Artyom Alekseyevich Chyornyj



"So this is Artyom, right? Well, I bet that nuclear war Artyom's been talking about had came up late for sure, but I remember him that he was just a wee little infant back then before the Last Day was then about to begin. If someone left him for dead, he'll be dead meat by now. Still, he's now a young adult, after just a couple of decades of freezing us all up with cryogenic pods. I only thawed out along with all of my friends just recently."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Artyom

Artyom (Russian: Артём), known on his passport as Artyom Alekseyevich Chyornyj, is a Ranger and the protagonist of the video games Metro 2033, Metro Last Light, and Metro Exodus as well as the main character of the books Metro 2033 and Metro 2035. He does not appear in Metro 2034, which features a different man with the same first name.

After Miller's death, he succeeds him and becomes the new leader of the Spartan Order, provided he survived.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, he would be appeared in post-Last Day that he leading the Spartan Rangers to help UN Enclave and other Russian survivors. He also remembered that he was a one-year-old boy when the Last Day happened, but he did get accidentally turned into an adult by such testing from a scientist.