Abstract. The article discusses the turning point of the post-revolutionary Russian history, when the class struggle enters the area of ideology, when the government seeks to physically destroy the historical memory, embodied in traditional zoning, local place names, architecture. The article traces the themes and issues of coincidence history research of the time and literary scenes and images of Andrei Platonov, S.Yesenin, K.Vaginov, B.Pilnyak etc. The article shows that the content of the local history of the 1920s comments view of the world, values, ideological direction of contemporary writers.