The article deals with the problematics and poetics of V.O. Avchenko's book "Red Sky. Non-fictional stories about the earth, fire and man flying". The author's focus on the life of the Far East as a land of unusual, rich in 143 talents and peculiar stories, but we can not ignore the expansion of artistic space: the scope of the writer's interests includes the life of the USSR as a whole, considered through the prism of the history of aeronautics. Attention is also drawn to the construction of the plot, which includes a lot of branches, as well as to the principle of intersection of time lines. The character of the author's position and the peculiarities of the author's comments are considered. The conclusion is made about the great work of the author of the book, who studied a huge number of documents, historical evidence, memoirs, biographies, letters and other materials, which allowed him to create a work, behind each line of which is actually a whole plot. The role of the central character is analysed, whose fate passes "punctuated" through the narrative, devoted not only and not so much to him personally, but to the epoch and history of the national aviation
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