Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast
Kamianka
Кам'янка | |
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City | |
 Pushkіnskiy grotto | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Kamianka Location of Kamianka | |
| Coordinates: 49°02′N 32°06′E / 49.033°N 32.100°E | |
| Country Oblast Raion | Ukraine Cherkasy Oblast Cherkasy Raion |
| Elevation | 127 m (417 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 11,328 |
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| Postal code | 20800-20809 |
| Area code | +380 4732 |
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20071210175844/http://kamrada.ck.ua/ |
Kamianka (Ukrainian: Кам'янка [ˈkɑmjɐnkɐ]; Russian: Камeнка) is a town in Cherkasy Raion of Cherkasy Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kamianka urban hromada, one of the amalgamated hromadas of Ukraine.[2] Population: 11,328 (2020 est.)[1]
It is a countryside town approx. 300 kilometres (190 mi) to southeast from Kyiv, located on the bank of the Tiasmyn River.
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 Kamianka Raion was merged into Cherkasy Raion.[3][4]
Kamianka is known by the artist's colony, in which Prince Grigory Potemkin, the Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, freethinkers and war heroes from the time of the Napoleon's wars worked.[citation needed] Kamianka was also one of the chief centres of the Southern Society of the Decembrists. Kamianka own a historical-cultural open-air museum with monument-protected constructions, collections and parks.
Gallery
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"Green house" (Davydov manor) -
Decembrists monument -
Kamjanka water mill (1825) -
Tiasmyn canyon near Kamianka -
Railway station
References
- ^ a b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Каменская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
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.
