Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast

Kamianka
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 (2019)
• Total	11,501[1]
Postal code	20800-20809
Area code(s)	+380 4732
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20071210175844/http://kamrada.ck.ua/

Kamianka (Ukrainian: Кам'янка [ˈkɑmjɐnkɐ]; 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.)[2]

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

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

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References

Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2019 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2019. стор.76
"Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

External links

Official site of Kamianka
Kamionka 2), miasteczko powiat czehryński in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland, volume III (Haag — Kępy) published 1882, S. 781. (in Polish)

Kamionka 1) miasteczko nad Taśminą in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland, volume XV, p. 2 (Januszpol — Wola Justowska)1902, S. 53. (in Polish)

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[1] Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2019 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2019. стор.76

[ua2017estimate-2] "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 26 August 2017.