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The article discusses the work of test pilots of one of the leading aircraft plants of the Soviet Union, No. 153, during the Great Patriotic War. On the example of 8 test pilots of the aircraft plant No. 153, who died when testing new and serial equipment, their biographies, the ways in which they came to test work, their participation, in pre-war and during the Great Patriotic War conflicts are considered.