Jurij Venelin

A street in Sofia, Bulgaria, is named after Jurij Venelin, a Rusyn who was the first to prove that the Bulgarians were in fact Slavs.

Venelin was also recently featured in the Journal of Slovene Studies in Raymond H. Miller's paper "Venelin and the Slovenes." Venelin was also the first to call the Slovenes "Slovenes." Previously, they were known by local ethnonyms like Carinthians (Korosci) and Carniolans (Kranjci).

Here's a blog entry from the France Preseren Society for the Promotion of Contacts between Slovenia and Russia about the role of Venelin in Slovene history.

Rusyns as Russians in Ljubljana

At the Ljubljana City Museum, the exhibit on the city's history includes mention of the Rusyns on a label for a jacket from an infantry uniform from the Austrian Empire in World War I:

"Of every 100 soldiers in Franz Josef's I army, 29 were Germans, 19 Hungarians, 15 Czechs, 9 Poles, 8 Russians, 7 Serbs and Croats, 5 Romanians, 5 Slovakians, 3 Slovenes and 1 Italian."

The English says "Russian" but the Slovene clearly says "Rusinov."