More on that tent.
The first group to have found the tent was split into 3 groups and the leader was Boris Efimovich Slobtsov.
Boris Efimovich Slobtsov Борис Ефимович Слобцов UPI studentVadim Dmitrievich Brusnitsyn Вадим Дмитриевич Брусницын UPI student
Stas Devyatov Стас Девятов UPI student
<------------------ No picture or testimonyYuri Koptelov Юрий Коптелов UPI student
<------------------ No picture or testimonyVyacheslav Krotov Вячеслав Кротов UPI student
<------------------ No picture or testimonyVladimir Lebedev Владимир Лебедев UPI student
Vladimir Strelnikov Владимир Стрельников UPI student
<------------------ No picture or testimonyVyacheslav Ivanovich Halizov Вячеслав Иванович Хализов UPI student
<------------------ No picture or testimonyMihail Petrovich Sharavin Михаил Петрович Шаравин UPI student, found Doroshenko and Krivonischenko's bodies on Feb 27
<------------------ No picture or testimonyIvan Fokeevich Pashin Иван Фокеевич Пашин Mansi forestert
Alexei Sеmyonovich Cheglakov Алексей Семёнович Чеглаков Mansi hunter
SLOBTSOV WITNESS TESTIMONY <--------- leader of first group of students to 'inspect' the tent.
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-298-300?rbid=17743![](https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-Boris-Slobtsov.jpg)
The tent of Dyatlov's group was discovered by our group on the afternoon of February 26, 1959.
When we approached the tent we found out that the entrance stood up and the rest of the tent was under snow. Around the tent in the snow stood ski poles and spare skis - 1 pair. The snow on the tent was 15-20 cm thick, it was clear that the snow was on the tent, it was hard.
Near the tent near the entrance to the snow an ice ax was stuck
Hard snow covering the entire tent other then the top half of the entrance which was still supported.
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On February 26, 1959, we dug snow over the tent and made sure that there were no people, and the things that were in the tent did not touch. With me was the student Sharavin. From the tent things were taken on February 27 and 28, 1959. At the same time students Brusnitsin and others were present.
When I looked under the tent on 26.2.59 I saw the tent itself was torn, there were food in the bucket at the entrance, there was a liquid in the jar-alcohol or vodka, there were food in the bags in the legs, the blankets were unfolded, under the blankets spread out cotton woolen jackets, storm bags, and under them rasstalany were backpacks. At the entrance hung Slobodin's jacket, in whose breast pocket money was about 800 rubles. In the tent, apparently, a sheet was hung, which was torn and part of it protruded outward.
"torn"..... no mention as to multiple tears, rips, chunks missing....... nada. The last part I believe is referring to Slobodins jacket being stuffed into a hole?
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I. V. PASHIN WITNESS TESTIMONY <--------------------- Mansi forester attached to SLOBTSOV group.
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-049-050?rbid=17743![](https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-Ivan-Fokeevich-Pashin.jpg)
Here we have arranged a tent the night, divided into three groups and went to look for the tourists, as a result of searches found a tent with the things that could be seen as the bad it is covered with snow, we did not go into the tent.
So you guys didnt go into the tent eh..... Thats not what SLOBTSOV says.
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CHEGLAKOV WITNESS TESTIMONY <------------- Mansi hunter attached to SLOBTSOV group.
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-044-045?rbid=17743![](https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-Aleksey-Semyonovich-Cheglakov.jpg)
On the second day found the tent tourists which was located in the upper reaches of rivers and Auspii Lozvy at the height of the mountain verhuspiya. It was seen as bad snowed. In it, we did not go. Traces of tourists skiing around the tent to be seen.
Another stating they did not go in the tent.
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Also note, The Dyatlov groups ski tracks seen!
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BRUSNITSYN WITNESS TESTIMONY <------------------- member of one of the three search groups under SLOBTSOV
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-362-369?rbid=17743![](https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-Vadim-Brusnitsyn.jpg)
The guys attempting to climb the ridge of height 1079 found an abandoned tent. They brought to the camp three cameras, Slobodin's jacket, an ice axe, which was stuck near the tent, a flashlight found near the tent and an alcohol flask
Good to know...... The first group under Slobtsov to approach the tent brought back items to camp from the Dyatlov tent.
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(26th) Our group and the two arriving groups of Karelin and Captain Chernyshov did not take part in the search that day. All were busy transporting gear from the pass to the Auspia valley, where it was decided to organize a camp.
Day two of the tent discovery, he has yet to personally see the tent.
On the next morning, the 27th, we continued our search with dogs. The rest, after dismantling the tent, began to probe the snow cover on the pass with ski poles.
After the prosecutor of Ivdel's protocoled the property of the group, it was ordered to me and M. Sharavin to collect things and transport them to the landing site of the helicopter.
Ah..... one of the tent draggers eh.... Note... tent dismantled on the 27th.
The rest of the things were in disarray in the tent.
Apparently the group was in the final stage of dressing and preparing for the night at the time of the incident. In the near to te entrance part of the tent were found a few crusts from the loin. There are rusks scattered all over the tent.
Crap scattered all over the place by now! And why the hell did they have so many rusks? Other reports state 2 to 3 bags of rusks!!!
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That must have been some outstanding rye bread!!! Where did these rye rusks come from??
On top of all things lay a ski pole cut into several pieces, on which, apparently, the northern end of the tent was stretched. Render a ski pole unusable, especially when the group didn't have a spare, is possible only under special circumstances.
This is the infamous "tactical tripod" that acording to the Ball Lightening theory was used to...... capture images that dont exist.
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V. L. LEBEDEV WITNESS TESTIMONY <--------- member of one of the three search groups under SLOBTSOV gives testimony to what SLOBTSOV told them upon meeting them at the campsite. This is relayed information to a guy that was not at the first discovery of the tent himself.
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-313-315?rbid=17743 they went along the slope of the elevation to the black spot attracting their attention, which was torn and half-buried by Dyatlov's tent. From their words, only the front part of the tent was not spilled. Near the tent was lying (or rather stood) an ice ax, with which they tried to dig up the piled up part of the tent in the hope of finding someone there. They also found a cut of one slope of the tent.
He was told they found
'a' cut on the slope of the tent.
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Since it was already late, they, having captured an ice pick, camera, diary (it seems, Slobodin), a Chinese flashlight and some. other things, which I do not remember exactly, returned with a guide to the place where they slept and told us about what they saw
The first party to reach the tent ,used the axe found near the tent........ to hack away at the evidence buried below.
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The middle of the tent failed, the tent itself was torn, maybe our guys (Sharavin and Slobtsov) broke it, but on the slope that was turned down, there was a clear even cut, made in my knife.
Whoa whoa whoa there cowboy..... you say the middle of the tent failed.... is there perhaps a support pole in the middle of this tent that could have damaged the canvas upon its collapse? There is that word again.... 'torn'. This isn't a plural usage of the term being used by all these guys, and he blatantly admits that "maybe our guys (Sharavin and Slobtsov) broke it"
The next day LEBEDEV WAS at the tent..... The next day, in the morning, in the presence of Comrade Ivanov, all things from the tent were extracted Lebedev (signature) / Two lines crossed out by me Lebedev (signature) /
Sheet 315
There were many items in the tent. Near the entrance of the tent, which I believe was open, lay the stove inside its case. The pipes of the latter were inside the stove, which indicates that the stove was not attempted to be diluted (crossed out), although behind the tent on the street at the rear end of the tent in the snow I found a log, undoubtedly intended for the stove.
Inside the tent were found buckets, at the entrance lay an ax, it seems, 2, and saw in the covers. In the head (if you stand facing the entrance of the tent, then on the right side of it, which is lower on the slope) there were personal belongings of the deceased and food products (?) From backpacks. At the very end of the tent, things were discovered by Dyatlov (a field bag containing money, documents, diaries, a camera, etc. Then Slobodin and Kolevatov lay in my place, because there were their belongings. At the entrance to the tent lay either the duty officer or the manager that there were cut pieces of ham found here, and it seems that only one piece was eaten (there was a crust), in one of the mugs there were, in my opinion, the remains of oatmeal porridge, possibly the morning remains. "our guys broke up when, for the first time, an ice pick cleared In general, there were few products in the tent (five days at most), which convinced us that the woodpeckers had made a storage, which we later learned from the diary, it seems, was Dyatlov, and then found out by the crocs they composed. /> In the tent there were several pairs of felt boots, except for one pair of shoes, almost all the outer clothing. In the tent we found a ski stick from which the upper end was cut along the neat end cut and another incision was made. This suggests that apparently someone stayed in the tent much later than others, maybe for a day. Because the person from nothing to do will not cut the stick, which can still come in handy. In one place of the tent she was torn and then fastened with a pin.
"In one place of the tent" ![shock1 shock1](https://forum.dyatlovpass.com/Smileys/default/shocked1.gif)
Sooooo, "torn' and fastened with 'a' pin.....
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Funny, SLOBTSOV the day before and in his testimony didn't mention anything about opening the front of the tent.
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A TMANAKI WITNESS TESTIMONY <--------- member of Karelin rescue group
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-209-220?rbid=17743![](https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-Georgiy-Atmanaki.jpg)
On February 26, at 12 noon, we were loaded into a helicopter and dropped off on the saddle to the right of the scallop on the pass to Lozvy and a height of 880
on the pass (the first) met several people from the group of Slobtsov who approximately indicated to us the location of the tent of the group Dyatlov. The rest of the people of the Slobtsov group were at the scallops on the pass, because later discovered the discovery of
... influenced them, that they are completely demoralized and lost all capacity for work
They did not make a detailed inspection of the tent, because they explained that they were afraid to see their comrades in it.The tent stood sideways to the slope by the entrance to the east, the entrance was unbuttoned but piled in half with buckets
the north side of the tent was torn
There's that non plural terminology again....... Im not seeing any further description of multiple tears, holes, flaps, missing chunks..... nada.
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V. I. TEMPALOV WITNESS TESTIMONY <------------ The Prosecutor in the criminal case
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-309-312?rbid=17743![](https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-Vasily-Tempalov.jpg)
At first glance, the tent was covered with snow. It was installed on a platform leveled by the students dug out. A tent with a windy side was torn in the middle part.
'Middle part' eh........ thats it!? At least he noted the tear was on the windy side.
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This is the only place where Tempalov found damage in the tent, which means that there were no cuts from which the tourists were escaping from the tent!
a flask empty from alcohol or vodka, the smell was felt------------I got the impression that the students drank vodka and had a snack
From a number of testimonies of witnesses it is clear to me that these days in the mountains and not only in the mountains there was a strong wind and it was very cold. Based on the discovered bodies (in the number of five people), the situation in which they were to me it becomes clear that all the students were frozen, the attack on them is excluded
E.P. MASLENNIKOV WITNESS TESTIMONY <------------Master of Sports, Head of the UPI sports club
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-062-075?rbid=17743![](https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-Evgeniy-Polikarpovich-Maslennikov.jpg)
28.2.59 was examined Tent Dyatlov. Tent inspection showed that it remained almost all personal belongings Group, as well as public equipment.
Feb 28th?
its entrance facing the south side and on that side extensions were intact, and stretching north side disrupted and therefore the entire second half of the tent was covered with snow
The north side was 'disrupted'.
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Now only half the tent was covered in snow.
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When the inspection was over the tent, we dragged her to the helipad at a distance of 600-700 meters.
Holy batshit! 700 freaking meters man!!!! Thats a crazy long distance to be DRAGGING one of the most important articles of evidence over jagged rocks and ice!
Sections, cuts, and huge holes in the north side of the tent appeared after Tempalov VI. He examined the tent and instructed the students to collect it and all the things and drag it 700 meters to the helicopter to be transported to Ivdel for "research" . The tent was frozen to dense snow, so the students cut out and pulled it out of the frozen snow and ice.
Pull out the contents (likely through the side)
![](https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Dyatlov-pass-1959-search-007.jpg)
And chop/slice/shovel that tent out of the hard ice encrusted snow in which its half buried in. Dig men..... dig!
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Now.... drag that sucker 700 meters over rocks and ice to the chopper..... stat!
Meanwhile back in Ivdel the young rookie investigator Vladimir Korotaev and a cunning seamstress have no darn clue what to make of it other then assumptions.
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The tent was in terrible condition, with multiple tears, and cuts and in some places there were punctured and burned holes, and 2 large pieces of canvas were cut / torn out of its lateral part. It is impossible to imagine how it was possible to conduct research on the tent, after it was ruined by search students.
So....... what have we learned from this?