“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! Mytishchi, a small town in the Moscow region, also survived. The three bunkers coexist peacefully, trade, and just live. And only the fourth shelter on the territory of a former military unit, where Colonel Andrei Ryabushev has reigned as autocratic for many years, weaves intrigues and keeps his terrible secrets. Two intelligence officers find in an abandoned apartment a living human baby and a diary that once belonged to Marina Alekseeva. Residents of the Design Bureau shelter learn about the terrible death of the bunker in Ramenki. But the diary disappears from a locked safe. The machinations of the military? The young and brave Zhenya, the son of the bunker chief, has to find out. He goes with a detachment to the territory of a military unit, loses all the people loyal to him and is captured by the colonel. Who will the young man meet in the dark dungeons of the bunker? What will he find out? And won’t Ryabushev’s secrets become fatal for him?