Kamianske


Kamianske, Bahley Coke Factory and Dnieper Metallurgical Combine.

History

The first written evidence of settlement in the territory of Kamianske appeared in 1750. At that time the villages of Romankovo and Kamianske, which make up the modern city, formed a part of the Nova Sich of the Zaporizhian cossacks. The city was known as Kamianske, lit. Stony Place until 1936 when it was renamed to Dniprodzerzhynsk - the name honored the Dnieper River and the communist Felix Dzerzhynsky, the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka.
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was born and raised in Kamianske.
On 15 May 2015 the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko 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.
On 19 May 2016, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada voted to rename a number of populated places in Ukraine including the city of Dniprodzerzhynsk, which reverted to using the name Kamianske.

1979 mid-air collision

On 11 August 1979 two Aeroflot planes collided over the Central Ukraine, killing all 178 people on both planes.

1996 tram accident

On 2 July 1996 a traffic accident happened in Dniprodzerzhynsk. An overcrowded tram that was moving along a steep hill on Chapaeva Street began to slide rapidly downhill, causing it to derail and hit a concrete wall before coming to a stop very close to a school. A total of 34 people died and more than 100 received injuries as a result of the accident. Following a government inquiry into the causes of the accident, the then mayor, Serhiy Shershnev, and his deputy, Ihor Laktionov, resigned.

Geography

While mostly located on right bank of Dnieper, Kamianske stretches over the hydroelectric station onto the left bank where the portion of city is known as "Livyi bereh" neighborhood. 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.

Climate

The climate is moderately continental, dry. The amount of precipitation per year is about 400 mm. The average daily temperature is -6 ° C in January, + 21 ° C in July.

Administrative divisions

The economic base of Kamianske is almost exclusively centered on heavy industry, 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, it also contributes to excessive pollution and radiation levels in the city.
Several Eastern Orthodox 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 in Kamianske.
The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas 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: