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Table 3. Check sample measurements (tissues of a person killed in a street accident, provided for comparison by forensic medical expert Dr Vozrozhdenny)

 
 

Name

Sample mass, g

Raw sample mass, g

Ash mass, g

Background count

Excess over background

Sample activity, cmp

Sample activity, curie/kg

1

Lung

0.2

23.100

0.700

24

+3

2500

1.1× 10
-9

2

Kidney

0.2

30.200

0.920

24

+1

-

-

3

Liver

0.2

26.030

0.960

24

+1

-

-

4

Heart

0.2

19.640

0.950

24

+1

8000

3.6×10
-9

5

Skin

0.25

28.200

0.690

24

+6

2000

0.9×10
-9

6

Rib

0.2

13.800

1.180

24

+2

4700

2.1×10
-9

 
 

The investigation results shown in Tables 2 and 3 show no excess over average content of radioactive materials in human tissues.

 

Conclusions:

The content of radioactive materials in analyzed solid biosubstartes is within the natural level (and is due to the presence of isotope K-40).

The analyzed samples of clothing carry slightly excessive amounts of radioactive substances being the source of Beta-emission.

The detected radioactive materials or radioactive substance show a tendency to washing-off in the course of clothing samples washing, i.e., they are not due to a neutron flux or induced radiation, but rather to radioactive contamination with Beta-particles.

Chief Radiologist Levashov

27.05.59

Appendix III
 
‘Light Set’ guidelines
 

As taken from the translated article on
www.Russia-paramormal.org
.

 

Observations by Yury Yakimov (in his own words) on the operations of the ‘light set’ he encountered and believes responsible for the Dyatlov group deaths (see Chapter 8).

Based on the observations made by V. Rudkovsky (forest ranger) and myself, some conclusions may be made:

 

  1.  The ‘light set’ makes its appearance after dark, in complete silence, emits light for four to four and a half hours and leaves with a noise resembling strong electric discharge (snapping). After the light is gone, a strong wind blows for two to three minutes.

  2.  The light emitted by the ‘set’ resembles that of a projector, like from halogen or neon lamps.

  3.  The light from the ‘set’ may oscillate vertically, go in different directions and change direction.

  4.  The source of the light may be located on or above the ground surface.

  5.  The ‘light set’ responds to human glance (or maybe to animal glance as well). From the source of light, torches separate and quickly move towards a person as if catching a human glance.

  6.  The light of the torches dazzles a person, like headlights or strong spotlight.

  7.  The light casts no shade from trees.

  8.  Torches may pass through the forest, dividing and swinging. Their number increases from two to eight.

  9.  The ‘set’ does not respond to turned-on electric lamp KC-2000.

10.  The ‘set’ does not respond to fire or a glowing cigarette.

11.  The ‘set’ does not respond to a human voice.

12.  The ‘set’ does not respond to sound of a car.

13.  The ‘set’ may appear at any time of the year and in any weather.

14.  The ‘set’ does not respond to human thermal energy, only to a glance.

 

If we adopt the version that the Dyatlov group met with a similar phenomenon on that tragic night, one more conclusion may be made:

 

15.  The ‘set’ displays aggression against man.

 

The ‘set’ is tuned to protect information from man. In case of a long glance on this phenomenon, a beam of light is sent from the source, it lights a person. Torches separate from the light source, they try to locate the human glance with their beams. They approach and getting closer than 50m they may send some narrow-focused shock wave aiming at a human glance, which may inflict severe injuries. It may be not just a shock wave, but a high-power infrasonic wave at 7–8Hz frequency, which may cause the feeling of panic in humans.

Probably there are other people who had seen such a phenomenon and can give more information about the ‘light set’. It leaves some negative psychological after-effect in a person who has watched it.

Select bibliography
 

From a research point of view, all roads lead to the Dyatlov Memorial Foundation. The following is useful for background and information; a number of the items mentioned below directly concerning the Dyatlov tragedy have generally been provided by the Dyatlov Memorial Foundation.

 
Publications in English

Anthrax: An Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak
, Jeanne Guillemin, University of California Press 2001

Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
, Anne Applebaum, Penguin 2003

The Gulag Archipeligo Part 1 & 2
, Alexander Solzhenitzyn, 1st ed., Harper Row 1974

Mysterious Sky: Soviet UFO Phenomenon
, Philip Mantle and Paul Stonehill, PublishAmerica 2006

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitzyn, Penguin reprint 2000

‘Paradoxical Undressing in Fatal Hypotheria’, B. Wedlin, L. Vangaard and J. Hiroven,
Journal of Forensic Science
, 24 (3), July 1919, pp.543–53

Red Plenty
, Francis Spufford, Faber & Faber, 2010

Sport in Soviet Society
, James Riordan, Cambridge University Press 1977

Terminal Burrowing Behaviour

A Phenomenon of Lethal Hypothermia
, M.A. Rothschild and V. Schneider, Institute of Legal Medicine, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany 1995

UFO Case Files of Russia
, Philip Mantle and Paul Stonehill, Healings of Atlantis Ltd, 2010

 
Publications in Russian

Death ‘Classified’
, Istina, Tyumen 2012 Oleg Arkhipov

‘Investigation – Death at the Pass’,
Evreiskii Kamerton
,
20 March 2003

Kaleidoscope
,
No. 28, 10 July 2006

Teoriya I metodika fizicheskoi kul’tury
, G.D. Kharabuga, Moscow 1969

‘The Dyatlov Pass’, Anna Matveyeva (fiction),
Ural
, No. 1, 2001

‘The Mystery of the Deaths of the Dyatlov Group’, E. Bujanov and B. Slobtsov,
Uralsky Rabochy
, Ekaterinburg 2011

The Price of State Secrets is Nine Lives
, Anatoly Guschin, printing house of Asbest (city in Sverdlovsk Oblast) 1999

 
Internet sources

An example of one of the many websites covering the Dyatlov incident is:
www.forteantimes.com

Gennady Kizilov. Death of Tourists – 1959. Publication on the web:
http://samlib.ru/k/kizilow_g_i/150308-1.shtml
)

Outcasts – Inmates of the Black Eagle
, Ekaterina Loushnikova, 27 October 2010:
www.opendemocracy.net

The Decryption of a Picture
, Henry S, Lowenhaupt:
www.cia.gov/library

 
Televison

Riddle of the Skies – In Russia (Discovery Channel)

 
Newspapers

Komsomolskaya Pravda
, 13 June 2012

Oblastnaya Gazeta
, 30 January 1999

Plates
 

 

1 The memorial by the graves in Mikhailovskoe Cemetery.
Author

 

 

2 Memorial plaque on a rock at Dyatlov Pass.
Courtesy Dyatlov Memorial Foundation

 

 

3 Eight of the ten members of the Dyatlov group (Doroshenko and Krivonischenko are missing). They are all well wrapped up against the wind and cold and seemingly all in good spirits. The GAZ-63 truck eventually left Vizhay at 1.10 p.m. on 26 January 1959.
Courtesy Dyatlov Memorial Foundation

 

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