he station next after VDNKh, was lost due to fire and mutant threats early in the Metro 2033 history, but the tunnel could not have been blown up due to underground water breach threat, or closed, as the hermetic doors were dismantled even prior to that, during the Central Metro Administration times. No one tried to resettle Botanichesky Sad, as something horrible dwelt in the Garden above it. After Artyom, as a teen, and some of his friends opened the hermetic doors on Botanichesky Sad while trying to see outside world, the dark ones came down and started methodically assaulting VDNKh after setting up a base in Botanichesky Sad. At first the dark ones began sending their envoys, but humans killed them all. Because of this the dark ones slowly changed their opinion about humans and instead of sending envoys they wanted to definitively get rid of humans. With no means of cutting the tunnel off, VDNKh in a few years turned into a war-torn place, filled with fear from constant assault from the dark ones.