Eventually, communities settled within the underground train stations and developed into independent states over time.

In 2013, a nuclear war forced a large amount of Moscow's surviving population to relocate to the city's Metro system in search of refuge. The book's English edition was published as a tie-in with its video game adaptation in 2010. It has been followed by two sequels, Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, and spawned the Metro media franchise. It is set within the Moscow Metro, where the last survivors hide after a global nuclear holocaust. The latter ends on a cliffhanger and was supposed to be continued by a sequel, but this follow-up never materialized and has not yet been published either.Metro 2033 ( Russian: Метро 2033) is a 2002 post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Two comic books set in the world of Metro 2033 have also been published, one an adaptation of an earlier epilogue to the first novel written by Dmitry Glukhovsky, originally released in 2012, and the other a 2016 graphic novel set in the US during the year 2033 - created by Glukhovsky, Diana Stepanova, and Eli Yatskevich. A much smaller number of publications are also available in Italy and Spain. Many of the Russian novels have also been translated to Polish, German, and Hungarian.

The project began in Russia some 9 months after the release of Metro 2034 and it has since then grown considerably, attracting the talents of Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, British, and Cuban writers. The Universe of Metro 2033 is a long-running series of post-apocalyptic short stories, novellas and novels, spanning a variety of genres. See also: Category: Metro Universe Book Series See also: Universe of Metro 2033 (Book Series)

It has been translated and released in Poland and Hungary a few months after the initial publication in Russia an English version arrived one year later. Thus it is the official continuation of Artyom's story in the fictional universe of Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro franchise. Metro 2035 is the direct sequel to Metro 2033 set after Metro 2034, initially it was going to be a novelisation of the video game Metro: Last Light, but in the end follows a slightly different canon and only takes some story elements from Last Light. Nevertheless, it returns to the characters from the original book with Artyom at the lead and brings back some fan favourites from Metro 2034 as well.

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