Ruse - a city with a long history. A city of many first inventions and innovations.
1. The first geographical map of Bulgaria
2. The first lad farming bank.
3. The first railway station.
4. The first modern printing house in the Bulgarian territory.
5. ISLYAHHANE, the first vocational school
6. Numune Chiflik – Land farm of excellence – The first modern landfarming school
7. City streets were given names for the first time in Bulgaria.
8. The first European-style hotel in Bulgaria.
9. The first navigation company.
10. The first transport company.
11. Ruse-Varna was the first railway line in the Bulgarian territory.
12. The first meteorology service in the country.
13. The first railway regulations.
14. The first international scandal: The shocking event on the steamship “Germania”.
15. Madame Habschied – the first woman photographer in Bulgaria, and her photo studio in Ruse.
16. The first Bulgarian textbook of land farming.
17. Sveta Petka, the first modern beer brewery.
18. The first town with an urban plan.
19. Establishment of the Danube fleet with a maritime section.
20. Gustav Karlsson – the first Bulgarian diver.
21. Obraztsov chiflik – the first school of practical land farming in Bulgaria.
22. Balkan Star – the first masonic lodge in Bulgaria.
23. The opening of Kopchov-Drobnyak, the first Bulgarian lithography printing company.
24. The first maritime school and the first metal ship in Bulgaria.
25. The first modern Bulgarian tannery.
26. “Girdap” – the first private bank.
27. The first administrative building in Bulgaria.
28. The fleet tower – the first weather station in Bulgaria.
29. The first maritime museum.
30. The first fashion millinery for women’s and children’s hats.
31. “Habermann” – the first modern Bulgarian beer brewery in Ruse.
32. The first vocational secondary school of carpentry and the first school canteen in Bulgaria.
33. The first German school in Bulgaria.
34. The first technical association in Bulgaria.
35. The first knitwear factory in Bulgaria.
36. A man from Ruse was the first one to climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
37. Ruse – the first Bulgarian chamber of commerce.
38. Bulgaria insurance company – the first joint stock insurance company in the country.
39. “Lira” – the first theatre and music society.
40. The first self-propelled navigation vessel.
41. “Filip Simidov” trading chemical factory – the first Bulgarian producer of beeswax, inks, and adhesives.
42. The first all-schools anthem was born in Ruse.
43. “Sokol” – the first Bulgarian association of athletes.
44. “Razvitie” – the first voluntary fire company in Bulgaria.
45. The first public film screening in Bulgaria.
46. The first manually driven elevator in Bulgaria.
47. The first Bulgarian company for iron roll doors.
48. The first factory for modern milling equipment production and overhaul.
49. The first Bulgarian cycling champion.
50. The first natural history association in the country was founded in a high school for boys.
51. Maria Weber’s Orient – the first bicycle company.
52. The first case of using a motorcycle in a cycling race.
53. The first international telephone connection between Bulgaria and Romania.
54. The first Bulgarian electrical shock-firing mine.
55. The first organ in Bulgaria in the Catholic church “St. Paul of the Cross”.
56. “Yurdanov, Tonev & Kazandzhiev” – the first Bulgarian company for iron beds, furniture, etc.
57. Simeon Petrov – the first Ruse-born Bulgarian pilot.
58. The first Bulgarian yacht club.
59. “Sinchets” – the first ski lodge in Bulgaria.
60. The first Bulgarian oil industry of Yosif Veshkov.
61. “Banickite” – the first outdoor floating pool in Bulgaria.
62. The first Bulgarian public river transport passenger line between Ruse and Vidin.
63. The first railway ferryboat in Bulgaria was between Ruse and Giurgiu.
64. The first bookshop manual in Bulgaria.
65. The first bridge for combined transport over the Danube River between Bulgaria and Romania.
66. The first prefabricated building in Bulgaria.
67. First International classical music festival “March Music Days”.
68. The first floating pool restaurant in Bulgaria.
69. The first national water ski tournament.
70. The first Nobel Prize winner.
71. “Eho” – the first university lodge in Bulgaria.
72. The highest TV tower on the Balkan peninsula.
73. The first informal social movement in Bulgaria was the precursor of the 1989 democratic changes.
74. “All Saints church” – the first post-liberation orthodox church in Bulgaria, restored to its original appearance.
