Others include suspicions of paranormal activity and claims the group - two with KGB connections - were on a clandestine mission to meet US agents.īoris Yeltsin - Russia's first post-Communist president and a former student at the institute - was one of many who believed an elaborate cover-up was staged to hide what happened.īut his efforts once in power in the Urals, and later in the Kremlin, failed to unmask the truth. Rumours range from an avalanche, freak winds, aliens, yetis, and secret Soviet missile or weapons system. The mysterious case has been the subject of books, documentaries, movies, and computer gamesĪ host of theories have been put forward since 1959 as to how the group met their deaths.
Yuri Doroshenko and Yuri Krivonischenko were found lying in the snow on flat land near a river, a mile from the tent, next to the remains of a long burnt-out fire. The empty tent baffled investigators, as it still contained items of clothing and pairs of shoes - implying that some of the students had ventured out into the wilderness barefoot and without coats.ĭays after investigators found the tent the first two bodies were discovered. Their tent had been mysteriously slashed from the inside, their camp was deserted and they had left their clothes and belongings behind. Now investigators say the nine fled in terror - and ran through the snow a mile or so down the mountain - from their tents in the deep nighttime cold, not having time to dress.
What is known of that fateful night is that Ural Polytechnic students - seven men and two women, had made camp for the night at the foot of Kholat Syakhl, the Dead Mountain. Led by 23-year-old Ifor Dyatlov, the skiers failed to finish their mission, sparking a huge manhunt
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