City Duma of urban inhabitants. "Шестигласная дума" have been replaced by "всесословные общие" and sometimes "распорядительные думa" (first in St. Petersburg (1846), Moscow (1862), and Odessa), and after the administrative reform in 1870, the City Duma in all the cities (in the small towns of the empire also used a simplified urban governance without the city Council). In 1991 the Russian law "On Local Self-Government in the RSFSR" was adopted, which actually allowed the creation instead of the city councils of people's deputies of urban duma. In 2003, a new federal law (""On General Principles of Local Government in the Russian Federation""
Sakhalin Oblast Duma 1994, were declared invalid, the regional Duma of the first convocation consisted of only 12 deputies. The Sakhalin Oblast Duma is unicameral just like most other legislative assembly body found in Russian federal subjects. It currently comprises of 28 deputies, with 14 of them running in single mandate constituencies and the other 14 in the single electoral district. Deputies are elected by public vote once every 5 years, whereby winners are determined by the two voting systems of first-past-the-post voting and party-list proportional representation, which is combined together in what is known as the parallel voting system. The Duma also