Metro 2035' - welcome to the cruel world of Moscow's elite. That's what the residents of the capital think, and, in their opinion, of Earth. But Artyom is convinced that there are people in other cities too. Every day he climbs to the surface to pick up a radio signal, but all he gets in response is white noise. Someone in Moscow doesn't benefit from this; each group pursues its own interests. Mutants and anomalies aren't the only creatures of the apocalypse; in the dust and darkness, people have forgotten all of humanity's previous achievements. The neo-fascists have come up with a new concept: now they divide everyone into the healthy and the freaks - those unlucky enough to linger a little longer under the rays of radiation. A new war is unfolding beneath the Moscow soil.

Abstract

World War III wiped humanity off the face of the Earth. The planet is empty. Megacities have been reduced to dust and ashes. Railroads are rusting. Satellites hang lonely in orbit. The radio is silent on all frequencies. The only survivors are those who, hearing the alarm sirens, managed to run to the doors of the Moscow metro. There, at a depth of tens of meters, at stations and in tunnels, people are trying to wait out the end of the world. There they have created a new little world for themselves in place of the vast world they lost. They cling to life with all their might and refuse to give up. They dream of returning to the surface - one day, when the background radiation from the nuclear bombings subsides. And they haven't given up hope of finding other survivors...

'Metro 2035' continues—and concludes—Artyom's story from the first book in the cult trilogy. Millions of readers waited ten long years for this book, and foreign publishers bought the translation rights long before the novel was finished. At the same time, '2035' is an independent book, and it is the perfect place to begin your journey into the saga that captivated Russia and the world.