Verkhny Mamon

Verkhny Mamon lies on the Don near the Mamonka, whose name appears in records of 1653 and 1658. The river country belonged to the southern frontier of the Russian state, where fishing grounds and land were held by a monastery at Voronezh. By the late eighteenth century Upper and Lower Mamon were separate villages of odnodvortsy. An account of 1798 praised their grain growing and livestock raising and noted summer fairs and a church in each village.