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Ramon (Russian: Рамонь) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Ramonsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: 8,354 (2010 Census); 8,039 (2002 Census); 8,729 (1989 Census).
Map of Ramon, Voronezh Oblast, Russia
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 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.
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Ramon, Russia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA