The volunteer put forward a version about the escape of the Usoltsev family who disappeared in the taiga

The Usoltsev family, who disappeared in the taiga of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, could have fled to Mongolia. This opinion was shared on October 17 by Siberian blogger Alexander Andryushenkov, who participated in the search for tourists.

"Sergey (the father of the missing family. He knew the area very well, he could follow a hiking trail, and then turn off it and go through the forest to the nearest road. And there they would get into a car prepared for them in advance and leave. We would have crossed the border with Mongolia, for example," suggested Andriushenkov in an interview. NEWS.ru .

He noted that no one was looking for the missing family for the first two days and they would have had time to leave.

They were looking for the wrong place: the phone signal of the missing Usoltsev family was detected near the village of Kuturchin

This is not the first case of a mysterious disappearance of a man in the area.

On October 8, the press service of the main directorate (GU) of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the region said that more than 515 km of forest roads and 40 square kilometers of woodlands had been combed by volunteers in search of missing tourists. The next day, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia reported that the radio signal of the phone of the head of the missing Usoltsev family was recorded 7 km from the village of Kuturchin in the Partizansky district, after which it was decided to concentrate search operations there.

On October 12, the regional branch of the LizaAlert volunteer search and rescue team reported that the active phase of the search for the missing family had been completed, but work would continue in the format of point tasks to be performed by certified rescuers and professionals. It was noted that at the same time, the investigation of the criminal case on the fact of the unknown disappearance of tourists is continuing.

On September 28, the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory reported the disappearance of the Usoltsev family, consisting of a man and a woman born in 1961 and 1977, respectively, as well as their five-year-old child, in a wooded area near the Minsk Loop. The family was moving towards Mount Pinocchio, but after five days of no contact with their relatives, their whereabouts were not found out.

Oksana Zhdanyuk, a friend of the missing Irina Usoltseva, told Izvestia on October 2 that the family had not disclosed the details of the planned walk, but most likely they had changed their route.

According to one of the versions put forward by representatives of the Main Investigative Directorate (GSO) of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia on October 3, the man could have become ill, and the woman and child could not get out of the taiga on their own.

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