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! Kharkov in 2033 is a city where everything is wrong. Here people live on the surface, and the metro is inhabited by sectarians, slave traders and the most terrible monsters. The mysterious Circle of Apologists rules here, and on the street you can meet an Iron Soldier or a cowboy. And everyone here - apologists and raiders, Wahhabis and members of the White Brotherhood, voodooists and “Horsemen of the Apocalypse” - suddenly desperately needed a simple twelve-year-old boy. After all, the future depends on whoever finds it first...