| And for the record. (this info is better available to Russian speakers). Russia general Attorney Office re-opened the case in February 2019. We might hope for some documents surfacing. There is a lot of living witnesses coming forward on Russian TV (and also a lot of freaks). There are no ground for exhumation of the bodies yet. Exception being the Semyon (Alexander) Zolotaryov for whose grave no records had been found. The grave had been opened and two DNA expertise made. First inconclusive and second confirmed a relation. However there are still doubts about Zolotaryov identity. Coroner report describes tattoos [ “DAERMMUAZUAYA” ] (which only zeks (prisoners and criminal element) had at the time in Russia). Zolotaryov being handsome PE teacher (and wearing sleeveless shirt on multiple occasions) is well remembered by many as not having any tattoos. Some people remember Zolotaryov's golden tooth, the exhumated body had multiple steel implants instead. There is many more doubts about Zolotaryov's identity. He had been seen in two places at the same time on multiple occasions, he had a traitor brother (possibly kept in Gulag), he used two names (Semyon and Alexander), he worked as simple PE teacher but at one of the forbidden cities in Siberia, he moved a lot around the country on some tourist expedition always close to USSR borders. His little son vanished at the time of his death (into foster care) and never surfaced despite being actively searched for 50 years by boy's mother. We also know that Yuri Krivonischenko's father was no ordinary Joe. He had been constructor of several atomic power plants in Russia and Ukraine protected personally by Stalin from persecution. Yuri Krivonischenko had been working at Mayak in Chelyabinsk-40, where a massive nuclear disaster, second in severity only to Chernobyl, occurred in 1957. Krivonischenko quit his job at Mayak abruptly just before the trip. He had received letter denying him to quit his job (that being Russia in 1959). He disregarded the letter (perhaps not being afraid of consequences due to his father's position). As for Kolevatov we know he graduated from the Mining and Metallurgical College in Sverdlovsk and was sent to Moscow to work at secret PO Box No. 3394 (NKVD laboratory "B", focused on creating protection against ionizing radiation). Then he transferred back to UPI in Siberia. This is very unlikely to be voluntary career move but more of pattern of being recruited and given some mission. > Only Muscovites received work in Moscow, and finding a job for a nonresident in the capital meant pulling out a winning lottery ticket. Only Kolevatov had his Finish knife registered at the police. (At the time laws of USSR made possesion of Finish knife a criminal offence) [] https://dyatlovpass.com/yuri-krivonichenko-mayak-documents [] https://dyatlovpass.com/prosecutor-generals-office?lid=1 [] https://dyatlovpass.com/rakitin-on-kolevatov |