Should Doors Open Outwards or Inwards?

I heard a dialect line in a film: ‘Kapu deduğun opens inwards, which master made this door?’.

For some reason, our doors really open inwards, don't they?

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Do you know, in Russia the doors open outwards!

Believe me, I was also surprised when I first came here and saw that the doors opened outwards.

This situation seemed very contrary to me, the outer doors of the apartments in the apartments, the doors opening towards the stairs in the corridors, etc., then the apartment entrance doors, all the main doors in the workplaces open outwards in the same way here, the opening directions of all the doors are arranged according to the direction of escape in case of fire, all of them are mounted so that they open outwards in the direction of escape.

Although this situation poses a problem especially if the corridors are a bit narrow in the workplaces.

I mean, think about it in narrow corridors, a door that opens out of nowhere while moving in the corridor closes in front of you, a door opens in front of you while walking. 

I sometimes even bump into the doors in such narrow corridors. 

Nevertheless, since the corridor widths are planned wide enough, this is not a problem in most places.

In short, Russians prepare as good a fire escape plan as possible.

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They think of so many fire precautions, but fires are not uncommon here.

This is partly because the buildings are old enough. There is no problem of earthquake, but when there are old old buildings, there are many fires.

During the time I lived here, of course, the buildings were renovated a lot, they built a lot of buildings with new materials and they are quite high now. They expanded Moscow quite a lot towards the outskirts of the city.

As you can imagine, fire precautions were taken well enough in these new buildings.

But the old buildings, of which there are many, are still in a dilapidated state. If there had been no war, perhaps the construction work would have continued as before.

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Especially since Moscow is the most populous city in the neighbourhood, it will not be possible to overhaul all the buildings immediately. The renovation of Moscow will continue for many years.

According to 2024 data, the population of Moscow is estimated at 13 million 149 thousand 803 people. Since the provinces here are not organised in the same way as in our country, it is necessary to add the population of the Moscow periphery outside the centre of Moscow to this figure. 

The population of Moscow's periphery also appears in the sources as 8 million 651 thousand 260 in 2024. 

In other words, the city we call Moscow has a population of over 21 million 800 thousand people. 

If you include the population that flows into the city during the day from the Moscow region to work, the city centre becomes a parent centre during the day. A great density of this population is in the city centre during the day.

And this makes it necessary to be very careful for fire precautions in the city centre.

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Yes, no matter how many precautions you take, sometimes things happen. Fires can be accepted among such events.

But you should also take precautions. I think it would be useful for us to be a little better organised about fire precautions.

If we start from the simplest, opening the doors outwards can be a good start in terms of precaution.

Let's write this in the norms like this. 

Even like the film I watched, let's explain the importance of this issue to the public through films and series.

Of course, in order to do this, the priority starts with establishing educational institutions specialised in these issues.

No, I will not talk about educational problems again in this article.

For now, let me end this article by saying that the doors should be opened to the outside world.

My love and respect to everyone from Moscow.