Kamianske is a village (selo) of Ukraine, in Vasylivka Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Its population is 2,639. Until 1945 its name was Yanchekrak (Янчекрак).
Kamianske Кам'янське | |
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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 |
History
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
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 forces.[4]