Kamyansky district is located in the north-western part of Dnipropetrovsk region, on the historical and ethnographic territory of the Middle Dnipro, on the banks of the Kamyansky reservoir, formed by the dam of the Middle Dnipro HPP. The Zhovta River flows within the district, on the banks of which the Battle of Zhovti Vody took place in 1648, which ended with the first significant victory of the Ukrainian Cossack army of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the national liberation war against the Commonwealth.
The administrative center of Kamyansky district is the city of Kamyanske. The area of the district is more than 4820 square kilometers. The population of the district reaches 439 thousand people.
The Kamyansky district includes 274 settlements, which are united into 12 amalgamated h ...