Universe of Metro 2033

Promotion of Metro 2033 at IgroMir 2009, Moscow

The Universe of Metro 2033 (Russian: Вселенная Метро 2033) is a long-running series of short stories, novellas, and novels, spanning a variety of genres ranging from post-apocalyptic action to romance, written by several different authors. Despite being written by various authors, the stories of the extended Metro series are all supported by Dmitry Glukhovsky and advertised on the official Metro website. Although it began in Russia, the project enjoys plenty of popularity in Poland, Hungary, and Germany as well.

All of these stories share the same setting – the fictional world in Glukhovsky's original novel, Metro 2033. Although Metro 2033 described only Glukhovsky's vision of a post-apocalyptic Moscow, the books of the extended universe take place in a wide variety of different areas. Among these are: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Tver Region, Moscow Region, Kola Peninsula, Kiev, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, and the Kaliningrad region. Some of the books in the series are set in other locations outside of Russia, such as: Belarus, Britain, Italy, Poland, and Antarctica.

Translations

Most of the written works of the series were originally released in Russia. 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. Prior to 2014 and the video games Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, no books in the series were released in a country where English is the prominent language.

Novels

№	Author	Title	Locations	Date of publication
1	Vladimir Berezin	Road Signs	Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad region, Tver Oblast, Moscow region	2009 December
2	Sergey Antonov	Dark Tunnels	Moscow	2010 January
3	Shimun Vrochek	Piter	Saint Petersburg, Leningrad region	2010 February
4	Andrey Dyakov	Towards the Light	Saint Petersburg, Leningrad region	2010 June
5	Andrey Erpylev	The Yield by Force	Moscow	2010 July
6	Sergey Kuznetsov	The Marble Paradise	Moscow region, Moscow	2010 August
7	Suren Tsormudian	The Wanderer	Moscow	2010 September
8	Andrey Butorin	The North	Kola Peninsula, Murmansk	2010 October
9	Sergey Antonov	In the Interests of the Revolution	Moscow	2010 November
10	Alexandr Shakilov	The War of Moles	Kiev	2010 December
11	Ruslan Melnikov	Murancha	Rostov on Don	2011 January
12	Sergey Paliy	The Nameless	Samara	2011 February
13	Sergey Moskvin	To See the Sun	Novosibirsk	2011 March
14	Andrey Grebenschikov	Beneath the Hell	Yekaterinburg	2011 April
15	Anna Kalinkina	Ghost Station	Moscow	2011 June
16	Andrey Dyakov	Into the Darkness	Leningrad region, Saint Petersburg	2011 June
17	Sergey Zaytsev	Corpsmen	Moscow	2011 August
18	Grant McMaster	Britannia	Glasgow, Scotland, England, Carlisle, York, Conisbrough, Doncaster, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Lester, London	2011 September
19	Igor Vardunas	Ice Prison	Baltic Sea, La Manche, Atlantic ocean, Africa, Antarctica	2011 October
20	Andrey Butorin	The Siege of the Paradise	Kola Peninsula, Polyarnye Zori	2011 November
21	Residents of Metro 2033 website	The Last Refuge	Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Moscow region, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar, Biisk, Sochi	2011 December
22	Tullio Avoledo	Le radici del cielo ("Roots of Heaven")	Rome, Lazio, Torrita Tiberina, Umbria, Marche, Urbino, Emilia Romagna, Rimini, Santarcangelo di Romagna, Ravenna, Veneto, Venezia	2012 March
23	Sergey Antonov	Unburied	Moscow	2012 January
24	Andrey Chernetsov, Valentin Lezhenda	Blinding Emptiness	Moscow, Kharkov	2012 January
25	Anna Kalinkina	The Kingdom of Rats	Moscow	2012 March
26	Zahar Petrov	MRLs	Minsk	2012 May
27	Suren Tsormudyan	Ancestral Heritage	Kaliningrad	2012 July
28	Denis Shabalov	The Right to Force	Serdobsk	2012 August
29	Timothy Kalashnikov	Wrong Side of the World	Moscow	2012 September
30	Sergey Moskvin	Hunger	Novaya Zemlya	2012 October
31	Irina Baranova, Constantine Benev	Witness	Saint Petersburg	2012 November
32	Andrey Butorin	The Daughter of the Heavenly Spirit	Kola Peninsula, Murmansk	2012 December
33	Andrey Dyakov	Over the Horizon	Saint-Petersburg, Leningrad, Vologda, Cherepovets, Yaroslavl Oblast, Rybinsk, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo Oblast, Tatarstan, Kazan, Bashkortostan, Beloretsk, Yamantau, Orenburg Oblast, Dagestan, Kaspiysk, Primorsky Krai, Vladivostok	2013 January
34	Denis Shabolov	Right to Life	Serdobsk, Penza Oblast, Mordovia, Tatarstan, Mari El, Komi Republic, Kirov oblast	2013 March
35	Tullio Avoledo	La crociata dei bambini ("The Children's Crusade")	Milan	2014 March
36	Paweł Majka	Dzielnica obiecana ("The Promised District")	Nowa Huta, Kraków, Poland	2014 August
37	Robert J. Szmidt	Otchłań (Abyss)	Wrocław	2015 August

Other media

The boardgame "Metro 2033"

A graphic novel titled Metro 2033: Britannia Comic Prologue inspired by the prologue of the Metro 2033 novel Britannia was published in 2012. The story was written by Grant McMaster, the author of the novel and is illustrated by Benedict Hollis. It is available as a free download and unlike the novels it is in English rather than Russian.

A Metro 2033 board game based on the original novel was released in 2011. It was designed by Sergei Golubkin and was published by Hobby World.

A first-person shooter video game titled Metro 2033 was created for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 gaming platforms. It was developed by 4A Games in Ukraine and published in March 2010 by THQ. A sequel, Metro: Last Light, was released in May 2013 on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Redux versions of the games were released in 2014, featuring updated graphics and gameplay with all previously released downloadable content bundled. The Metro Redux bundle was released for the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. 4A Games is currently rumored to be working on a third installment in the Metro video game series, having moved to Malta because of the unrest in Ukraine. The game is set to be less linear, with open world features.

The Metro series is also being put into the movies by Michael De Luca and Solipsist Films.

Moscow Metro

Promotional stand at Pyrkon 2015, Poznań in Poland

Most of the stations were built to also be used as bomb shelters, and many old stations do feature provisions such as blast doors, and air and water filters.

States

Shortly after the nuclear war central subway system fell apart. The stations were to exist separately. Some coalesced around ideologies, religions, and water filters.

The Commonwealth of the Stations of the Ring Line ("Hansa")

Upon formation and acquiring a decent foothold in the metro, Hansa quickly developed to be the economic powerhouse of the metro, a hyper-capitalist utopia for the rich. It is one of the few places in the metro where public transportation, running water and large-scale electric lighting are widespread. They usually make "partnerships" with the stations outside of the Ring, causing them to become resource stations dependent on Hansa, like the Arbat Confederation and Belorusskaya Trade Outpost. Although not dependent on Hansa for resources both the Reich and the Red Line maintain trade relationships. Hanza along with Polis appear to be the most democratic factions within the metro. Many citizens from the Reich and Red Line have noted as wanting to move to Hanza or Polis. However both the Red Line and Nazis have a no tolerance policy for refugees, with many refugees end up being killed by the two groups. Those lucky enough to end up at a Hanza station are often turned away because Hanza is very weary of outsiders. Hansa is well-militarized to protect its wealth; all its stations are heavily guarded, it boasts motor transportation and flamethrowers, and its militia is outfitted with high-end military grade weapons. They are also portrayed as being incredibly strict when it comes to entering and leaving stations, with non-Hansa personnel requiring passports or other forms of identification and well as having their weapons confiscated from them until they leave the station. The station has also managed to salvage an incredible amount of pre-war technology, including plastic quarantine sheeting, metal detectors, working computers, medical scanning equipment and bio hazard gear. Supreme power: Prime Minister of the Commonwealth Loginov.

Red Line

Former Sokolnicheskaya Line. Somehow this line drew everyone who dreamt of re-establishing the Soviet past. Preobrazhenskaya Ploschad' was the first station to officially re-endorse communism and the socialist type of government. Its neighboring stations did so in a short while, some of them revolted against own governments. All the war veterans, former communist party people, the ever-thriving lumpen-proletarians gathered on the revolutionary stations. At first they created a committee which was responsible for propaganda of revolution and communism in the whole Metro, with an almost Lenin's name – "Interstational" (the original committee, was obviously called International). Interstational prepared revolutionaries and propagandists, sending them further down the line. At first there was almost no conflict, since people on the poor Sokolnicheskaya line were literally starving because their leadership could not provide food, and so they awaited changes that should bring justice. Or, in their view, equity. The whole line soon became communist. Thanks to the luckily-undamaged bridge over the river Yauza between Sokol'niki and Preobrazhenskaya Ploschad' the communications were steady. At first the short bridge had to be crossed only overnight on fast hand- or motorcars, but later it was hermetized and deactivated. After that, the line was officially renamed to Red Line, which was its former nickname, before the war. The conflict over Komsomolskaya and Ploschad' Revolutsii, which was the cause of war between the Anticommunist Coalition (Hansa and the Arbat Confederation) and the Red Line went for a year and a half. People on both sides were worn out, leaders were losing support. The Red Line concentrated its power on taking the "Ploschad' Revolutsii" (Revolution Square) from the Arbat Confederation, while Hansa wanted to have the Ring Station "Komsomolskaya", and the Coalition also tried to beat the communists out of "Lenin Library". Revolution Square was somewhat of a holy station for RL, because it was closest to the Kremlin and there, the mausoleum. In the end Red Line lost its terminal of the Lenin Library, but it was made a free-for-all transit station. The Arbat Confederation, on the other side, lost the Revolution Square – one of its few member stations. Hansa benefited the most – it bargained to close the Ring, and the Red Line just could not reject the offer of the Revolution Square. The Red Line is actively trading consumer goods (food and other commodities) with Hansa, Belorusskaya trade outpost and the plantations and factories behind it. It has electrification of tunnels, but there are hunger problems from time to time, as well as conflicts with the Nazis. Lately there had been no direct confrontation; the Red Line prefers to have freelance revolutionary brigades fight the Nazis unofficially. Supreme power: General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Moscow Metropoliten Moskvin.

Polis

Borovickaja, Aleksandrowskij Sad, Leninskaja library and Arbatscaja stations. Seen by many as the last hope for humanity, its last bastion and last think-tank, "the last place on Earth where people live as people, where they still remember what the word human means, and how it should sound". Sometimes named "the City" with a capital C, for most Metro-dwellers it's a dream place. The Greek "polis" or "city-state" was the term coined probably by one of the station dwellers, and it was only a matter of time before it became official and stuck to the place for good. Polis is a unique state of the Metro. Only there the keepers of old pre-war knowledge remain in substantial quantity. All scientific knowledge became useless for other Metro states, as they slowly descended into the abyss of chaos and ignorance. Scientists from everywhere, where their skills were useless, came to Polis. Only there you could meet really old people from pre-war universities, the last artists, artisans, musicians and poets, physics, chemists, biologists, mathematicians. All those who kept the knowledge achieved by thousands of years of human history, that will be lost forever as they pass away. Polis is situated right under the very center of the city that was above it sometime before. And right over the Polis loomed the gigantic building of Lenin Library, the biggest information storage of the old times. After the war it was called "Great Library" and become a religious and sacred place for Polis dwellers, the rest of Metro calls it with respect "Library" with a capital "L". Only Polis of all Metro powers could afford sending stalkers for books. Only there knowledge was still valued worthy to risk your life for it. Polis keeps libraries, and the people there can afford "flats" – trash-built homes in between the station pylons or columns. The rest of Metro, aside from a few Ganza citizens, live in tents or even without them. This may seem irrational, but because it was the last science center, it was never attacked, threatened or devastated, but rather traded with and meticulously guarded. All Metro powers were ready to defend it were it attacked. Even the war between Hansa and Red Line did not touch Polis. Polis lacks any tunnels, it only has 4 stations, but has full electrification and daylight lamps. Polis boasts a small, but professional military corps from the former FSB-KGB officers and military leadership, whose buildings were right above the stations of Polis when the War happened. Its system of government and life is borrowed from the Indian caste system, which was substantially softened.

The Polis caste system: Brahmans are "keepers" or "priests" of science and art. Their tattoo is an open book in front of a colonnade which symbolizes the Great Library (Lenin Library). Kshatriya are warriors, former military servicemen. Their tattoo is the two-headed Russian eagle from the Russian Coat of Arms. Vaishya are merchants. Shudra are servants. Caste are not given at birth, the citizens of Polis can choose when you are 18. In each caste there are special initiation rituals, which are especially hard for the Kshatriya and Brahman. They fulfill the role of exams. Supreme power: Polis Council

VDNKh Commonwealth

This commonwealth formed from an alliance of three stations: VDNKh, Alekseevskaya and Rizhskaya, VDNKh being the leader. The other two joined it because of the tea industry, which granted VDNKh at least some self-value, so that they could avoid being assimilated into the territory-hungry overpopulated Hansa. Botanichesky Sad, the station next after VDNKh, was lost due to fire and mutant threats early in the METRO history, but the tunnel could not have been blown up due to underground water breach threat, or closed, as the hermetic doors were dismantled even prior to that, during the Central Metro Administration times. No one tried to resettle Botanichesky Sad (Botanic Garden), as something horrible dwelt in the Garden above it. After one of the station's teen dwellers opened the hermetic doors on Botanichesky Sad by accident, the Black – humanoid mutants – came down and started methodically assaulting VDNKh. With no means of cutting the tunnel off, VDNKh in a few years turned into a war-torn place. This problem of VDNKh effectively set in motion the events of METRO novel. Every station in the Commonwealth has its own administration (formed from the actual former Metro administration workers even in the first Central Control time), the cooperation consists of free-ride for traders and citizens between the stations of the Commonwealth. Passports are issued for each station, however. There is a strict law enforcement and harsh punishment on all stations. VDNKh also enforces labor duties on every citizen. All men from VDNKh, above the rest, must take armed watch in the northern tunnel to Botanichesky Sad. One of the few radial governments situated in a dead end that can actually make ends meet and even spare some on culture. They have a small library of own and Polis-bought books, high literacy rate with courses for children. Stability and relative prosperity due to "specialty" tea production which is produced for a half of the Metro, attract people, but VDNKh Commonwealth is not that immigrant-friendly. Main business: minor agriculture (mushroom plantations) and meat (pig farms) production, mass tea production. Supreme power: Station administration, no overall power.

Arbat Confederation

The Arbat Confederation is a moderate capitalist autocracy, so to say, governed by non-ethnic Russian traders and, as it seems, housing them. Little is known about this alliance. At the beginning of Hansa it used to have substantial power and population, however it's decreasing over the years. With the unseen threat from "Park Pobedy" to the "Kievskaya" station that was only disposed of in the recent years, people have been fleeing the station, which led the Arbat confederation to install a soft quarantine regime on Kievskaya-radial (the blue one). Now Arbat Confederation is nothing more than a weak Hansa satellite. Supreme power: president Tvaltvadze.

Year 1905 Confederation (Confederation 1905 Goda)

This confederation used to be a relatively big alliance, spanning stations from Barrikadnaya to Oktyabrskoe Pole. But after some incident at Oktyabrskoe Pole, the station was abandoned. The situation there is unclear, but some link it to the rumors of Krishnaites who were living there and wanted to blow up the underground nuclear reactor of Kurchatov Institute near the Metro to blast everyone to Nirvana. After losing this station, they also lost Polezhaevskaya. Nothing solid is known, but horror-stories about Polezhaevskaya are told around the Metro and well-known. The story is usually told like this: first people started vanishing in tunnels near the station, after that something or someone killed all the inhabitants leaving nothing but blood on the floor. All armed patrols sent there didn't come back. After a while, they sent a hundred men strong force to check. Discovering an empty station with blood-stained floor, they blew up the tunnels. It seems this confederation is also a Hansa satellite. Revealed by the current map of 2034's events in Metro: Last Light, it is indicated that Barrikadnaya was captured by the Reich, showing the 1905's continual collapse on itself. It can't even defend its own borders, showing it is growing weak and relying too much on the Hansa for help. The 1905 could be on the verge of dissolution.

Baumansky Alliance (Bauman Alliance)

Technically nothing about it is known from the novel, but most fans agree that a technocratic leftist government of engineers would emerge on the three stations (Baumanskaya, Elektrozavodskaya, Semyonovskaya) which are close to Bauman Moscow State Technical University and a lot of factories. Given the premise, it would be easy to imagine this conglomerate trading with Hansa, Red Line and others. It is speculated they are sympathetic to the revolutionaries.

Fourth Reich

The Pushkinskaya, Tverskaya and Chehovskaya stations are the main bulk of the Reich. Populated and protected by militant Neo-nazis (hinted to be remnants of the RNE and other pre-war ultranationalists), the Fourth Reich is mostly known for its damnation against most people of non-Russian ethnicity living within the Metro. They have some motor-powered as well as heavy tank-like railcars, and a highly effective military that is small and efficient. The demographic make-up is heavily imbalanced with only few women and a sizeable amount of men. The Reich tries to cope with this by constantly seeking a more balanced population. As of now, the comparably big and well-equipped military of the Reich and the unwillingness of Hansa satellite stations could not give way to dealing a fatal blow to the Reich by blowing up their tunnels or dismantling most critical rail tracks. Moreover, the Hansa and Belorusskaya stations, as well as the plantations, have established trade business with the Reich. The "mutants", or anyone who does not meet the Führer's standards of a pure being, are sold as slaves and sent to the northern plantations in Sokol, Dinamo and Aeroport. The Reich's military is notoriously known for swiftly organised and relentless raids against the predominantly non-Russian organised crime syndicate-ruled stations, such as Kitai-Gorod or Tretyakovskaya (Venice). The undeclared Nazi-Red War has ended, according to Metro: Last Light, but is still hinted at that relations are always negative. It is fairly obvious that the two factions will not ever settle their differences. Indicated by the map in the command room with Miller in the first level of Metro: Last Light, The Nazis have extended their influence to take Barrikadnaya from the 1905 Confederation and Paveletskaya, a former independent station funded by the Hansa. They are also making troop movements towards Mayakovskaya and Tsvetnoy Bulvar, but the former troop advancement was said by the Führer in the peace talks in Polis to be "Operation El Dorado", and that it was canceled in favor of a fair distribution of supplies from D-6 to all the factions in the Metro, based on population. One of the self-proclaimed goals of the Reich is to capture Polis to broaden its influence over the Metro system. When Artyom was captured, before his hanging, the guard outside his cell rambled on about how the Reich was already planning to take Polis. No actual military movements have been realized or are any likely in the future.

Moscow State University ("Emerald City")

"Emerald City" is a city from a Russian children’s book, a remake of Baum’s Wizard of Oz, called “Wizard of Emerald City”. This is a half-mythical state rumored to exist in the three cut-off deep stations,Soviet bunker and bomb shelters below the Moscow State University( Universitet, Prospekt Vernandskogo, Jugo-Zapadnaja), where all the scientists from the University dwell, governed by deans and the rector. This rumor is very unlikely, since no one, not even the Red Line, knows what is out there, however, it gets passed around in the still-surviving intelligentsia circles. The myth also involves scientific activity that is still going strong there, and that the Emerald City has developed special protected costumes and boats to cross the river and their scouts occasionally visit the Metro. Talking about the Emerald City in the proximity of the Red Line is not exactly a good idea. Whatever the Red Line knows about it, it’s very hostile to any mentions of this mythical state. Perhaps the reasons lie in the fact that this rumor was used as anti Red Line propaganda during the war.

Plantations and factories

Three dead-end stations (Airport, Dinamo and Sokol), little about them is known to the general dweller, aside from the fact that they produce tremendous amounts of food and trade with the whole Metro. All tunnels there were converted to mushroom and potato plantations and pig and chicken farms, possibly something else, stations were used up too. The place requires a lot of workforce, so it is supposedly fed by slaves coming from the "genetically impure" prisoners of the Reich concentration camps. "Dinamo" station also produce “finest in the Metro” pig skin coats and possibly other clothes. The Belorusskaya Trade Outpost mediates most trade between Hansa and the plantations, from there going to the rest of the Metro.

Belorusskaya trade outpost

A "fully neutral" radial station, one of the large trade terminals. Neutrality and self-reliance are a result of strategic location between the Hansa and plantations. Having support of the latter it could not be fully integrated into Hansa. It’s under Hansa protection, but not under its jurisdiction, it seems. Main business: plantations and factories’ goods trade, even some sort of banks for high-ranking and rich people. The traders from Belorusskaya call themselves "managers". The station sees itself as a wealthy neutral spot, good enough for all major powers, like Switzerland.

Kuznetsky Most Technicians

The station’s name means "Blacksmith Bridge". This station is one of the technician’s refuges in the Metro. It houses huge workshops where machinery from the whole Metro is sent for repairs, which helped the station to become relatively wealthy. Many metro-made weapons originate in Kuznetsky Most. During the events of 2033, it was suffering from Red Line influence. Once 2034/Last Light's events, Kuznetsky Most fully was annexed by the Red Line, and massive amounts of political dissidents were executed or sent to work camps, according to Andrew the Blacksmith, who fled once the purges began. This has caused a mass emigration from Kuznetsky Most to other stations out of the Red Line's sphere of influence. Misc.: there are two fully repaired and electrified trains on both station railways, reworked for people’s houses.

Satanists

Little is known about the Satanists to the general Metro. Their location is even doubted. A live witness of their actions was kidnapped on Belorusskaya and brought to their station. He did not recognize it, although by sparse descriptions and the fact that it’s behind Pechatniki, Lyublino is the most fitting candidate. The station is vandalized, all nameboards are ripped off, walls and floor are blood-stained. The floor in the center is ripped off, and there’s a huge pit where kidnapped slaves from other stations are digging further down, described as being 30 meters deep. Satanists have gone mad; they think that the End of the World already happened, and Metro is the Hellgate – if they go a bit deeper, they would get to Hell and see Satan himself. The satanists are armed, at least some of them. They don’t maintain any industry and brutally murder slaves on a constant basis. How they trade or kidnap people remains a mystery.

Savage cannibals of the Great Worm Cult

In the very beginning of fights and struggles in the Metro, “Park Pobedy” (Victory Park) was cut off from the rest of the Metro – someone blew up the tunnels for reasons unknown. But little did the dwellers of the larger Metro know that Park Pobedy is connected with the secret government communication network “Metro-2”. The station’s inhabitants are mutant cannibals aged below 20, who have exceptional paranormal hypnotic abilities. Their priests are people who were captured by the cannibals earlier; they introduced the Cult of the Great Worm to control the savage tribe. Cult of the Great Worm is a fresh-made religion based on hatred of technology and machines, thus labelling all people from the Greater Metro “enemies” and making them acceptable to be eaten. Cannibalism was already there when the Cult of Great Worm was introduced by the priests. The cannibals use the secret government tunnels to kidnap people across the whole greater Metro. Their population seems incredibly sparse (no more than a few dozen), otherwise they could not have supported themselves feeding on other people all the time. They also kidnap children to indoctrinate them into the Great Worm Cult and thus increase their population. Their language is a very devolved, primitive version of Russian. Recently this threat was discovered and eliminated by the stalkers, when people started disappearing en masse from Mayakovskaya and Kievskaya (possible because: increase of the cannibals’ population). Full cleaning of Metro-2 is yet to be done.

Independent Station Paveletskaya

For some reason, the hermetic gate on this station vanished, probably in relatively recent times, since no replacement could be found. The population is suffering from radiation; however, they do not abandon it, because Hansa supports Paveletskaya with free food and weapons in exchange for guarding the Metro from anything that comes from above. The Paveletsky train station houses some type of mutants which people on the station humorously nicked “city visitors”. At night there are fights with mutants almost all the time. Hansa seems to lack funds to solve the problem permanently. All built-up barricades are demolished at autumn and spring because of water amassing in the hallway, which they cannot hold. However, in the events of Metro: Last Light, it is revealed on the Map behind Miller in the command center in D6 that Paveletskaya has become under control of the Fourth Reich. No other indications show how it became so, whether it was violent or not. This has allowed the Nazis to spread their influence far beyond their typical northwestern area of operations.

Revolutionary bases

Revolutionary bases are places where Revolutionaries refuel and get repairs. Little is known about them, aside from the fact that they should not be well-known; thus they are hidden in convenient dead-ends, but they must be at least sparsely populated and well-found for repairs and other stuff. The location of the auxiliary base is given in the novel (Avtozavodskaya), right after Paveletskaya – a not-for-everybody place, because many people fear going to Paveletskaya already. The main base is generally considered to be behind the “Baumansky Alliance” stations on Partizanskaya (Partisans – a fitting name) – another convenient and faraway dead-end, and handy repairs from the leftist Bauman Alliance, as well as a free-ride, make this location the most probable one. The Revolutionaries' main cause is to spread true communism to the Metro. Not the Red Line's Stalinist state, which is why they somewhat broke off after the Red Line-Hansa War that ended the Interstational movement. The revolutionaries are guerrillas that believe in Guevara's communist ideals and Trotskyism, Leninism and real Marxism, rather than the Red Line. They don't openly attack the Reds, but don't work with them either.

Organised crime

The Orange (Riga Line) Line stations are mostly independent, controlled by various thugs, criminal gangs, etc. Stations live off trade and some natural production (pigs and agriculture).

Voikovskaya Commonwealth (Republic of Gulaj Pole)

An anarchist commune down the line from the Sokol and the other plantations. Described in the novel "Dark tunnels" by Sergei Antonov.

Pervomayskaya republic

Pervomayskaya republic located at two stations Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line: First of May and Shchelkovo. Managed by former police officers. Isolated from the rest of the metro. Described in the novel "Breakthrough" by Andrew Erpylev.

Independent Station Tushinskaja

The liberal republic. Often attacked by mutants. The station has a printing press and newspapers. Cut off from the whole metro and connected only with Schodnenskaja and Spartac stantions. Supreme power: station administration. Described in the novel "Ghost station" by Anna Kalinkina.

Station Spartacus (Pagans)

The ruling elite has created their own religion, which is a hybrid of Slavic paganism and religion Aztecs. Cut off from the rest of the metro and connected only with Tushinskaja station. Supreme power: Yuri. He forbids anyone who goes there. Described in the novel "Ghost station" by Anna Kalinkina.

Station Schodnenskaja

Impoverished station. Before the tunnel connecting this station with Polezhaevskaya was blown up, was trading with Dynamo, VDNKh ... But then supplies became impossible. In 2033 trades only with Tushinskaja (sells pigs). Supreme power: stalkers. Described in the novel "Ghost station" by Anna Kalinkina.

Kalinin Confederation

Kalinin Confederation is located at six stations of the former Kalinin line(Yellow line). The peaceful community of workers. Perovo is the capital of the Confederacy. Described in the novel "Marble paradise" by Sergei Kuznetsov.

Pechatniki Confederation

At Pechatniki station grows tea. Kozhukhovskaya – the area of ??workers. Rails in tunnels to Dubrovka destroyed, but can not restore them – the workers die. Ever since the Dubrovka station is not simple – there is some sick anomaly. Described in the novel "Marble paradise" by Sergei Kuznetsov.

Transit stations

Sparsely populated for one reason or other, these stations are used as a place of gathering for “caravans” – groups of people travelling from one station to another. Sometimes they settle permanently.

Commonwealth of human mutants

Located at three stations Filevskaya line(Molodoznaya,Krylatskoje and Strogino). Inhabited by people affected by radiation and their mutated descendants. Filyovskaya line is not very deep, and many of its stations and rails are situated on the surface, so radiation protection is virtually none. Also known as the station of the three legged men quoted from the novel Metro 2033. It is briefly talked about in the beginning of the novel while Artyom is on guard duty.

Abandoned stations

Stations abandoned for one reason or other. Most common reason is lethal danger to human life on the station, such as gas, biohazard in forms of mutant fauna, mental threats, flooding.

Destroyed stations

Stations destroyed or probably destroyed in the bombardment.

Inhabited stations

Various inhabited stations, on which little or almost nothing is known aside from the general fact.

Unexplored stations

Stations about which absolutely nothing is known.

Stations captured by mutants

Several stations captured or likely captured by mutants from the surface.

D-6(or Metro 2)

D-6 secret government communication network. D6 is a missile silo and military warehouse. Believed to contain fully working trams, military vehicles, weapons, gear, and food, the Rangers take this station in the game Metro 2033 it is the current base of all Ranger operations. However, based off a diary entry found in the final level of Last Light, it is brought to attention that D6 does not house a large supply of weapons, food, and other supplies. That was a lie Colonel Miller told the Rangers, because in reality he kept opening door after door in D6 and only found virus and bacteria. D6 in truth was a military station used for housing biological weapons. General Korbut knew this and this was the true reason he attacked D6, to use its wide variety of biological weapons on the Metro. In Metro Last Light a bio weapon is taken from the planned to be destroyed chemical lab. Later on the Red Line make a huge assault on the silo with an armored freight train, and bust open the giant blast doors and take the silo. During the C'est La Vie ending in a desperate attempt to stop the Red Line from having so much power Artyom detonates the entire silo killing all of the communists and Rangers.

External links

Official resources:

• Metro 2033 portal
• Facebook community
• LiveJournal community