Georgy Atmanaki: A search and rescue volunteer and a member of the hiking party (along with Shavkunov and Karelin) who witnessed the light orbs in February 1959.
Yuri Blinov: A UPI student, hiking-club member and friend of the Dyatlov group. He was among the first to search for the hikers. Blinov’s own hiking group had shadowed Dyatlov’s for the first portion of their trip. He was among the last to see the group alive.
Vadim Brusnitsyn: A search volunteer and UPI student who was part of Mikhail Sharavin and Boris Slobtsov’s larger search team. His testimony during the investigation helped establish Sharavin and Slobtsov’s discovery of the tent.
Lev Gordo: The then-47-year-old director of the UPI sports club. Along with Yuri Blinov, Gordo was among the first to search for the hikers.
Lev Ivanov: Criminal investigator at the Sverdlovsk regional prosecutor’s office. He replaced Vasily Tempalov as lead investigator on the Dyatlov case.
Vladislav Karelin: A search volunteer and a member of the hiking party (along with Shavkunov and Atmanaki) who witnessed the light orbs in February 1959.
Abram Kikoin: Brother of famous nuclear physicist Isaak Kikoin. He taught physics at UPI and headed the school’s mountaineering club; for that reason, he was assigned to head up a relief search team to look for the missing hikers.
Ivan Laptev: Forensic expert who autopsied the Dyatlov hikers’ bodies.
Levashov: Sverdlovsk’s chief municipal radiologist, who performed radiation tests on the hikers’ clothing and organs at Ivanov’s request.
Yevgeny Maslennikov: One of the most experienced outdoors-men in Sverdlovsk at the time of the hikers’ deaths. He had been an adviser to the Dyatlov group and was eventually asked to lead a search party.
Nikolay Moiseyev: A police lieutenant who, with his trained dogs, was among those who found the hikers’ bodies.
Colonel George Ortyukov: A lecturer of reserve-officer training at UPI. Heavily involved in the search efforts, he was the first to assemble a formal search party.
Mikhail Sharavin: UPI student and search volunteer. Discovered the hikers’ tent with Boris Slobtsov.
Vladimir Shavkunov: a member of the hiking party (along with Karelin and Atmanaki) who witnessed the light orbs in February 1959.
Boris Slobtsov: A UPI student, search volunteer and a friend of the Dyatlov hikers. Slobtsov discovered the tent along with Mikhail Sharavin.
Vasily Tempalov: The original prosecutor assigned to investigate the case. A junior counselor of justice at the Ivdel prosecutor’s office, he was quickly replaced by Lev Ivanov, who outranked him.
Aleksey Vozrozhdyonny: Forensics expert. Conducted the autopsies of the Dyatlov group together with Ivan Laptev.
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