Russiaville (/ˈruːʃəvɪl/) is a town in Honey Creek Township, Howard County, Indiana, United States.

The town was named for Jean Baptiste de Richardville (whose father's surname was Richerville), a Miami chief of French-Miami descent who had relations with the United States government in treaty making in the early nineteenth century.

Through the French pronunciation of "Ri-shar-ville," the name was gradually corrupted and changed to the current spelling;[4] it has been pronounced "Roo-sha-ville" through much of its history.

[5] Some theorize an alternate history, that during the Cold War, residents consciously changed the pronunciation of Russiaville's name in order to disassociate their town from Russia, the leading state of the Soviet Union, however, the pronunciation, Roo-sha-ville precedes the Cold War by many, many years.

[citation needed] Some local history has suggested "Rouchardville" as the earlier spelling, but Richardville is correct.

They created a stop on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves in the antebellum years in nearby New London, then the site of the Friends Meeting serving the entire area.

A local legend tells that the stop included a tunnel under New London from a safe house to a cave in the hollow of Honey Creek, near the location of the Friends Meetinghouse.

The school district faced pressure from many parents and faculty to ban student Ryan White from the campus after his diagnosis of HIV became widely known.

The case, and local families' treatment of the White family, became a focal point in the public debate around funding for HIV treatment and public perception, eventually leading to the Ryan White CARE Act.

The act provides funding to improve availability of care for low-income, uninsured and under-insured victims of AIDS and their families.