“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 has 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! A squad of stalkers, consisting of representatives of different states of the Moscow Metro, goes to the southeast, towards several stations cut off from the Big Metro. Apparently, everyone in the squad has their own, special task, and none of the stalkers is in a hurry to lay all their cards on the table. What do they hope to find in the vicinity of the Kuzminki station, and what will they actually encounter? Are there reasons for local residents to be so afraid of the old estate or are they deliberately lying to strangers to prevent them from entering the park? And even though stalkers occupy one of the highest levels in the hierarchy of the new world, there are things that they cannot cope with. After all, neither a brave intelligence officer, nor even the all-powerful Secretary General of the Red Line himself is able to deceive fate.