“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 huge 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 nearly destroyed by nuclear war exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! A criminal who has ruined hundreds of lives, the right hand of a cruel scientist, an unprincipled young man without the concepts of good and evil. Does he deserve forgiveness? What must he go through, what trials and torment to atone for his terrible guilt? He was the only one to survive the explosion, and by the will of fate, he, like no one else, knew all the secrets of the military and Marina Alekseeva, a female mutant from Ramenki, who destroyed the prosperous city of Mytishchi. Dmitry Kholodov, the once all-powerful assistant of Doctor Mengele, is now a traitor everywhere, finding compassion and support nowhere. She is Alevtina, a strange girl with correct manners in a poor and dying refuge in the Moscow region. Fate brings young people together to undergo terrible trials. But the young lady is far from who she says she is. Where will the fate of the disgraced scientist and his girlfriend take him? Who will remain friends and who will remain enemies? What other secrets did Marina Alekseeva leave behind after her death? And what is hidden in Alevtina’s soul, in the black pools of impassive and frightening eyes?