Afiny | |
Native Name: | Афіни |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Total Km2: | 0.368 |
Population Total: | 34 |
Population As Of: | 01.01.2017 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Donetsk Oblast#Ukraine |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Afiny within Ukraine |
Coordinates: | 47.2908°N 37.6061°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Name1: | Donetsk Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Mariupol Raion |
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada |
Subdivision Name3: | Kalchyk rural hromada |
Afiny (uk|Афіни), known in 1945–2024 as Zoria (uk|Зоря), is a village in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Since the October Revolution, it has been a Soviet kolkhoz with few inhabitants in the area of Mariupol amongst the villages of the native minority of the Greeks of Mariupol, which was very large amongst the Greeks in Russia and the Soviet Union. The leading communists of the Greek minority named the kolkhoz "Afiny" on 15 May 1927 after the name of Athens, Greece and twenty buildings were constructed in the center of the tiny village. The inhabitants were almost all from the local Greek minority. They all came from the villages of, Kalchyk and . Their ancestors were coming in Donetsk, in 1780, from Crimea and from the villages (131 men & 113 women), (75 men & 79 women), and (51 men & 56 women). It was renamed Zoria in 1945, but it still keeps the name Afiny for the local minority of the Greeks.[1] In 2024 the Verkhovna Rada returned the original name to the village.[2]