The Investigative Committee is considering a criminal version of the disappearance of the Usoltsev family

The Investigative Committee is also working on the criminal version of the disappearance of the Usoltsev family, who are considered missing during a tourist trip to Partizansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. This was announced by the head of the regional Main Investigative Directorate of the RF Investigative Committee, Alexey Eremin.

“The version of the accident still remains the priority. Most likely, it was some kind of accident and people froze to death. Other versions are also being pursued, including that they were the victim of a crime. We are checking this version as well,” Eremin said in an interview with the TASS agency.

According to him, as part of the criminal investigation into the disappearance of a family, a whole range of operational search activities and investigative actions are being carried out, and witnesses are now being actively interrogated.

Previously, it was established that on September 27, 2025, a 64-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman, together with their 5-year-old daughter, arrived by car from Zheleznogorsk to the village of Kuturchin to go on a hike as part of a tourist group in the direction of Kuturchinsky Belogorye. Due to an unfavorable weather forecast, the group did not gather, but on September 28 at noon the Usoltsev family set out on their own, informing the base employee of their route – to Mount Buratinka and back. On September 28, they were seen by female tourists approaching the mountain. On September 29, a colleague wrote to Irina Usoltseva’s adult son and reported that she had not gone to work and that the family was going on vacation to the Partizansky district. On September 30, the young man filed a complaint with law enforcement agencies.

A large-scale search for the family went on for a long time in difficult weather conditions and at the maximum capabilities of emergency services and volunteers, but no results were produced.

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