[1] It is a countryside town approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) southeast from Kyiv, located on the bank of the Tiasmyn River.

[3][4] Kamianka is known as an artist's colony, in which Prince Grigory Potemkin, the Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and other freethinkers and war heroes during the Napoleonic Wars era worked.

[citation needed] Kamianka was also one of the chief centres of the Southern Society of the Decembrists.

[5] Ukrainian was the native language for 95.8% of the population, and Russian for 4%.

[6] Kamianka has its own historical-cultural open-air museum with monument-protected constructions, collections and parks.