График работ уже утверждён.

Because работ is the genitive plural of работа.

In Russian, when one noun specifies another noun in a relationship like schedule of works/tasks, the second noun is often put in the genitive case:

• график работ = schedule of works/tasks
• план проекта = plan of the project
• начало урока = beginning of the lesson

Why plural here? Because работы in this context usually means pieces of work / tasks / operations / jobs, not just work in the abstract sense. So график работ means something like a work schedule / a schedule of tasks or operations.

Not quite. Russian работа can mean work, but in the phrase график работ, the plural работы / работ usually refers to tasks, operations, stages of work, or jobs to be done.

So depending on context, график работ might mean:

• a work schedule
• a schedule of tasks
• a construction timetable
• a project work plan

This is common in formal, technical, business, and construction language.

Утверждён is a short-form passive participle from утвердить (to approve, confirm, ratify).

It agrees with график, which is:

• masculine
• singular

So the form is:

• masculine singular: утверждён
• feminine singular: утверждена
• neuter singular: утверждено
• plural: утверждены

Examples:

• План утверждён. = The plan has been approved.
• Программа утверждена. = The program has been approved.
• Правила утверждены. = The rules have been approved.

This short form is very common in official or formal statements.

Russian often prefers a short passive form where English might use has been approved or is approved.

So:

• График работ утверждён. = The schedule has been approved / is approved.

Compare:

• Утвердили график работ. = They approved the schedule.
  This is an active sentence, but the subject they is indefinite or omitted.

• График работ был утверждён. = The schedule was approved.
  This is also correct, but был makes it sound more clearly past and can feel heavier or more formal depending on context.

In many cases, Russian simply uses the short passive participle without был, especially when stating a result.

Уже means already.

It tells you that the approval has happened by now, perhaps earlier than expected, or before some other action.

So:

• График работ утверждён. = The schedule is approved / has been approved.
• График работ уже утверждён. = The schedule has already been approved.

It often answers an implied question like:

• Has it been approved yet?
• Do we still need approval?

That is the most neutral word order in this sentence.

• График работ уже утверждён.

Russian word order is flexible, but different orders can shift emphasis.

For example:

• График работ уже утверждён.
  Neutral: the schedule is already approved.

• Уже график работ утверждён.
  Sounds marked or contrastive; not the normal choice.

• График работ утверждён уже.
  Possible in speech, often with special emphasis or intonation.

So the original sentence uses the most natural and standard order.

It behaves somewhat like both, but here it is best understood as part of a passive predicate.

Historically and grammatically, утверждён is a short-form passive participle, derived from a verb. In the sentence:

• График работ уже утверждён.

it functions like the main predicate, meaning:

• has been approved
• is approved

So although it agrees in gender and number like an adjective, its meaning is verbal: it describes the result of an action performed on the schedule.

In present-tense Russian, the verb to be (быть) is usually omitted.

So Russian often says:

• План готов. = The plan is ready.
• Документ подписан. = The document is signed / has been signed.
• График работ уже утверждён. = The schedule has already been approved.

English requires is or has been, but Russian normally does not.

The sentence does not specify the agent, and that is very normal.

Russian often uses passive constructions when the important thing is the result, not who did it:

• График работ уже утверждён.
  The schedule is already approved.

If you want to say who approved it, Russian can express that separately, for example:

• График работ уже утверждён директором. = The schedule has already been approved by the director.
• Директор уже утвердил график работ. = The director has already approved the schedule.

But if the approver is obvious, unknown, or unimportant, leaving it out is completely natural.

The stress is on the last syllable:

• утверждён → pronounced roughly oot-verzh-DYON

The letter ё shows both the sound and the stress. In many printed texts, Russian writes е instead of ё, so you may see:

• утвержден

But the correct pronunciation is still утверждён.

This matters because stress in Russian is important, and ё helps you know where it falls.

Usually not if you mean schedule of tasks/operations.

• график работ = schedule of works/tasks/operations
• график работы usually means work schedule / opening hours / working timetable of a person, office, or organization

For example:

• График работы магазина = the store’s opening hours
• График работы сотрудника = an employee’s work schedule

So график работ and график работы are different expressions.

Yes, it sounds fairly formal, administrative, or official.

The phrase график работ and the short passive form утверждён are especially common in:

• business
• project management
• official notices
• technical documents
• construction contexts

In everyday casual speech, people might still say it, but it has a more formal tone than a very conversational sentence.

Утверждён comes from the perfective verb утвердить.

Perfective is used because the sentence refers to a completed result: the approval process is finished.

Compare:

• утверждать = to approve, be approving (imperfective)
• утвердить = to approve successfully / complete the approval (perfective)

Since the sentence means that the schedule is now in the state of having been approved, the perfective base is the natural choice.

Yes. Russian short passive forms often cover both ideas, depending on context.

• График работ уже утверждён.

In English, this could be translated as:

• The work schedule is already approved.
• The work schedule has already been approved.

The exact English version depends on what sounds more natural in context. Russian does not always separate these two as sharply as English does.