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The celebration of the 100^th anniversary of N. Chernyshevsky in 1928 caused a wave of interest in the writer’s literary heritage. It became an occasion for thinking about the new socio-gender role of women in the paradigm of ideas of the 1860s. The result of the development of this theme in the work of A. Platonov became Technical Novel, the main heroine of which combines the features of female literary types and thus embodies the collective image of the heroine of the Russian novel, opposed by the writer to the socio-gender model of the early 1920s. The heroine’s story is based on the well-established in the literature plot model “Russian person on rendez-vous”, which is combined with the equally popular plot of rescue of the “fallen” woman. The article provides the intertextual analysis of the revealed plot models, determines the range of precedent texts and their role in the semantic structure of the work. The strategy of semantic shifts in the use of canonical plot moves and situations traced in the novel creates a special artistic effect, consisting in the debunking of the model of life-building, an example of which was given in Chernyshevsky’s novel What to Do?