Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast

Kamianka Кам'янка
City
Pushkіnskiy grotto
Flag Coat of arms
Kamianka Location of Kamianka
Coordinates: 49°02′N 32°06′E
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Cherkasy Oblast Kamianka Raion
Elevation	127 m (417 ft)
Population  (2017)
• Total	11,857
Postal code	20800-20809
Area code	+380 4732
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20071210175844/http://kamrada.ck.ua/

Kamianka (Ukrainian: Кам'янка, Ukrainian pronunciation: [ˈkɑmjɑnkɑ]; Russian: Камeнка) is a city in Cherkasy Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kamianka Raion. Population: 11,857 (2017 est.)

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

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. 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)
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  Decembrists monument
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  Kamjanka water mill (1825)
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  Tiasmyn canyon near Kamianka
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  Railway station

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.