Attractions of Kamyanske

The Kamyanske City History Museum is located in a large constructivist building built in 1985. Before that, it occupied the premises of the Saint Nicholas Church for a long time.

The museum exposition is located in two halls on an area of about 2.5 thousand square meters and reproduces the history of the city from the earliest times to the present day.

Its constituent part is a separate section "Leonid Brezhnyev and his time", dedicated to the life and activities of the statesman and politician Leonid Brezhnyev, who lived and worked in the city for a long time.

The stock collections include more than 90,000 items of preservation, including archaeological and ethnographic collections , numismatics, philately, bonistics, a collection of gifts to Leonid Brezhnyev, etc.

In 2009, the open-air exposition "Kamyanske in signs and symbols" was opened. In particular, there is a sculpture of Prometheus breaking the chains, which is a symbol of the city. Since 1920, the 3.82-meter-tall figure has been standing on a high stele at the corner of Svobody and Gymnazychnnyi avenues. Later, it was replaced by a copy, and the original was exhibited in the courtyard of the historical museum.

The Museum "Jewish Soul" ("A Yiddishe Neshume") in Kamyanske is located in the modern building of the synagogue "Beit Reuven", built in 2008. The architecture and facade of the building are a copy of the synagogue 770 in New York.

The creation of the museum was initiated in 2024 by the Jewish community of the city. She has gathered a considerable collection of valuable exhibits: old photographs from the family archives of the Jews of Kamyanske (formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk) and numerous household items from the past and the century before last. A separate section is devoted to the Holocaust.

Among the unique artifacts are the bricks from which the building of the previous synagogue in Kamiansky was erected. In its place is now the charitable center "Beit Baruch" and the large synagogue "Beit Reuven". The same bricks were laid in the foundation of the modern complex.

The People's Museum of History of PJSC "Dnipro Metallurgical Combine" is housed in the former Kamyanske engineering club, built at the beginning of the 20th century.

The exposition in four halls tells the history of the enterprise, starting from the moment of the first smelting at the then Dnipro Metallurgical Plant in 1889. The museum funds include more than 15,000 exhibits: archival materials, unique book editions, ancient tools, household items and ethnoculture, rare photographs, fragments of real technological equipment, personal belongings of factory workers.

A special place is occupied by the exposition of the plant's products on the open area in front of the museum. And the main exhibit is the factory horn, which signaled the start and end of the shift for more than 100 years.

The Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Cathedral with a high bell tower in Kamyanske is distinguished by architectural elements in the ancient Rus style.

It was built in 1894 according to the project of the architect Leonid Brodnytskyi at the expense of workers and employees with the participation of the Dnipro Metallurgical Plant.

In Soviet times, the building housed a local history museum.

In 1988, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral was returned to the church, and restoration was carried out. It currently belongs to the UOC community of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Saint Nicholas Church in Kamyanske is one of the few surviving Roman Catholic churches in the eastern regions of Ukraine.

It was built in 1905 in the neo-Gothic style by the architect Maryan Khormansky on the order of the Polish community of workers of the Dnipro plant. In plan, the temple has the shape of a Latin cross. Its two 33-meter towers impress with their beauty and grandeur.

In 1928, the church was closed by the Bolsheviks, the abbot was shot. In Soviet times, there was a car wash in the building.

Currently, the church of Saint Nicholas has been returned to the Roman Catholic community of the city, and restoration work is underway.