Kamianske, Vasylivka Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Kamianske
Кам'янське | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Kamianske  Kamianske | |
| Coordinates: 47°32′24″N 35°22′22″E / 47.54000°N 35.37278°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Zaporizhzhia Oblast |
| Raion | Vasylivka Raion |
| Urban hromada | Vasylivka |
| Population | |
| • Total | 2,639 |
Kamianske is a village (selo) of Ukraine, in Vasylivka Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Its population is 2,639. Until 1945 its name was Yanchekrak (Янчекрак).
History[edit]
The village of Yanchekrak was founded in the 1790s on the location of a former Cossack winter homestead by people who were originally from Petrivka in Kherson Governorate and was named after the nearby Yanchekrak River. By 1866 the population had risen to 2,020 people. On the eve of World War I the village consisted of 635 homesteads with 4,778 inhabitants.
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory estimates that at least 371 villagers of Kamianske died in the Holodomor. On March 13, 2015, a monument to Vladimir Lenin was demolished in the village.[1]
2022 Russian invasion[edit]
By March 2022, Kamianske was near the front line of the southern theatre during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and had become the site of prisoner exchanges including that of Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov.[2] By May, trenches had been dug near Kamianske.[3] On 4 September 2023 the Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to gain a foothold in the southern part of the city due to Russian troops abandoning their positions. About 80% of the city was reported to be under the control of the Ukrainian defense forces.[4]
Kamianske was the location of a prisoner exchange on 16 March 2022 between Russia and Ukraine involving Ivan Fedorov, the Mayor of Melitopol that had been abducted by Russian occupational forces.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "У Запорізькій області вночі знесли чотири пам'ятники Леніну". Espreso TV. 13 March 2015. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ Yaffa, Joshua (16 May 2022). "A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime". The New Yorker. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Sahuquillo, María R. (19 May 2022). "En las trincheras de Zaporiyia: "Esta es tierra de cosacos y ellos nunca se arrodillaron ante nadie"" [In the trenches of Zaporizhzhia: "This is Cossack land and they never knelt before anyone"]. El País (in Spanish). Orikhiv. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ "Війна, Новини, Події, Фото-відео ЗСУ касетними снарядами вщент рознесли колону вантажівок з піхотою під Вербовим (ВІДЕО, КАРТА)". akzent.zp.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Yaffa, Joshua (16 May 2022). "A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime". The New Yorker. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
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