Celebrate the moscow metros 80th birthday with a journey through. Well also take a look at the original novels metro 2033, 2034 and. It is set within the moscow metro, where the last survivors hide after a global nuclear holocaust. If i had to pick one word to describe metro 2033, it would be immersive. The basis of three bestselling computer games metro 2033 and metro last light, and metro. The station was minimally populated, and the patrol consisted of. Timiryazevskaya is mostly renowned for being the home of young artyom, although he was eventually evicted from the station when the station was suddenly overrun by. There were times i got spooked a bit reading this in the dark. He is very inquisitive of everything that he comes across and he befriends artyom almost immediately. According to a legend told by the rangers, there was an explosion in the tunnels leading to kievskaya. So that the brahmins could stroll about polis in their robes and rustle the pages of books, grasping the ancient knowledge and passing it on to subsequent generations. By 2009, over 400,000 copies of metro 2033 had been sold in russia alone.
The operatives inside d6 at this time are likely the descendant organization of the rangers. Metro 2025 is the final book in the brilliant postapocalyptic series by russian author dmitry glukhovsky. Last light, no books in the series were released in a country where english is the prominent language. In dark tunnels, the author reveals that the station has become inhabited by satanists. The initial group of stations, called the northern arc, stretched from kievskaya to prospekt mira, and.
But the attitude of the people at the station towards books was such that they. The fps video game metro 2033 by thq was released worldwide out on the 16th of march, 2010 for pc and xbox 360. Artyom illustrates the consequences of the events the ended metro 2033. Some of the editingtranslating got a little sloppy towards the end, but nothing to ruin the book. This was already the second such conversation in the last two days, and artyom already knew about the morlocks and about herbert wells, and he didnt want to hear about it all over again. The station is located at the square of europe, in the. Metro 2033 audiobook by dmitry glukhovsky listen and. Anton has a son named oleg who is later captured by the savage cannibals of the great worm cult, which leads artyom to help anton rescue his son, upon which entering the station they are paralyzed and captured by two hunters known as vovan and sharap. Miller gives him several cartridges, similar to the ones hunter gave to artyom, and oleg uses them as toy soldiers. The halfdestroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. A year after the events of metro 2033, the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying new danger as they hang on for survival in the tunnels of the moscow metro.
A few thousand survivors managed to get underground into the moscow metro to escape the radiation and there is no way for them to know if anybody else on the planet had survived. Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic moscow, metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands. Starmetro, a chain of canadian free newspapers formerly called metro until april 2018 zimbabwe metro. Foreign book rights have been sold to more than 20 countries. The gospel according to artyom is a bridge to metro 2034. The novel delves deeper and has the group head to kievskaya station. Humanity has fled to moscows metro system, designed both for transport and as a bomb shelter. The station is named after revolution square, under which it is located. It is set in the moscow metro, where the last survivors hide after a global nuclear holocaust. It has been followed by two sequels, metro 2034 and metro 2035, and spawned the vast metro media franchise. Claustrophobic, dark culdesacs of danger and terror, metro 2033 is a world of uncertainties and fear, hung on the fringes between survival and death. When it opened on 15 may 1935, the moscow metro was a. Chapter 1 metro2033 metro 2033 translation project.
Metro 2033 2005 metro 2034 2009 metro 2035 2015 video games. Stations have become ministatelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, waterfilters or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. Metro, a multimedia scifi franchise created by russian author dmitry glukhovsky, including. Its 2033 and the human race has obliterated itself. No, on one side the rails led to the bright and safe polis, the heart of the metro, and the other tunnel led to kievskaya, about which artyom remembered only that it was populated mainly by those very same caucasians he had seen at kitai gorod and in the cells of the fascists, at pushinskaya. As of november 2010, glukhovsky was in talks with hollywoodbased. Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic moscow, metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind. It is one of the few whose role and status has significantly changed in the translation of metro 2033 from novel to game. Full walkthrough of the pc game metro 2033 released in 2010 on the hardest game difficulty ranger hardcore, chapter 1. Youre read light novel metro 2033 part 24 online at. Metro 2033 by dmitry glukhovsky free download metro 2033.
The series is set in the moscow metro system 20 years after a nuclear holocaust that happened in 20. Book your kievskaya metro station tickets online and skiptheline. Artyoms approximate journey in metro 2033 novel, starting at. Unexpectedly the stalker turned towards the tunnel leading to kievskaya and got up from his seat, listening and watching. The entrance to the station, which is shared with both of the other two kievskaya stations, is built into the kiev railway station. The word was much easier to pronounce, and so the nickname stuck. Anton is a resident and patrol commander of the metro station kievskaya in the novel metro 2033.
This is a very nice book, but the author often runs into long twisting tangents that do not move the story along. It is a world without a tomorrow, and feelings have given way. The books english edition was published as a tiein with its video game. For related articles please refer to the category page. Prior to 2014 and the video games metro 2033 and metro.
Who were they able to stop coming to the station, and into the rest of the metro. The year was 20 when the bombs fell, moscow and possibly the rest of the world have been destroyed by a large scale nuclear exchange, involving many of the worlds superpowers. Tunnelling between the station and that preceding it and following it, lomonosovsky. Some books from the universe of metro 2033, like piter, towards the. Metro 2033 by dmitry glukhovsky free download yes book. It has expanded since the 1960s from 26 stations on three separate lines to 68 stations on four lines. They were nearly at the station, soaked in sweat, shouting at the savyolovskaya guards about their narrow escape from death. Metro 2033 audiobook online streaming english version metro 2033 audiobook russian. Moscow metro kievskaya station moskva mockba cxema metpo russia. Stations have become ministatelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, waterfiltersor the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. Metro silicon valley, a newspaper in san jose, california. It is on the koltsevaya line, between park kultury and krasnopresnenskaya stations.
It continues the story of artyom, the protagonist of metro 2033 as he desperately searches for survivors of the terrible world war 3. Artyom now has a family and is a stalker someone who travels to the surface of irradiated moscow. In his hands he holds the future of his native station, the metro, and perhaps the whole. The part of the ring from kievskaya to prospect mir, whats called the northern. Golubev one of the most elaborate and extravagant underground stations on the circle line is dedicated to the friendship between the russian and ukrainian people and is named kiev after the capital city of the ukraine. In the real world, between 2002 and 20 a bunch of new stations were opened and a new section of line built. To the residents of kievskaya, the station is abandoned, since the tunnel had been collapsed not long after the war, but the station is actually home to the savage. Anton has a son named oleg who is later captured by the savage cannibals of the great worm cult, which leads artyom to help anton rescue his son, upon which entering the station they are paralyzed. A young man, artyom, has grown up living in the underground metro station of vdnkh after a nuclear war has ravaged moscow. Online readers outnumber paperback readers by five times in terms of numbers. Mayakovskaya metro station was used as a bomb shelter during the second world war. Some books from the universe of metro 2033, like piter, towards the light and into the darkness, have been translated to a number of european languages, such as german, polish and swedish. I cant wait for the other books to come out in english.
It served as the western terminus of the line, until 2018 with the opening of the extension to rasskazovka. The metro books have put dmitry glukhovsky in the vanguard of russian speculative fiction alongside the creator of night watch, sergei lukyanenko. Hansa, the red line and polis would not accept him. Moscow metro kievskaya station metpo subway youtube. It was published in 2005 in russia and on march 28, 2010 in the united states. Traveling even a few hundred meters into the tunnels can be dangerous. Within that station, the events of metro 2033 unfold. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit. What is in the tunnels is the mystery that lies at the heart of the metro 2033 book.
It is the only railway station in moscow to have a frontage on the moskva river. Anna tells her and artyoms son of artyoms courage and bravery. While the stalker was beside him, no one asked personal questions of artyom, but, having found himself alone, he would have to wander between the castoff flag stations and the uncivilized stations, such as kievskaya. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burnedout deserts and the remains of splintered forests. It is named after the nearby kiyevsky rail terminal. The design for the station was chosen in an open competition held in ukraine. However the first book was written in 2002 and the metro map in that book is clearly based on the metro as it was in 2002. At first, hansa comprised only some of the stations from the ring line.
Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing. His first novel, metro 2033, a postnuclear dystopia set in the moscow. In 20 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earths surface into a. With the unseen threat from park pobedy to the kievskaya station. With the completion of the segment of track between belorusskaya and park kultury in 1954 the koltsevaya line became fully operational with trains running continuously around the loop for the first time. Metro 2033 but luckily, there was something at savyolovskaya that would save them, the station and perhaps the entire serpukhovskotimiryazevskaya branch.
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