Polis
is really Biblioteka Imeni Lenina, Arbatskaya, Borovitskaya and Alexandrovsky Sad stations, Moscow, Russia
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
Polis, the metro's last centre of learning and culture, occupies this four-station interchange under the Russian State Library. Artyom reaches it late in Metro 2033, and it returns in Last Light.
The real place
Biblioteka Imeni Lenina was among the 13 stations of the first metro line in 1935. The four stations on four lines now form one of Moscow's biggest interchanges, just west of the Kremlin.
Visiting
Walk through the linked halls underground, then surface at Alexandrovsky Sad for the Kremlin gardens. Many Western governments currently advise against all travel to Russia, so check official advice first.
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