In the meeting room across the hall from her office, Protsenko joined a group of twenty members of the city administration to make the arrangements. The architect laid out the maps and counted every apartment building in the city, while the chiefs of the internal passport department and the district zheks added up the number of families in each complex, and how many children and elderly each family included. Together with the city’s head of civil defense, Protsenko then calculated the number of buses that would be needed to collect them all from each of the city’s six microdistricts. In all,
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