A version about secret settlements appeared in the case of the missing Usoltsev family

The Usoltsev family, who disappeared in the taiga of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, could have encountered secret settlements. The version about a possible meeting with the Old Believers was voiced by Svetlana Torgashina, head of the Oksana Vasilishina Search for Missing Children group.

"Maybe they got out and came across some Old Believers," says the trader. aif.ru .

She also added that a family with a child could find shelter in a hospitable community.

However, Ekaterina Irzhakova, a specialist in the administration of the village of Yartsevo in the Yenisei region, who lives next to the Taiga Old Believers, expressed doubt that the Old Believers could accept the Usoltsevs.

"They [the Old Believers] don't particularly like outsiders," she said.

Irzhakova also added that if the family really joined some kind of community, then it probably wasn't the Old Believers, but a sect.

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 September 28, the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Krasnoyarsk Territory reported the loss of the Usoltsev family in the Minsk Loop area when they were heading to Mount Pinocchio. On October 8, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Territory reported that over 515 km of forest roads and 40 square kilometers of woodlands had been explored in search of missing tourists.

On October 12, the regional branch of the LizaAlert volunteer search and rescue team reported that the active phase of the search had been completed, but work would continue in the format of point tasks that would be performed by certified rescuers and professionals. On October 22, the Investigative Committee called the accident the main version of the disappearance of the Usoltsev family.

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