KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY

also spelled Kamensk-achtinskij, city, Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia, on the Seversky (Northern) Donets River. Founded in 1686 as a Cossack settlement, it became a city in 1927. Once a major coal-mining centre of the eastern Donets Basin, it primarily manufactures agricultural and mining machinery, artificial fibres, and glass. Pop. (1993 est.) 73,500.