Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast

Kamianka Кам'янка
City
Pushkіnskiy grotto
Coat of arms
Kamianka Location of Kamianka
Coordinates: 49°02′N 32°06′E / 49.033°N 32.100°ECoordinates: 49°02′N 32°06′E / 49.033°N 32.100°E
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Cherkasy Oblast Kamianka Raion
Elevation	127 m (417 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	12 956
	[1]
Postal code	20800-20809
Area code(s)	+380 4732
Website	http://kamrada.ck.ua/

Kamianka (Ukrainian: Кам'янка, Ukrainian pronunciation: [ˈkɑmjɑnkɑ]; Russian: Камeнка) is a city in Cherkasy Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Population is 12,956 (2011). It is a provincial town approx. 300 km. to South-East from Kiev, located on the bank of Tiasmyn River.

Kamianka is known by the artist's colony, in which Prince Grigori Alexandrovich 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

References

1. "world-gazetteer.com". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.

External links

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

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