Yakov Sverdlov, (Russian: Яков Свердлов) is a 1940 Soviet biographical drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich.

[4] The film depicts the life and activities of Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885–1919), the second chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK).

From the podium of the Constituent Assembly, Sverdlov dismisses the Socialist Revolutionary orator and announces the first decrees of Soviet power.

As chairman of the VTsIK, Sverdlov travels to Nizhny Novgorod, where enemies masquerading as allies under the leadership of the Trotskyist Mironov are causing trouble.

Sverdlov’s sharp speech, which exposes the traitors, clears up the confusion among the deceived workers and helps the party organization defeat the Trotskyists.