# Dyatlov Pass, 1959 criminal case file: SCENE and SEARCH - contradictions between documents and EN/RU translation divergences

Companion to case-file-scene-facts.md (fact numbers F1-F246 refer to that file). Sources: dyatlovpass.com transcriptions, EN https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-SLUG?rbid=17743 and RU https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-SLUG-ru?rbid=17747 (scans at https://dyatlovpass.com/gallery-case-files-SLUG). "sh." = лист of the case file. Where a conflict is between witnesses' recollections given weeks apart it is listed as such; where it is between two formal documents it is flagged "document vs document".

## Part A. Contradictions between documents / witnesses

### A1. The tent and its site

| # | Question | Statements (source) | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Slope angle at the tent | 30° (sh. 2, discovery protocol, Tempalov, 28.02); 18-20° (sh. 34, Bardin/Shuleshko); 15-18° (sh. 334, Sogrin, "presents no danger"); 20-25° (sh. 366, Brusnitsyn), "reaches 20°" right at the tent, first stone ridge below "up to 5°" (sh. 369, Brusnitsyn) | The only formal protocol figure (30°) is the outlier; three experienced hikers who measured or estimated on 4 March and later give 15-25°. |
| C2 | Distance of tent from summit / crest | 300 m from the summit of 1079 (sh. 2); 150 m from the crest of the spur "at 900 m altitude" (sh. 70 Maslennikov; sh. 310 Tempalov); 100-150 m NE of the top (sh. 89 Chernyshev) | Different reference points (summit vs spur crest); not strictly contradictory. |
| C3 | Direction the entrance faced | south (sh. 70 Maslennikov; sh. 310 Tempalov; sh. 366 Brusnitsyn); east (sh. 214 Atmanaki); "toward the pass" (sh. 34 Bardin/Shuleshko) | Atmanaki saw only the pit on 7-8 March after the tent was removed. |
| C4 | Which side was torn/cut | "north side guy lines torn, second half buried" (sh. 70); "torn in the middle on the windward side" (sh. 311); "downhill slope torn to shreds, uphill slope torn near entrance with fur jacket in the hole" (sh. 34); "leeward (northern) side torn through" (sh. 214 Atmanaki); "leeward side, where the heads were, cut from inside in two places" (sh. 385 Ivanov); Churkina: damage concentrated "on the right slope of the roof" (sh. 303) | Witnesses disagree on whether the cut slope was the windward or leeward one; Ivanov says leeward, Maslennikov/Tempalov describe the damaged north side as the one whose guy lines were torn by wind. |
| C5 | Number of cuts | three cuts (No. 1: 32 cm broken line + 2.2 cm puncture; No. 2: about 89 cm; No. 3: about 42 cm) (sh. 303 об., Churkina act 199); "cut from inside in two places" (sh. 385 Ivanov, citing the same expertise); "a cut in one slope" (sh. 314 Lebedev, first day) | Document vs document (expertise vs resolution). |
| C6 | Skis under the tent | 8 pairs (sh. 2 protocol; sh. 366 Brusnitsyn); 9 pairs under the floor, 10 pairs in all (sh. 70 Maslennikov); 9 pairs "all under the floor" (sh. 310 Tempalov); "a spare pair stuck in the snow" outside (sh. 70, 214, 298) | If one pair stood outside, 8 under + 1 spare = 9 total; Maslennikov's 10 is unexplained. |
| C7 | Boots and valenki | 9 pairs of boots + 3 pairs of valenki (sh. 2); 8 pairs of boots + 3.5 pairs of valenki (sh. 34, 70, 310); 8 pairs of boots + 7 valenki (sh. 89-90 Chernyshev; sh. 311 Tempalov, "7 штук валенок") ; radiogram sh. 160: 8 pairs of boots | The 28.02 protocol's "9 pairs" stands alone; the site EN of sh. 2 compounds it by translating ботинки as "felt boots". |
| C8 | Chinese flashlight on the tent | "in switched-on state (but not burning)" (sh. 70 Maslennikov); "not switched on; when I switched it on the light came on" (sh. 298-299 Slobtsov, who picked it up first); "in unlit state" (sh. 310 Tempalov); "on the tent slope" (sh. 214 Atmanaki); Chernyshev only heard of it (sh. 90); radiogram sh. 167: "on its roof" | Slobtsov is the first-hand witness; Maslennikov arrived later. |
| C9 | Snow under/over the flashlight | 5-10 cm of snow under it, none on top (sh. 298 Slobtsov) vs "on the tent" (sh. 70) | Bears on whether the flashlight was dropped after snow had accumulated on the canvas. |
| C10 | Second flashlight below the tent | "450 m below the tent a switched-on flashlight" (sh. 191 radiogram 07.03); "about 100 m below the tent … switched on, battery burnt out" (sh. 220 Atmanaki) | Same find, distances differ 4.5x. |
| C11 | Broken ski vs cut ski pole | "20 m from the tent a piece of a broken ski" (sh. 191 radiogram); a ski pole "cut into several pieces" on top of the things in the tent, which had held the north ridge (sh. 367 Brusnitsyn); ski pole with top cut off along a neat cut (sh. 315 Lebedev) | Possibly two different objects; the radiogram is the only source for a broken ski. |
| C12 | Snow on the tent | "15-20 cm, blown on, hard" (sh. 298 Slobtsov, 26 Feb); "not much snow, what the February blizzards blew in" (sh. 70 Maslennikov); "almost buried, one ridge end sticking out" (sh. 34 Bardin/Shuleshko); "looked snowbound, impossible to get in" (sh. 89 Chernyshev); "only the front part not buried" (sh. 314 Lebedev); "everything buried under already-compacted snow except the south ridge" (sh. 366 Brusnitsyn); "the other slope buried by drifted snow lying on the floor" (sh. 214 Atmanaki) | Not contradictory once one notes that the collapsed north half lay under drifted snow while the standing south end protruded; no witness describes a snow mass thicker than the 15-20 cm hard layer measured by Slobtsov, and none describes a slab or block. |
| C13 | Stove position | "approximately in the middle, disassembled, in its case" (sh. 89-90 Chernyshev; sh. 311 Tempalov "in the middle"); "at the entrance" (sh. 34; sh. 314 Lebedev; sh. 366 Brusnitsyn "right of the entrance"); Atmanaki: entrance half blocked by buckets, stove, backpacks (sh. 214) | Ten people dug "without any system" (sh. 366), so positions after 27-28 Feb are unreliable. |
| C14 | Log / чурбачок | "next to the rusks lay a log taken from the previous camp" (sh. 34, inside); "a small log outside at the far end" (sh. 314 Lebedev) | — |
| C15 | Small items outside the tent | 10-15 m from the tent: slippers, socks, Dyatlov's fur jacket, storm jacket (sh. 70); 0.5-1 m downwind: slippers, ski caps, small items (sh. 299 Slobtsov); film roll 15 m below (sh. 215 Atmanaki) | — |
| C16 | Ice axe | at the tent, stuck near the entrance (sh. 70, 298, 314, 365); listed as "Ледоруб 1" at the end of the inventory of items delivered from the labaz on 3 March (sh. 18); "the only thing besides the ice axe found outside the tent" (sh. 167) | Document vs document: the inventory heading, not a second ice axe (Brusnitsyn sh. 365 says Slobtsov/Sharavin brought the ice axe down on 26 Feb). |
| C17 | Vodka/alcohol | "impression that the students drank vodka and had a snack" - empty flask smelling of spirit (sh. 311 об. Tempalov); flask "with alcohol" carried down on 26 Feb (sh. 365 Brusnitsyn); radiogram sh. 160 / Ivanov: nothing about drinking; autopsies (forensic notes) found no alcohol | Tempalov's inference only. |
| C18 | Whether the group had eaten | "supped, began changing" (sh. 170 radiogram); loin rinds, sliced lard, mug with oatmeal, rusks scattered (sh. 311, 315, 367, 385) | Consistent that a snack was in progress. |
| C19 | State of the entrance | "open, sheets protruding" (sh. 34); "unbuttoned but half blocked … barricade" (sh. 214); "only a few toggles open" (sh. 325 Akselrod); "held on its central peg and well roped" (sh. 89) | — |
| C20 | Why the group left, according to the search leadership | 27 Feb: bodies "thrown out of the tent by a hurricane" (sh. 146), "probably all buried by snow and heavy products, the tent torn, people carried down by the wind" (sh. 149), "blown out during the buran" (sh. 153), "position of the bodies testifies to a hurricane" (sh. 152); 1 Mar: someone went out to urinate and was blown away, the tent stands "in the most dangerous place for wind", "everyone agrees with this version" (sh. 170); 2 Mar: "the main riddle remains the exit of the whole group from the tent … cause could be an extraordinary natural phenomenon or a meteorological rocket" (sh. 167); 10 Mar: "no doubt the group deliberately left the tent" (sh. 74-75); April-May: Sogrin/Akselrod/Atmanaki/Chernyshev: they could have held on in any wind, tracks show walking, no avalanche (sh. 215, 324-326, 334-335, 91) | The "buried by snow / hurricane" wording exists only in the first 48 hours, before the tent was inspected; every later witness who stood on the slope rejects wind-transport of bodies and none invokes snow movement. |

### A2. Footprints

| # | Question | Statements | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| C21 | Number of tracks | 8 pairs, "a ninth I could not establish and it was not there" (sh. 312 Tempalov); 8 pairs with a disputed 9th, "I incline to think all 9 were there" (sh. 297 Maslennikov); 6-7 pairs + 2 pairs 20 m to the left, merging (sh. 90 Chernyshev); 8-9 (sh. 160 radiogram 28.02; sh. 292 Karelin; sh. 386 Ivanov) | Only Tempalov denies a 9th; the prosecutor's own count contradicts his superior's resolution. |
| C22 | How far the tracks were visible | only a 50 m stretch (sh. 312 Tempalov); about 1 km (sh. 160 radiogram); 700-800 m (sh. 215 Atmanaki); to about 800 m where they split at a stone ridge (sh. 315 Lebedev); "up to 500 m" (sh. 386 Ivanov) | — |
| C23 | Where the tracks started | 50-60 m below the tent (sh. 312); 30-40 m (sh. 90 Chernyshev); 20-30 m (sh. 215 Atmanaki); 15-20 m (sh. 299 Slobtsov); "from the tent itself" (sh. 160 radiogram) | All agree the first metres below the tent bore no tracks (snow dug out by searchers / blown clean). |
| C24 | Gait | "walked at a normal pace down the mountain" (sh. 312 Tempalov); "as if holding on to each other", in parallel chains (sh. 90 Chernyshev); "tracks of those who ran" (sh. 292 Karelin, sh. 334 Sogrin "группа бежала"); "wind may have pushed them but did not roll them" (sh. 91) | Tempalov and Chernyshev, the two who examined them earliest and longest, describe walking, not running. |
| C25 | Two groups merging vs splitting | two groups of tracks merged 30-40 m down (sh. 90 Chernyshev); started as two groups, then joined (sh. 215 Atmanaki); went side by side and split into two only about 800 m down at a stone ridge (sh. 315 Lebedev); "clustered then diverging" (sh. 299 Slobtsov); "converging and diverging" (sh. 386 Ivanov) | — |
| C26 | Footwear seen in the tracks | one person in boots, the rest socks/barefoot (sh. 160); toes imprinted, barefoot or one cotton sock; lowest track in a boot with heel imprint (sh. 90-91); "without footwear, in valenki" [sic] (sh. 299 Slobtsov); some barefoot, most in socks (sh. 315); one cotton sock / valenki (sh. 386) | Slobtsov's RU sentence is self-contradictory as transcribed. |

### A3. Cedar and fire

| # | Question | Statements | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| C27 | Duration of the fire | "about an hour and a half; 8-cm branches burned through in half" (sh. 68 Maslennikov); "2-3 hours, not big" (sh. 333 Sogrin); "fairly big, logs up to 80 mm burnt in half" (sh. 216 Atmanaki) | — |
| C28 | Thickness of burnt branches | 8 cm (sh. 68); 8-10 cm (sh. 91 Chernyshev); up to 80 mm (sh. 216) | Consistent; the site EN "80 cm" for sh. 68 is a translation error. |
| C29 | Height of broken branches on the cedar | 2-2.5 m (sh. 3 об. protocol); to 2 m and at 4.5-5 m (sh. 68-69); as high as reachable, one at 4-5 m (sh. 91); to 5 m, cleared on the tent-facing side at 4-5 m "like a window" (sh. 217); raw 5-cm branches at 3-4 m (sh. 366) | — |
| C30 | Number of cut firs | 6-7 (sh. 91 Chernyshev); about 20 cuttings within 20 m, trunks not found except one (sh. 216-217 Atmanaki); more than ten, cut with a Finnish knife (sh. 366 Brusnitsyn) | — |
| C31 | Identity of the second body at the cedar | recorded as «труп Золотарева? Александра Алексеевича» in the scene protocol, with "ошибка" (error) written in above the name (sh. 4, transcriber's note), and as Zolotaryov in radiogram sh. 146; identified as Doroshenko by all later documents | Document error, annotated on the original sheet and corrected later. |
| C32 | Distance cedar to tent | 1.5 km NE of 1079 (sh. 3); 1500 m from the tent (sh. 37-38, sh. 386); 1.5 km (sh. 91) | Consistent. |

### A4. Bodies on the slope

| # | Question | Statements | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| C33 | Dyatlov - distance from cedar | 400 m SW of the cedar bodies (sh. 4 protocol); 300 m from the cedar toward the tent (sh. 69; sh. 38; sh. 386) | Document vs document. |
| C34 | Kolmogorova - distance from Dyatlov | 500 m, "corrected from 58 or 56" (sh. 4-5 protocol); 350 m above Dyatlov (sh. 69 Maslennikov); 150 m (Kolmogorova-Slobodin) + 180 m (Slobodin-Dyatlov) = 330 m (sh. 72; sh. 386); 850 m from the tent (sh. 34, 38) | The protocol figure was altered on the original sheet (transcriber's note). |
| C35 | Snow over Slobodin | 15 cm (sh. 38; radiogram sh. 184); 12-15 cm (sh. 71); "under a crust of minimum thickness 350 mm" (sh. 322 Akselrod) | — |
| C36 | Kolmogorova's posture, interpretation | "was trying not to climb but to hold on in place" (sh. 5 protocol); "in the pose of walking or crawling upward, head strictly toward the tent" (sh. 216 Atmanaki) | Same posture, opposite reading. |
| C37 | Kolmogorova's head | "the nearest, Kolmogorova, head smashed" (sh. 146 radiogram 27.02); protocol sh. 5: bloodied face, abrasions; autopsy (forensic notes): no skull injury | First-hour radiogram error. |
| C38 | Slobodin's watch | "stopped at a quarter to nine" (sh. 183 radiogram); 8:45 (sh. 386) | Consistent. |
| C39 | Date first bodies found | 27 Feb (sh. 3 protocol; radiograms sh. 146-149; sh. 34, 37-38); 26.II.59 (sh. 386 Ivanov); case opened 26 Feb "on the basis of the discovery of the bodies of Krivonischenko, Kolmogorova, Dyatlov" (sh. 1) vs "opened 28 February" (sh. 340) | Document vs document: sh. 1 is dated before the bodies were found; sh. 340 gives a third date. |
| C40 | Who found the cedar bodies | Sharavin (sh. 366 Brusnitsyn); Sharavin and Strelnikov / Koptelov in other statements (sh. 37-38, sh. 298-299) | Peripheral. |

### A5. Ravine / den

| # | Question | Statements | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| C41 | Date of discovery of the four bodies | protocol dated 6 May 1959 (sh. 341, 342); "4 May 1959" (sh. 386 Ivanov) | Bodies were found 4-5 May and the protocol drawn up 6 May; Ivanov's date is the discovery date. |
| C42 | Distance from the cedar / fire | 50 m from the cedar, in the stream (sh. 341/342); 75 m from the fire, toward the fourth-tributary valley (sh. 386) | — |
| C43 | Side of height 880 | western (sh. 341, copy 1) vs north-western (sh. 342, copy 2) | Two copies of the same protocol differ. |
| C44 | Snow depth over the bodies | 2.5 to 2 m (sh. 341/342); flooring at 3 to 2.5 m (sh. 341/343); "under a layer of snow of 4-4.5 m" (sh. 386 Ivanov); Atmanaki in March: 4-5 m in the ravine near the cedar (sh. 219) | Document vs document; March snow was deeper than May snow. |
| C45 | Thibeaux's two watches | Pobeda "38 min of the 9th hour", Sportivnye "15 min of the 9th hour" = 8:38 and 8:15 (sh. 341); copy 2 omits "9 часа" after 15 minutes (sh. 342); Ivanov: 8:14 and 8:39 (sh. 386) | One-minute differences; the site EN "38 minutes past 9 hours / 15 minutes past 9 hours" (9:38/9:15) is wrong. |
| C46 | Dubinina's bare foot | wrapped in half a beige sweater (sh. 341/342 protocol); wrapped in Krivonischenko's wool trousers (sh. 386 Ivanov) | Document vs document. |
| C47 | Direction of the half ski trousers from the den | "15 m from the flooring toward the forest" (sh. 341) vs "toward the cedar" (sh. 343) | Two copies differ. |
| C48 | "по следам лапника" | copy 2 (sh. 343): flooring found "following the traces of fir branches"; copy 1 (sh. 341): "по следам обнаружен настил" (word "лапника" absent) | Two copies differ. |
| C49 | Number of trees in the flooring | "14 шихтовых и 1 березовой вершин" (sh. 341/343; transcriber suggests пихтовых, fir) | Typing error in the original. |

### A6. Weather, timeline, labaz

| # | Question | Statements | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| C50 | Temperature on the evening of 1 Feb | "down to -15°" (sh. 369 Brusnitsyn); "of the order of 25-30°" (sh. 385 Ivanov); -25 to -30 assumed (sh. 325-326 Akselrod); "below zero by more than 30°" at the 41st kvartal on 1 Feb (sh. 41 Dryahlyh); diary 30 Jan: 17/-13/26 (sh. 27) | No station record for 1-2 Feb is in the file (F196); every figure is a witness estimate. |
| C51 | Wind on the night | "no especially strong wind at the moment of death, or Slobodin's cap would have blown off" (sh. 322 Akselrod); "strong wind and very cold" (sh. 312 Tempalov); "such winds I have rarely observed in 32 years" at the 41st kvartal (sh. 41); "wind of the same force as the first search days, drifting snow" (sh. 369) | Witnesses were 30-100 km away; Akselrod's is the only inference from the scene itself. |
| C52 | Wind speeds during the search | "usually 15-20 m/s, not infrequently 36 m/s and more (weather service)" (sh. 39); "not less than 15-20 m/s on the pass" (sh. 93); radiograms: 30 m (sh. 169, 1 Mar), 25 m beyond the pass (sh. 175, 3 Mar), 15 m (sh. 184, 5 Mar), 5 below / 15 on top, -7° (sh. 197, 8-9 Mar) | Consistent. |
| C53 | Time the group entered the tent | pitching began about 17:00 (sh. 385, from the last frame); in tent 19:00-20:00 (sh. 33); "supped, began changing" then the event (sh. 170); event about 19:00 (Sogrin/Akselrod/Brusnitsyn reconstructions) | Consistent reconstructions, all from the same photo evidence. |
| C54 | Date of the event | "evening of 1 February" (sh. 301, 384-385); "night of 2 February" (sh. 170); "1 or 2 February" (sh. 312, 386) | — |
| C55 | Labaz - date found | protocol 2 March (sh. 8); radiogram sh. 167 (2 March) "found"; "28 February or 1 March" (sh. 300 Slobtsov, 15 Apr) | Slobtsov admits he does not remember the date. |
| C56 | Labaz - distance | 400 m from the searchers' tent up the Auspiya (sh. 167); 300 m from base camp, 100 m from the Auspiya (sh. 38); 100 m from the bank, 500 m below the forest edge (sh. 71); weight 55 kg (sh. 8-10, 71, 167) vs "about 60 kg" (sh. 300) | — |
| C57 | Probing start | systematic probing "from 8 March" (sh. 38) vs Slobodin found by probes on 5 March (sh. 71-72, 322) | Internal inconsistency in the Bardin/Shuleshko report. |
| C58 | Probing area | about 30,000 m2 (sh. 38) vs "about 1500 ha triple-probed" (sh. 308 Ortyukov) | 50x difference; Ortyukov's figure is implausible. |
| C59 | Light phenomenon on 1 Feb | radiogram sh. 167: rocket "seen on 1/II in Ivdel"; Krivonischenko sr. hearsay: two student groups saw a glow and heard thunder on the evening of 1 Feb and again 7 Feb (sh. 273-274); Kolevatova hearsay: Chistop group "first days of February" (sh. 270-272); all first-hand sightings on file are 17 Feb (sh. 211-212, 227, 264-267, 291, 344) and 31 Mar (sh. 260) | No first-hand 1 Feb sighting and no Ivdel document for 1 Feb is in the file. |

## Part B. Places where the site's English translation differs materially from the Russian transcription

| # | Sheet / document | Russian | Site English | Correct sense |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | sh. 2, discovery protocol | «в головах 9 пар ботинок … валенки три пары» | "9 pairs of felt boots were found where the heads must have been … three pairs of felt boots" | ботинки = (leather) boots; only the second item is felt boots (valenki). |
| T2 | sh. 34, Bardin/Shuleshko | «Из снега торчал один конек палатки со стороны входа» | "Sticking out from the snow was a propping pole on one side of the entrance" | конек = ridge end / peak of the tent, not a pole. |
| T3 | sh. 68, Maslennikov | «восьмисантиметровые сучья кедра перегорели пополам» | "80 cm cedar boughs burned in half" | 8-centimetre branches. |
| T4 | sh. 8, labaz protocol | «обложен картоном, еловыми лапами» | "covered with planks and spruce debris" | картон = cardboard. |
| T5 | sh. 149, radiogram 27.02 17:45 | «Палатку осмотреть не успели вероятно все были завалены снегом тяжелыми продуктами палатку разорвало люди встав, понесло ветром вниз» | "Couldn't explore the tent due to heavy snow on top heavy objects ripped through the tent and the strong wind blew people standing down the slope" | "We did not have time to inspect the tent; probably all were buried by snow [and] heavy products; the tent was torn; the people, having got up, were carried down by the wind." The EN turns a hypothesis ("probably all were buried") into a description of the tent ("heavy snow on top"). |
| T6 | sh. 191, radiogram 07.03 | «Погода улучшается тчк» | "The weather is getting worse period" | The weather is improving. |
| T7 | sh. 335, Sogrin | «здесь не было ни лавины, ни снежного обвала» | "there was no avalanche, no snowfall" | "neither an avalanche nor a snow collapse (slide)". |
| T8 | sh. 91, Chernyshev | «Может быть их подгонял ветер, но он их не катил по снегу – в этом случае следов бы не осталось» | "Maybe they were driven by the wind, but they were not rolled in the snow - in this case, there would be any traces." | The EN drops the negation: "in that case no tracks would have remained." The point of the sentence (tracks prove they were not rolled by the wind) is lost. |
| T9 | sh. 311 об.-312, Tempalov | «Спуск от палатки крутой и по насту (плотному снегу)» | "The descent from the tent is steep, difficult even on the crust (dense snow)" | "difficult even" is not in the Russian. |
| T10 | sh. 341/342, ravine protocol | «победа 38 мин 9 часа, а спортивные 15 минут 9 часа» | "pobeda 38 minutes past 9 hours, and the sportivnye 15 minutes past 9 hours" | Russian idiom "N minutes of the 9th hour" = 8:38 and 8:15 (as Ivanov's 8:39 / 8:14 confirms). |
| T11 | sh. 219, Atmanaki | passage on the trampled, melted snow around the fire includes «огонь был довольно сильный» | clause omitted in EN | "the fire was fairly strong". |
| T12 | sh. 303 об., Churkina | «Определить точно длину этих повреждений нельзя, т.к. …» | sentence omitted in EN | "It is impossible to determine the length of these damages exactly, because …". |
| T13 | sh. 386, Ivanov | «Дятлов лежал на спине, головой в сторону палатки, рукой обхватив ствол небольшой березы» | "Dyatlov lay on his backs, his head in the direction of the tent, his hands clasping the trunk of a small birch" | One arm (singular) clasping the trunk of a small birch. |
| T14 | sh. 387, Ivanov | «стихийная сила, преодолеть которую туристы были не в состоянии» | "overwhelming force, which the hikers were not able to overcome" | стихийная = elemental / of the natural elements; "an elemental (natural) force which the hikers were in no condition to overcome". The EN drops the "natural" connotation that the Russian carries. |
| T15 | sh. 299, Slobtsov | «следы оставлены ногами человека без обуви в валенках» | rendered literally ("without shoes, in felt boots") | Russian itself is contradictory (probably "без обуви, в носках" intended or a dictation error); flag rather than resolve. |
| T16 | sh. 27, diary 30 Jan | «температура утром 17° днем -13°. вечером 26°» | EN gives -17°C / -13°C / -26°C with an editor's note that the typed copy omits the minus signs | Reasonable and flagged by the site; listed for completeness. |
| T17 | sh. 384-387, Ivanov | RU transcription carries the transcriber's notes «Лист 385 (исправлено с 382)», «Лист 386 (исправлено с 383)» | EN omits these notes | The sheets of the resolution were renumbered by hand in the original; visible only in the RU transcription. |

## Part C. Site commentary encountered (marked as site opinion, not used as fact)

- Introductions on several pages (e.g. sh. 29-30) state that the second diary is not Kolmogorova's; the case file itself (sh. 6) labels it "Дневник Колмогоровой".
- Captions on the photo-table pages (sh. 388-392) are the expert's; surrounding remarks are the site's.
- The site's English introductions to the radiograms sometimes date or attribute messages; the fact table uses only the dates written in the radiogram texts.