Hi Randowe! About a Stalingrad map - great map and extremely good work!Yeah, we can play the whole attack on Stalingrad now, from the crossing of the Don in the northwest onwards while the other forces come from the very south. I will also create a winter map of the very same map section for the Stalingrad pocket scenarios.
Btw, there is the jpg at mapfinder only. The png has nearly 5mb. If someone needs the png for map making (or to please the eyes) please tell me.
But there one little mistake - Volgo-Donskoy Kanal.It did not exist in the WWII - "....The construction of today's Volga–Don Canal... began prior to the Second World War, which interrupted the process. Construction works continued from 1948 to 1952 and the canal was opened on 1 June 1952..." It's all because of the modern maps...that's why i stopped using them
So in 1942 there were only steppes and small streams.
I don't think it's very important, but... it's just for information
Aahhh, by the way - maybe it will be useful for your (and all of other map-makers) works - link to a map resource - http://retromap.ru/14194225_z10_48.506142,44.044189 - and although the site itself is in Russian, now selected the German (Luftwaffe 1942) map. The scale of the map is regulated by scrolling the mouse wheel - from 30 to 5 kilometers.
Sorry for possible offtop
Some things are always confusing when loking at old maps. You are right, the maps i used are from 1954 and show the canal. Unfortunately all other maps i checked too. But i also checked WW2 german situation maps which show the canal. But maybe that was the planed path 
I was also confused about the railway loop north of Orlovka. Most maps show it, but not all. Next question is, if there was a rail ferry or not. I put in on the map because i think it is better to have the options in a scenario. I also put the Beketovka air base on the map to have more options for any kind of scenario (historic or not)...or to help the AI. Next thing i was confused about was the city of Rynok (i don't even know the correct spelling). I did not find much information about the city at all. Today is seems to be a part of Volgograd. I read some german lines about fighting in Rynok and it sounded like ot was some kind of industrial city.
) - this is a small settlement since pre-revolutionary times, which became a tractor-plant village, included in the city limits in 1931, on the right bank of the Volga north of the Tractor Factory (STZ), 17 km from the city center, at the confluence of the Sukhaya Mechetka river into the Volga, opposite the source of the Akhtuba. During the war, Rynok was completely destroyed. During the construction of the hydroelectric power station, it was liquidated. Now it has been restored and exists to the north-west of the original one as the Rynok settlement of the Volgograd City District.
