Kamenka () is a

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and the

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Kamensky District Kamensky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. The name is generally derived from or is related to the root "''kamen''" ("stone")—a common toponymic feature. * Kamensky District, Altai Krai, an adm ...

Penza Oblast Penza Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Penza. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, its population was ...

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, located on the Atmis River (a

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) west of

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, the administrative center of the

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. Population: 30,000 (1970).

History

It was founded in the 18th century and granted a town status in 1951.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kamenka serves as the

.Law #774-ZPO As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Kamensky District as the

town of district significance Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...

of Kamenka. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Kamenka is incorporated within Kamensky Municipal District as Kamenka Urban Settlement.Law #690-ZPO

Notable people

Nikolay Burdenko Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (; – 11 November 1946) was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an ...

(1876–1946), surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery * Anatoliy Chizhov (1934–2021), engineer and politician

References

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External links

Official website of Kamenka

Kamenka Business Directory
{{Use mdy dates, date=December 2012 Cities and towns in Penza Oblast Nizhnelomovsky Uyezd Populated places established in the 18th century