The eighth of 12 films about life in the Soviet Union. Office on the Pacific
Nakhodka lies at the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway, 6,000 miles and seven time zones from Moscow.
At 33, Tatyana Naumova is
Town Council Secretary and a leading Communist Party activist. Her task is to chase inefficient managers and bungling bureaucrats, and to deal with the public's complaints about housing and social services in this
Pacific port. She also runs the Palace of Weddings, where Soviet couples are ceremonially joined together, with all the trimmings, once every ten minutes. Tatyana's own marriage and her two young daughters are not allowed to interrupt her workaholic routine or to diminish her ambition. As she says: 'Every soldier dreams of becoming a general'.
Photography david SWAN Sound ROBIN SWAIN
Film editor JANE VAL BAKER
Series producer RICHARD DENTON Producer ALAN BOOKBINDER