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The article discusses examples of inheritance of literary traditions of A.P. Platonov and the development of dystopian plots and images in the latest Russian- language prose in line with Platonov’s literary discoveries and ethical and aesthetic findings. The appeal to the tradition of Platonov has been steadily fixed in Russian literature since the last third of the twentieth century, actualized in the 2010s, and continues to develop in the novelistics of the 2020s. The analysis of A.V. Polarinov’s dystopia “Cadavers” (2024) demonstrates, firstly, the interest of contemporary writers in the dystopian discourse, philosophically and artistically close to “Chevengur” and “The Foundation Pit,” and secondly, the conscious use of Platonov’s recognizable situation — the death in the pit of the girl Nastya, which directly embeds “Cadavers” in Platonov’s line of Russian literature and expands the socio-philosophical context and symbolic semantics of the novel. The dystopias by R.V. Kozlov and T.V. Zamirovskaya, considered in the article, raise such problems, characteristic of Platonov, and comprehended also within the framework of N.F. Fedorov’s Philosophy of the Common Cause, as the dialectic of death and resurrection and the moral need of society in compassion and sacrifice.