Ruzayevka (Russian: Руза́евка; Moksha: Орозай, Orozaj; Erzya: Оразай ош, Orazaj oš) is a town in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, located on the Insar River, 25 kilometers (16 mi) southwest of Saransk.

[7] The first settlement on the site of the city was given to Uraza Tankacheev in 1631 by Russian king Michael Fedorovich, for faithful service.

For refusing to accept the Christian faith, these lands and serfs peasants were bequeathed to the great Emperor.

In 1725, the land and peasants were given to the Lieutenant Tikhon Lukin, who owned it for more than 30 years, and then went bankrupt and in 1757 sold it to the court Councilor Jeremiah Struysky.

10 (23) December 1905 under the leadership of the committee headed by the engineer of the locomotive depot Afanasiy Petrovich Baykuzov went on strike, which resulted in power in the village and the nearest railway station was taken over by the workers.

In 1952 residents of the city of Ruzaevka received a great gift – railway club, a magnificent building in the style of Stalin's Empire, which even now has no analogues in the Republic.

The club was named after Alexey Vladimirovich Ukhtomskiy, the trainman, who committed the legendary feat – in 1905 he saved the train with the warriors from the fire of the executioners.

The prosperity of urban culture began in the distant 1960s, when Igor Aleksandrovich Peresleni, Nikolai Kiselev and many talented creative directors worked in the club.

Before you could watch a movie, there worked a national University with five faculties of the pedagogical and legal knowledge, culture, health.

Their first creative steps did honored workers of culture of Mordovia Galina Stepanovna Sukhanova, Alexander Ryabov and Anatoliy Beniaminovich Markaryan.