Cursed Station (Location)

 Cursed has other uses. Please see Cursed (Disambiguation) for other meanings. 

The Last Line of defense

One of the individual shrines seen around the room

Cursed Station is a location in the Post Apocalyptic Moscow Metro, and is seen only in the video game Metro 2033.

Overview

Cursed Station, like many others has a very typical true-to-life layout. A main passageway running the length of the station, with many smaller off-shoots leading to the platforms. The station is very close to the surface as the sky can be seen at the top of the elevators.

When Artyom and Khan reach the station, the remaining few survivors live in fear of the impending doom that is the seemingly never ending horde of nosalises. Makeshift shelters are seen on the flights of escalators, and a last line of defense comprised of sandbags, machineguns and the last few soldiers stand valiantly at the bottom of the escalators.

At the far end of the platform is a concrete wall, with a hole made in it. The ventilation room behind the wall acts as a shrine to the dead. Half way down the main passage two staircases go upwards towards another set of escalators, this time heading down to another part of the station. This area acts as an airlock, and is inaccessible to Artyom. Both platforms are blocked off at both ends, although on one side nosalises have dug through and are entering the station.

Notable Residents

• Khan

Trivia

• Cursed Station is seen only in the Level Cursed, in the video Game Metro 2033.
• Comparing the timeline with Khan between the book and the game, Cursed Station is Turgenevskaya on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line. Even Artyom follows the same route from VDNKh to Turgenevskaya (or from Exibition from Cursed) on the book than the game.
• Cursed station was modeled after a Kreschyatik station in Kyiv, Ukraine. The developers of the video game have stated that this was done intentionally.