Unclassified materials. Theory of everything
This is the final article from the cycle “Unclassified materials”, the three previous articles “Truth is somewhere nearby”, “The secret of the investigation” and “The dead do not lie” were devoted to the analysis of individual moments of events fifty years ago on the Dyatlov Pass. It is time to summarize.
Hypothetical weapon
In previous articles of the cycle, it was assumed that all tourists were killed with high-speed miniature bullets. While this is a hypothesis.
The hypothesis was born on the basis of the analysis of posthumous poses of bodies and the nature of injuries on the bodies of tourists. Specific injuries of tourists' bodies correspond to the signs of a shock called “water hammer” among professionals, which is by its physical nature a shock wave inside the human body. This is a rather exotic type of injury, they are caused by the defeat of the body by high-speed small-caliber bullets.
An additional characteristic sign of the killing of tourists by high-speed miniature bullets is the stopping of a mechanical wristwatch at the time of the impact of the body by a shock wave. The clock stops from the banal "shake", and this effect is well known.
We can speak about the miniature size of high-speed bullets on the basis of the absence of visible injuries on the bodies, real-life bullets with a diameter of about a millimeter at a speed of 1,5km / sec leave subtle punctures on the body.
Only the exit channel can become visible, provided the bullet decelerates and loses stability in the body. This is documented in the photo of the body Dubinina:
A photo from the investigation materials, this injury on the back is also recorded in the protocol of the body inspection at the place of detection, but is silent about it in the autopsy report.
While the talk was about “wound ballistics”, but the flight in the atmosphere of a high-speed bullet also has specific features, the main one of which is the occurrence of an air shock wave. Usually, speaking of a shock wave, an explosion is implied, but the passage of high-speed objects through the atmosphere also creates shock waves.
Here is a photograph of the motion of a ball with a diameter of 5mm with a speed of 3km / s, it clearly shows the structure of the shock wave from the span of a high-speed object:
A recent good example of this type of shock wave was the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which flew at an altitude of about 20 km and at a speed of 30km / sec. Numerous destruction of buildings and injuries to people from a shock wave were recorded along the entire span route, an explosion was not observed.
When moving in the air, miniature bullets also create a shock wave, but, of course, not of such a global scale, the traces of this shock wave are fixed at the scene:
A series of breaches in the crust cannot be traces of the feet of a person or an animal, their elongation is oriented across the path of movement and there is no “checker” order of tracks that occurs when the right-left leg is interchanged.
These traces can give an estimated speed of miniature bullets, assuming that the breach in the crust is caused by the impact of a shock wave. A rough calculation shows that a pointed bullet with a diameter of one millimeter should move at a speed of about 15-20 km / s. so that the shock wave from its movement could break the crust on an area of 800 square centimeters.
This speed is exactly ten times greater than that of the most advanced of the well-known modern rifle systems, and at the muzzle, and not at the point of hitting the target. There are no such shooting systems now, especially they were not in 50 ...
Bullets at such speeds, in addition to the main damaging factor, also have a side, non-lethal effect of damage. Flying in close proximity to a person, such a bullet can cause injuries by means of an air shock wave that occurs throughout the entire length of the passage of the bullet. This damaging factor has a special name among specialists - “barotrauma”.
Unlike explosive barotrauma, such specific barotrauma has a unique feature, they are not audible. The human ear does not perceive sounds with a duration of less than 0,1 seconds, no matter what frequency or intensity this sound is. And the bullet has a span time of less than 0,1 seconds of its entire shot distance. In fact, a person will not hear anything, but will receive a barotrauma.
Now about the energy (destructive power) of such a bullet. With a diameter of one millimeter and 1 sweep to 30, it turns out that the weight of the bullet will be about one gram, if we assume that it is made of steel. At a speed of 20 km / s, this will roughly correspond to the energy of the 22 projectile with a millimeter-speed gun. Her shells are tearing the human body into pieces, but in our case there are not even visual marks ...
But this seeming discrepancy, it is known from wound ballistics that small-diameter pointed bullets (4,5mm) “pierce” the human body through losing no more than 1 / 10 of its energy, and when the diameter of the bullet decreases, the energy loss in the human body is even smaller and proportional to the square cross-sectional area of such a bullet.
So the damage on the bodies of the dead tourists correspond to the energy of the shot, and in the case of complete absorption of the energy of the shot, there will be something like this:
This is a snapshot of a cedar, from which the tourists watched the top of the height 1079, the two extreme branches are broken in the middle, the other three at the very base. So the impact of a bullet that completely transferred energy to the barrel fell somewhere in the center of symmetry, in the middle.
By the way, this cedar was never seen again, 1079 was opened for visiting in the 1963 year, and the expedition to the place of the tragedy did not find this cedar, it was sawed down. There are many pictures of cedar trees similar to this ill-fated cedar, but they are just alike. In reality, there is not a single later snapshot of cedar with such a characteristic break of the branches on the north side.
So, if we assume that the hypothesis of using high-speed miniature bullets is correct, then we must immediately take into account that neither the USSR nor the United States, at that time, and even now, do not possess such a perfect weapon.
So, it was used by some third force.
Third Force
We have to switch to a conspiracy theme, and for objective reasons, the facts themselves, and not speculation, are pushing for these arguments.
In addition to the hypothesis of the use of an unknown type of weapon, the facts preceding the campaign, the facts of events during a search operation and the materials of the investigation indirectly but eloquently speak eloquently about the participation in the events of the “third force”.
At first, about the organization of the campaign, everything was simple and ordinary there, until at the last stage of preparation for the campaign one very remarkable person, Semen Zolotaryov, asked to call him “just Sasha” when meeting him.
It is remarkable, in this connection, that the investigation materials constantly use the phrase “group of amateur tourists”, it appeared there not by chance. Zolotarev, officially, was an instructor in tourism, his professional activity was accompanying tourist groups. But he went on this trip as a private person, having already quit the camp site on which he worked. So the campaign formally had no official status.
Zolotarev neither by age, nor by life experience, nor by the circle of acquaintances in this group could not by chance be found. Judging by his front-line and post-war biography, he was a KGB officer working undercover. At the time of his last campaign, Zolotarev spent less than a year in the Urals, and after going with Dyatlov's group, he had to return to his native Krasnodar region again.
If Zolotarev was really from the KGB, then sending an employee to another region of the country, working on the ground under the perfect cover (tourism instructor), overgrown with “contacts”, is an extraordinary event.
Taking into account the situation at this moment in the Krasnodar Territory, when the process of mass return of Chechens and Ingushs took place there, such a move is possible only when planning an event, as previously mentioned, “Union-wide”.
So there is good reason to believe that this campaign of “amateur tourists” was a planned event with a very high level of importance.
If this is true, then the group of tourists went with a clear goal, it is clear that only Zolotarev knew about this goal in the group, the rest of the tourists were just extras and were used what is called “dark”. It is more than likely that the tourists were secretly accompanied by a group of KGB officers with special training.
What was this event is unknown, but apparently a meeting with the "Factor" in this scenario was planned. It is unlikely that this contact according to the plans should have ended so sadly, something went wrong as planned, and the tourists died.
And here is the most interesting, the state "washed hands." The type of event has nothing to do with it, that this is a “demolition” between the “group of amateur tourists” and the “Factor”.
In the versions of events on the Dyatlov Pass, the term “dramatization” often flashes, yes it was, but the dramatization was not in the events themselves, but as a result, the state staged its complete non-participation in the events. Although during the search operation and the investigation there were a lot of facts indicating the unspoken participation of the state in the events themselves and the parallel investigation, the second article of the cycle was devoted to this, so I will not repeat.
This can be only in one case, “Factor” also did not leave 1079 alive, and he could not tell anything to his owners. But this is what is called a crazy hypothesis, it could be all quite wrong ...
But back to the facts, it is time to reconstruct events on the Dyatlov Pass, the main thing in the reconstruction will be the binding of the clock to the time of the death of tourists and taking into account the specifics of using high-speed miniature bullets.
Eh search engines .., search engines
The beginning of the events on the pass is hard to recover, the cause is trivial, the events developed near the tent, but there are no documentary materials about the initial state of the scene. There, first managed (in the truest sense of the word) search engines. The investigation had to record the circumstances significantly distorted by the actions of search engines and to record them in many ways contradictory testimony. In the subsequent memories of search engines even more confused the picture of what happened.
For example, the search engines found a snow-covered tent, only the edge of the tent on the intact rack was peeking out of the snow, but, here’s the tent as recorded by the result:
This is not at all what the search engines from the Slobtsov group, who discovered it first, saw. This can be asserted with absolute certainty for one reason, in the materials of the investigation there is an inventory of things from the tent that the search engines transmitted to the investigation, this inventory:
Imagine how much it was necessary to stir up the tent to get all this out of its depths. It remains to believe only the words of the search engines, and they are cunning, it is obvious. Here is an example associated with drinking alcohol from an abandoned tent.
One of the search engines, Slobtsov, recalls that in the evening after finding the tent, they drank a flask of alcohol taken from the tent. But in the transferred things there is no mention of the flask, but in the act of inspecting the tent the consequence is a record of the flask with the "smell of alcohol" ...
I think the comments are superfluous, they not only distorted the state of the scene, but also falsified the actual picture of the events ... ..
But that's fine, later figured out that the tourists were sober at the time of the tragedy. But the discrepancies in the testimony on the account of a pair of skis are of a fundamental nature, here one has to guess, as they say “on the coffee grounds”.
The fact is that one pair of skis was not laid under the floor of the tent, this was not accidental, they were used by tourists as racks of the central stretch of a long tent (the picture is further in the text). But we do not know in what condition these skis were at the moment of detection. Two search engines, the first to find the tent give conflicting testimony. Slobtsov says that they were in the same form as in the snapshot of the investigation file, and Sharavin claims that they were lying in the snow in front of the tent entrance (its diagram is lower in the text). So figure it out, and this is a crucial moment in the reconstruction of events.
So there are few indisputable facts, but we already have an understanding of what and how they were killed, we will proceed from the assumption that they drove the same unknown weapon out of the tent.
How it all started
First, about the well-known facts that for us is indisputable:
- The tent is not installed to the end, without a central stretch of skis, otherwise a long four-meter tent will hang in the middle. A pair of skis for these stretch marks was prepared, but it remained to lie on the snow in front of the tent entrance (according to the search engines, but in the photo from the investigation file above, they are stuck in the snow). Here’s what this tent should look like:
This is a snapshot from another hike, but the names on it are this unfortunate tent, set according to all the rules.
To prevent the tent from sagging, a support was made from the ski pole, cutting it off at the handle. This trimmed ski stick was found by search engines inside the tent. They did not have spare ski poles .... So, all the same, they were returning to the labazu, there was a spare set of skis, only in this case it was possible to sacrifice a ski pole, without which you could not walk away across the snow-covered mountains.
- Two people at the time of flight from the tent were fully dressed, one of them had a camera and a compass with him (Zolotarev).
- At the initial stage of leaving the tent, two pairs of tracks did not start from the tent, but a little to the side, only later, through 40-80 meters, their tracks converged with the others. Apparently, at the time of flight from the tent of the main group, two people were on the mountainside, outside the tent.
- Immediately before leaving the tent, the tourists reloaded the camera, the film found near the tent speaks about it, the rest of the films were in a tin or were in cameras.
- One film is clearly not enough in the materials of the investigation, there are only individual frames from it, and they are characterized as the last, the investigation in the decision to dismiss refers to one of its frames (clearing the place under the tent). This way, another problem in the investigation, the removal of documents from the case in this case is obvious.
- There were no pictures taken from the camera found on Zolotarev’s body, he was lying in running water, this camera is not even mentioned in the investigation materials. But investigator Ivanov refused to return this camera to the relatives of Nikolai Tibo, to whom he belonged, referring in conversation to his strong radioactive contamination. Is it really unknown?
- For undressed tourists, the exit from the tent was unexpected, they did not manage to take anything with them, jumped out in what they were in the tent. Of the things there was only a Finnish knife and two flashlights.
- At the time of leaving the tent, it was already littered with snow and was approximately in the same condition that the search engines found. This is evidenced by a lantern found on the slope of the tent, on top of a layer of snow. The lantern was off.
- "Factor" began to operate in the 10-11 hours, before dinner, judging by the cut but not eaten brisket. Part of the blankets was not yet decomposed (according to search engine memories).
These are facts known to all, but this is what emerged from the analysis of known circumstances of events:
- “Factor” appeared at a distance of more than a kilometer from the tent on the line of sight in the region of the northern, flatter peak.
- Tourists left the tent in the direction of the nearest shelter from direct sight from the northern summit (into the ravine).
- “Factor” used to kill people with high-speed kinetic weapons of unknown origin.
- “Factor” at the initial stages did not seek to kill tourists, only frightened away from the place of its location with warning shots over their heads.
- Even after killing two tourists trying to return to the slope, he allowed the rest of the tourists to approach the stricken (immobilized) and pick him up.
- Further movement up the slope after crossing the clear boundary of what was permitted in 150-180 meters was also stopped by the use of a weapon, perhaps before it was given a warning shot overhead.
- With the defeat of the body by high-speed bullets, in addition to the instantaneous death from a “water hammer”, a person stopped a wrist watch.
- In addition to the unusual damaging factor when it hit the body, the high-speed bullet created a blast wave when moving, not heard by the ear due to the short duration, but also having a striking factor in the form of “barotrauma”.
Now you can put forward the "theory of everything", in which we will enter all the available facts and clarified circumstances.
Theory of everything
Let's start this sad history. Tired tourists walked, they were really tired, the forest was less than a kilometer away, but no one went for firewood, respectively, they did not install a stove for the night.
The tent itself was also not fully set up, instead of central delays from already prepared skis, an internal support was used, for the manufacture of which they spoiled the ski pole. I admit that it was not fatigue, perhaps the tourists were afraid of something and did not want to give out their location with smoke from the stove and upright skis.
Having set up a tent, they laid out their things, ate snacks with breadcrumbs, whiled away the time in conversations before the 10-11 hours. Then they began to get ready for bed, but before that they cut the last remaining loin, to have a snack for satiety before a cold night (no more loin was found in the tent). They did not have time to eat it, something happened in the distance, more than a kilometer from the tent, on a flat top to the north.
The visual and sound effect of this unidentified phenomenon was such that no one wanted to get out of the tent, or Zolotarev ordered not to stick out. The tent buried in the snow seemed to them a safe shelter, and in any case it was safer there than on a bare slope.
Tourists watched this unidentified phenomenon from the tent, making cuts in the slope facing the top. Two of them, Zolotarev and Tibo, began to prepare to leave the tent in order to get closer to this object.
They got dressed, took a compass for orientation in the dark and limited visibility. We reloaded the camera with a new film and took it with us; when recharging from the can, one of the films fell out and the search engines subsequently found it. The camera and compass were found by search engines on Zolotaryov’s body.
The two left the tent, their goal was to get close to an unidentified object and take a picture of it. The remaining tourists felt safe, did not even try to get dressed, apparently the very thought of going out into the open space did not inspire them, but in the tent they felt protected.
How much time was gone was unknown, but events began to develop when they were in 20-40 meters from the tent. The factor used the weapon, the shooting was carried out not on people, but on top of their heads, in order to drive them down the slope. Whether by accident, or intentionally, the shots fell into the snow above the slope, above the tent.
Shots with high-speed bullets created shock waves of a very short duration that could not be seen by the human ear as sound. But these shock waves, falling into the snow, caused a snow slide on the slope at the tent site. The layer of snow clipped during installation of the tent moved and brought down the tent. In the above image, there is a characteristic sign of snow shift, the tent posture stand from the ski pole bent down, and apparently broke inside, so even search engines could not pull it out, after dismantling the tent, here's a picture:
In the picture, she sticks out of the snow to the right of the pile of things in the center of the frame, the fact that no one tried to pull it out is incredible;
After the tent collapsed, the tourists started to get out from under the snow, cutting through the side of the tent, one of them grabbed a flashlight, but, getting out of the tent, put it on the slope covered with a layer of snow, so the search engines found it.
The shots drove the group down the slope, Zolotarev and Tibo joined them and ran the whole group together to the nearest shelter. Apparently, Zolotarev, on a front-line habit, sought shelter in the lowland in order to withdraw from the direct shot.
Here is a diagram of their departure, drawn by one of the search engines:
On the diagram, the author (Sharavin) emphasizes that the departure of tourists was carried out not in the direction of the cedar, but to the left, directly to the ravine gate. He also shows the location of the skis in front of the tent entrance. Along the way, tourists lost another flashlight, it was found by search engines at a distance of about four meters from the tent, and they no longer had the opportunity to pick it up. The flashlight was on.
Apparently they shot over their heads, but the bullets, flying near the person, with his shock wave inflicted serious injuries in the form of pain in the area of the eyes and ears, concussion of the brain. Blood could flow from the ears and nose, there could be disturbances with coordination of movements, hearing and vision.
The shelling stopped only after people left the line of sight in a ravine, the tourists still ran three hundred meters by inertia and stopped, stumbling on a convenient place to hide.
It is possible that four: Zolotarev, Thibault, Kolevatov, Dubinin received superficial damage in the form of a light contusion and relatively entire tourists built a shelter for them with a flooring, where they lay down. The rest of the tourists chose a cedar to observe the behavior of the “factor” from its trunk.
By the way, this may explain the strange division of the group, the obvious leader in such a situation - Zolotarev was disabled for a while and the rest of the tourists acted on their own. Recumbent 3-4 hours, he could not fix anything from the fact that by the time the tourists did under the command of Dyatlov.
Reconstruction of events after the departure of tourists in the ravine
We fix the initial conditions that have developed by 5 in the morning:
- There was a thaw, the temperature of the air at night could not be lower than -10 degrees, this is evidenced by characteristic traces in the form of columns, which could appear only from squeezing "sticky" snow.
- Accordingly, for such warm weather it was overcast, the moon in 1 / 3 with its full luminosity rose around 5 in the morning, the predawn twilight would come only in 8 in the morning.
“Tourists were well-equipped for such warm weather, he could spend the night under such weather conditions guaranteed, and with a fire and flooring even comfortable, no worse than in an unheated tent on the windswept mountainside.
- The group consists of two fully dressed and shod man. They could provide a guaranteed retreat of the entire group to a warehouse, less than two kilometers away, or they could return to the tent. But these attempts have been made.
- The group retreated to the ravine in full strength, since the 6 bodies were found there, and three bodies on the slope followed a single straight track, the beginning of which was near a fire near the cedar. In addition, the clothes of Kolmogorova closest to the summit showed traces of cedar needles, which indicates its presence near the fire.
- All the tourists at the time of retreat to the ravine were without injuries, this is indicated by the fact that the injured tourists were left in the complete set of their clothes. According to the conclusion of doctors with such injuries, you can live no more than 15 minutes, then death is inevitable. But after the death of their comrades near the fire, the remaining tourists immediately cut off the clothes from the dead, fragments of these clothes were found near the injured tourists in the stream bed. So they definitely died last.
- The group was divided, the almost impossible happened, young tourists refused to obey Zolotarev, the oldest in status in this extreme situation, a professional instructor, a war veteran.
- Igor Dyatlov definitely became the leader of the youth. A group of young tourists chose cedar as an observation post at the top and was based near it.
- More cautious tourists, led by Zolotarev, set up a shelter, more like a secret partisan caches. The distance between these points is no more than one hundred meters.
- And yet, the principal position of the author, - Dyatlov's group has completely exhausted the limit of coincidences and coincidences at the moment of collision with the “Factor” unknown to us. There was a unique case, then there were only laws and cause-effect chains of events.
Chronicle of events from 5 to 8.14
Only when the area was lit up a little by the rising moon (it happened at about 5 in the morning), Woodpeckers decided to return to the slope, did he go alone, the other young tourists stayed near the cedar.
From the cedar, it passes four hundred meters, 250 of them through a ravine, and the last 150 meters are already directly along the slope, in direct view from the northern top of the mountain, after which it falls into the snow and dies from the use of an unknown weapon, show xnumx.
At the time of death, he did not move, the position of his legs testifies to this, he either stood to his full height, or, more likely, was kneeling, secretly (as it seemed to him) watching the top. The striking factor of an unknown weapon knocks Dyatlov in the snow and he no longer moves.
The use of this weapon was unnoticeable for tourists only four hundred meters away. Dyatlov's body was in direct view of the cedar, used by tourists as an observation point, but visibility in the conditions of the night did not allow him to make out at that time.
Young tourists with the departure of Dyatlov lost their leader, and their activity immediately decreased. Practically for three hours of waiting, they only ventured to make a signal fire, apparently believing that Dyatlov got lost in the dark.
In the predawn twilight, which came about eight o'clock in the morning, young tourists saw Dyatlov's body on the slope. Further on the events “they rule” emotions, Kolmogorov becomes the leader of a group of young people, for whom Igor Dyatlov is not just the leader of the hike, but a loved one.
Kolmogorov together with Slobodin go up the hill, following Dyatlov's tracks, reach his body, turn him on his back, trying to determine whether he was alive and what happened to him.
Dyatlov's death was a shock for them, all the more so imposed on all previous extreme events. In this state, the feeling of fear recedes, people try to overcome the situation in any way, remember the mental attacks of “white” officers, sailors in vests, these are all manifestations of the same state.
On the slope, near the body of Dyatlov, this psychological mechanism was launched, Slobodin stubbornly went up again, towards “Factor”, apparently telling Dubinina to come back and warn the others. He goes forward another 150-170 meters to the same goal as Woodpeckers, and he is stopped, using the same weapon to defeat. He falls and freezes in the pose of a man walking in deep snow.
He does not die, but simply immobilized. Such a conclusion follows from the materials of the case in which the "death box" was fixed, the frozen snow directly under the body. This suggests that a person lay motionless for a long time and melted snow with body heat.
Kolmogorov, in whose eyes her comrade falls, instead of returning, goes towards his death. She is allowed to reach Slobodin’s body, she tries to turn the body over, it can be seen in the picture that Slobodin’s left arm is unnaturally turned up in the shoulder, but he did not show signs of life, he has a strong contusion.
Kolmogorov, believing that Slobodin, like Dyatlov, is already dead, goes further towards the unknown to us “Factor” but through 150-170 meters from Slobodin’s body, the weapon is used specifically for destruction.
The kidney stroke was immediately fatal (a shingled bruise 30 in size on 6 centimeters on the right side is indicated in the autopsy report), even blood traces are indicated in the body detection inspection report. Kolmogorov froze in a dynamic pose.
Kolmogorov’s decision not to return to the remaining tourists, but to go further, forward, is the “point of no return” for the whole group. Scared, she turned back, and most likely the group would have survived, but Kolmogorova went ahead.
Kolmogorov's death is a certain frontier, after which “Factor” changed its behavior, if earlier the use of weapons was connected with the task of preventing tourists from approaching the top of the mountain, the purpose of using weapons against Kolmogorova and the rest, still living tourists was killing them.
“Factor”, having used an unknown weapon to kill against Kolmogorova, immediately changed his eyes on the two tourists who remained near the fire and killed them. He could kill them only if they were on the line of sight from the northern top of the mountain, so apparently they were on the cedar at the time of death, where they had climbed to watch the slope, only this point could have been hit by a bullet. The watch on the arm of one of these tourists stopped at 8.14.
Two by the fire
You can’t say much about the tourists who died at the campfire; their bodies were moved by the remaining tourists, they were stripped of their clothes.
When Kolmogorov and Slobodin went to the slope, the rest of them followed them, climbing a cedar, under a direct shot of an unknown weapon.
At a distance of four hundred meters it is quite possible to overlap, to increase the range, usually hands are folded with a “mouthpiece”, putting it to the mouth.
The bit off the skin from the middle finger behind the cheek at Krivonischenko is explained by just such a posture of hands at the moment of death. The involuntary closing of the teeth occurred at the moment of being hit by an unknown weapon.
This again indicates a dynamic impact, in addition, the breaking of the branches at a height of up to 5 meters on the cedar also indicates the dynamic nature of the damaging effects of the weapon. It is possible that the shot hit the trunk of the cedar, and the tourists were in the zone of its impact.
Both tourists simultaneously fell from the cedar straight into the fire, divorced at its foot, Krivonischenko's left leg was burned. Doroshenko, the second tourist, also fell near the fire, this can be said with confidence, since the hair on the head is burned, and a half-burned balaclava was found nearby.
They were not immediately dragged away from the fire, which means that at that time there were no capable tourists around with them. Tourists from the floor came through 2-3 minutes after they fell into the fire and dragged the bodies to the side.
This conclusion follows from minor damage from the fire on the body of Krivonischenko. It means that their death was immediately noticed by tourists from the flooring, most likely they heard the characteristic sound of a high-speed bullet hitting the trunk of the cedar, which they clearly interpreted as a reason to approach the cedar immediately.
To summarize, intermediate course
While four deaths and one alive, but immobilized tourist, consistently fit into the previously described properties of the impact of an unknown weapon. The timing of events to the clocks and natural time parameters (moonrise and sunrise) also, without stretch, fit into the reconstruction. Another proof of the fidelity of the reconstruction is the fact of turning Dyatlov’s already stiff body, which requires at least two hours from the moment of death.
Now about the weapon:
The weapon had a variable power of lethal effect., Slobodina, it did not even kill, but only immobilized, on tourists on the cedar it was applied with maximum power, such that the sound attracted the attention of tourists from the flooring.
The weapon acted only within the line of sight and was applied from the same place., followed by tourists, climbing the cedar. This is clearly indicated by the coincidence of the place of hitting the cedar (at a height of five meters) and the places from which the tourists watched the slope.
Dyatlov was killed only four hundred meters from the rest of the tourists, which means that the sound from the use of these weapons was either not heard by tourists, or was not identified with a threat to Dyatlov, otherwise they would have immediately followed his tracks to help.
It can be argued that the use of an unknown weapon was not accompanied by clearly discernible sound effects.
Chronicle of the last minutes from 8.14 to 8.45
Hearing unusual sounds, tourists from the flooring approach the fire, find two dead comrades there and begin to undress them. So, it was decided to urgently leave this place and go into the taiga, and there every rag is worth its weight in gold. It was already dawn, Zolotarev had a compass for orienteering on the ground, it was a very real task, to hide in the forest, just the tourists didn’t have enough time for it.
Tourists from the flooring, near the fire appeared quickly, this is evidenced by the fact of a slight burning of clothes and charring of the skin on Krivonischenko’s leg.
Not all the tourists from the flooring set off to the fire, Zolotarev apparently went what is called "in reconnaissance", and someone else from the men. This conclusion follows from the fact that some of the things from the dead were found on the floor, and these are the upper things of the tourists who were killed near the fire, which were shot and cut off in the first place.
The inner layers of clothing were also cut, but they were not brought to the floor, they were lost along the entire path from the fire to the floor.
Apparently Zolotarev remained to cut the inner layers of clothing, and another scout returned to the flooring with things already removed and cut off.
Returning scout led to the fire of all other living tourists. The inner clothing cut off by the time around the fire was handed over to Zolotarev, who came up from the flooring to the tourists.
You can imagine the bewilderment of the tourists, who found the still warm bodies of their comrades who died without any damage. Clearly, before cutting off clothes, they were first examined, trying to understand the cause of death.
They did not find anything except from what stopped the clocks and tried to save them as evidence of the cause of death.
Thibault took the watch from Krivonischenko’s hand and put it on next to his watch. Krivonischenko's left hand, from which the watch was shot, remained raised and bent in the forearm (seen in the body image at the place of detection). Of course, it is possible that he acted in a twilight state, but it was painfully similar to a sober calculation, like that of Zolotarev, who did not part with the camera until his death.
At this point, “Factor” has changed its behavior, now its goal is to kill everyone. But it was impossible to get the remaining tourists in the ravine with the help of the weapons already used; it acted only on the straight line. To complete the elimination was used mobile and less powerful version of the same weapon.
Its use began immediately, as soon as the remaining four tourists got into the zone of its direct visibility. Tourists at this time were near the fire, dressing and finishing clothes. Given the terrain, this could be at a distance of 250-300 meters, on the opposite slope of the ravine.
The shot hit Kolevatov, but he didn’t have enough destructive power from such a distance; as stated in the previous article, he was “undermined”, he lost his ability to move and Zolotarev carried him on his back.
Tourists in a hurry began to retreat to the bed of the stream, hoping to hide behind its slopes. They returned to the creek on their trampled path, so faster. Along the way, in a hurry, they lost the things they had just cut from the dead, which is recorded in the investigation materials. Another fact confirming the hasty movement from the fire is the half of the jacket lost on the road, the other half of this jacket Dubinin used as a winding on his leg, and she was found with him. Apparently, on the other leg, she simply lost such a winding while fleeing from a fire.
Reaching the stream, we descended into the mainstream, but only 6-10 meters passed from our flooring.
These were the last meters, the weapon was used against three out of four tourists, and they used it from close range, from the steep bank of the stream. Death came on the right, from the side of the fire (for all injuries to the right side of the body), Tibo and Zolotarev did not even have time to turn on the shots. Thibault's own watch stopped at 8.39.
Only Dubinina managed to turn around to meet her arms and received a shot right in the chest. This can be judged by the location of her body.
Kolevatov did not receive injuries similar to those of other tourists in the stream bed, most likely was already dead and the use of weapons against him was meaningless.
By this time only Slobodin remained alive, he lay in the snow without moving for about an hour, maybe a little less, during which time a “deathbed” could have been formed.
After they finished with four tourists in a ravine, after 6 minutes the same weapon was used against him to finish off, his skull cracked and the clock stopped. The clock on his hand showed 8.45 ..
Time, speed, distance
That's the whole reconstruction, it gives chronology, except for this event tied to specific points on the ground. Let's check this reconstruction with the simplest calculations.
Let's start with an objective value that is not related to the readings of the clock and see if the same value will coincide, but already calculated from the readings of the clock.
So, according to the reconstruction, Kolevatov was shot from a distance of 250-300 meters, it is clear that the tourists immediately tried to hide in the stream bed, to which 100 meters. There they were killed almost point blank.
So, during the time that the tourists spent moving to 100 meters, the weapon moved to 300 meters, from this we conclude that it moved at a speed three times faster than tourists. The speed of tourists is maximum 2km / h, which means the speed of movement of the weapon is about 6 km / h.
Now let's see what the speed of movement of weapons according to the clock.
Slobodina watches stopped 6 minutes after the tourists stopped in the ravine. Between these points (the body of Slobodin and the bodies of tourists in the stream) about 600 meters. It turns out, from the ravine, to the body of Slobodina the weapon moved at a speed of the same 6km / h.
The speeds calculated by different, independent of each other indicators coincide.
There is another interval in 25 minutes since the death of tourists near the fire and the death of tourists in the creek. This distance will be calculated on the assumption that after the use of high-powered stationary weapons for tourists near the fire, the mobile weapons installation immediately began to approach the victims.
For 25 minutes at a speed of 6km / h, the weapon has moved to 2.700 meters. This distance corresponds exactly to the distance from the floor to the far, lower and flat top of the mountain.
It was to this peak, taking the right of the tent, to the right from the tent, led by tourists on the slope.
The investigation materials confirm this conclusion, look at the diagram from the case:
In order to justify the movement to the tent, the arrow in the figure had to bend, but if it was not bent, but continued in a straight line, then it would point exactly to the northern, flat top of the mountain.
Instead of a conclusion
I don’t know if all this sounds convincing to readers, but I’m pretty sure that this is how things were going.
But this is not even important, it is important that there are compelling facts indicating the use of high-tech weapons in the events of more than fifty years ago. Even close analogues of such weapons are still unknown, moreover, it is impossible to create such weapons on the basis of traditional cannon technologies.
Who applied it in principle, in principle, is different, it was used in the distant 1959 year, it can be applied now.
It will not find it ...
Hypothetical weapon
In previous articles of the cycle, it was assumed that all tourists were killed with high-speed miniature bullets. While this is a hypothesis.
The hypothesis was born on the basis of the analysis of posthumous poses of bodies and the nature of injuries on the bodies of tourists. Specific injuries of tourists' bodies correspond to the signs of a shock called “water hammer” among professionals, which is by its physical nature a shock wave inside the human body. This is a rather exotic type of injury, they are caused by the defeat of the body by high-speed small-caliber bullets.
An additional characteristic sign of the killing of tourists by high-speed miniature bullets is the stopping of a mechanical wristwatch at the time of the impact of the body by a shock wave. The clock stops from the banal "shake", and this effect is well known.
We can speak about the miniature size of high-speed bullets on the basis of the absence of visible injuries on the bodies, real-life bullets with a diameter of about a millimeter at a speed of 1,5km / sec leave subtle punctures on the body.
Only the exit channel can become visible, provided the bullet decelerates and loses stability in the body. This is documented in the photo of the body Dubinina:
A photo from the investigation materials, this injury on the back is also recorded in the protocol of the body inspection at the place of detection, but is silent about it in the autopsy report.
While the talk was about “wound ballistics”, but the flight in the atmosphere of a high-speed bullet also has specific features, the main one of which is the occurrence of an air shock wave. Usually, speaking of a shock wave, an explosion is implied, but the passage of high-speed objects through the atmosphere also creates shock waves.
Here is a photograph of the motion of a ball with a diameter of 5mm with a speed of 3km / s, it clearly shows the structure of the shock wave from the span of a high-speed object:
A recent good example of this type of shock wave was the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which flew at an altitude of about 20 km and at a speed of 30km / sec. Numerous destruction of buildings and injuries to people from a shock wave were recorded along the entire span route, an explosion was not observed.
When moving in the air, miniature bullets also create a shock wave, but, of course, not of such a global scale, the traces of this shock wave are fixed at the scene:
A series of breaches in the crust cannot be traces of the feet of a person or an animal, their elongation is oriented across the path of movement and there is no “checker” order of tracks that occurs when the right-left leg is interchanged.
These traces can give an estimated speed of miniature bullets, assuming that the breach in the crust is caused by the impact of a shock wave. A rough calculation shows that a pointed bullet with a diameter of one millimeter should move at a speed of about 15-20 km / s. so that the shock wave from its movement could break the crust on an area of 800 square centimeters.
This speed is exactly ten times greater than that of the most advanced of the well-known modern rifle systems, and at the muzzle, and not at the point of hitting the target. There are no such shooting systems now, especially they were not in 50 ...
Bullets at such speeds, in addition to the main damaging factor, also have a side, non-lethal effect of damage. Flying in close proximity to a person, such a bullet can cause injuries by means of an air shock wave that occurs throughout the entire length of the passage of the bullet. This damaging factor has a special name among specialists - “barotrauma”.
Unlike explosive barotrauma, such specific barotrauma has a unique feature, they are not audible. The human ear does not perceive sounds with a duration of less than 0,1 seconds, no matter what frequency or intensity this sound is. And the bullet has a span time of less than 0,1 seconds of its entire shot distance. In fact, a person will not hear anything, but will receive a barotrauma.
Now about the energy (destructive power) of such a bullet. With a diameter of one millimeter and 1 sweep to 30, it turns out that the weight of the bullet will be about one gram, if we assume that it is made of steel. At a speed of 20 km / s, this will roughly correspond to the energy of the 22 projectile with a millimeter-speed gun. Her shells are tearing the human body into pieces, but in our case there are not even visual marks ...
But this seeming discrepancy, it is known from wound ballistics that small-diameter pointed bullets (4,5mm) “pierce” the human body through losing no more than 1 / 10 of its energy, and when the diameter of the bullet decreases, the energy loss in the human body is even smaller and proportional to the square cross-sectional area of such a bullet.
So the damage on the bodies of the dead tourists correspond to the energy of the shot, and in the case of complete absorption of the energy of the shot, there will be something like this:
This is a snapshot of a cedar, from which the tourists watched the top of the height 1079, the two extreme branches are broken in the middle, the other three at the very base. So the impact of a bullet that completely transferred energy to the barrel fell somewhere in the center of symmetry, in the middle.
By the way, this cedar was never seen again, 1079 was opened for visiting in the 1963 year, and the expedition to the place of the tragedy did not find this cedar, it was sawed down. There are many pictures of cedar trees similar to this ill-fated cedar, but they are just alike. In reality, there is not a single later snapshot of cedar with such a characteristic break of the branches on the north side.
So, if we assume that the hypothesis of using high-speed miniature bullets is correct, then we must immediately take into account that neither the USSR nor the United States, at that time, and even now, do not possess such a perfect weapon.
So, it was used by some third force.
Third Force
We have to switch to a conspiracy theme, and for objective reasons, the facts themselves, and not speculation, are pushing for these arguments.
In addition to the hypothesis of the use of an unknown type of weapon, the facts preceding the campaign, the facts of events during a search operation and the materials of the investigation indirectly but eloquently speak eloquently about the participation in the events of the “third force”.
At first, about the organization of the campaign, everything was simple and ordinary there, until at the last stage of preparation for the campaign one very remarkable person, Semen Zolotaryov, asked to call him “just Sasha” when meeting him.
It is remarkable, in this connection, that the investigation materials constantly use the phrase “group of amateur tourists”, it appeared there not by chance. Zolotarev, officially, was an instructor in tourism, his professional activity was accompanying tourist groups. But he went on this trip as a private person, having already quit the camp site on which he worked. So the campaign formally had no official status.
Zolotarev neither by age, nor by life experience, nor by the circle of acquaintances in this group could not by chance be found. Judging by his front-line and post-war biography, he was a KGB officer working undercover. At the time of his last campaign, Zolotarev spent less than a year in the Urals, and after going with Dyatlov's group, he had to return to his native Krasnodar region again.
If Zolotarev was really from the KGB, then sending an employee to another region of the country, working on the ground under the perfect cover (tourism instructor), overgrown with “contacts”, is an extraordinary event.
Taking into account the situation at this moment in the Krasnodar Territory, when the process of mass return of Chechens and Ingushs took place there, such a move is possible only when planning an event, as previously mentioned, “Union-wide”.
So there is good reason to believe that this campaign of “amateur tourists” was a planned event with a very high level of importance.
If this is true, then the group of tourists went with a clear goal, it is clear that only Zolotarev knew about this goal in the group, the rest of the tourists were just extras and were used what is called “dark”. It is more than likely that the tourists were secretly accompanied by a group of KGB officers with special training.
What was this event is unknown, but apparently a meeting with the "Factor" in this scenario was planned. It is unlikely that this contact according to the plans should have ended so sadly, something went wrong as planned, and the tourists died.
And here is the most interesting, the state "washed hands." The type of event has nothing to do with it, that this is a “demolition” between the “group of amateur tourists” and the “Factor”.
In the versions of events on the Dyatlov Pass, the term “dramatization” often flashes, yes it was, but the dramatization was not in the events themselves, but as a result, the state staged its complete non-participation in the events. Although during the search operation and the investigation there were a lot of facts indicating the unspoken participation of the state in the events themselves and the parallel investigation, the second article of the cycle was devoted to this, so I will not repeat.
This can be only in one case, “Factor” also did not leave 1079 alive, and he could not tell anything to his owners. But this is what is called a crazy hypothesis, it could be all quite wrong ...
But back to the facts, it is time to reconstruct events on the Dyatlov Pass, the main thing in the reconstruction will be the binding of the clock to the time of the death of tourists and taking into account the specifics of using high-speed miniature bullets.
Eh search engines .., search engines
The beginning of the events on the pass is hard to recover, the cause is trivial, the events developed near the tent, but there are no documentary materials about the initial state of the scene. There, first managed (in the truest sense of the word) search engines. The investigation had to record the circumstances significantly distorted by the actions of search engines and to record them in many ways contradictory testimony. In the subsequent memories of search engines even more confused the picture of what happened.
For example, the search engines found a snow-covered tent, only the edge of the tent on the intact rack was peeking out of the snow, but, here’s the tent as recorded by the result:
This is not at all what the search engines from the Slobtsov group, who discovered it first, saw. This can be asserted with absolute certainty for one reason, in the materials of the investigation there is an inventory of things from the tent that the search engines transmitted to the investigation, this inventory:
The following shall be attached to the protocol:
1. "Vigilant" photo camera with a tripod and a broken light filter. Camera number 488797. Filmed 34 frame.
2. Camera "Sharp" number 486963. Filmed 27 frames. On the case of deep scratches. The belt is torn off.
3. Camera "Sharp" number 55149239. Filmed 27 frames.
4. Wrist compass.
5. Train and bus tickets.
6. Field bag.
7. Electric torch.
8. Two iron cans with thread, etc.
9. Money Notebook Slobodina money and the letter of the trade union in the city department.
10. Money in the amount of nine hundred and seventy five rubles.
11. Kolmogorov's diary. Last recorded date for 30 is January.
12. Protocol of the route commission.
13. Letter addressed to Dyatlov.
14. Tripbook number 5 in the amount of three copies.
15. The can is sealed. In it 10 films, a roll of film and money in the amount of seven hundred rubles.
16 Business trip to the name Dyatlova.
17. 9 cards, tracing paper and photocopies
18. Hike project
19. Covering letter from the trade union institute.
12. Passport in the name of Dyatlov
Prosecutor Mr Ivdel Jr. Counselor of Justice Tempalov (signed)
The head of the search party E. Maslennikov - signature / Maslennikov /
1. "Vigilant" photo camera with a tripod and a broken light filter. Camera number 488797. Filmed 34 frame.
2. Camera "Sharp" number 486963. Filmed 27 frames. On the case of deep scratches. The belt is torn off.
3. Camera "Sharp" number 55149239. Filmed 27 frames.
4. Wrist compass.
5. Train and bus tickets.
6. Field bag.
7. Electric torch.
8. Two iron cans with thread, etc.
9. Money Notebook Slobodina money and the letter of the trade union in the city department.
10. Money in the amount of nine hundred and seventy five rubles.
11. Kolmogorov's diary. Last recorded date for 30 is January.
12. Protocol of the route commission.
13. Letter addressed to Dyatlov.
14. Tripbook number 5 in the amount of three copies.
15. The can is sealed. In it 10 films, a roll of film and money in the amount of seven hundred rubles.
16 Business trip to the name Dyatlova.
17. 9 cards, tracing paper and photocopies
18. Hike project
19. Covering letter from the trade union institute.
12. Passport in the name of Dyatlov
Prosecutor Mr Ivdel Jr. Counselor of Justice Tempalov (signed)
The head of the search party E. Maslennikov - signature / Maslennikov /
Imagine how much it was necessary to stir up the tent to get all this out of its depths. It remains to believe only the words of the search engines, and they are cunning, it is obvious. Here is an example associated with drinking alcohol from an abandoned tent.
One of the search engines, Slobtsov, recalls that in the evening after finding the tent, they drank a flask of alcohol taken from the tent. But in the transferred things there is no mention of the flask, but in the act of inspecting the tent the consequence is a record of the flask with the "smell of alcohol" ...
I think the comments are superfluous, they not only distorted the state of the scene, but also falsified the actual picture of the events ... ..
But that's fine, later figured out that the tourists were sober at the time of the tragedy. But the discrepancies in the testimony on the account of a pair of skis are of a fundamental nature, here one has to guess, as they say “on the coffee grounds”.
The fact is that one pair of skis was not laid under the floor of the tent, this was not accidental, they were used by tourists as racks of the central stretch of a long tent (the picture is further in the text). But we do not know in what condition these skis were at the moment of detection. Two search engines, the first to find the tent give conflicting testimony. Slobtsov says that they were in the same form as in the snapshot of the investigation file, and Sharavin claims that they were lying in the snow in front of the tent entrance (its diagram is lower in the text). So figure it out, and this is a crucial moment in the reconstruction of events.
So there are few indisputable facts, but we already have an understanding of what and how they were killed, we will proceed from the assumption that they drove the same unknown weapon out of the tent.
How it all started
First, about the well-known facts that for us is indisputable:
- The tent is not installed to the end, without a central stretch of skis, otherwise a long four-meter tent will hang in the middle. A pair of skis for these stretch marks was prepared, but it remained to lie on the snow in front of the tent entrance (according to the search engines, but in the photo from the investigation file above, they are stuck in the snow). Here’s what this tent should look like:
This is a snapshot from another hike, but the names on it are this unfortunate tent, set according to all the rules.
To prevent the tent from sagging, a support was made from the ski pole, cutting it off at the handle. This trimmed ski stick was found by search engines inside the tent. They did not have spare ski poles .... So, all the same, they were returning to the labazu, there was a spare set of skis, only in this case it was possible to sacrifice a ski pole, without which you could not walk away across the snow-covered mountains.
- Two people at the time of flight from the tent were fully dressed, one of them had a camera and a compass with him (Zolotarev).
- At the initial stage of leaving the tent, two pairs of tracks did not start from the tent, but a little to the side, only later, through 40-80 meters, their tracks converged with the others. Apparently, at the time of flight from the tent of the main group, two people were on the mountainside, outside the tent.
- Immediately before leaving the tent, the tourists reloaded the camera, the film found near the tent speaks about it, the rest of the films were in a tin or were in cameras.
- One film is clearly not enough in the materials of the investigation, there are only individual frames from it, and they are characterized as the last, the investigation in the decision to dismiss refers to one of its frames (clearing the place under the tent). This way, another problem in the investigation, the removal of documents from the case in this case is obvious.
- There were no pictures taken from the camera found on Zolotarev’s body, he was lying in running water, this camera is not even mentioned in the investigation materials. But investigator Ivanov refused to return this camera to the relatives of Nikolai Tibo, to whom he belonged, referring in conversation to his strong radioactive contamination. Is it really unknown?
- For undressed tourists, the exit from the tent was unexpected, they did not manage to take anything with them, jumped out in what they were in the tent. Of the things there was only a Finnish knife and two flashlights.
- At the time of leaving the tent, it was already littered with snow and was approximately in the same condition that the search engines found. This is evidenced by a lantern found on the slope of the tent, on top of a layer of snow. The lantern was off.
- "Factor" began to operate in the 10-11 hours, before dinner, judging by the cut but not eaten brisket. Part of the blankets was not yet decomposed (according to search engine memories).
These are facts known to all, but this is what emerged from the analysis of known circumstances of events:
- “Factor” appeared at a distance of more than a kilometer from the tent on the line of sight in the region of the northern, flatter peak.
- Tourists left the tent in the direction of the nearest shelter from direct sight from the northern summit (into the ravine).
- “Factor” used to kill people with high-speed kinetic weapons of unknown origin.
- “Factor” at the initial stages did not seek to kill tourists, only frightened away from the place of its location with warning shots over their heads.
- Even after killing two tourists trying to return to the slope, he allowed the rest of the tourists to approach the stricken (immobilized) and pick him up.
- Further movement up the slope after crossing the clear boundary of what was permitted in 150-180 meters was also stopped by the use of a weapon, perhaps before it was given a warning shot overhead.
- With the defeat of the body by high-speed bullets, in addition to the instantaneous death from a “water hammer”, a person stopped a wrist watch.
- In addition to the unusual damaging factor when it hit the body, the high-speed bullet created a blast wave when moving, not heard by the ear due to the short duration, but also having a striking factor in the form of “barotrauma”.
Now you can put forward the "theory of everything", in which we will enter all the available facts and clarified circumstances.
Theory of everything
Let's start this sad history. Tired tourists walked, they were really tired, the forest was less than a kilometer away, but no one went for firewood, respectively, they did not install a stove for the night.
The tent itself was also not fully set up, instead of central delays from already prepared skis, an internal support was used, for the manufacture of which they spoiled the ski pole. I admit that it was not fatigue, perhaps the tourists were afraid of something and did not want to give out their location with smoke from the stove and upright skis.
Having set up a tent, they laid out their things, ate snacks with breadcrumbs, whiled away the time in conversations before the 10-11 hours. Then they began to get ready for bed, but before that they cut the last remaining loin, to have a snack for satiety before a cold night (no more loin was found in the tent). They did not have time to eat it, something happened in the distance, more than a kilometer from the tent, on a flat top to the north.
The visual and sound effect of this unidentified phenomenon was such that no one wanted to get out of the tent, or Zolotarev ordered not to stick out. The tent buried in the snow seemed to them a safe shelter, and in any case it was safer there than on a bare slope.
Tourists watched this unidentified phenomenon from the tent, making cuts in the slope facing the top. Two of them, Zolotarev and Tibo, began to prepare to leave the tent in order to get closer to this object.
They got dressed, took a compass for orientation in the dark and limited visibility. We reloaded the camera with a new film and took it with us; when recharging from the can, one of the films fell out and the search engines subsequently found it. The camera and compass were found by search engines on Zolotaryov’s body.
The two left the tent, their goal was to get close to an unidentified object and take a picture of it. The remaining tourists felt safe, did not even try to get dressed, apparently the very thought of going out into the open space did not inspire them, but in the tent they felt protected.
How much time was gone was unknown, but events began to develop when they were in 20-40 meters from the tent. The factor used the weapon, the shooting was carried out not on people, but on top of their heads, in order to drive them down the slope. Whether by accident, or intentionally, the shots fell into the snow above the slope, above the tent.
Shots with high-speed bullets created shock waves of a very short duration that could not be seen by the human ear as sound. But these shock waves, falling into the snow, caused a snow slide on the slope at the tent site. The layer of snow clipped during installation of the tent moved and brought down the tent. In the above image, there is a characteristic sign of snow shift, the tent posture stand from the ski pole bent down, and apparently broke inside, so even search engines could not pull it out, after dismantling the tent, here's a picture:
In the picture, she sticks out of the snow to the right of the pile of things in the center of the frame, the fact that no one tried to pull it out is incredible;
After the tent collapsed, the tourists started to get out from under the snow, cutting through the side of the tent, one of them grabbed a flashlight, but, getting out of the tent, put it on the slope covered with a layer of snow, so the search engines found it.
The shots drove the group down the slope, Zolotarev and Tibo joined them and ran the whole group together to the nearest shelter. Apparently, Zolotarev, on a front-line habit, sought shelter in the lowland in order to withdraw from the direct shot.
Here is a diagram of their departure, drawn by one of the search engines:
On the diagram, the author (Sharavin) emphasizes that the departure of tourists was carried out not in the direction of the cedar, but to the left, directly to the ravine gate. He also shows the location of the skis in front of the tent entrance. Along the way, tourists lost another flashlight, it was found by search engines at a distance of about four meters from the tent, and they no longer had the opportunity to pick it up. The flashlight was on.
Apparently they shot over their heads, but the bullets, flying near the person, with his shock wave inflicted serious injuries in the form of pain in the area of the eyes and ears, concussion of the brain. Blood could flow from the ears and nose, there could be disturbances with coordination of movements, hearing and vision.
The shelling stopped only after people left the line of sight in a ravine, the tourists still ran three hundred meters by inertia and stopped, stumbling on a convenient place to hide.
It is possible that four: Zolotarev, Thibault, Kolevatov, Dubinin received superficial damage in the form of a light contusion and relatively entire tourists built a shelter for them with a flooring, where they lay down. The rest of the tourists chose a cedar to observe the behavior of the “factor” from its trunk.
By the way, this may explain the strange division of the group, the obvious leader in such a situation - Zolotarev was disabled for a while and the rest of the tourists acted on their own. Recumbent 3-4 hours, he could not fix anything from the fact that by the time the tourists did under the command of Dyatlov.
Reconstruction of events after the departure of tourists in the ravine
We fix the initial conditions that have developed by 5 in the morning:
- There was a thaw, the temperature of the air at night could not be lower than -10 degrees, this is evidenced by characteristic traces in the form of columns, which could appear only from squeezing "sticky" snow.
- Accordingly, for such warm weather it was overcast, the moon in 1 / 3 with its full luminosity rose around 5 in the morning, the predawn twilight would come only in 8 in the morning.
“Tourists were well-equipped for such warm weather, he could spend the night under such weather conditions guaranteed, and with a fire and flooring even comfortable, no worse than in an unheated tent on the windswept mountainside.
- The group consists of two fully dressed and shod man. They could provide a guaranteed retreat of the entire group to a warehouse, less than two kilometers away, or they could return to the tent. But these attempts have been made.
- The group retreated to the ravine in full strength, since the 6 bodies were found there, and three bodies on the slope followed a single straight track, the beginning of which was near a fire near the cedar. In addition, the clothes of Kolmogorova closest to the summit showed traces of cedar needles, which indicates its presence near the fire.
- All the tourists at the time of retreat to the ravine were without injuries, this is indicated by the fact that the injured tourists were left in the complete set of their clothes. According to the conclusion of doctors with such injuries, you can live no more than 15 minutes, then death is inevitable. But after the death of their comrades near the fire, the remaining tourists immediately cut off the clothes from the dead, fragments of these clothes were found near the injured tourists in the stream bed. So they definitely died last.
- The group was divided, the almost impossible happened, young tourists refused to obey Zolotarev, the oldest in status in this extreme situation, a professional instructor, a war veteran.
- Igor Dyatlov definitely became the leader of the youth. A group of young tourists chose cedar as an observation post at the top and was based near it.
- More cautious tourists, led by Zolotarev, set up a shelter, more like a secret partisan caches. The distance between these points is no more than one hundred meters.
- And yet, the principal position of the author, - Dyatlov's group has completely exhausted the limit of coincidences and coincidences at the moment of collision with the “Factor” unknown to us. There was a unique case, then there were only laws and cause-effect chains of events.
Chronicle of events from 5 to 8.14
Only when the area was lit up a little by the rising moon (it happened at about 5 in the morning), Woodpeckers decided to return to the slope, did he go alone, the other young tourists stayed near the cedar.
From the cedar, it passes four hundred meters, 250 of them through a ravine, and the last 150 meters are already directly along the slope, in direct view from the northern top of the mountain, after which it falls into the snow and dies from the use of an unknown weapon, show xnumx.
At the time of death, he did not move, the position of his legs testifies to this, he either stood to his full height, or, more likely, was kneeling, secretly (as it seemed to him) watching the top. The striking factor of an unknown weapon knocks Dyatlov in the snow and he no longer moves.
The use of this weapon was unnoticeable for tourists only four hundred meters away. Dyatlov's body was in direct view of the cedar, used by tourists as an observation point, but visibility in the conditions of the night did not allow him to make out at that time.
Young tourists with the departure of Dyatlov lost their leader, and their activity immediately decreased. Practically for three hours of waiting, they only ventured to make a signal fire, apparently believing that Dyatlov got lost in the dark.
In the predawn twilight, which came about eight o'clock in the morning, young tourists saw Dyatlov's body on the slope. Further on the events “they rule” emotions, Kolmogorov becomes the leader of a group of young people, for whom Igor Dyatlov is not just the leader of the hike, but a loved one.
Kolmogorov together with Slobodin go up the hill, following Dyatlov's tracks, reach his body, turn him on his back, trying to determine whether he was alive and what happened to him.
Dyatlov's death was a shock for them, all the more so imposed on all previous extreme events. In this state, the feeling of fear recedes, people try to overcome the situation in any way, remember the mental attacks of “white” officers, sailors in vests, these are all manifestations of the same state.
On the slope, near the body of Dyatlov, this psychological mechanism was launched, Slobodin stubbornly went up again, towards “Factor”, apparently telling Dubinina to come back and warn the others. He goes forward another 150-170 meters to the same goal as Woodpeckers, and he is stopped, using the same weapon to defeat. He falls and freezes in the pose of a man walking in deep snow.
He does not die, but simply immobilized. Such a conclusion follows from the materials of the case in which the "death box" was fixed, the frozen snow directly under the body. This suggests that a person lay motionless for a long time and melted snow with body heat.
Kolmogorov, in whose eyes her comrade falls, instead of returning, goes towards his death. She is allowed to reach Slobodin’s body, she tries to turn the body over, it can be seen in the picture that Slobodin’s left arm is unnaturally turned up in the shoulder, but he did not show signs of life, he has a strong contusion.
Kolmogorov, believing that Slobodin, like Dyatlov, is already dead, goes further towards the unknown to us “Factor” but through 150-170 meters from Slobodin’s body, the weapon is used specifically for destruction.
The kidney stroke was immediately fatal (a shingled bruise 30 in size on 6 centimeters on the right side is indicated in the autopsy report), even blood traces are indicated in the body detection inspection report. Kolmogorov froze in a dynamic pose.
Kolmogorov’s decision not to return to the remaining tourists, but to go further, forward, is the “point of no return” for the whole group. Scared, she turned back, and most likely the group would have survived, but Kolmogorova went ahead.
Kolmogorov's death is a certain frontier, after which “Factor” changed its behavior, if earlier the use of weapons was connected with the task of preventing tourists from approaching the top of the mountain, the purpose of using weapons against Kolmogorova and the rest, still living tourists was killing them.
“Factor”, having used an unknown weapon to kill against Kolmogorova, immediately changed his eyes on the two tourists who remained near the fire and killed them. He could kill them only if they were on the line of sight from the northern top of the mountain, so apparently they were on the cedar at the time of death, where they had climbed to watch the slope, only this point could have been hit by a bullet. The watch on the arm of one of these tourists stopped at 8.14.
Two by the fire
You can’t say much about the tourists who died at the campfire; their bodies were moved by the remaining tourists, they were stripped of their clothes.
When Kolmogorov and Slobodin went to the slope, the rest of them followed them, climbing a cedar, under a direct shot of an unknown weapon.
At a distance of four hundred meters it is quite possible to overlap, to increase the range, usually hands are folded with a “mouthpiece”, putting it to the mouth.
The bit off the skin from the middle finger behind the cheek at Krivonischenko is explained by just such a posture of hands at the moment of death. The involuntary closing of the teeth occurred at the moment of being hit by an unknown weapon.
This again indicates a dynamic impact, in addition, the breaking of the branches at a height of up to 5 meters on the cedar also indicates the dynamic nature of the damaging effects of the weapon. It is possible that the shot hit the trunk of the cedar, and the tourists were in the zone of its impact.
Both tourists simultaneously fell from the cedar straight into the fire, divorced at its foot, Krivonischenko's left leg was burned. Doroshenko, the second tourist, also fell near the fire, this can be said with confidence, since the hair on the head is burned, and a half-burned balaclava was found nearby.
They were not immediately dragged away from the fire, which means that at that time there were no capable tourists around with them. Tourists from the floor came through 2-3 minutes after they fell into the fire and dragged the bodies to the side.
This conclusion follows from minor damage from the fire on the body of Krivonischenko. It means that their death was immediately noticed by tourists from the flooring, most likely they heard the characteristic sound of a high-speed bullet hitting the trunk of the cedar, which they clearly interpreted as a reason to approach the cedar immediately.
To summarize, intermediate course
While four deaths and one alive, but immobilized tourist, consistently fit into the previously described properties of the impact of an unknown weapon. The timing of events to the clocks and natural time parameters (moonrise and sunrise) also, without stretch, fit into the reconstruction. Another proof of the fidelity of the reconstruction is the fact of turning Dyatlov’s already stiff body, which requires at least two hours from the moment of death.
Now about the weapon:
The weapon had a variable power of lethal effect., Slobodina, it did not even kill, but only immobilized, on tourists on the cedar it was applied with maximum power, such that the sound attracted the attention of tourists from the flooring.
The weapon acted only within the line of sight and was applied from the same place., followed by tourists, climbing the cedar. This is clearly indicated by the coincidence of the place of hitting the cedar (at a height of five meters) and the places from which the tourists watched the slope.
Dyatlov was killed only four hundred meters from the rest of the tourists, which means that the sound from the use of these weapons was either not heard by tourists, or was not identified with a threat to Dyatlov, otherwise they would have immediately followed his tracks to help.
It can be argued that the use of an unknown weapon was not accompanied by clearly discernible sound effects.
Chronicle of the last minutes from 8.14 to 8.45
Hearing unusual sounds, tourists from the flooring approach the fire, find two dead comrades there and begin to undress them. So, it was decided to urgently leave this place and go into the taiga, and there every rag is worth its weight in gold. It was already dawn, Zolotarev had a compass for orienteering on the ground, it was a very real task, to hide in the forest, just the tourists didn’t have enough time for it.
Tourists from the flooring, near the fire appeared quickly, this is evidenced by the fact of a slight burning of clothes and charring of the skin on Krivonischenko’s leg.
Not all the tourists from the flooring set off to the fire, Zolotarev apparently went what is called "in reconnaissance", and someone else from the men. This conclusion follows from the fact that some of the things from the dead were found on the floor, and these are the upper things of the tourists who were killed near the fire, which were shot and cut off in the first place.
The inner layers of clothing were also cut, but they were not brought to the floor, they were lost along the entire path from the fire to the floor.
Apparently Zolotarev remained to cut the inner layers of clothing, and another scout returned to the flooring with things already removed and cut off.
Returning scout led to the fire of all other living tourists. The inner clothing cut off by the time around the fire was handed over to Zolotarev, who came up from the flooring to the tourists.
You can imagine the bewilderment of the tourists, who found the still warm bodies of their comrades who died without any damage. Clearly, before cutting off clothes, they were first examined, trying to understand the cause of death.
They did not find anything except from what stopped the clocks and tried to save them as evidence of the cause of death.
Thibault took the watch from Krivonischenko’s hand and put it on next to his watch. Krivonischenko's left hand, from which the watch was shot, remained raised and bent in the forearm (seen in the body image at the place of detection). Of course, it is possible that he acted in a twilight state, but it was painfully similar to a sober calculation, like that of Zolotarev, who did not part with the camera until his death.
At this point, “Factor” has changed its behavior, now its goal is to kill everyone. But it was impossible to get the remaining tourists in the ravine with the help of the weapons already used; it acted only on the straight line. To complete the elimination was used mobile and less powerful version of the same weapon.
Its use began immediately, as soon as the remaining four tourists got into the zone of its direct visibility. Tourists at this time were near the fire, dressing and finishing clothes. Given the terrain, this could be at a distance of 250-300 meters, on the opposite slope of the ravine.
The shot hit Kolevatov, but he didn’t have enough destructive power from such a distance; as stated in the previous article, he was “undermined”, he lost his ability to move and Zolotarev carried him on his back.
Tourists in a hurry began to retreat to the bed of the stream, hoping to hide behind its slopes. They returned to the creek on their trampled path, so faster. Along the way, in a hurry, they lost the things they had just cut from the dead, which is recorded in the investigation materials. Another fact confirming the hasty movement from the fire is the half of the jacket lost on the road, the other half of this jacket Dubinin used as a winding on his leg, and she was found with him. Apparently, on the other leg, she simply lost such a winding while fleeing from a fire.
Reaching the stream, we descended into the mainstream, but only 6-10 meters passed from our flooring.
These were the last meters, the weapon was used against three out of four tourists, and they used it from close range, from the steep bank of the stream. Death came on the right, from the side of the fire (for all injuries to the right side of the body), Tibo and Zolotarev did not even have time to turn on the shots. Thibault's own watch stopped at 8.39.
Only Dubinina managed to turn around to meet her arms and received a shot right in the chest. This can be judged by the location of her body.
Kolevatov did not receive injuries similar to those of other tourists in the stream bed, most likely was already dead and the use of weapons against him was meaningless.
By this time only Slobodin remained alive, he lay in the snow without moving for about an hour, maybe a little less, during which time a “deathbed” could have been formed.
After they finished with four tourists in a ravine, after 6 minutes the same weapon was used against him to finish off, his skull cracked and the clock stopped. The clock on his hand showed 8.45 ..
Time, speed, distance
That's the whole reconstruction, it gives chronology, except for this event tied to specific points on the ground. Let's check this reconstruction with the simplest calculations.
Let's start with an objective value that is not related to the readings of the clock and see if the same value will coincide, but already calculated from the readings of the clock.
So, according to the reconstruction, Kolevatov was shot from a distance of 250-300 meters, it is clear that the tourists immediately tried to hide in the stream bed, to which 100 meters. There they were killed almost point blank.
So, during the time that the tourists spent moving to 100 meters, the weapon moved to 300 meters, from this we conclude that it moved at a speed three times faster than tourists. The speed of tourists is maximum 2km / h, which means the speed of movement of the weapon is about 6 km / h.
Now let's see what the speed of movement of weapons according to the clock.
Slobodina watches stopped 6 minutes after the tourists stopped in the ravine. Between these points (the body of Slobodin and the bodies of tourists in the stream) about 600 meters. It turns out, from the ravine, to the body of Slobodina the weapon moved at a speed of the same 6km / h.
The speeds calculated by different, independent of each other indicators coincide.
There is another interval in 25 minutes since the death of tourists near the fire and the death of tourists in the creek. This distance will be calculated on the assumption that after the use of high-powered stationary weapons for tourists near the fire, the mobile weapons installation immediately began to approach the victims.
For 25 minutes at a speed of 6km / h, the weapon has moved to 2.700 meters. This distance corresponds exactly to the distance from the floor to the far, lower and flat top of the mountain.
It was to this peak, taking the right of the tent, to the right from the tent, led by tourists on the slope.
The investigation materials confirm this conclusion, look at the diagram from the case:
In order to justify the movement to the tent, the arrow in the figure had to bend, but if it was not bent, but continued in a straight line, then it would point exactly to the northern, flat top of the mountain.
Instead of a conclusion
I don’t know if all this sounds convincing to readers, but I’m pretty sure that this is how things were going.
But this is not even important, it is important that there are compelling facts indicating the use of high-tech weapons in the events of more than fifty years ago. Even close analogues of such weapons are still unknown, moreover, it is impossible to create such weapons on the basis of traditional cannon technologies.
Who applied it in principle, in principle, is different, it was used in the distant 1959 year, it can be applied now.
It will not find it ...
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