Kamianske (Ukrainian: Кам'янське, IPA: [kɐmjɐnʲˈsʲkɛ] ⓘ), previously known as Dniprodzerzhynsk from 1936 to 2016,[a] is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper River.

Besides the hydroelectric station, the city houses a few other industrial enterprises: Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant (closed in 1991), Bahley Coke Factory and Dnieper Metallurgical Combine.

At that time the villages of Romankove and Kamianske, which make up the modern city, formed a part of the Nova ("New") Sich of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

'Stony Place') until 1936,[4] when it was renamed Dniprodzerzhynsk – the name honored the Dnieper River and the Bolshevik leader Felix Dzerzhynsky (1877–1926), the founder of the Soviet secret police, the Cheka.

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.

The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven.

[7][8] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 8 April 2022, almost 12,000 people from the surrounding areas were temporarily evacuated to the city due to active hostilities.

[19] While the exceedingly industrialized nature of the local economy ensures a rather high employment rate (as of 1 November 2007, official unemployment stood at 1.40%),[20] it also contributes to excessive pollution and radiation levels in the city.