Kamianske ( uk, Кам'янське, ), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukra ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

and a port on the

Dnieper } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and ...

. Administratively, it serves as the administrative center of

Kamianske Raion Kamianske Raion ( uk, Кам'янський район) is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. Three abolished raions, Krynychky, Piatykha ...

. Kamianske hosts the administration of

Kamianske urban hromada Kamianske ( uk, Кам'янське, ), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine and a port on the Dnieper. Administratively, it serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion. Kamianske hosts ...

, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: The city was known as Dniprodzerzhynsk from 1936 to 2016. On 19 May 2016, it was renamed back to its historical name of Kamianske. Along with the city's name change, the city's hydroelectric station was renamed to

Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant The Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Station is a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in Kamianske, Ukraine, operated by Ukrhydroenergo. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and navigation. It is the fourth dam ...

. Besides the hydroelectric station, the city houses a few other industrial enterprises: Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant (closed in 1991), Bahley Coke Factory and

Dnieper Metallurgical Combine Dnieper Metallurgical Combine ( uk, Дніпровський металургійний комбінат , translit=Dniperovskyi Metalurhiynyi Kombinat) is one of the biggest metallurgical companies in Ukraine along with Kryvorizhstal and Illich ...

History

The first written evidence of settlement in the territory of Kamianske appeared in 1750. At that time the villages of Romankove and Kamianske, which make up the modern city, formed a part of the Nova (New)

Sich A sich ( uk, січ), or sech, was an administrative and military centre of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. The word ''sich'' derives from the Ukrainian verb сікти ''siktý'', "to chop" – with the implication of clearing a forest for an encampm ...

of the Zaporizhian cossacks. The city was known as Kamianske, lit. ''Stony Place'' ( uk, Кам'янське, russian: link=no, Каменское ''Kamenskoye'') until 1936 when it was renamed to Dniprodzerzhynsk – the name honored the Dnieper River ( uk , Дніпро , translit = Dnipro) and the communist

Felix Dzerzhynsky Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky ( pl, Feliks Dzierżyński ; russian: Фе́ликс Эдму́ндович Дзержи́нский; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official, born into Polish nobility ...

(1877-1926), the founder of the

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

secret police Secret police (or political police) are intelligence, security or police agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, religious, or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of ...

, the Cheka. Soviet leader

Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and ...

was born and raised in Kamianske. On 15 May 2015 the

President of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko se ...

, signed a bill into law that started a six-month period for the removal of communist monuments and the mandatory renaming of settlements with names related to

Communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a ...

. The following year, on 19 May 2016, the Ukrainian

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

voted to rename Dniprodzerzhynsk, which reverted to using the name Kamianske. Until 18 July 2020, Kamianske was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of

Kamianske Municipality Kamianske ( uk, Кам'янське, ), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine and a port on the Dnieper. Administratively, it serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion. Kamianske hosts ...

. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Kamianske Municipality was merged into newly established Kamianske Raion.

Geography

While mostly located on right bank of

, Kamianske stretches over the

hydroelectric station Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined an ...

onto the left bank where the portion of city is known as "Livyi bereh" neighborhood (literally ''Left bank''). The neighborhood arches to the west of the Kamianske's suburb of Kurylivka. To the east Kamianske municipality borders Dnipro city creating an

urban sprawl Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a city." Urban sprawl has been described as the unrestricted growt ...

Climate

The climate is moderately continental, dry. The amount of

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail. ...

per year is about 400 mm. The average daily temperature is -6 ° C in January, + 21 ° C in July.

Administrative divisions

* Dniprovskyi district (western city district) **neighborhoods: Romankove (former settlement), Livyi bereh * Zavodskyi district (central city district) **neighborhoods: City center,

* Pivdennyi district (south and eastern city parts) **settlements: Karnaukhivka, Svitle **neighborhoods: Sotsmisto, Pivdennyi, Bahliy Coke Factory,

DniproAzot DniproAzot located in Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is an enterprise in the chemical industry of Ukraine. DniproAzot is a significant producer of ammonia, nitrogen fertilizers, urea, caustic soda, chlorine, and hydrochloric acid Hydrochl ...

and Prydniprovskyi Chemical Factory

Economy

The economic base of Kamianske is almost exclusively centered on

heavy industry Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); o ...

, with ferrous metallurgy being the backbone of the local economy. Around 57% of the total industrial production is metallurgy and metal working. The chemical industry comes second with ca. 17% share of the total industrial output. While the exceedingly industrialized nature of the local economy ensures a rather high employment rate (as of 01.11.2007, official unemployment stood at 1.40%), it also contributes to excessive pollution and radiation levels in the city. * Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant (closed down) * Bahley Coke Factory *

* Dniprodzerzhynsk Cement Factory * Dniprodzerzhynsk Electrical Central * Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Plant

Culture

Several

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...

churches, the largest being the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, which dates from 1894, serve the faithful of the city. By 2018, there were 22 parishes of

Ukrainian Orthodox Church The history of Christianity in Ukraine dates back to the earliest centuries of the history of Christianity, to the Apostolic Age, with mission trips along the Black Sea and a legend of Saint Andrew even ascending the hills of Kyiv. The first Chr ...

in Kamianske. The

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

Church of Saint NicholasRoman Catholic Parish in Kamianske
/ref> built by the city's Polish community at the end of the nineteenth century, has become one of the centers of Roman Catholicism in Eastern Ukraine. The Catholic Parish of Saint Nicholas also includes a monastery run by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. The town has an active Jewish community with a new synagogue and community center.

Ecology

Kamianske is a city with a very difficult environmental conditions. The city is on the top 10 of the most air-polluted cities of Ukraine. There have been suggestions to assign the status of the ecological disaster city. Right-bank part of the city is mostly polluted, where the metallurgical, chemical industrial enterprises are located. In 2008, an interdepartmental commission for solving environmental problems was created.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Kamianske is twinned with: * Kielce,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

Babruysk Babruysk, Babrujsk or Bobruisk ( be, Бабруйск , Łacinka: , rus, Бобруйск, Bobrujsk, bɐˈbruɪ̯s̪k, yi, באָברויסק ) is a city in the Mogilev Region of eastern Belarus on the Berezina River. , its population was 209 ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

Temirtau Temirtau ( kz, Теміртау, translit=Temırtau; russian: Темиртау) is a city in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan. The population was 170,481 in the 1999 census, rising to 210,590 in 2015. The city is located on the Nura River (th ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Gallery

File:Свято-Миколаївський собор.JPG, Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas File:Костел святого Миколая (Кам'янське) 1.jpg, Roman Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas File:Theater Dniprodzerzhynsk1.jpg, Theatre File:Municipality Dniprodzerzhynsk.jpg, City Hall File:Building Dniprodzerzhynsk5.jpg, Downtown File:Buildings Kamianske.jpg, Apartment blocks File:Museum Dniprodzerzhynsk.JPG, Museum File:Metalurh Stadium Dndz1.jpg, Metalurh Stadium File:Прометей..JPG, Monument Prometheus File:Taras Shevchenko Dneprodzerzhinsk.JPG, Monument Taras Shevchenko File:Train station (Dniprodzerzhynsk).JPG, Train station File:Tram (Dniprodzerzhynsk)1.JPG, Tram in Kamianske File:Bridge Dniprodzerzhynsk.jpg, The bridge across the Dnieper File:Hydroelectric Dniprodzerzhynsk.JPG, Hydroelectric power plant File:View DMK Dnieper1.jpg, Dniprovsky steel works (DMK)

References

External links

The murder of the Jews of Dniprodzerzhynsk
during

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, at

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