The research is devoted to the corporal communications transformation between the pilot and the machine problem in the Russian literature in the beginning of the XX century (10-20th years). The purpose of this research is to compare conceptual anthropomorphous and technical metaphors of classical and nonclassical poetics. This analysis is based on 1910-1920 years texts, which are devoted to the aviation due to their representativeness in the context of this period. The author of this article researches formation of two myths: the futuristic myth that is aimed to future, where the person and the machine union becomes actual and a person’s assimilation to the mechanism; and another myth that is aimed to past, where a machine’s assimilation to the living creatures prevail. The second myth is relevant for the classic literature (A. Blok, A. Kuprin, L. Andreev and others). This myth fits perfectly to the pre-Soviet, Christian worldviews, where the soul is more important than the mind and Christian images of the space structure (sacred top – sublunar bottom).The futuristic myth, which was created by V. Mayakovsky, V. Hodasevich, V. Kamensky and others, is keen to the heaven desacralization, highlighting the human and machine union idea and even the idea of person’s replacement with the machine.

Therefore, it is possible to speak about two mythologies as two different worldviews, which appear in the literature and culture in such an important and crucial period for Russian culture as 10-20th years of the XX century.