The man was 84 years old. The farewell ceremony for him was held with a limited number of participants. The burial place is still unknown.
On the death of Sarafina said the head of the Foundation in memory of Dyatlov’s group, Yury Kuntsevich.
“Mikhail Petrovich died on 3 July. The main witness is dead. This is the first witness” he said, Kuntsevich website URA.RU.
Sharavin was the first who discovered the tent “of Dyatlova” on the slopes of mount Kholat syakhl (remember, the search for tourists missing in the Northern Urals was conducted from 26 February-4 March 1959). The tent was cut and torn. Body tourists with Sarafina – was discovered 50 meters away from her in the woods and on the mountainside. Some were scantily clad. On the corpses of young people also found injuries.
Previously, the office of the Prosecutor General in the Urals Federal district said that the cause of death of Dyatlov’s group was the sudden avalanche. It is reported by “KP”.
After snow fell on the tent, the young men hastily left it, and then are unable to return to it. In the end, the travelers froze to death on 40 – 45 degrees Fahrenheit. “The version of avalanche has found its full confirmation,” said the chief of the office of the Prosecutor General in the Urals Federal district Andrey Kurakov, adding that a fatal role in the tragedy was played also by snow and poor visibility.
Version avalanche was considered the most. However, the late Mikhail Sharavin insisted on another theory. In his opinion, nine members of the Dyatlov’s group was lost due to the testing of military weapons.
