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Baku (today the capital of
Azerbaijan) was the last major city to hold municipal elections in 1917 Russia, with the delayed voting occurring after the beginning of the
October Revolution? Source: Rosenberg, W. G. (1969). The Russian Municipal Duma Elections of 1917: A Preliminary Computation of Returns. Soviet Studies, 21(2), 131–163.
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Length, history and reference verified. Sort of funny that we have an article about elections to this body but not yet one on the body itself.
Daniel Case (
talk) 04:15, 3 April 2022 (UTC)reply