Skarzysko-Kamienna – city in central Poland, placed in north part of swietokrzyskie province, home of county headquarters.

Located on the Kielce Highland, at the confluence of Przedgórze Iłżeckie, Garb Gielniowski and Płaskowyż Suchedniowski, by the Kamienna River.

In the Kielce Province of 1950-1975, Skarżysko-Kamienna was - from 1954, apart from Kielce, Radom, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski and Starachowice – an urban county.

Skarżysko-Kamienna is traditionally an important industrial centre and a transport hub. According to data from December 31, 2014, the city had 47,212 residents.

Skarżysko-Kamienna is located on the Kamienna River and its inlets Kamionka, Bernatka and Oleśnica, on the border of Suchedniowski Płaszowyż and Garb Gielniowski and on the northern edge of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. It borders directly with the Mazowieckie province.

Skarżysko-Kamienna is located at an altitude of 250 m above sea level.

In the fifteenth century, there was a bloomery and an iron ore mine.

In 1884, a railway was carried through the town, from which new routes were soon created, which resulted in the creation of a railway junction. After a short time, the Cast Iron Foundry "Kamienna" were established near the interchange. In 1920, there were 20 manufacturing plants in the borough, including 6 industrial metal plants, employing over 1000 workers and about 1000 workers were employed at the station and in the train repair workshops. It obtained city rights on January 1, 1923. In 1924, after two years of construction, the State Factory of Ammunition was launched.

On September 8, 1939, the city was occupied by German troops, and the factory was taken over by the private arms company "Hasag". During the German occupation in 1942-1944 at the munitions factory in Skarżysko there were three labour camps (Werk A, Werk B, and Werk C), in which Jewish prisoners was used as slave labor. The dead and murdered were burned in a makeshift crematorium in the factory's shooting range. During the war, a total of about 35,000 people were killed in the plant. At the turn of July and August 1944, the entire factory was evacuated. A group of several dozen Jewish refugees (including a women) from the labor camp was murdered on August 17, 1944 in the Siekierne Forest near Suchedniow.

The city was liberated on January 16, 1945 by troops of the 3rd national guard, 6th army and 3rd army of the armored guard of the First Ukrainian Front.

In 1957, a shoe factory was opened. In the 70s of the twentieth century, a house factory was created.