chool "Obraztsov chiflik", today - Agricultural scientific research institute, currently profiled in agriculture and seed science;
* 1881 - the first steel ship in Bulgaria was built;
* 1881 - the first privately-owned Bulgarian bank Girdap;
* 1881 - the Machine School for the Navy, the first technical school in Bulgaria. Later it was moved to Varna;
* 1883 - the first Weather station;
* 1884 - the first bulgarian pharmacy association;
* 1885 - the first Bulgarian technical association was instituted;
* 1890 - the first Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
* 1891 - the first private insurance company "Bulgaria";
* 1896 - the first manually operated elevator;
* 1897 - the first movie projection. The second was a month later in the capital Sofia;
* 1927 - the first socks producing factory in Bulgaria - "Fazan";
* 1933 - the first oil refinery;
Here manufactured the first bulgarian factories for soda-water, lemonade and also for neckties. The first aviator Simeon Petrov was born in Ruse.
In the newly-liberated Bulgaria of the late 19th century, Ruse was a cosmopolitan city with a multiethnic population. According to the first census conducted in 1883, Ruse was populated by 26,156 people, making it the largest city in Bulgaria. Its ethnic composition was: 11,342 Bulgarians, 10,252 Turks, 1,943 Sephardi Jews, 841 Armenians, 476Germans, 291 Greeks, 231 Vlachs (Romanians), 170 Russians, 113 Serbs and Croats, 79 Roma people, 76 Hungarians, 74 Tatars, 58 Italians, 58 French people, 32 English people, 19 Persians, 16 Poles, 16 Czechs, and 69 people of other nationalities.
"All facades on main streets of Russe shall have rich decorations with plastic stone", postulate
