“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! The inhabitants of a town near Moscow are fleeing radiation in Scythian burial grounds and adjacent quarries. Suddenly it turns out that the background on the surface, near the local monastery, is within normal limits. A fierce struggle begins for land suitable for normal life. The territory is captured by a sect of pagans who have subjugated giant mutant wolves. When people start disappearing in the quarry, no one doubts that the unfortunate people are being kidnapped to be sacrificed to the wolves. But is this really so? Cyrus Beletsky, trying to find his kidnapped brother, goes through a series of tests, encountering either wolf worshipers, or Old Believers, or the owners of an underground farm, where they are trying to raise a “new man.”