The investigation found out about Irina Usoltseva's unwillingness to go to the taiga

Investigators have studied the last telephone conversations of the Usoltsevs, who disappeared in September in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to the representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region, Yana Syrymbetova, the husband and wife actively discussed the upcoming trip, the details of which were supposed to be a surprise for the woman. The transcript of the calls confirmed that the initiator of the trip was the head of the family, while his wife asked for a comfortable overnight stay. At the same time, the specific route was not mentioned in their telephone conversations.

According to the investigation materials, 64-year-old Sergei Usoltsev chose his own vacation spot. When analyzing the calls, it turned out that 48-year-old Irina Usoltseva was counting on a comfortable pastime, while her husband preferred hiking in the woods and was a more pragmatic person. Their five-year-old daughter Arina was with them on the trip. According to the publication MK Krasnoyarsk, the family was accompanied by their 12-year-old dog Lada.

The route through Mount Bayan

Important evidence was provided by Denis Thorn, the assistant director of the campsite, who saw the family before leaving. According to him, Sergey was interested in the possibility of getting to Ivanovka via Mount Bayan. The guide, according to him, considered such a plan unsafe and warned the man that such a journey with a child on his shoulders would be extremely difficult and would take more than one day. The distance from the village to Bayan Mountain in a straight line is more than eight kilometers, while there are no official hiking routes on maps in this area.

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"I went over to say goodbye to them, and I saw things being loaded into the car. I say, "What's the plan?He says, "Now we'll run to Pinocchio and go home." That was the final phrase," Denis said in the program "New Russian Sensations" on NTV.

Investigation versions and search for evidence

At the moment, the Investigative Committee has initiated and is continuing to investigate a criminal case, considering the accident as the main version. Law enforcement officers do not rule out that the couple could have been injured, frozen or attacked by wild animals. According to one of the versions cited by MK Krasnoyarsk, the barking of a dog could provoke the aggression of a bear.

"Even with a small snow cover, it is very difficult to find a place where a bear has buried people," Syrymbetova explained. At the same time, the criminal version is being checked. The investigation suggests that in this case, the bodies could have been intentionally hidden in rock crevices or buried deep underground and covered with dead wood, making detection almost impossible.

Vasily Kaptyuk, senior investigator of the first directorate for the investigation of particularly important cases of the General Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Khakassia, noted that the chances of finding the Usoltsevs alive remain. "Since they have not been found in our country, therefore I believe that they may be alive. This cannot be ruled out either," the representative of the department stressed.

Suspending searches

The Usoltsevs and their child disappeared on September 28, 2025 in the Kuturchinsky Belogorye area. It is known that on September 27, they stopped at a recreation center in the village of Kuturchin, and the next day they set off towards the Buratinka rock. Currently, active search operations in the taiga have been suspended until the end of 2026. This decision was made due to the established snow cover and high activity of bears in the area.