1st State Duma of George Lukawa. On January 17, 1996, the parliament elected Ivan Rybkin as the Chairman of the State Duma. In the State Duma of the 2nd convocation operated 23 Committees. 1st State Duma The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation the first convocation (Russian: Государственная Дума Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации I созыва) is the former convocation of the legislative branch of the State Duma, Lower House of the Russian Parliament, worked from December 12, 1993 – December 16, 1995. The first few months, the State Duma was located in the Comecon building on New Arbat Avenue,
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",