Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast
Template:Short description Template:Expand Ukrainian Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Main other Kamianka (Template:Langx; Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a small city in the Cherkasy Raion of Cherkasy Oblast of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kamianka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] It had a population of Template:Ua-pop-est2022
It is a countryside town approximately Template:Convert southeast from Kyiv, located on the bank of the Tiasmyn River.
Government
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 the Kamianka Raion was merged into the Cherkasy Raion.[2][3]
History
Kamianka is known as an artist's colony, in which Prince Grigory Potemkin, the Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and other freethinkers and war heroes during the Napoleonic Wars era worked.Template:Fact Kamianka was also one of the chief centres of the Southern Society of the Decembrists.
Population
According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the city's population was 15,109. Ukrainians accounted for 94.8% of the population and Russians for 4.3%.[4] Ukrainian was the native language for 95.8% of the population, and Russian for 4%.[5]
Culture
Kamianka has its own historical-cultural open-air museum with monument-protected constructions, collections and parks.
See also
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
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