 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1870, Ruzsky akapedza kudzidza kubva kuCadet Corps mukirasi yekutanga. Muna 1872, akapedza kudzidza paKonstantinovsky Artillery School mukirasi yekutanga. Muna 1877, akabatanidzwa muHondo yeRusso-Turkish, uye akakuvadzwa paakatora nhare muGorni Dubnik. Nokuda kwoushingi hwake, akapiwa Order of St. Anna yechinhanho chechina nechisimbiso chokuti For bravery. Muna Chikunguru 1878, akapinda mubato rekuchengetedza mukugadzirira kuenda kuNikolayev Academy yeGeneral Staff. Ruzsky akapedza kudzidza muna 1881, muboka rokutanga. Munguva yokudzidziswa kwake muchikoro ichi, vadzidzisi vake vose vakanga vari gurukota rehondo ramangwana ravaizova General Aleksey Kuropatkin, Vladimir Sukhomlinov naAleksandr Roediger, vose vari pasi pehutungamiri hwemukuru mukuru, Mikhail Dragomirov. Muna December 1881, akagadzwa kuva mubatsiri kumukuru mukuru weKazan Military District. 