Metro 2036 is a novel by Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, describing life in the Moscow metro 23 years after the nuclear war. The fourth book after the Metro 2035.
The novel takes place in the Moscow Metro in 2036 and is exact continuation of book metro 2035. The main character, twenty-seven-year-old Artyom from the VDNKh station, must go through the entire Moscow metro to save his only home - and all of humanity.
Metro 2036 continues the plot of Metro 2033; Metro 2034 and Metro 2035. After a nuclear explosion, detachments of surviving people hide in the metro. In the meantime, mutants, monsters, creatures begin to wield on the surface, who are trying to penetrate the metro and apparently appeared from huge doses of radiation, which was very strongly reflected in the world of nature!
So, Artyom, the main character of the entire series, after the tragic events of the original, cannot find a place for himself in any way and lives with the dream of finding a corner on the planet suitable for existence without a gas mask. For this, he regularly drags into a city contaminated with radiation to catch radio signals and constantly quarrels with his wife, friends, and father-in-law, who do not share his enthusiasm. As everyone already guessed, at some point, the hero's dream begins to come true, and all of the above characters are forced, willy-nilly, to go with him - towards a new life.
And if at first, the story is not particularly impressive - there is a chaotic presentation and sometimes ridiculous dialogues - then over time, the plot unexpectedly turns into a memorable road movie. The whole team huddles in one train for a whole year, while traveling through Russia from Moscow itself and the banks of the Volga to the Caspian Sea and taiga, and such a "communal apartment", of course, constantly gives rise to funny situations.