The Chairman (Russian: Председатель, romanized: Predsedatel) is a 1964 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Saltykov and starring Mikhail Ulyanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Ivan Lapikov.

[2] After World War II ends, soldier Yegor Trubnikov comes back to his native village to restore the ruined collective farm facilities.

After returning from the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War, veteran Yegor Trubnikov comes back to his native village to rebuild the devastated kolkhoz farm.

The village is in ruins, populated primarily by widows and women who have lost their husbands to the war, and the community is grappling with extreme poverty.

Determined to restore normalcy, Trubnikov takes charge as the kolkhoz chairman, applying his military experience to the challenges of post-war rural life.