"WE WERE NOT BORN FOR LIFE IN THE TUNNELS."
Born in Moscow a few years before the nuclear war, Artyom has lived his entire life in the Metro and on many occasions risked his life to protect it. He is obsessed with the idea of finding life beyond the tunnels of the Metro, regularly venturing outside with a radio transceiver, trying to establish communications with the outside world. He is determined to prove that there is, indeed, life outside the Metro.