Ramon, Russia

Ramon
Рамонь
Location of Ramon
Ramon
Location of Ramon
Ramon
Ramon (Voronezh Oblast)
Coordinates: 51°55′08″N 39°20′06″E / 51.919°N 39.335°E / 51.919; 39.335
CountryRussia
Federal subjectVoronezh Oblast
Administrative districtRamonsky District
Population
  Total
8,354
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK )
Postal code(s)
396020
OKTMO ID20643151051

Ramon (Russian: Рамóнь) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Ramonsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: 8,500(2021 Census); 8,354(2010 Census); 8,039(2002 Census); 8,729(1989 Soviet census).

It was first mentioned in 1615. It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1938.

In 1879 Tsar Alexander II gave the estate of Ramon to his niece Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg and her husband Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg as a wedding gift; she set up industrial and agricultural enterprises, expanded the estate, and in the 1880s commissioned the building of Ramon Palace, which has survived and is now a Russian cultural landmark.