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 Universe 2033, 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 of the Earth, almost destroyed by nuclear war, exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! They say that somewhere in the ice of the Antarctic the secret fascist base “211” is hidden. During World War II, secret types of weapons were developed there, which even now, after a hundred years, are capable of helping the remnants of humanity clear the surface of radiation and the monsters it spawns. But for the girl Lera, only one thing is important: perhaps her missing parents have been languishing there, in icy captivity, for twenty years...