Kamensky District, Rostov Oblast


Kamensky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the types of [inhabited localities in Russia|urban locality] of Gluboky. Population: 47,696 ; The population of Gluboky accounts for 20.7% of the district's total population.

2024 oil infrastructure attack

The Kamenski District in Rostov Oblast is the site of the Atlas oil depot, near the village of Molodezhnyi, a large petroleum tank farm installation of the Russian State Reserve. The Atlas facility is a "division of the Federal Agency for State Reserves in the Southern Federal District, in supplying petroleum products to the Russian Armed Forces."
On the morning of 28 August 2024, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was set ablaze by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone strike. The attack was officially confirmed by the Ukrainian general staff the next day, and Russian sources reported a second attack on the depot occurred late in the day on the 28th, renewing the "powerful blaze."