Kamianka-Dniprovska
{{short description|City in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine}}
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| native_name = Кам'янка-Дніпровська
| settlement_type = City
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| subdivision_type1 = Oblast
| subdivision_name1 = Zaporizhzhia Oblast
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| subdivision_name2 = Vasylivka Raion
| subdivision_type3 = Hromada
| subdivision_name3 = Kamianka-Dniprovska urban hromada
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| established_date = 1786
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| postal_code = 71300
| area_code = +380 6138
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Kamianka-Dniprovska ({{langx|uk|Кам'янка-Дніпровська}} {{IPA|uk|ˈkɑmjɐnkɐ d⁽ʲ⁾n⁽ʲ⁾iˈprɔu̯sʲkɐ|}}) is a city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of the former Kamianka-Dniprovska Raion until that raion was merged into Vasylivka Raion in 2020. Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|12,117|.}} In 2022, the city was occupied by Russian troops, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It is located on the south bank of a west-flowing part of the Dnieper River. On the north bank is the town of Nikopol. About {{convert|15|km}} east is the power plant at Enerhodar. The river valley was submerged as part of the Kakhovka Reservoir until 2023. The landscape of the area is flat and steppe-like.{{cn|date=October 2023}}
The city is home to the Kamianka-Dniprovska District Historical and Archeological Museum.{{cite web | url=http://prostir.museum/museums/en/detail?id=1413 | title=Музейний простір. Музеї України та світу }}
History
An archeological site near Kamianka-Dniprovska gives evidence suggesting that the city was once the capital of the ancient Scythian Kingdom.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} In 1701 Russia built a fort here called Kamenny Zaton ("Stoney Backwater").{{cn|date=January 2025}} It interacted with the Cossack settlements on the north side of the river.{{cn|date=October 2023}}
It received city status in 1957.Каменка-Днепровская // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 11. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1973.Каменка-Днепровская // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.532 In 1972 the population was 16,900 people.
In January 1989 the population was 17,906 people.[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу]
In January 2013 the population was 13,495 people.{{Cite web |url=http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/PXWEB2007/ukr/publ_new1/2013/sb_nnas_2012.pdf |title=Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2013. стор.63 |access-date=2019-08-05 |archive-date=2013-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012013028/http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/PXWEB2007/ukr/publ_new1/2013/sb_nnas_2012.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Demographics
As of the Ukrainian national census in 2001, the town had a population of 15,406 people. Kamianka-Dniprovska is the only major settlement in the entire Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in which people who have an ethnic Russian background constitue the largest share of the population. The ethnic exact composition was as follows:{{cite web | url=https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities | title=Національний склад міст }}
{{bar box|title=Ethnic groups (2001)|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|Russians|purple|49.56}}
{{bar percent|Ukrainians|dodgerblue|47.89}}
{{bar percent|Belarusians|red|0.68}}
{{bar percent|Armenians|brown|0.38}}
{{bar percent|Bulgarians|turquoise|0.18}}
{{bar percent|Georgians|lightgreen|0.11}}
{{bar percent|Germans|blue|0.10}}
{{bar percent|Tatars|olive|0.10}}}}
Gallery
File:Kam'yanka Dniprovs'ka Budynok Bazovkina 01 Yozhikova 110 (YDS 8755).JPG|Historic residence in Kamianka-Dniprovska
File:Kam'yanka Dniprovs'ka Aleya Geroyiv-Zemlyakiv 03 (YDS 8794).JPG|Alley of Fallen Heroes
File:Kam'yanka Dniprovs'ka Usacheva 88 Biblioteka 01 (YDS 8766).JPG|City library
References
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{{Zaporizhzhia Oblast}}
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Category:Cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Category:Cities of district significance in Ukraine
Category:Populated places established in the Russian Empire
Category:Populated places on the Dnieper in Ukraine
Category:Populated places of Kakhovka Reservoir
Category:1957 establishments in the Soviet Union
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