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« Last post by Arjan on May 08, 2024, 11:14:55 AM »
50 % or less of the answer to the question: 'Can we know the approximate height of the skeleton and the exact height of Zolo?'
The autopsy report of the body who had been investigated under the name of 'Aleksander Alekseevich Zolotaryov', states:
'Findings after the removal of the clothes: the body is male of satisfactory nutrition and proper constitution with a length of 172 cm'
After studying this case for more than 5 years, reading most material available, and following discussions on facebook groups and Dyatlovpass.com,
I am not fully convinced that it has been Semyon who had been investigated by the coroner.
If the description about Semyon in the work or the journalist collective Aleksej Rakitin is correct, than Semyon has very probably been a person with disguises.
Next to this, during several stages of the Great War, it had been not hard for soldiers to shift identity, e.g.: by taken identity papers of companions (e.g. who had died).
Source: Schlechter, Brandon M., The Stuff of Soldiers - A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects.
Last remarks from my side:
1. the dead body on the table of the coroner under the name of Semyon may have been a local guide: this local guide had known the source in the ravine. He had guided Lyudmila and Thibo to this source for fetching water.
Hint: the tattoos on his arm
2. the person Semyon as described by Aleksej Rakitin had easily been able to survive the fatal night for 7 group members, by staying in the tent together with Zina and Rustem. The next morning he may have returned in the track made by the group before: in this manner, no trace of his return had been visible in the snow, except for a very well trained local person who had been able the track of returning skis in the original track.