Ramon, Russia

 

Ramon is located in the Voronezh region, 37 km northeast of Voronezh. Ramon is interesting for its neo-Gothic manor - the palace of the Princess of Oldenburg - and a recreation area in the middle of a pine forest. This is a good place to spend the night if you are driving along the M-4 highway.

Ramon was first mentioned in 1613. At the end of the 17th century, Peter I built one of the first shipyards on the Voronezh River here. Over the next 200 years, nothing happened in Ramon, until in 1879 Emperor Alexander II donated the village to Princess Eugenie of Leuchtenberg (by her husband, Princess of Oldenburg). The princess-princess developed an active activity in Ramoni: she built a new sugar refinery and a candy factory, opened a school, and for her family she built an estate stylized as a Gothic castle, which became the main symbol of the village.

 

Sights

1  Palace of the Princess of Oldenburg. Tue–Sun 10:00–17:00. 100 rub. The estate was built from 1883 to 1887; in addition to the main building, the complex includes a guest house and outbuildings surrounded by a park. During the 20th century, the estate was quite destroyed; since 2010, restoration has been underway, which so far has affected only the appearance: the park and outer fence have been landscaped, and the main building has been plastered. Inside, everything is much more modest: the cracks in the walls are covered with draperies, and boardwalks are laid on top of the half-rotten princely parquet. The first floor and basement are open to the public: on the first floor you can see tiled stoves and fireplaces, photographs of pre-revolutionary Ramoni and watch a rather boring film about the Oldenburg family. The basement is completely empty, cold and gloomy: according to legend, the princess locked the guilty peasants here.
It’s worth going around the estate, as on the back side there are some pre-revolutionary artifacts: the remains of a fence, part of the original outbuildings, and on the rickety hut you can read that here Princess Eugenie opened the first school in Ramon.
2  Water tower. Gothic elements look very stylish on the tower, from which water was supplied to the estate's water supply with cold and hot water - a rare thing for the Russian province of the late 19th century.
3  Monument to Mosin. Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, designer of the famous three-line rifle, was born and raised in Ramon.
4  Monument to the Ramona shipyard. In the year of the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet, a marble memorial sign was erected near the village administration building.

 

Things to do

Anti-museum “Spigliki”  , Pervomaiskaya street, 1 (between the bus station and the palace). ✉ ☎ +7 (905) 655-55-16. by appointment. Anti-Museum of Forgotten Russian Games

 

How to get there

Ramon is located 9 km from the M-4 highway. Minibuses to Ramon depart from the Voronezh central bus station every 15-20 minutes.

On the outskirts of Ramon there is a dead-end railway station, originally built by the Oldenburgskys to export sugar factory products. An electric train from Voronezh (via Grafskaya station) comes here three times a day. The train takes almost two hours, and the schedule is inconvenient - use minibuses.

 

Buy

1  Department store. In a larger city, this would be called a "mall": it houses a grocery store, pharmacy and other small retail outlets, including a cafeteria.
2  Magnet. Large chain grocery store.

 

Eat

1  Cafe “U the Countess”. Hot - 150-200 rubles. Organized excursions come here, and locals celebrate weddings and funerals - there may not be any free space left. Why the establishment is called “at the Countess’s” and not “at the Princess’s” or at least “at the Princess’s” is unclear.
2  Restaurant “Tulinov House”, Sovetskaya st., 1. ✉ ☎ +7 (473) 210-07-77.
There is a cafeteria in the department store building: fresh pastries, heated cutlets and similar snacks.

 

Hotels

No hotels were found in the center of Ramon, but on the southeastern outskirts of the village the territory of the Voronezh nature reserve begins, where a number of recreation centers, boarding houses and park hotels are built. Oak groves and a coniferous forest of ship pine on the left bank of the Voronezh River are one of the best recreation areas in the region.

1  Forest fairy tale. ☎ +7 (473) 277-15-77 ). 1500 rub./seat, three meals a day - 500 rub. 2- and 4-bed cottages with all amenities in a pine forest. Guarded parking lot, children's playground. Good feedback.
2  Golden key. ☎ +7 (473) 300-33-40. Brick and log cabins in an oak grove.
3  Forest Hotel “Jerzy”. ☎ +7 (473) 229-49-38. A two-story building and separate houses in a pine forest.

 

Geography

Ramonsky urban settlement is located in the south-eastern part of the Ramonsky municipal district. The administrative center of the settlement is the river. the village of Ramon, which is also the administrative center of the Ramon municipal district, located in the northern forest-steppe part of the Voronezh region, 37 km from the city of Voronezh and having an advantageous geographical location. The Ramonsky urban settlement borders in the north with the Berezovsky rural settlement and in the west with the Aidarovsky rural settlement of the Ramonsky municipal district, in the north and east with the Verkhavsky municipal district and in the south with the Novousmansky municipal district of the Voronezh region, and in the southwest with the urban district of Voronezh. The federal highway M-4 “Don” passes through the entire territory of the region from north to south, providing connections between the Center and the south of the Russian Federation, from which a local highway branches off in the direction of the river. p. Ramon. On the left bank of the Voronezh River there is the Ramon railway station with a station village, further east along the Ramon-Grafskaya railway line there is the village of Bor. The Ramon bus station is located on Julius Fucik Street.

Located on the Voronezh River (a tributary of the Don) 37 km north of Voronezh (along the highway) and 2 km from the Ramon railway station (the terminus on the branch from Grafskaya station).

 

History

It was first mentioned in 1613 as a village. The village arose at the end of the 16th century on the site of the village of Rodnya, destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars in the 13th century. This village could have been founded at the end of the 11th - beginning of the 12th centuries by settlers from the Chernigov land, who brought the name with them from their old place of residence.

At the end of the 17th century, on the instructions of Tsar Peter I, a shipyard was built in Ramon.

At the end of the 18th - first quarter of the 19th century, the owner was retired captain I. I. Tulinov (1754-1827). In 1826, he bequeathed the estate to his son Nikolai Ivanovich Tulinov (1810-1852), under whom a sugar factory was founded in 1840. After his death, 4 years of litigation between the heirs ended with his younger sister Anna Ivanovna, married to Shele, taking over in 1856. In 1855, there were 540 residents of both sexes in the village - state and landowner peasants; Beet sugar and stearin factories operated, the latter soon ceased operations due to great competition from more powerful candle production in Voronezh.

Administratively, it was part of the Usman district of the Tambov province.

In 1895, an experimental production station for growing sugar beets was founded, which was due to the expansion of beet and sugar production at the Ramon Sugar Factory. In 1912, the station received the status of an experimental breeding station - by this time the technology for selecting the most productive varieties of sugar beets had been fully developed (at present it is a separate settlement of VNIISS). From 1922 to 1929, the experimental selection station was a division of the Department of Agriculture of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute. During these years, sugar beet breeder A.L. Mazlumov worked here. In 1948-1949, for the first time in the world, the first samples of single-seeded sugar beets were obtained and propagated at the experimental breeding station, which made it possible to make a revolution in the technology of growing sugar beets; now, when sowing one seed, one plant was obtained (previously, 2 were obtained from a ball of seeds). -3 sprouts). In the fall of 1959, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev visited the experimental station on a working visit. Considerable tasks were set: to become the leading selection center for sugar beets both in the USSR and in Europe, to collect all the advanced achievements of domestic selection, to immediately introduce advanced highly productive varieties and hybrids of sugar beets into production. In 1965, the station received the status of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Sugar Beets and Sugar (VNIISS).

The status of an urban-type settlement has been since 1938.