It is pleasant to see when a deputy fulfills their promises and defends the interests of their native region. One such representative of the people was Nikolai Lukich Skalozubov, a deputy of the II and III convocations of the State Duma of the Russian Empire. He was born in 1861 into a merchant family in Kostroma. After receiving an education as an agronomist, he began his career in the Perm province as an agronomist-supervisor. There, he actively collected information about handicraft industries, recorded folk beliefs, tales, and weather signs, which allowed him to publish an ethnographic collection.

After his promotion, Nikolai Lukich moved to the Tobolsk province, which became his new homeland. Here, he organized a fight against locusts, developed a new breed of cows, the Kurghanskaya, and helped local peasants modernize oil presses, significantly increasing oil exports and bringing good income to the peasants. Therefore, in the next elections to the State Duma, the local residents supported Skalozubov.

Nikolai Lukich believed that deputies should strive to create conditions in the Duma for everyone to live better and tried to keep his word. He secured loans for organizing urgent trips in Siberia, repairing road communications, and lobbied for a project on steam navigation in the Amur basin. In the III convocation, his signature is on bills for providing rest to commercial and industrial employees, expanding local self-government in Siberia, and many others.

There is also another interesting fact. In 1910, Nikolai Lukich defended a revolutionary accused of attempting to murder a police officer, who faced the death penalty. Skalozubov, along with other human rights defenders, achieved a reduction of the sentence, and the revolutionary was given 6 years of hard labor. This prisoner was Mikhail Frunze. What he would become, Skalozubov did not know, as he passed away in 1915.