Some years back (about 6 I think?) I spent a fair bit of time putting together a map of the post-apocalyptic Moscow Metro system of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro 2033 series. While this was received pretty well by both the cartographic and Metro communities I was never 100% happy with it – in particular the way it echoed the inaccurate depiction of interchanges from the official map – and I always intended to go back and revise it.
So now I have.
After many hours of studying Moscow’s geography and trawling my way through the Russian Metro wikia (with the assistance of Google Translate) I have redrafted and updated my map to produce what is undoubtedly (by which I mean ‘doubtedly’) the best English map of the Metro ever produced!
As is my wont I’ve included some information from the expanded “Universe of Metro 2033” books by other authors, despite some of them being a bit silly (I’m still not quite over there being Skaven on the Serpukhovsko–Timiryazevskaya line). I’ve also used some content from the Metro computer game series, which is based on the books but takes a number of serious liberties with them (any version of Metro 2033 where Artyom doesn’t spend a week being forced to shovel human waste out of toilet pits simply isn’t Metro 2033!).
My next insane project is a redraft of the regional Moscow map I found on the Russian wiki, which is highly deficient in various areas. I will take some time off first however – at least until I stop waking up in the morning with the names metro stations echoing in my head (Театральная… Театральная… Театральная…)
Thanks so much for this map, friend! I’m planning a Metro Tabletop RPG and have been having a difficult time finding digital assets. I feel your pain about station names echoing in your head! Any time I get in deep on metro lore I also have a weird tendency to just randomly add -skaya to the ends of words lol. I plan to edit your map and give it to my players as a magic item similar to the magic map that Artyom gives to Khan. Once again thank you!
Glad you’ve found the map of use! I’m still working on the surface map of the Moscow region, which is a major project – I might end up releasing it in stages just to make it manageable.
I appreciate and love your work! I will print the map and read Metro 2033 series books with the former.
BTW, Your blog looks very interesting and impressive.