“Metro 2033” by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translations into dozens of languages, plus a grandiose computer game! This post-apocalyptic story inspired a galaxy of modern writers, and now they are together creating the Metro 2033 Universe, a series of books based on the famous novel. The heroes of these new stories will finally go beyond the Moscow metro. Their adventures on the surface on an Earth almost destroyed by nuclear war exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! Cut off from the whole world, in the north of the Moscow region the small village of Mirny is trying to survive. It is walled and consists of modular houses, sealed and protected from radiation. It seems that the small colony of more than a hundred people is not threatened by anything except hopelessness and slow degradation. The reserves should last for another ten years. No one thinks about what to do next. But suddenly people start disappearing, just going nowhere. Gradually, the residents come to understand that a dark secret is connected with this place and its surroundings, dating back to pre-war times. But no one realizes how terrible it is.