Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast

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Kamianka Кам'янка
City
Pushkіnskiy grotto
Flag Coat of arms
Kamianka Location of Kamianka Show map of Cherkasy Oblast Kamianka Kamianka (Ukraine) Show map of Ukraine
Coordinates: 49°02′N 32°06′E / 49.033°N 32.100°E / 49.033; 32.100
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Cherkasy Oblast
Raion	Cherkasy Raion
Hromada	Kamianka urban hromada
Elevation	127 m (417 ft)
Population  (2022)
• Total	10,945
	[1]
Postal code	20800-20809
Area code	+380 4732
Website	kamrada.ck.ua[dead link]

Kamianka (Ukrainian: Кам'янка; Ukrainian pronunciation: [ˈkɑmjɐnkɐ]) is a small city in the Cherkasy Raion of Cherkasy Oblast of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kamianka urban hromada [uk], one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[2] It had a population of 10,945 (2022 estimate).^[1]

It is a countryside town approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) southeast from Kyiv, located on the bank of the Tiasmyn River.

Government

Until 18 July, 2020, Kamianka served as an administrative center of Kamianka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four. The area of the Kamianka Raion was merged into the Cherkasy Raion.^[3][4]

History

Kamianka is known as an artist's colony, in which Prince Grigory Potemkin, the Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and other freethinkers and war heroes during the Napoleonic Wars era worked.^{[citation needed]} Kamianka was also one of the chief centres of the Southern Society of the Decembrists.

Population

According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the city's population was 15,109. Ukrainians accounted for 94.8% of the population and Russians for 4.3%.^[5] Ukrainian was the native language for 95.8% of the population, and Russian for 4%.^[6]

Culture

Kamianka has its own historical-cultural open-air museum with monument-protected constructions, collections and parks.

See also

• List of cities in Ukraine

Gallery

• 
  "Green house" (Davydov manor)
• 
  Decembrists monument
• 
  Kamjanka water mill (1825)
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  Tiasmyn canyon near Kamianka
• 
  Railway station

References

External links

• Official site of Kamianka
• "Kamionka 2), miasteczko powiat czehryński". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 3. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1882. p. 781.

• "Kamionka 1) miasteczko nad Taśminą". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish).  p. 53.