Ivan Ivanovich survived the fall of Paris, the burning of Baghdad, and the glow of Nagasaki. None of it prepared him for retirement.

When the Union of Slavic Nations launched ten thousand of its finest soldiers into cryogenic sleep-a last, desperate gamble to preserve humanity in a capsule-Ivan was number 7,843. He expected to wake to a world rebuilt. Instead, he woke to a wasteland that had forgotten how to dream.

Now Ivan wanders a dead forest with a rifle, twenty-three bullets, and a voice in his head that calls itself his "Internal Assistant." The IA is patriotic, delusional, and absolutely convinced that Ivan's mission is to rebuild the Motherland. Ivan's mission is to find vodka.

But the wasteland has other plans.

A woman named Katya crosses his path, hunting for her brother-a boy who followed a mysterious signal to a city that shouldn't exist. A Colonel named Yuri has built something in the ruins of a geothermal plant: order, purpose, and a network that can rewrite human consciousness. And somewhere in the frozen north, ten thousand capsules are still opening, spilling soldiers into a world that doesn't want them.

Ivan Ivanovich at the End of the World is a darkly comic journey through a post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe, where the only thing more dangerous than the mutants is the voice in your head telling you to be a hero.