The expert pointed out the strangeness of the disappearance of the Usoltsevs without a trace

Vladimir Popov, a member of the presidium of the Orienteering Federation of the Primorsky Territory, believes that in visited tourist places people rarely disappear without a trace.

Former investigator Amurkhan Yandiev expressed the opinion that the most likely version of the disappearance of the Usoltsev family is criminal.

The Usoltsev family disappeared near the village of Kuturchin on September 28, 2025, and now the investigation is considering the version of an accident as a priority, but does not exclude crime.

VLADIVOSTOK, October 10 – RIA Novosti. People rarely disappear without a trace while hiking in visited tourist places like the Usoltsev family in the Krasnoyarsk taiga; usually they are found alive or dead, Vladimir Popov, a member of the presidium of the Orienteering Federation of the Primorsky Territory, master of sports in orienteering, told RIA Novosti.

Earlier, Amurkhan Yandiev, a former investigator for particularly important cases who participated in the capture of serial killers, including Andrei Chikatilo, told RIA Novosti that, in his opinion, the criminal version of the Usoltsevs’ disappearance is the most likely: during the rain, they could go into the house of strangers in nearby settlements and become victims of a crime.

“People rarely disappear without a trace on hikes. It happens that they disappear, but are found alive, or, unfortunately, bodies are found - but in any case, they are still found, because the places are quite visited. And there (near Mount Buratinka), as far as I know, the places are also quite visited,” the interlocutor said.