Turgenevskaya tunnel entity - Metro Awakening connection?

After recently finishing Metro Awakening I went and re-listened to the 2033 audiobook. I've always been fascinated, if not confused by the vortex-like entity that zooms through the "bad" tunnel on the way to Kitai-Gorod that wipes out the rest of the convoy and almost swallow up Artyom, Ace and Khan.

I know that the big angry ball of spirits that zooms through various parts of Metro Awakening is worshipped as the worm god, but given its depiction in the game, how the mysterious tunnel entity was described in the book, and how Khan seemingly recognized it, I'm wondering if it's the same entity.

I know the ending of the game would seemingly make that an impossibility, given it takes place 5 years before the book events, but the Metro is all kinds of weird and supernatural and retcons of lore almost 2 decades old is commonplace.