Tatyana Ukharova

Three Novels from the Life of the Factory.

A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.

A young Russian woman, trying to make it in the big city, is hired for an off-the-books government operation, which involves seducing and later exposing a number of prominent political opposition figures.

ΩSixteen-year-old Alexandra was raised without a father. One day, while her mother was away on a business trip, she found an old letter addressed to Mikhail Maximov. Deciding that this was her father’s name, the girl looks up the addresses of all the Mikhail Maximovs living in the city in the address book and sends them letters inviting them to visit her at the same time.

Gummat, a rural firefighter, lives in one of the collective farms of Turkmenistan. He is a kind, honest, selfless man who has preserved the purity and integrity of his soul until adulthood. He is very conscientious about his duty and trains his team, Besher's son and Shukur's watchman, according to all the rules of fire science.… A flighty neighbor, Gazelle, constantly whispers to him about thieves and grabbers who rob collective farm goods. The good Gummat can't believe it for a long time — until he agrees to look into the barn of the warehouse manager Batman. And then Gummat does everything to expose the fraudster.

Zhora Sorokarossiysky, a well-known master of stuffed birds and animals, is essentially patient and kind. But his wife's overbearing character and her endless scolding about his strange work once awakened in him the desire to leave home.

When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.

A satirical comedy about the events which happened in the toys factory a few days before celebrating it's 50 years aniversary.