, at 6 hours 50 minutes, an extraordinary 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 away, gradually began to swell. A large ball enveloped in haze formed. Then a star lit up inside this ball, from which at first a small ball was formed, not so bright. The big ball gradually descended, became like a blur. At 7.05 he disappeared altogether. Moved from the south to the northeast. "
Servicemen Savchenko and Atamaki, students of the Faculty of Geography of the Sverdlovsk Pedagogical Institute, reported to the prosecutor's office similar information about the unusual movement of objects observed then in the sky. 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 connection with this state of emergency at Otorten, Lev Nikitich began to treat the "fireballs" with increased attention. He collected information from many eyewitnesses about overflights, hovering of UFOs in Subpolar Urals... Careful examination of the case led to the belief that the death of tourists is associated with the impact of UFOs.
“And I suppose it all happened like this,” Lev Nikitich told the Ural journalists. - The guys had supper and went to bed. One of them came out of natural necessity (there were footprints) and saw something that made everyone leave the tent and run downstairs. I think it was a glowing ball. And he did overtake them at the edge of the forest ... Three are seriously injured. The case must contain the testimony of a forensic expert. In his opinion, it was something like a strong shock wave or blow, like in a car accident. Well, then the struggle for survival began ... I have never met a more vivid manifestation of courage, such a fierce struggle for my life and comrades. But the strength aches the strength ... Two who were found under the cedar tried to light a fire, climbed the cedar for the twigs, and scraps of their skin and muscles remained on the bark ... Their comrade, who had fallen behind the group due to illness, helped the investigation a lot. He knew who was wearing what, helped to establish who was wearing what. All the clothes were mixed up - they undressed the dead in order to save the living. "
Ufologists have made this assumption. It is possible that the tourists who ran out of the tent were blinded by UFO beams. They experienced a sense of horror, comparable to that experienced by people during earthquakes: when the power of speech is lost. There are cases when, under the influence of UFO rays, eyewitnesses' eyesight deteriorated, even temporary blindness occurred.
If we accept this version, then the reason for the stampede of the guys from the cut tent becomes clear. After some time after the shock, they began to come to their senses. But blindness disorientated them. Perhaps the stronger members of the group started to pass it - they crawled towards the tent. But they did not have enough strength to overcome the rise. The unnatural skin color of the victims also indicates the received radiation. Similar cases of burns and radiation similar to laser radiation are also known to ufologists.
However, it is now the former prosecutor Ivanov who can aloud suggest that the tourists were killed by a strong shock wave from an exploded UFO. At the same time, he was forced to tear out the sheets with expert opinions that were unsuitable for the "spontaneous" version (the experts themselves signed a nondisclosure agreement), classified the case and handed it over to the archive. And there was something to be extra vigilant from. After all, the course of the investigation was controlled by Moscow, the Union and Russian prosecutors. The former correspondent of Uralsky Rabochy, G. Grigoriev, claims that Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev himself was in the know. And directly "supervised" the investigation by the then second secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee, comrade. Eshtokin: listened to Ivanov's reports, gave valuable instructions. These are the high officials involved in the death of an ordinary tourist group.
When searching for the causes of the tragedy, they also remembered an amazing phenomenon that residents of the North often encounter. In winter, during the long polar night, when the aurora appears, some people fall into a strange state. They completely detach themselves from the world around them, talk excitedly with an invisible interlocutor, sway to the beat of the music they hear only. Often they wander like sleepwalkers, without choosing a path, leaving home for the tundra. Coming to their senses after some time, they vaguely remember that they heard sounds of fabulous beauty and obeyed the Polar Star, calling to its true habitat - ancient land ancestors. The phenomenon was called “Call of the Ancestors”.
There are attempts to scientifically explain the strange effects of the aurora on the human psyche. The reason for this may be, firstly, low-frequency electromagnetic waves reproduced by the polar lights. Their range is 8-13 hertz, akin to the frequencies of the alpha and beta rhythms of the brain. Hence, man's irresistible desire 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 in a peculiar way perceive sound in the infrasonic range, so the consequences for the body can be the most unpredictable. The existence of the "Flying Dutchmen" - ships without a command - is also explained by the birth of infrasounds from storm waves. Under their influence, people experience an incomprehensible fear and even horror, and in a panic, in the end, they leave the ship. Maybe something similar happened to tourists in the Urals in 1959? ..
There is another version linking all the testimony and documentary evidence. Quite earthly, not anomalous, however, also from the category of "X-Files". A rocket exploded in the air near the mountain where the group had settled for the night. Perhaps with a warhead. This could explain the blast wave, and radioactivity, and the strange skin color of the victims, and the mysterious glow in the sky - they say that such phenomena are observed in the area of the Plesetsk test site during tests. However, it has not yet been possible to find out whether any tests were carried out in that region. True, many eyewitnesses testify that rockets flying in the sky were not uncommon in the 50s and 60s in those parts.
Subsequently, not far from the place of death of Dyatlov's group, several duralumin fragments were found in the deep taiga (they say, one of them is in the editorial office of Uralsky Rabochy).
Mountain Otorten located in the Northern Urals. You can get there on foot from the abandoned village of Ushma (100 km from Ivdel) through.
The pass and the nearby Mountain of the Dead are notorious for the fact that in 1959 the tourists of the Dyatlov group tragically died there. What is known about Otorten? One of the most competent researchers of the Northern Urals, Alexander Matveev, claims that this name, which was established on the map at an altitude of 1234 m, is erroneous. In fact, the Mansi call this mountain Lunt-Khusap-Syakhyl, which in translation means "Mountain of the goose's nest".
The fact is that the southeastern slope of this mountain is steep and drops off to the Goose Nest Lake, from where the Lozva River originates. According to the Mansi legend, during the time of the global flood, the only goose survived in this lake, and Otorten from the Mansi point of view, it is a completely different mountain - 1182 m high, located several kilometers northeast of the 1234 m peak. " The mountain blowing the wind"
Fragment (about 7 minutes) of the film TAU "Mystical campaign 2 series"
In 1999, exactly 40 years after the tragedy of the Dyatlov group, tourists from the same UPI, led by Sergey Markov, decided to repeat their route. They called their journey "The Mystical Campaign." The film in 2 episodes can be found and watched on YouTube.
Markovites set out on the route at the same dates at the end of January and, having climbed the Dyatlov pass, even tried to find the place of the Dyatlov group tent as accurately as possible. We set up camp and spent two nights at this place. From February 1 to February 2, the night when the tragedy occurred exactly 40 years ago. This time everything turned out well. The next day the guys made a radio bridge with Yekaterinburg, surveyed the surrounding area, found a cedar, near which the Dyatlovites were supposedly trying to escape and nailed an icon to it, honoring the memory of the victims. Then Markov's group went to Otorten. While climbing Otorten, tourists saw an unusual atmospheric phenomenon - the Halo effect.
Otorten's daughters. Mansi legend.
In b / w photo we are on Otorten on a 3 campaign / s 1989 (Dyatlova-Otorten-Manpupuner-Torre-Porre-Iz-rafting to Ust-Unya)
Once upon a time there lived a young shepherd named Otorten... He had a bow and sharp arrows, he was known as a brave and strong man. He knew the habits of animals, could talk with the wind and birds. He was cunning and dexterous. So he lived completely lonely until, at last, walking along the Tosemya River, he met a beautiful girl with blue eyes like lakes, besides, tender and slender. It looks like the Tosemya river has turned into a girl. She shouted to him: "Hide, Otorten! The Siverko wind is flying behind you! Come to me, hide under the shore, I will cover you!" And Otorten turned into a large stone, and the waters of the Tosemya River murmured him. And then two streams formed, as it were, their two daughters: Pechora and Vishera. From year to year they widened and at last they say to the father: "Let go free!"
Otorten hardened and threw stones, chained his daughters into stone cliffs. A couple of years passed like this. Geese arrived and said: "We don't have enough water!" And the geese of the Mansi people are sacred birds. And Otorten softened and said to his daughters: "Okay, I will open my stone shoulders and let you out, let there be a lot of fish in you, let forests grow along the banks and geese and other birds swim and build nests on you." The daughters were delighted, burst out into the open, flowed through the meadows. They did not know that their father had two other daughters - Lozva and Sosva, but they were on the other side of the mountain. Sosva was probably more loved by her father and gave her an outlandish fish - the famous Sosvinskaya herring. Nowhere else is there such a thing. Well, something like this.
One of these places is Mount Otorten, known 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 participants of the expedition died, but the circumstances of the death were very strange ...
During perestroika, the results of a criminal investigation into the death of students were made public. The official cause of death of the Dyatlovites was named by the investigators as a "spontaneous force" that people were unable to overcome. The wording, as we can see, can be interpreted very broadly: either the frost is to blame, or an avalanche, or shortcomings in the organization of the expedition. All this adds oil to the atmosphere of mystery and mysticism, which thickens every year.
Today there are many versions associated with the death of the group. From the mysterious UFOs that many saw in the area in early February, to the testing of new weapons systems.
A. Sobyanin and other inspectors who participated in the detection of the Dyatlovites told Grigory Lyzlov that the students' skin was colored in some unusual orange color. There is an assumption that the guys who escaped from the tent got blind for some reason. To light a fire, they had to climb a tree and break off dry branches from it, while there were many ready-made branches on the ground.
- All this information, collected from our old inspectors together, gives me reason to believe that the guys died as a result of some kind of military tests, - said Grigory Lyzlov. - Although it is possible that everything happened by accident. Above the area where the guys were spending the night, a supersonic plane was crossing the sound barrier at that moment. While serving in the missile forces, I know what a blow to the psyche is inflicted by an unexpected explosion overhead: it seems that the universe exploded. Panic could begin, and the students, jumping out of the tent naked, rushed wherever they looked. A hard frost and an avalanche finished the job.
The former director of the Pechora-Ilychsky nature reserve, Korneliy Ottovich Megalinsky, is also convinced that the military was somehow involved in the deaths of the students. True, he has only indirect evidence of this.
- Usually the military was reluctant to respond to our requests for help in finding this or that 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. "Dyatlovedenie" is becoming one of the leading topics of Russian ufology. Increasingly, voices are heard in the Urals about re-examining the remains of tourists who have been buried in Sverdlovsk cemeteries for almost half a century.
edited news Olyana - 21-02-2012, 16:36
