Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast

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]

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 Cherkasy Raion
Elevation	127 m (417 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	11,328
	[1]
Postal code	20800-20809
Area code(s)	+380 4732
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20071210175844/http://kamrada.ck.ua/

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. 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.