Mayor) is a 2013 Russian crime drama film written and directed by Yuri Bykov, who also stars.

[2][3] The film tells of Russian police staff who fall into difficult life situations, and their use of official positions and procedures to escape.

While rushing to the hospital his car hits and kills a boy on a pedestrian crossing.

Pavel Korshunov eliminates evidence showing Sobolev's guilt, and the Chief of District Police forces the mother to give false testimony in favour of Major Sobolev.

A ten-episode television miniseries adaptation of The Major, Seven Seconds, created and showrun by Veena Sud and written and directed by a returning Yuri Bykov, was released in-full on February 23, 2018, on Netflix.