The fate of the literary community of Ilf and Petrov is unusual. She touches and excites. They worked together for a short time, only ten years, but in the history of Russian literature left a deep, indelible trace. The memory of them does not fade, and the love of readers for their books does not weaken. The novels "Twelve Chairs" and "Golden Calf" are widely known. In the new historical conditions, based on the material of our time, Ilf and Petrov not only revived the old, classic genre of the satirical novel, but also gave it a fundamentally new character.