Ramon (russian: Рамóнь) is an
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
) and the
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
of
Ramonsky District
Ramonsky District (russian: Рамо́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #87-OZ and municipalLaw #90-ZO district (raion), one of the thirty-two in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the ...
of
Voronezh Oblast
Voronezh Oblast (russian: Воронежская область, Voronezhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Voronezh. Its population was 2,308,792 as of the 2021 Census.
Geography
V ...
,
Russia
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. 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
, house =House of Holstein-Gottorp
, father =Duke Peter of Oldenburg
, mother = Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg
, birth_date =
, birth_place = St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
, death_date =
, ...
as a wedding gift; she set up industrial and agricultural enterprises, expanded the estate, and in the 1880s commissioned the building of
Ramon Palace
Ramon Palace, also known as Princess Oldenburg's Palace, is a red-brick neo-Gothic palace in Ramon, Russia. It was built in 1883–87 for Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg and her husband Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg. It i ...
, which has survived and is now a Russian cultural landmark.
"The Oldenburg Estate at Ramon"
, ''Royal Russia News'', retrieved February 21, 2016.
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Urban-type settlements in Voronezh Oblast
Populated places in Ramonsky District
Voronezhsky Uyezd
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