Camenca

Camenca (Camenca, Moldovan Cyrillic: Каменка; Каменка; Кам'янка) is a town in Transnistria, a breakaway republic internationally recognized as part of Moldova. It is composed of the town itself and the village of Solnecinoe. Camenca is the seat of Camenca District. The town is located on the Dniester, in the north of Transnistria.

The mayor is Pyotr Mustya.

History
The settlement was founded in 1609, when it was part of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1672 it fell to the Ottoman Empire, but was regained by Poland in 1699. Kamionka, as it was known in Polish, was a private village of the Lubomirski family, administratively located in the Bracław County in the Bracław Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province. Following the Second Partition of Poland, in 1793, it was annexed by Russia.

The town became part of Soviet Ukraine in 1920, and then of the Moldavian Autonomous Oblast in 1924, which was soon converted into the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1940 during World War II. From 1941 to 1944, it was administered by Romania.

Demographics
According to the 2004 Census in Transnistria, the town itself has 10,323 inhabitants, including 5,296 Moldovans (51.3%), 3,476 Ukrainians (33.67%), 1,305 Russians (12.64%), 61 Belarusians, 42 Poles, 35 Bulgarians, 32 Gagauzes, 23 Germans, 10 Armenians, 8 Jews, 3 Gypsies and 32 others.

Notable people

 * Nicolae Coval (1904–1970), Moldavian SSR politician, prime minister of the Moldavian SSR from 1945 to 1946
 * Oleg Khorzhan (1976–2023), Transnistrian lawyer and politician
 * Alexei Grabco (1936–2016), Soviet and Moldovan caricaturist
 * Pyotr Vershigora (1905–1963), Soviet writer and one of the leaders of the Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland