Kamianets-Podilskyi
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Kamianets-Podilskyi
Кам'янець-Подільський | |
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Coordinates: 48°41′00″N 26°35′00″E / 48.68333°N 26.58333°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Oblast | Khmelnytskyi Oblast |
Raion | Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion |
Hromada | Kamianets-Podilskyi urban hromada |
First mentioned | 1062 |
City rights | 1432 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Mykhailo Positko |
Area | |
• Total | 27,871 km2 (10,761 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 96,896 |
• Density | 3.5/km2 (9.0/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Postal code | 32300—32318 |
Area code | +380-3849 |
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Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukrainian: Кам'янець-Подільський, IPA: [kɐmjɐˈnɛtsʲ poˈd⁽ʲ⁾ilʲsʲkɪj] ) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the administrative center of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the city is now the administrative center of Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion within the oblast. It hosts the administration of Kamianets-Podilskyi urban hromada.[2] Population: 96,896 (2022 estimate).[1]
Kamianets-Podilskyi is a historical center of Podolia region, serving as a capital of Podillia Duchy, Podolian Voivodeship, Podolia Governorate following Russian occupation, Podolia vilayet during Ottoman occupation. During the Ukrainian–Soviet War, the city officially served as the temporary capital of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1919 to 1920.[3]
Name
Originally known as Kamianets, its name was changed to the current following the partitions of Poland and occupation by the Russian Empire in 1795.
The first part of the city's dual name originates from kamin' (Ukrainian: камiнь) or kamen, meaning 'stone' in Old Slavic. The second part of its name relates to the historic region of Podilia (Ukrainian: Подíлля), of which Kamianets-Podilskyi is considered to be the historic capital. Therefore, the town name literally means 'The Stones of Podilia'.
Equivalents of the name in other languages are Polish: Kamieniec Podolski; Romanian: Camenița Podoliei; Latin: Camenecium; Hungarian: Kamenyeck-Podolszk; Yiddish: קאָמענעץ ,קאמיניץ, romanized: Komenets, Komenits[4]), Russian: Каменец-Подольский, romanized: Kamenets-Podolskiy, English Kamenets-Podolsk[5]
Geography
Kamianets-Podilskyi is located in the southern portion of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast, located in the western Ukrainian region of Podillia. The area where the city is located is part of the Podolian Upland which is notable for its elevated places known as Tovtry (see Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park) and creating a canyon-like relief feature.
The Smotrych River, a tributary of the Dniester, flows through the city. The total area of the city comprises 27.84 square kilometers (10.7 sq mi).[6] Among other notable neighboring cities, Kamianets-Podilskyi is located about 101 kilometres (62.8 mi) from the oblast's administrative center, Khmelnytskyi[6] and across Dniester in southwestern direction 88 kilometres (54.7 mi) from Chernivtsi, an administrative center of the neighboring Chernivtsi Oblast.
History
Classical antiquity
Several historians consider that a city on this spot was founded by the ancient Dacians, who lived in what is now modern Romania, Moldova, and portions of Ukraine.[7] Historians write that the founders named the settlement Petridava or Klepidava, which originate from the Greek word petra or Latin lapis 'stone' and Dacian dava 'city'.[7][8]
Kyivan Rus and the Tatars (11th c.–1241)
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Modern Kamianets-Podilskyi was first mentioned in 1062, when it belonged to Halych principality,[9] as a town of the Kyivan Rus' state. In 1241, it was destroyed by the Mongolian invaders.[10]
Polish rule (1352–1672)
In 1352, it was inherited by the Polish King Casimir III. In 1374 the city was granted Magdeburg Law. In 1370, the Dominican monastic order began to function in Kamianets, a monastery was founded, and soon the Franciscans founded their own monastery in the city. Later, monks of other orders moved: Jesuits (1608), Discalced Carmelites (1623), Trinitarians (1699).[11] In 1378 it became seat of a Roman Catholic Diocese. In 1432 King Sigismund I the Old granted Kamieniec Podolski city rights. In 1434 it became the capital of the Podolian Voivodship and the seat of local civil and military administration.[10] The ancient castle was reconstructed and substantially expanded by the Polish kings to defend Poland from the southwest against Ottoman and Tatar invasions, thus it was called the gateway to Poland.
During the free election period in Poland, Kamianets-Podilskyi, as one of the most influential cities of the state, enjoyed voting rights (alongside Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań, Gdańsk, Lwów, Wilno, Lublin, Toruń and Elbląg).
Ottoman rule (1672–1699)
After the Treaty of Buchach of 1672, Kamianets-Podilskyi was briefly part of the Ottoman Empire and capital of Podolya eyalet. It was also sanjak of pasha (central sanjak) of this eyalet with nahiyas of Kropotova, Satanova, İskala, Kitayhorad , Kırıvçe, Zhvan and Mıhaylov.[12] To counter the Turkish threat to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, King Jan III Sobieski built a fortress nearby, Okopy Świętej Trójcy (now Okopy, Ternopil Oblast; meaning "the Entrenchments of the Holy Trinity"). In 1687, Poland attempted to regain control over Kamianets-Podilskyi and Podolia, when the fortress was unsuccessfully besieged by the Poles led by Prince James Louis Sobieski.
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1699–1793)
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In 1699, the city was given back to Poland under King Augustus II the Strong according to the Treaty of Karlowitz. The fortress was continually enlarged and was regarded as the strongest in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The preserved ruins of the fortress still contain the iron cannonballs stuck in them from various sieges.
During this period, Bishop Dembowski, at the instigation of the Frankists, convened a public disputation at Kamieniec Podolski, in November 1757, and ordered all copies of the Talmud found in his bishopric to be confiscated and burned.[13] Accounts of the Talmud burning differ—contemporary sources say that up to a thousand copies of the Talmud were destroyed, though other reports say only one copy was burned. Dembowski himself died days after the events.[additional citation(s) needed] A plague broke out and the local priests exhumed his body and cut the head off to prevent any further disaster.[14]
Russian rule (1793–1915)
After the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the city belonged to the Russian Empire, where it was the capital of the Podolia Governorate. The Russian Tsar Peter the Great, who visited the fortress twice, was impressed by its fortifications. One of the towers was used as a prison cell for Ustym Karmeliuk, a prominent peasant rebel leader of the early 19th century, who managed to escape from it three times. In 1798, Polish nobleman Antoni Żmijewski founded a Polish theater in the city. It was one of the oldest Polish theaters. In 1867 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi was abolished by the Russians authorities. It was re-established in 1918 by Pope Benedict XV.
According to the Russian census of 1897, Kamianets-Podilskyi remained the largest city of Podolia with a population of 35,934. In 1914, a direct railway line linked the city to Proskurov.
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Lithograph of Napoleon Horda between 1862 and 1876
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Kamianets-Podilskyi fortress 1865
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Kamenets from a height, the beginning of the 20th century
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Church of St. Nicholas, 1902
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Polish market, centralny plac, 1906
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Centralny plac, 1906-1910
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Postova Street, to the right of the Jewish shops, Old Town, 1910
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Kamianets-Podilskyi aerial survey, 1914
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Austro-Hungarian troops enter the Kamianets-Podilskyi, 1918
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Kamianets-Podilsky bridge, 1918
World War I and post-war tribulations
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During World War I, the city was occupied by Austria-Hungary in 1915.
After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, the city was briefly controlled by the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Hetmanate[15] before ending up as part of the Ukrainian SSR when Ukraine fell under Bolshevik power. During the Directorate period, the city was chosen as de facto capital of Ukraine after the Russian communist forces occupied Kyiv.[16][15]
During the Polish-Soviet War, the city was captured by the Polish Army on the night of 16–17 November 1919[16] and was under Polish administration from 16 November 1919, to 12 July 1920.
In July 1920 battles between units of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) and the Red Army took place in the village Veliki Zozulintsi and surrounding villages nearby Kamianets-Podilskyi.[17] On 7 July 1920 soldiers of the 6th Reserve Rifle Brigade of the UPR Army were taken prisoner by the Bolsheviks.[17] After refusing to join the Red Army, captured UPR soldiers were executed.[17] In Veliki Zozulintsi a mass grave of 26 UPR soldiers is located.[17]
The area including Kamianets-Podilskyi was ceded to Soviet Ukraine in the 1921 Treaty of Riga, which determined its future for the next seven decades as part of the Ukrainian SSR.
Poles and Ukrainians have always dominated the city's population. However, as a commercial center, Kamianets-Podilskyi has been a multiethnic and multi-religious city with substantial Jewish and Armenian minorities. Under Soviet rule it became subject to severe persecutions, and many Poles were forcibly deported to Central Asia. Massacres such as the Vinnytsia massacre have taken place throughout Podillya, the last resort of independent Ukraine. Early on, Kamianets-Podilskyi was the administrative center of the Ukrainian SSR's Kamianets-Podilskyi Oblast, but the administrative center was later moved to Proskuriv (now Khmelnytskyi).
In December 1927, TIME Magazine reported that there were massive uprisings of peasants and factory workers in southern Ukraine, around the cities of Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Tiraspol and others, against Soviet authorities. The magazine was intrigued when it found numerous reports from the neighboring Romania that troops from Moscow were sent to the region and suppressed the unrest, causing no less than 4,000 deaths. The magazine sent several of its reporters to confirm those occurrences which were completely denied by the official press naming them as barefaced lies.[21] The revolt was caused by the collectivization campaign and the lawless environment in the cities caused by the Soviet government.
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The Holodomor of 1932-1933, a terrible crime of the totalitarian system, did not escape the city. Although the situation was somewhat better than in other regions, this was largely due to the proximity of the border with the modern western Ukrainian territories. Given the border status of Kamianechchyna, the population, especially from the villages located on the Zbruch River, tried to move to the modern western regions. There, Podolians exchanged their belongings for bread and grain. There were many cases when people were hired for the opportunity to eat or worked for bread. However, not everyone was able to do this: along the border with Poland along the Zbruch River and the border with Romania along the Dniester River, barricading lines were set up in many places, and Soviet punitive bodies were guarding the borders. The situation was also difficult in the city, according to data in 1932-1933, 585[22] people died of hunger.[23][24][25]
During the years of the Great Terror, namely 1937-1938, 9,009 people of various nationalities and professions were convicted in Kamianets-Podilskyi, 62 people were arrested on charges of espionage, and hundreds of people were evicted from the city by the families of "enemies". people", for example 101 families of Polish nationality. For example, on the territory of the Roman Catholic Church of Archangel Michael, in the former monastery of the Dominican sisters, the Soviet authorities set up a prison, and in its dungeon - a torture chamber. In the 1930s, most of all, in 1937, people were shot in the basements of the monastery. According to some memories, for example, up to a hundred people were brought in a day. Twenty were sent to camps in the north, the rest disappeared. During this period, 11,634 Polish and German families, or at least 46,500 citizens, were evicted from Podillia.[26][27]
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Following the Soviet invasion of Poland, the administrative center of the oblast was moved from the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi to the city of Khmelnytskyi. Kamianets-Podilskyi was occupied by the German troops on 11 July 1941 in the course of Operation Barbarossa.[28] German, Ukrainian, and Hungarian police massacred 23,000 Jews 27–28 August 1941. On 26 March 1944 the town was freed from German occupation by the Red Army in the battle of the Kamenets-Podolsky pocket. Kamianets remained in Soviet Ukraine until the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
A structural network of the OUN functioned on the territory of the city: Kamianets-Podilsky District, which belonged to the UPA-South. During the German occupation, Ukrainian national forces formed local self-government bodies: the regional administration, the regional department of education. Hryhoriy Kybets was appointed the head of the regional administration.[29]
In January 1942, the Nazis began mass arrests and executions of people from Bandera in Kamianets-Podilskyi, more than 150 Ukrainian nationalists were shot.
In 1944-45, the 19th tactical division of the Kamianets UPA, the Lysonya military district, and the UPA-West military group operated on the territory of Kamianechchyna in 1944-45. The department was later divided into two parts in the summer of 1945. And self-defense bush units of the UPA from Ternopil Oblast also went on raids.[30]
Independent Ukraine[31]
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On 16 July 1990, the new Ukrainian parliament adopted a declaration of sovereignty.[32]
On 16 January 1991, Pope John Paul II re-established the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, which was dissolved under Soviet rule.
Since August 24, 1991, Kamianets-Podilskyi has been part of independent Ukraine and is a significant economic, cultural, educational and tourist center of the state.[33][34][35]
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In 2004, residents of the city actively participated in the Orange Revolution, people held rallies on the Renaissance Square.[36]
On December 1, 2013, city students from the Ivan Ohienko National University, Podilsk State Agrarian and Technical University and other educational institutions protested in the city, marching in a column through the streets and forming a viche near the city council, they expressed their anger at the authorities for their arbitrariness.[37]
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In the future, many residents of the city gathered every day for vigils under the city council to express their protests against the regime and to support the Euromaidan in Kyiv. The largest rally in terms of numbers took place on January 26, 2014, about 2,000 people took part in it.[39][40][41]
As of 2015[update], Kamianets-Podilskyi was the third-largest city of Podolia after Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi. In 2015, the city center completed the construction of the European Square, where the flags of the European Union countries fly, according to officials, this will be a confirmation of the European choice of the city and Ukraine.[42]
Until 18 July 2020, Kamianets-Podilskyi was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three, the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi was merged into Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion.[43][44][45]
Jewish history
During the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–58), the Jewish community of Kamianets-Podilskyi suffered much from Khmelnytsky's Cossacks on the one hand, and from the attacks of the Crimean Tatars (their main object being the extortion of ransoms) on the other.[46]
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About the middle of the 18th century, Kamianets-Podilskyi became celebrated as the center of the furious conflict then raging between the Talmudic Jews and the Frankists. The city was the residence of Bishop Dembowski, who sided with the Frankists and ordered the public burning of the Talmud, a sentence which was carried into effect in the public streets in 1757.[46]
Kamianets-Podilskyi was also the residence of the wealthy Joseph Yozel Günzburg. During the latter half of the 19th century, many Jews from Kamianets-Podilskyi emigrated to the United States, especially to New York City, where they organized a number of societies.[46]
One of the first and largest Holocaust massacres carried out in the opening stages of war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, took place in Kamianets-Podilskyi on 27–28 August 1941. The killings were conducted by the Police Battalion 320 of the Order Police along with Friedrich Jeckeln's Einsatzgruppen, the Hungarian soldiers, and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.[47][48] According to Nazi German reports, in two days a total of 23,600 Jews from the Kamianets-Podilskyi Ghetto were murdered, including 16,000 expellees from Hungary.[49] As the historians of the Holocaust point out, the massacre constituted a prelude to the Final Solution conceived by the Nazis at Wannsee several months later. Eyewitnesses reported that the perpetrators made no effort to hide their deeds from the local population.[50]
Population
According to the data of the first all-Ukrainian population census in 2001, the population of the city was 99,610 people.[51]
Language
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The city is located on the territory of the Podilian dialect, which belongs to the group of Volhynian-Podilian dialects of the southwestern group. The West-Podilian dialect, which has common features with the Dniestrian Ukrainian dialect, and the South-Podilian dialect, which has common features with the Pokuttia–Bukovina dialect, are common in the city.[52][53][54]
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[55]
Language | Percentage |
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Ukrainian | 91.22% |
Russian | 7.08% |
other/undecided | 1.7% |
Religion
All major religious groups in Ukraine are represented in the city, a large part of Kamianets residents are Catholics, many are Orthodox.[56] Throughout history, various Catholic monastic orders have functioned in Kamianets-Podilskyi: Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits, Capuchins, Discalced Carmelites, Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, Trinitarians, and as of 2023, the city has Pauline orders and the Society of Christ.[57]
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Trinity Church
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The refectory of the Dominican monastery
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Church of Saints Peter and Paul
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Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
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Zdvychensk church
Climate
Climate data for Kamianets-Podilskyi (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.3 (31.5) |
1.4 (34.5) |
7.0 (44.6) |
14.9 (58.8) |
21.2 (70.2) |
23.7 (74.7) |
25.7 (78.3) |
25.2 (77.4) |
19.9 (67.8) |
13.7 (56.7) |
6.0 (42.8) |
0.6 (33.1) |
13.3 (55.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.3 (26.1) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
2.4 (36.3) |
9.2 (48.6) |
15.1 (59.2) |
17.9 (64.2) |
19.8 (67.6) |
19.0 (66.2) |
14.1 (57.4) |
8.6 (47.5) |
2.7 (36.9) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
8.4 (47.1) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.4 (20.5) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
3.9 (39.0) |
9.3 (48.7) |
12.4 (54.3) |
14.2 (57.6) |
13.4 (56.1) |
9.1 (48.4) |
4.3 (39.7) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
4.0 (39.2) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 31.2 (1.23) |
34.7 (1.37) |
30.9 (1.22) |
46.3 (1.82) |
64.3 (2.53) |
92.6 (3.65) |
96.8 (3.81) |
61.1 (2.41) |
54.1 (2.13) |
38.5 (1.52) |
37.9 (1.49) |
37.5 (1.48) |
625.9 (24.64) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 9.2 | 9.8 | 10.3 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 7.0 | 8.1 | 96.1 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 85.3 | 82.9 | 76.6 | 68.0 | 67.5 | 72.7 | 73.5 | 73.6 | 77.3 | 80.7 | 85.3 | 86.4 | 77.5 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 39.2 | 64.3 | 121.2 | 168.1 | 241.9 | 237.5 | 241.4 | 234.6 | 162.7 | 103.8 | 48.9 | 62.7 | 1,696.3 |
Source: World Meteorological Organization[58] |
Culture
Main sights
The different peoples and cultures that have lived in the city have each brought their own culture and architecture. Examples include the Polish, Ruthenian and Armenian markets.[10] Famous tourist attractions include the ancient castle, and the numerous architectural attractions in the city's center, including the cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Holy Trinity Church, the city hall building, and the numerous fortifications.
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Ballooning activities in the canyon of the Smotrych River have also brought tourists. In May and October, the city hosts Ballooning festivals.[59] In addition, everyone can book a balloon flight even not during the time of the festival.
Since the late 1990s, the city has grown into one of the chief tourist centers of western Ukraine. Annual Cossack Games (Kozatski zabavy) and festivals, which include the open ballooning championship of Ukraine, car racing and various music, art and drama activities, attract an estimated 140,000 tourists and stimulate the local economy. More than a dozen privately owned hotels have recently opened, a large number for a provincial Ukrainian city.
"Respublica" Festival is a music and art festival for youth featuring modern music, literature, and street art. This festival is held annually, gathering hundreds of young art lovers, musicians, and art enthusiasts. Many of the city's buildings are decorated with murals, created during these festivals. The murals depict historical events, as well as modern concepts.
Twin towns and sister cities
Kamianets-Podilskyi is twinned with:
Dolný Kubín, Slovakia
Kalisz, Poland[60]
Zalau, Romania
Brantford, Canada[61]
Wiesbaden, Germany[62]
Kamianets-Podilskyi's other sister cities are:
Notable residents
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- Mikhail Alperin (born 1956), Ukrainian jazz pianist
- Maria Berlinska (born 1988), Ukrainian military volunteer and women's rights advocate, born here
- Andrei Bondarenko (born 1987), Ukrainian operatic baritone, born here
- Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894–1947), Russian and Soviet mathematician, best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem.
- Moisey Gamarnik (born 1936), Soviet and Ukrainian physicist and inventor, born here
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866-1934), Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman, one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century, lived and worked in universaty here.
- Sergey Gorshkov (1910-1988), Russian and Soviet Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union, born here
- Ilarion Ohienko (1882-1972), Ukrainian Orthodox cleric, linguist, church historian, and historian of Ukrainian culture. In 1919, he was Minister of Education in the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) and first rector of Kamianets-Podilskyi State Ukrainian University
- Borys Sulkovskyi (1881-?), Ukrainian colonel of the UNR Army, born here
- David Günzburg (Baron de Günzburg; 1857–1910) Russian orientalist and Jewish communal leader, born here
- Israel J. Hochman (1872–1940), American klezmer violinist and recording artist, born here
- Sergius Ingerman (1868–1943), American physician and socialist, born here
- Józef Kallenbach (1861–1929), Polish historian of literature, born here
- Yuriy Khimich (1928–2003), a Ukrainian painter, born here
- Andrii Klantsa (born 1980), cardiac surgeon, scientist, Merited Doctor of Ukraine, Doctor of Science in Public Administration.
- Stanisław Koniecpolski (1590 or 1594–1646), Polish military commander, fought here
- Myron Tarnavsky (1869–1938), Ukrainian supreme commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army, the military of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, fought here
- Mark Kopytman (1929–2011), Soviet-Israeli composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, born here
- Murray Korman (1902–1961), American publicity photographer
- Leib Kvitko (1890–1952), Yiddish poet, author of children's poems, and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
- Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921), Ukrainian composer, studied and graduated from the city's Theological Seminary
- Iryna Merleni (born 1982), female wrestler
- Aleksander Michałowski (1851–1938), Polish pianist, born here
- Mieczysław Mickiewicz (1879–before 1939), Polish politician, born here
- Szymon Okolski (1580–1653), Polish historian, lived here
- Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876—1945), Polish writer, explorer, professor, anti-communist and political activist; lived here.
- Morris Schappes (1907–2004), American educator, writer, radical political activist, historian, and magazine editor
- Zvee Scooler (1899–1985), actor and radio commentator, best known as the Rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof; born here.
- Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836–1917), Jewish author; lived here
- Leo Sirota (1885-1965), Jewish pianist
- Samuel Spielberg, Steven Spielberg's paternal grandfather
- Mihail Starenki (1879–?), Bessarabian politician born here
- Leonid Stein (1934–1973), Soviet chess Grandmaster, born here
- Moshe Stekelis (1898–1967), Russian-Israeli archaeologist
- Arthur Tracy (1899–1997), American singer, born here
- Anton Vasyutinsky (1858–1935), painter, coin and medal designer, born here
- Mikhail Veller (born 1948), Russian-Estonian writer, born here
- Ion Vinokur (1930–2006), Ukrainian archaeologist, historian, lived and worked here
- Jan de Witte (1709–1785), Polish architect and commander of the local fortress
- Jerzy Wołodyjowski, Polish colonel, prototype for one of Henryk Sienkiewicz's characters, Michał Wołodyjowski; killed here.
- Oleksandr Zaremba (born 1978), Ukrainian historian, military reenactor, festival organizer, and civic activist
- Józef Zajączek (1752–1826), Polish general, born here
- Maurice Zbriger (1896–1981), Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor, born here
- Isidor Zuckermann (1866–1946), Austrian businessman
Gallery
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Fortetsya str. Zamkova
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Frozen waterfall
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Novoplanivskyi Bridge
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Armenian Bell Tower
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House of Culture
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Sculpture of the Mother of God
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Orthodox church
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Stephen Báthory Tower
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Art object "I love Kamianets-Podilskyi"
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Pyatnytska Street
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Fortress walls
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Triumphal Arch
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The impregnable fortress
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Fortress, 2023
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Fortress at dawn
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Fortress
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Residential building str. Lesya Ukrainka
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External links
- "Kamianets-Podilskyi information site". kam-pod.info. Archived from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
- Official website
- "The old fortress on the Smotrich River," in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly), 28 June – 5 July 2002, available online