Indisputable facts that cannot be refuted, which form the picture of the tragedy
1. In the UPI in November 1956, a scandalous conference was held criticizing the authorities. (there is an archive document)
2. In December, the leadership of the CPSU Central Committee sent a document entitled "On combating anti-Soviet elements" to all party organizations throughout the country, demanding that attention be paid to young people and students. (there is an archival document).
3. The expulsion of unwanted students from the UP I began.
4. From January 27 to February 5, the 21st Congress of the CPSU was held in Moscow.
5. On February 2, Dyatlov's group of 9 people died in the Urals.
6. On February 6, a criminal case was opened without a number.
7. On February 20, the search began.
8. According to former student Slobtsov, they were escorted by Kirilenko with the words: "Look, maybe you will find traces of how they escaped to Norway undressed, without pants».
9. The characteristics of Kirilenko, the head of the Sverdlovsk regional Committee are the most negative. "Boor, tyrant, bonecracker, semi-literate, stupid, vindictive, bulldozer type"
10. On February 24, a tent was discovered by forester Pashin (see his testimony), on February 26, a tent was discovered by search engines Sharavin and Slobtsov.
11. On February 27, the first bodies were found near the cedar. Undressed, with lacerations of hands and face.
12. The search and the Criminal case were supervised by the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee. Yeshtokin was present in the Department. Kirilenko came to Ivdel twice.
13. Already on March 10, the regional committee creates a commission, which on March 27, 1959 comes to the conclusion that tourists died from frost. The report was sent to the Central Committee of the CPSU "the whole group died, they could not cope with the weather conditions." (archival documents are available). The investigation is not over yet, 4 corpses have not been found.
14. The investigation was conducted at the direction of the authorities. In fact, there was no investigation. Fingerprints have not been taken, there are no clear photographs, there is no investigation of the remains of the fire, there is no examination of fragments of internal organs. There is no case number.
15. The last corpses, with terrible injuries and someone else's underwear on Luda Dubinina, were found in May. At the same time, the case was dismissed on the instructions of the party.
16. In August 1956, a Komsomol protest broke out at the Komsomol construction site in Temirtau due to impossible living conditions and lack of food and water. Kirilenko goes to solve the problem with the protesting Komsomol members together with other members of the commission. The protest was brutally suppressed, killed and executed.