2nd State Duma operated 27 Committees. 2nd State Duma The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation the second convocation (Russian: Государственная Дума Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации II созыва) is the former convocation of the legislative branch of the State Duma, Lower House of the Russian Parliament. The 2nd convocation meets at the State Duma building in Moscow, worked from December 17, 1995 – December 19, 1999. Until the election of the Chairman of the State Duma of the meeting, according to tradition, spent the oldest deputy – 73 year-old of Grigory Galaziy. On January 17, 1996, the parliament elected
Duma they constituted only a third of the duma. Under the reign of Alexander II, several reforms were enacted during the 1860s and 1870s. These included the creation of local political bodies known as zemstvoes. All owners of houses, tax-paying merchants and workmen are enrolled on lists in a descending order according to their assessed wealth. The total valuation is then divided into three equal parts, representing three groups of electors very unequal in number, each of which elects an equal number of delegates to the municipal duma. The executive is in the hands of an elective mayor and an "uprava",