Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (Russian: Ка́менск-Ша́хтинский, IPA: [ˈkamʲɪnsk ˈʂaxtʲɪnskʲɪj]) is a town in Rostov Oblast, located on the Seversky Donets River, around 15kms east of the border with Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast.

[8] It was founded by Cossack settlers in 1686 and was granted town status in 1927.

[citation needed] On 28 August 2024 the FDKU Atlas fuel storage facility was set ablaze by Ukrainian drones, in the ongoing battle since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[1] As a municipal division, this administrative unit also has urban okrug status.

[3] Once a major coal-mining center of the eastern Donets coal basin, it now an important producer of artificial fibers and mining machinery as well as glass.