Ramon, Russia

Ramon is an types of [inhabited localities in Russia|urban locality] and the administrative center of Ramonsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population:
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.