I'm pleased to introduce you the project of topology and autogen of Astrakhan city, Russia, version 1.0b. The project is for MS Flight Simulator 2004.

This projects changes the default autogen of the city and its neighbourhood, that doesn't correspond to the real city. Also it adds missing rivers, islands, roads, railroads, and bridges in the vicinity of the city and Astrakhan aerodrome (URWA) and removes non-existent bridges across the Volga river.

This scenery is not professional since I designed it to my own cheek in Ground2K4 to replace the default terrible scenery and make my flights to homeland more comfortable. That's why it is probable, that you can face some challenges (although, I didn't see any problems yet). The project has several disadvantages:
- all bridges are autogen, so they don't look very similar to real ones. But they are better, that their absence and presence of several non-existent :-)
- no autogen on added islands (although the autogen option for them is set on in Ground2K4), I will continue to work on it;
- rivers that fall into the Volga river have the default shoreline visible at theirs mouths. It's possible to remove it, but only on the square of big area, in that case the river-land transition doesn't look real.

Overall, this project is more for IFR flights, than VFR. But, again, even for VFR flights it's much better than the default crap (imho!).