The article deals with the ways of creating the image of a legendary Stalingrad pilot L.V. Litvyak in fiction and documentary literature of the new Millennium.

The theme of memory is regarded as the primary one whichboth in the twentieth century and at the beginning of the new Millennium determinesthe contents of the image system and the structural features of prose and poetry of the artists who are the veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

The article deals with the features of the theme of the Battle of Stalingrad in the Russian literature of the 2000s. The author analyzes the fictional and documentary works written by the authors who were veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

The article is devoted to the reflection of the Battle of Stalingrad in the prose works by Russian authors, veterans of the Great Patriotic war, created in the 1980-2000. Such novels as 'My Stalingrad' written by Mikhail Alekseev and 'In the Trenches of Stalingrad' by Viktor Nekrasov are in the spotlight of the author's attention.

There are considered the poetics peculiarities of the works by V.S. Makanin that combine the traditions of realistic writing with the elements of post-modernism.