Afiny Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.greeks.ua/languages/rus/fgou/history/kremenevka.php Кременевка
  2. Web site: uk:Проект Постанови про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів . Draft resolution on renaming individual populated places and raions . 2024-09-19.