Kamyanske

Kamyanske,

formerly

Dniprodzerzhynsk

(dənyĭp'rōdzĭrzhēnsk`), Rus. Dneprodzerzhinsk, city (1989 pop. 282,000), central Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper River. It is a major industrial center with iron and steel, machine tool, chemical, and cement plants. Settled before the mid-18th cent., it was industrialized in the late 19th cent. Under Stalin the name of Kamyanske (Rus. Kamenskoye) was changed (1936) to Dniprodzerzhynsk to honor Feliks DzerzhinskyDzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
, 1877–1926, Russian Bolshevik leader, organizer, and first chairman (1917–21) of the Cheka (see secret police). He was the son of Polish aristocrats.
..... Click the link for more information. , the founder of the Russian secret police. A large dam on the Dnieper was completed here in 1964. The original name was restored in 2016.