Ludmila Alexandrovna Dubinina

Lyudmila Alexandrovna Dubinina (born May 12, 1938) was a Soviet student and skier who perished at age 20 in the Dyatlov Pass incident on February 1959 in the Ural Mountains. A determined member of Igor Dyatlov's expedition team, she was one of two women among nine hikers who mysteriously fled their tent into sub-zero conditions, leading to their deaths from hypothermia and trauma. Dubinina's body, found in a ravine, lacked a tongue, eyes, and soft tissues, attributed to post-mortem scavenging and decomposition rather than violence. The incident has spawned speculative theories linking it to UFOs, including investigator Lev Ivanov's belief in 'flying spheres' and reports of sky lights, though these lack credible evidence and official probes favored natural causes like avalanches. She holds no direct role in UAP research, military UFO programs, or related fields; her association stems solely from fringe paranormal interpretations of the tragedy.