The Passageway Room

Abstract

I lived 30 years in Baku,1 in a passageway room. Do you know what passageway rooms are? They are rooms that all the inhabitants pass through, simple partitions separate you from your neighbors. At our place, a corridor was made at the end of the room, but we were not authorized to put up the partition, which was wooden, all the way to the ceiling. The room was very high, 4 meters, and the firemen didn’t want it because of safety reasons, or so they said.