

15 January 2022: Blog post about wagon factory.7 January 2022: Blog post about road network.29 December 2021: Blog post about the city of Ryazan.22 December 2021: Second blog post about industrial areas.17 December 2021: Blog post about forests and logging.16 December 2021: In the SCS Christmas Stream, the team reveals new screenshots of Heart of Russia, including several screenshots making reference to the Slavic folklore figure Baba Yaga.2 December 2021: First blog post about industrial areas.22 November 2021: Blog post about monuments.During the subsequent days, members of the community examine the game files and discover mileage_targets.sii, which contains names of many cities in the game, including 35 new cities in Russia. 12 November 2021: The 1.43 Open Beta for Euro Truck Simulator 2 is released.3 November 2021: Blog post about water bodies.17 October 2021: Blog post about food mill industry.4 October 2021: Blog post about churches.10 September 2021: Blog post about villages.13 August 2021: Blog post about new landmarks.5 March 2021: First official blog post revealing the name of the expansion with more new screenshots and added to Steam Store.Members of the community identify one of the screenshots, a intersection which is part of the Moscow ring road. 21 December 2020: In the SCS Christmas Stream, the team reveals more screenshots of the next map expansion after Iberia.Members of the community identify the screenshots' locations as being near the Russian town of Poshekhonye. 19 October 2020: SCS makes a blog post celebrating and thanking the community for the 8th Anniversary of Euro Truck Simulator 2 and as a reward, SCS teases the first screenshots in pre-alpha stages of the next map expansion after Iberia.After that, SCS released information about the DLC in their blog:
#EURO TRUCK SIMULATOR 2 MOD INSTALLER SOFTWARE#
SCS Software first hinted about the DLC in blog post about celebrating the 8th Anniversary of Euro Truck Simulator 2 posted on 19 October 2020. The team also stated that the DLC was "6 to 8 weeks" before competition. In a blog post about the statement of the DLC on May 30, development of Heart of Russia was refrained until the situation ends and heal, however there was no announcement of the "cancelation" of the DLC. Development of the DLC was a "sensitive thing" at that moment, although Pavel said that the team will "complete it, close it, finish testing and have it ready," but not release it. Daniel explained in the interview that one group is telling the community the logics that SCS should release the DLC because the "trees, roads and the hills are not to be blamed", and then Pavel stated that the name 'Heart of Russia' was like an "emotionally charged name", which would sound like SCS is "provoking or hurting people" due to the current situation. In an interview for the Czech gaming website Vortex on March 14, 2022, SCS Software PR and Marketing Manager Daniel Němec and CEO Pavel Šebor announced the indefinite postponement of the DLC due to Russia's invasion against Ukraine. Pavel Šebor in an interview with Vortex


I can't find any excuse now, even if we donate all the income to Ukraine." We had basically been in like a testing process We were just tuning it, and now we've got this DLC in the drawer that we can't release at the moment. But it was definitely clear that we couldn't follow the planned track: To communicate further about the beauty of the territory of Russia. " In the early days we were like, "maybe it will be over quickly".

It is clearly unknown when the DLC will be released. The development of the Heart of Russia DLC at this moment, is indefinitely halted (not canceled) due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
