Fortunately I can still understand Russian that I had to learn at school..

Krivonischenko was no ordinary guy. His father was in rank General Major and in charge of constructing Soviet nuclear plants. Krivonischenko himself worked on liquidating Mayak (Kyshtym disaster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster) then he suddenly quit his job and ignored letter denying him release. From what he saw at Mayak and from informal talks with his father he could have had troves of valuable information.

https://dyatlovpass.com/konstantin-krivonischenko?rbid=18461

Suprisingly there is another member of the group - Kolevatov - that from analysis of his biography looks like career officer involved with nuclear industry. At 19-year-old Kolevatov graduated from the Mining and Metallurgical College in Sverdlovsk and was sent to Moscow to work at 9th Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR laboratory "B", focused on creating protection against ionizing radiation. And then sent back to Sverdlovsk (which does not make sense as voluntary career move but makes sense as some sort of assignment).

https://dyatlovpass.com/rakitin-on-kolevatov

And Zolotaryov - there are witnesses of him beeing seen at different places at the same time. We know that he had zek brother (kept in Gulag for beeing traitor after WW2). He was leading tourist expeditions often close to the borders of USSR (in 1950s it was difficult to achive permits for such expeditions - there were people trying to escape and in some still active ant-Soviet partisans).

He claimed that after Dyatlov expedition he will achive fame. He was simple PE instructor but working in secret city.

On the TV show the daughter of Zolotaryov life partner and a person who have taken bath with him on previous expedtion does not remember Zolotaryov tattoos. No one else does and Zolotaryov was handsome man and well remembered. It was also at times hard to imagine for a normal member of Soviet society to have tattoos. Especially for PE instructor who has been leading PE classes with students in short sleeve shirt.

https://dyatlovpass.com/resources/340/gallery/Semyon-Zolotar...

Zolotaryov young son disappeared without a trace. He was apparently given into foster care but boy's mother (Zolotaryov's life partner) had been actively looking for him for long years in vain. So it looks like the paper trail of the boy vanished or have been erased.

https://dyatlovpass.com/semyon-zolotaryov?lid=1&flp=1#sasha

So we might assume that Zolotaryov had been given new life, taking boy with him and the body found have been his brother's.

https://dyatlovpass.com/zolotaryov-exhumation-3?rbid=18461

Tumanov - pathologist on the TV show - claims that Krivonischenko's burns are a sign of prolonged exposure to fire - not an accident casue even semi-conscious person will react to contact with fire. So either Krivonischenko climbed the tree and fire was used to force him to get down or it was plain torture to extract some information.

Slobodin (amateur boxer), Kolmogorova and Dyatlov all had died of hypothermia but also all have signs of blunt force trauma. So hypothermia might have been result of being left unconscious in the cold after receiving serious blows (back of skull for Slobodin, batton on a hip and bleeding nose of for Kolmogorova and Dyatlov had frozen with his both hands in protective gesture). Especially in case of Slobodin the snow evidently melted under his warm body and frozen later.

All three of them especially Kolmogorova have been really well dresed so hypothermia is unlikely explanation (they were all tough tourists, familiar with camping in the snow without all the equipment that we have now (polartec, gore-tex, down parkas and down sleeping bags, mats etc.) - all of them perishing from hypothermia within few hours is absurd).

The ravine four might have been just finished off with broken necks. Their bodies had autopsy after long time in snow.

There are less credible sources saying that Dyatlov group had been followed by another group of people. On the Rusdian TV show there is a guy who tells that his father was hunting in the area, saw the fire, came closer and have seen people being beaten. He did not came forward cause hunting without permit was criminal offense.

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Now this is all armchair theorizing, grasping at straws and nothing more and it probably belongs in https://dyatlovpass.com/ forum rather then here. ;-)

But let's hope that as Russia's attorney opened the investigation we may learn what has happened some day.