(IMPORTANT ADVICE: The areas covered by this bushtrip suffer some bad default image quality, which is why I highly recommend using the MSFS2020 Map Enhancement Mod and the provided ArcGIS satellite imagery source. This is the best option for remote regions in Russia. If you don't use this mod, you will fly over many offline textured parts and this is not enjoyable and navigable at all. Using the Map Enhancement Mod is super easy. It's just two clicks every time you open MSFS. Just make sure to open the mod first before launching MSFS. The screenshots show ArcGIS material so you can see it's very beautiful with this option. Google Maps is also bad in this region so stick to ArcGIS.) 

After our flights along the South Siberian cities near the Kazakh border, we will now head into the wetlands of Northwest Siberia, a region famous for its oil and gas regions. If you always wanted to know more about this industry and how these rather unknown regions look like, then this is the right bushtrip for you. We will also visit the regions where the indigenous people still cultivate their traditional fishing and reindeer herding lifestyle. The main direction of the route is along the giant Ob river with its wide floodplain landscapes and countless cities, towns and villages on its banks. We will also discover the Transpolar Railway, which was planned in the Stalin era but was never fully completed. Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for long flights through precious landscapes and impressive industrial sites.. As always on my bushtrips you won't just fly from A to B but I will also give much information on the cities, the history of Russia, the characteristics of the landscapes, the infrastructure etc... When this series is finished, the whole route will be almost 70.000km long, splitted into 20 parts. So if you are only interested in certain regions, you can skip the parts you dont want to fly, so that everyone get's what he/she wants.

Places you will visit on this Bushtrip among others:

- the northern Kuzbas area with Kemerovo and the Tom River

- the center of the West Siberian Oil Province around Surgut

- the middle and lower section of the Ob River, one of the world's longest rivers

- the swamplands of Siberia (the largest in the world)

- the homeland of the Eurasian indigenous people of the north (Selkups, Khanty, Mansi, Nenets)

- the gas region around Novy Urengoy

- the eastern face of the Polar Urals near Salekhard

Federal Subjects covered on this Bushtrip:

- Novosibirsk Oblast

- Kemerovo Oblast

- Tomsk Oblast

- Khanty Mansi Autonomous Okrug

- Yamalo Nenets Autonomous Okrug

- Krasnoyarsk Krai

To avoid misunderstandings: This Bushtrip series is about Russia, a country that is currently engaged in a war of aggression with Ukraine that violates international law. The trip takes place on Russia's internationally recognized territory and includes historical facts that depict significant events in Russia's history, but not current events. This content is primarily intended to educate and entertain people, who are interested in geography, history and the post-Soviet hemisphere. The largest country in the world may never have come to terms with its past, resulting in imperialistic efforts, but that is no reason to drag Russia's geographic beauty into it, in my opinion. In the future I'm sure I'll address other post-Soviet countries, but with the war going on in Ukraine, plus the ongoing Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, I didn't want you to fly over towns and villages that look completely fine in the simulator, but were actually bombed to pieces and I'm pretending nothing happened...

Flight Length: 4697km

Flight Duration: 13:08h

Number of legs: 18

You will fly in a Cessna C208 Grand Caravan, the perfect aircraft for this route. Welcome aboard!! If you want to change the aircraft you can do it via the developer mode -> Windows -> Aircraft Selector

You will also be able to change the time & weather via the default toolbar according to your liking. Default is Live Weather & 1-2 hours passing by with each flight

I have also added TTS for waypoint info with copilot voice so it feels like there's someone in the cockpit telling you where to fly to. (only functional with English language, for other languages turn off Text to Speach in the sounds menu).

The trip includes auto-translations for several languages. More will follow in future updates.

For the perfect experience I highly recommend some scenery and improvement mods, the more you install, the better the experience:

FREEWARE:

MSFS2020 Map Enhancement Mod by derekhe

We Love VFR Region 3 by PuffinFlight

Novosibirsk Landmarks by Boris09

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport by xflight

Tomsk Airport by SSD

Strezhevoy Airport by SSD

Nizhnevartovsk Airport by AltayCompany

Kogalym Airport by xflight

Khanty Mansiysk Airport by SSD

Salekhard Airport by xflight

Nadym Airport by xflight

Norilsk Alykel Airport by xflight

INSTALLATION: Just download the .zip file, unzip it and drag and drop it into your MSFS community folder. You will then find the Bush Trip in the Activities -> Custom Content menu. Everything works just like the default bush trips.

A big thank you to the guys from BushTripInjector and Little Navmap for the easy way to create bush trips without having to be a coding genius by myself :)