Ghost-Station

Metro 2033: Ghost-Station is the debut novel by Anna Kalinkina, written as part of the Metro 2033 Universe. The fifteenth book of the series, this novel serves as the first entry of the Under Moscow trilogy.

Story
The novel is set in the Moscow subway. At Spartak ghost station, people have returned to paganism and sacrifice. A woman named Nyuta, and her friend Krysya (Christina), are chosen for another sacrifice. They escape from the station and begin a journey through Moscow. They end up with anarchists in Voikovsky Commonwealth, Shodneskaya, and the Free City of Tushino. Along the way, Krysya becomes the wife of a fellow anarchist from Voykovskaya, nicknamed Valet, while Nyuta takes the name Anna Maximovna Kolyvanova after her adopted mother, Baba Zoya Kolyvanova, and stepfather, Peter Mikhailovich Zverev, who sold his own five-year-old daughter into slavery of the shuttles.

Interesting Facts

 * The first novel in the series, written by a woman author.
 * Reveals the fate of stations beyond Oktyabrskaya Field.
 * There are references to several novels of the project about Moscow.
 * The first book where the title of which contains a hyphen.
 * The title "ghost station" refers to the now-operating station of Spartak.
 * The only book published separately in hardcover after War of the Moles.
 * The founder of the trilogy Under Moscow.
 * There is an amateur translation into Polish.