Bendlin decided initially that this was the mummified remains of a child and took it to Dr. Irina Yermolaeva for analysis. She stated that it was not a hoax in that it was a genuine mummified body that was once living tissue. Her conclusions were that it was a premature child that was deformed, something which could be attributed to the far-reaching fall-out of the 1957 Kyshtym Disaster.