Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast
Kamianka is a city in Cherkasy Oblast of Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kamianka Raion. Population:
It is a countryside town approx. to southeast from Kiev, located on the bank of the Tiasmyn River.
Kamianka is known by the artist's colony, in which Prince Grigory Potemkin, the Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, freethinkers and war heroes from the time of the Napoleon's wars worked. Kamianka was also one of the chief centres of the Southern Society of the Decembrists. Kamianka own a historical-cultural open-air museum with monument-protected constructions, collections and parks.Gallery
