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Kamensky District, Rostov Oblast

Kamensky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), 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 urban locality (a work settlement) of Gluboky. Population: 47,696 (2010 Census); 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, [specializing] 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."

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