The village of Pohronský Ruskov

From the Neolithic period, settlement monuments of fluted pottery with grooved ornaments have been preserved.

From the beginning of the second millennium BC, monuments of Hungarian culture were discovered in several places - a developed craft-peasant civilization with an unusually advanced bronze industry. The heat burial ground documents the presence of settlements in the Early Iron Age (700-400 BC). The documents of Celtic civilization are represented by elegant settlement ceramics of smooth shapes, already made on a potter's wheel. The last prehistoric cultures inhabiting the territory of Pohronský Ruskov include the monuments of the Roman-Barbarian circle from the beginning of our era and Slavic finds from the Great Moravian period from the 10th to the 12th century.

The oldest written mention of Pohronský Ruskov comes from 1269, when the village is mentioned under the name Wruz. As a serf village, it changed owners several times. In 1327 it belonged to the Hungarian magnate family Kačičovcov under the name Wrucz. In 1534 the village belonged to the Benedictine abbey in Lekyry (now Hronovce) and in 1536 it was incorporated into the property of the Levice castle estate, whose feudal lord at that time was Gabriel Levický. Difficult times came after the conquest of Esztergom by the Turks in 1543, which burdened the population with large taxes. According to a record from 1622, Pohronsky Ruskov was gradually under the control of several Turkish lords (Aki Ahmat, Deli Bali, Durak and others). The unfortunate fate of the local people during the period of feudalism is also evidenced by the numerous escape corridors dug in the country, which in these times were the only salvation of bare life from robber robbers or impending military raids.

In 1893, a joint-stock company built a sugar factory in Pohronský Ruskov, whose shareholders were the knight Pavol Schöller from Levice, the Hatvan family Deutschov and Henrich Benies. The factory had about 150 employees (whose number grew to 1,000) and processed 120 beet wagons a day. The sugar factory was modernized and expanded several times in later times. The joint-stock company leased the 7,000-hectare property of Count Breiner, modernized its majors' economy and connected it with a 33 km long narrow-gauge railway line. A six-storey mill was built near the sugar factory, in which they grinded behind a grain wagon every day.

The First World War imposed poverty on this region. In 1917, the bells were made to make cannons, and the following year the Spanish epidemic raged in the area. 15 men did not return to Ruskov from the war. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 and the end of the fighting with the Red Army of the Republic of Hungary in June 1919, political and economic conditions only slowly improved. The difficult situation of the local population was used by usurper traffickers to accumulate property (Eisenschreiber).

In 1923, the grain mill in Pohronsky Ruskov was modernized and its grinding capacity was increased to two wagons per day. A sugar cube was built in 1938 and a cannery two years later.

In the autumn of 1938, under pressure from Nazi Germany, the Czechoslovak Republic began to disintegrate, and on November 7, Horthy's troops occupied the entire area and annexed it to Hungary. World War II began. After heavy fighting, Pohronsky Ruskov was liberated on March 27, 1945 by Soviet troops.

After the end of the war, the promising development of the village began together with the village of Čata. Dolné Pohronie, rich in fertile fields, conditioned the agricultural character of the village. The Pohronský sugar factory was modernized and expanded, in 1966 a huge grain warehouse with a capacity of 1,000 grain wagons was built, and in 1953 a test station for field crops was established. In 1957, the JRD was founded in Pohronsky Ruskov. After the integration changes in 1973 and 1975, the great JRD Rozkvet was created.

The spiritual stand of Pohronský Ruskov is a Roman Catholic church. The original was destroyed by retreating German troops and the current one was built between 1953 and 1962. The tower was added in 2003. The remains of the original bell became part of the memorial to the victims of World War II. world war. The village has convenient premises for the location of an industrial park, which would follow the post-war boom in agricultural production.