Kruščić

Kruščić (Крушчић, Veprőd) is a village in the Kula municipality, West Bačka District, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia. The population of the village is ethnically mixed and numbers 1,852 people (2011 census).

Name
Before the Second World War, the village was called Veprovac (Вепровац).

After the war, during colonization, the village was inhabited by colonists, mostly from Kolašin and its surroundings. In 1950, the name of the village was changed to Kruščić, after the national hero from World War II Vukman Kruščić (1909-1942), who was caught and killed on 20 January 1942, along with another 30 or so partisans, by the chetniks of Pavle Đurišić.

In Hungarian, the village is known as "Veprőd", in Ukrainian and Rusyn as "Крущич", and in German as "Weprovatz".

Ethnic groups
There are 1884 adult residents living in the village of Kruščić and the average age of the residents is 40.5 years (38.4 for men and 42.7 for women). The village has 773 households and the average number of residents per household is 3.04.

The population in this village is very inhomogeneous. In the last three censuses, a decline in population has been noticed.

According to the 2002 census, the ethnic groups included are:
 * 768 (32.64%) Montenegrins
 * 744 (31.62%) Serbs
 * 280 (11.90%) Hungarians
 * 149 (6.33%) Ukrainians
 * 99 (4.20%) Rusyns
 * 74 (3.14%) Croatians
 * 45 (1,91%) Yugoslavs
 * 10 (0,42%) Germans
 * 8 (0.33%) Macedonians
 * 5 (0.21%) Slovaks
 * 4 (0.16%) Slovenes
 * 2 (0.08%) Bulgarians
 * 2 (0.08%) Albanians
 * 1 (0.04%) Russians
 * 1 (0.04%) Romanians
 * 1 (0.04%) Bunjevci
 * 1 (0.04%) Bosniaks
 * 22 (0.93%) Unknown

Historical population

 * 1787: 1,731 (55% Hungarians and Slovaks, 45% Germans)
 * 1910: 3,163 (2,458 Germans, 637 Hungarians, 53 Rusyns)
 * 1931: 3,158 (2,551 Germans, 489 Hungarians, 118 Slavs)
 * 1961: 3,281
 * 1971: 2,927
 * 1981: 2,658
 * 1991: 2,477 (973 Montenegrins, 539 Serbs, 350 Hungarians, 18 Germans)
 * 2002: 2,353 (768 Montenegrins, 744 Serbs, 280 Hungarians, 10 Germans)