They call Ruse “City of the free spirit”. And more – “Little Vienna” and “City of First Things”. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Elias Canetti was born in Ruse.

Ruse is the largest Danube city in Bulgaria, the administrative center of Ruse district, located in northern Bulgaria. Its border coincides with the state border of Bulgaria with Romania – along the largest waterway in Europe, the Danube.

Rousse district has a favorable crossroads location, through which two Pan-European transport corridors pass: №7 (connecting the North Sea with the Black Sea through the Rhine-Main-Danube river canal) and №9 (starting from the Finnish capital Helsinki, passing through Vyborg, St. St. Petersburg, Pskov, Kaliningrad, Kyiv, Chisinau, Bucharest, Ruse, Veliko Tarnovo, Stara Zagora, Haskovo and ends at Alexandroupolis).

Administratively it includes 8 municipalities – Borovo, Byala, Vetovo, Dve Mogili, Ivanovo, Ruse, Slivo Pole and Tsenovo.

Along the coast of Ruse there are ports with national, regional and special purposes. There is a well-developed and well-developed railway infrastructure on the territory of Ruse district. The first railway line in Bulgaria – Ruse-Varna, was built in 1866, the Ruse railway. the station – over 150 years old – is in itself a remarkable architectural site.

Rousse District is the largest industrial zone in Northern Bulgaria. The most significant share in the region is occupied by trade, in second place is the manufacturing industry with subsectors of machine building and woodworking industry, transport and logistics. Ruse is a border, a port, an international train and road passes through the Danube Bridge, and the Free Zone, established in 1988, is an important export-import center, providing customs and tax relief to investors and traders operating on its territory.