Deputies are elected by the population of the region on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot for a period of 5 years.

[1] The Duma adopts laws, resolutions, statements, appeals and also conducts control activities.

[5] For a long time, a democratic (with minimal moderation of outright vandalism) discussion forum operated on the official website, including the 43rd deputy with a section of people's legislative proposals.

The main condition for the existence of a topic or message on the forum was the rule of consistency with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

The Duma oversees observance and execution of laws and other regional normative legal acts, regional budget, usage of credit resources and allocations from the budget of the Russian Federation and regional budget, budgetary means of local State non-budgetary fund, and the implementation of the social and economic development strategy of the Oblast.