Street lighting in Moscow switched to summer mode

Street lighting, as well as architectural and artistic lighting, have been switched to summer operation in Moscow. This was announced on Tuesday, March 18, by the Deputy mayor of the capital on housing and communal services and landscaping, Peter Biryukov.

According to him, changes were made to the city's outdoor lighting schedule due to an increase in daylight hours. Now they turn it on later and turn it off earlier, the Moscow City News agency notes.

Dispatchers are guided by the level of actual illumination and the schedule for switching on and off outdoor lighting and backlighting. So, special sensors transmit online data on the level of actual illumination in the capital, Moscow 24 notes. When it reaches a certain indicator, a corresponding signal is received. On a cloudy day, for example, the dispatcher may deviate from the schedule and turn on the lighting earlier, according to RIAMO.

Architectural and artistic lighting of buildings in Moscow is turned on simultaneously with outdoor lighting, but is turned off at different times. Residential buildings stop being illuminated at 23:00, and administrative buildings stop being illuminated at midnight. The lights in the metro lobbies are turned off at 01:00, and at 03:00 — on the bridges of the central part of the city. Currently, more than a million lamps are used in street lighting and architectural and artistic illumination, RT clarifies.