| Official Name: | Kamianka-Dniprovska | ||||||||
| Native Name: | Кам'янка-Дніпровська | ||||||||
| Settlement Type: | City | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Oblast | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Zaporizhzhia Oblast | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | Raion | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Vasylivka Raion | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type3: | Hromada | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Kamianka-Dniprovska urban hromada | ||||||||
| Established Title: | Founded | ||||||||
| Established Date: | 1786 | ||||||||
| Leader Title: | Mayor | ||||||||
| Area Total Km2: | 21 | ||||||||
| Population As Of: | 2022 | ||||||||
| Population Total: | 12117 | ||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Zaporizhzhia Oblast # Ukraine | ||||||||
| Pushpin Relief: | y | ||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | right | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 47.4628°N 34.4061°W | ||||||||
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||||||
| Postal Code: | 71300 | ||||||||
| Area Code: | +380 6138 | ||||||||
| Blank Name: | Climate | ||||||||
| Blank Info: | Dfa | ||||||||
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Kamianka-Dniprovska (uk|Кам'янка-Дніпровська, pronounced as /uk/) 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:
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 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.
The city is home to the Kamianka-Dniprovska District Historical and Archeological Museum.[1]
An archeological site near Kamianka-Dniprovska gives evidence suggesting that the city was once the capital of the ancient Scythian Kingdom. In 1701 Russia built a fort here called Kamenny Zaton ("Stoney Backwater"). It interacted with the Cossack settlements on the north side of the river.
It received city status in 1957.[2] [3] In 1972 the population was 16,900 people.
In January 1989 the population was 17,906 people.[4]
In January 2013 the population was 13,495 people.[5]
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 claim to have an ethnic Russian background constitue the largest share of the population. The ethnic exact composition was as follows:[6]