“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! Once upon a time, Vlad lived on Frunzenskaya and did not want to leave anywhere. But to survive, he had to escape into the darkness. His wanderings almost ended with execution on the territory of the Hansa, and then fate threw him onto the abandoned Nagatinskaya. On the stretch between Nagatinskaya and Tula, which was always considered safe, people began to disappear. An alien stalker drags Vlad into the hunt for a bloodthirsty mutant. But no one knows how everything will turn out and who will actually hunt whom... The Metro Universe 2033 series was founded in 2009.