Article presents a critical review of the section "Lighting", presented in two standards for streets improving in Moscow. The first (2015) was developed by SUE GlavAPU Mosarhitektury, the second (2016) – by DB "Strelka". It is noted that:

a) the requirements and style of both standards does not match with each other, even though their problems are the same. Standard №1 seems to be a fragment of the standard №2? But has no cross references. It is not clear which of them moscow designers should be guided by;

b) specific requirements of the standard №2 does not coincide with the requirements of the federal regulations of outdoor lighting SP 52.13330.2011 in normalized criteria and their values. The last are given in standards without any scientific or economic justification;

c) illustrations and many provisions of both standards is very primitive and do not reflect the modern domestic and foreign experience rapidly modernizing public lighting, especially in terms of its aesthetics, which indicates ignorance and incompetence of the authors in this field. Electronic version of standards sometimes are not the same as print versions, some drawings and signatures are confused, etc.;

g) both standards have a status of recommendations (think about same status for the standard of food!). For a given capacity it is advisable to call them rules, instructions, manuals, etc.

It is not excluded that not only "Lighting", but other sections proves to be of the same low quality if they will be examined by professionals. It is obvious that such standards should undergo a serious state expertise with assistance of well-known experts and research teams, which was not done in this case.

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