Kamenets (until 1940 Kamenets - Lithuanian), the city (since 1983), the regional center in the Brest region. 8,7 thousand inhabitants (2004). Located 39 km north of Brest, on the bank of the river. Forest, the tributary of the Western Bug. On the highway Brest-Kamenyuki, 28 km from the railway station. Zhabinka on the line Baranovichi - Brest.

In 1289 Kamenets was captured and almost completely destroyed by Drogichinsky prince Yury Lvovich, nephew of Vladimir Vasilkovich. Since 1366, Kamenets in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania belonged to the princes Vytautas, Janusz Mazaviecki, Jagiello. Well fortified, located on a large trade route from Brest to Grodno and from Krakow to Vilno, it has become a major shopping center. Three times the Crusaders attacked Kamenets. In 1375 they raided its surroundings and captured many prisoners, cattle, including horses, and in 1378 burned it. For almost a century Kamenets served as a stronghold in armed clashes between the Lithuanian state and Poland. In 1383, Prince Janusz Mazowiecki, taking advantage of the internecine struggle of the Grand Duke Jagiello with Vitovt, captured Kamenets. But a year later, after a week's siege, Jagiello took him by storm. Having reconciled with Jagiello (1384), Vitovt annexed Kamenets to his lands. From here, as well as from Brest and Grodno, Vitovt made attacks on the property of Jagiello. This led to the fact that in 1390 the troops of Jagiello captured Kamenets, where peaceful negotiations between the princes took place. Here in 1409, Jagiello received the Pope's ambassador.

In 1410 the inhabitants of Kamenets took an active part in the Battle of Grunwald, in which the troops of the Teutonic Order were finally defeated.

In 1413 Kamenetz became the center of the pioneer first in the composition of the Troki, from 1520 Podlyashsky, from 1566 the Beresteysky voivodship. According to the register of military taxes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Kamenets and Brest during the wars exhibited the same military contingent: 50 horses and 50 kopecks of Lithuanian pennies. At the beginning of the 16th century. (1518) Kamenets received the Magdeburg Law.

Since 1596, when the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was moved from Krakow to Warsaw and the new trade and administrative route between Warsaw and Vilna, Kamenets went around, the city gradually lost its political and economic significance. One of the reasons for its economic decline was frequent wars. In the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67 the city was destroyed. In the 17th-18th centuries. Here were built castle and palace complexes, the textile factory of the Radziwills operated. At the end of the 18th century there was still a wooden castle in Kamenetz, owned by a Velikolitovsky cook-politician and diplomat M. Velgorsky.
Since 1795, after the third partition of the Commonwealth, Kamenets as a part of Russia, in the Brest district of the Grodno province. From this time until 1940, Kamenets-Litovsk was named. In the Patriotic War of 1812, he was occupied and looted by the French. In the mid-19th century. There were 597 households, about 2900 inhabitants, a brewery, 3 fairs were held annually. In 1897 there were 4,600 inhabitants, 1,186 houses (of which 678 were inhabited), a hospital, a parochial school. In 1914, 7 small enterprises worked.

In 1921 - 39 years Kamenetz in the composition of bourgeois Poland - a place in the Brest Volunteer Polesie Province. In 1921, there are 2348 inhabitants, 3 sawmills, a workshop for the production of sheepskins, a distillery, 2 oil mills. Acted Kamenetsky underground district committee of the KPZB.

Since 1939 in the BSSR. Since 15.1.1940 the city's settlement, the center of the district in the Brest region.

On June 23, 1941, it was occupied by German fascist invaders, who killed 5,406 civilians in Kamyanets and on the territory of the district. The district underground committees of KP (B) B (14.6-12.7.1944) and the LKSMB (4.3-12.7., 1944) operated. In May 1942, a Kamenetz anti-fascist committee was established in the city, which included about a hundred patriots.

Since June 24, 1983 Kamenets has received the status of a city.

In the southern part of the city, a microdistrict was formed, built up by 4-5-storey residential buildings. The Brest-Kamenyuki motorway is divided into the eastern and western parts. The basis of its planning structure is an incorrect radial grid of streets. The main street is Brest (the Brest-Kamenyuki highway section). It formed an administrative and social center. Perspective of the street. Brest closes the square and the building of secondary school No. 1. The one-storeyed individual building prevails.

The industrial zone is in the south-eastern part. The city has food industry enterprises.

Monuments have been installed: a monument on the mass grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans, at the grave of Colonel P. Ya. Pivnenko, who died during the Great Patriotic War. Preserved monuments of architecture: Kamenetzky Pillar - the only monument in the country of the defensive architecture of Ancient Rus, which was preserved in its original form and the Simeon Church (early 20th century).

The regional socio-political newspaper "Naviny Kamyanechchyny" comes out.

Recreation zone - the River Lesnaya, the park on its shore, public gardens.

In Kamenetz there are always a lot of tourists, after all through the city there are tourist marches.