Правление доверило председателю работу и распределило взносы.

Because the subject is правление, and правление is a neuter singular noun.

In the past tense, Russian verbs agree with the subject in gender and number:

• masculine: -л
• feminine: -ла
• neuter: -ло
• plural: -ли

So:

• правление доверило
• правление распределило

Even though правление refers to a group or board, grammatically it is a single neuter noun.

Here правление means something like the board, the governing board, or the management committee.

It is not the verb-related idea of ruling here. In this sentence, it is an organization or body of people acting as one unit.

A useful point: Russian often uses a singular noun for a collective body, and the verb agrees in the singular:

• правление решило = the board decided
• правление доверило = the board entrusted

Because доверить uses the pattern:

доверить кому? что?
= to entrust someone with something / to entrust something to someone

So in this sentence:

• председателю = to the chairperson/chairman → dative
• работу = the work / the task → accusative

This is a very common Russian pattern: the person receiving something is often in the dative.

Because it is the direct object of доверило.

The verb доверить here answers:

• что доверило? → работу

So работа becomes работу in the accusative singular.

Since работа is a feminine noun ending in -а, its accusative singular changes to -у:

• nominative: работа
• accusative: работу

Not exactly in the simple English sense of trust someone.

In this sentence, доверить means to entrust or to assign in trust.

Compare:

• доверять председателю = to trust the chairperson
• доверить председателю работу = to entrust the chairperson with the work

So here the idea is not just having confidence in the chairperson, but actually giving them responsibility for a task.

They are both past tense perfective forms.

• доверило = perfective past of доверить
• распределило = perfective past of распределить

The perfective aspect shows a completed action:

• доверило = entrusted / assigned
• распределило = distributed / allocated

If you used the imperfective, it would suggest an ongoing, repeated, or process-like action:

• доверяло
• распределяло

So this sentence presents the actions as completed facts.

Because взносы is the direct object of распределило, so it must be in the accusative plural.

However, for many inanimate plural nouns, the accusative plural is identical to the nominative plural.

So:

• nominative plural: взносы
• accusative plural: взносы

That is why the form does not change.

Взносы usually means dues, fees, contributions, or payments, depending on context.

Common examples include:

• членские взносы = membership dues
• страховые взносы = insurance contributions
• вступительные взносы = entrance fees / joining fees

So the exact English translation depends on the situation, but grammatically it is simply the plural noun being acted on by распределило.

Because Russian, like English, often avoids repeating the subject when it is clearly the same.

So:

Правление доверило председателю работу и распределило взносы.

means:

The board entrusted the chairperson with the work and distributed the dues.

The subject правление applies to both verbs:

• доверило
• распределило

Repeating правление would usually be unnecessary unless you wanted special emphasis.

Yes. Russian word order is relatively flexible because the case endings show the grammatical roles.

This sentence has a neutral, straightforward order:

Правление доверило председателю работу и распределило взносы.

But other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Работу правление доверило председателю...
• Председателю правление доверило работу...

The meaning stays broadly the same because the endings still show:

• председателю = dative
• работу = accusative
• взносы = accusative plural

Word order in Russian often affects emphasis, topic, and style, more than basic grammar.

Because Russian has no articles.

English needs words like a and the, but Russian usually leaves definiteness to be understood from context.

So:

• председателю can mean to the chairperson or sometimes to a chairperson
• работу can mean the work, a task, or the task
• взносы can mean the dues, fees, or contributions

The exact English article comes from context, not from a separate Russian word.

Yes. In modern Russian, председатель is often used for a person of either sex, especially in official or professional contexts.

So председателю can mean:

• to the chairman
• to the chairwoman
• to the chairperson

The grammar here does not by itself tell you the person’s sex. You would need more context.

The main stresses are:

• правле́ние
• довери́ло
• председа́телю
• рабо́ту
• распредели́ло
• взно́сы

Stress is important in Russian because it is not always predictable and can affect pronunciation quite a lot.