The body was in an advanced state of putrefaction.

Bacteria are vital in recycling nutrients, with many of the stages in nutrient cycles dependent on these organisms, such as the fixation of nitrogen from the atmosphere and putrefaction.

One body (Case 4, GOUSEINOV, Fikret (Gassan ogly)) was skeletonized, one body (Case 10, NAZIROV, Ilkhan (Sadoulla ogly)) was severely putrefied and the other eight bodies showed moderate to advanced putrefaction.

The condition of the bodies arising from the state of putrefaction and decomposition and the conduct of two previous autopsies with the removal of some tissues, although limiting the information which could be obtained by further autopsy, did not preclude useful and productive examinations.