Some issues of testing new aircraft at the Novosibirsk plant No. 153 (named Chkalov)
The paper discusses the testing of new aircraft at the Novosibirsk plant No. 153 (named Chkalov). The time frame of the main study is 1937 - 1943. The author tried to show the complexity of the test work not only through documents, but also through sources of memoiric origin.This is especially true of the tragedy that occurred in Novosibirsk on July 10, 1943, when the Yak-7B plane crashed in the city center. Test pilot V.I. Staroshchuk died. Since this flight accident was immediately classified and documents subsequently destroyed, its recovery is based solely on the recollections of relatives and eyewitnesses. According to the author, social memory, as a living testimony of the time, is a historical material, the most emotional and accessible for perception by the main part of an inexperienced audience. Such an informational approach for conveying global events makes it possible to use memoir sources as a phenomenon of preservation of national culture.