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Mr Popovs interrogation does not fit within a frame of investigation..
So you are saying that a mess was in the area because of the rocket debris that was responsible for the demise of the group, yet the bodies of the group were not cleaned up to wipe away traces of the debris that caused their deaths.'Mess' is not a correct word to describe the state of the slope after DPI. The 3rd rocket's stage was laying at some distance from the tent, and it was taken back to the factory by military search team, who executed Minister of Defense order to find and return rockets' parts back after tests. The team obviously saw the empty tent, maybe even walked around it. But we should remember that the group moved to the forest which was 1.5km away. It was snowing, the bodies had been already covered by snow. I guess that the search team had not discovered the footprints of the group, as the prints started 50-70 m below the tent. The search team did not have order to look for possible casualties as ones were not expected. They also had no idea which direction the hikers might depart. The search team returned to the base and informed their commanders about the tent. The commanders in turn informed Moscow, special Prosecutor's office investigation team was set up, and interrogations started to understand what had happened. Mr. Popov was one of the first to be interrogated.
1079 and Otorten are a long way from anywhere. The idea of Soviets wasting time an energy trying to learn from rocket tests by going there to analyze debris is not what I would expect from an organized military.Areas that "are a long way from anywhere" have a unique advantage. Rockets trajectories can be set up over those areas without a risk to hit anybody (or anything) in case of launch failure. A rocket started from Tyuratam typicaly flies over about 3/4 of the RSFSR's territory. It is wise to select low populated areas for its trajectory.
As beginning of February 1959 was time of XXI CPSU congress, an attempt to provide CPSU with a gift - successful breakthrogh orbital or suborbital launch - looks plausible. We can talk about bold and hasty production launch rather than about a test.
They do not look like case file photos and they look retouched. Certainly nothing for anyone to laugh about then or now.
It is a fact that snow den collapses can cause the injuries seen in the ravine 4.Do we have similar examples, where snow roofs collapsed and caused injuries alike? But first of all, it is not a fact at all that the ravine had enough snow on February 1st, 1959 to build caves and tunnels. It could have had pathetic amount of snow not able even to cover the stones.
It is a fact that snow den collapses can cause the injuries seen in the ravine 4.Do we have similar examples, where snow roofs collapsed and caused injuries alike? But first of all, it is not a fact at all that the ravine had enough snow on February 1st, 1959 to build caves and tunnels. It could have had pathetic amount of snow not able even to cover the stones.
the case files are possibly fakeThis is very important and separate topic. Maybe, we will return to it in some other thread.
I do not know of any behind the scene events and A.Kindin is a modern myth bolted on I think?No, Alexander Nikolaevich Kidin was a head of CPSU's Central committee department responsible for administrative, trade and finance affairs for RSFSR at the beginning of 1959. Moscow masters' of sport report as well as Sverdlovsk communist party's reports on DPI were sent to his department in March and April respectively. In CPSU's hierarchy, Mr.Kidin was just two hops below Nikita Khruschev: Kidin -> Aristov -> Khruschev. I thought, you might be interested to check his career curve during the days of DPI.