About the book: 2019 / "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 2033 Universe, 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 on an Earth almost destroyed by nuclear war exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! A former circus performer, by the will of fate, ended up in the Novosibirsk subway on the day when the familiar world collapsed. He is haunted by old memories, childhood nightmares, guilt and a monstrous Bird with human features. The circus performer travels through the metro and the surface, fighting back against bandits and the terrible regime emerging at Sibirskaya. And then he finds himself completely drawn into a war between the two largest stations of the Novosibirsk metro.