Afiny

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Afiny

| native_name = Афіни

| native_name_lang = uk

| settlement_type = Village

| image_skyline = Пам'ятник воїнам-односельчанам, селище Зоря, Нікольський район.jpg

| established_title = Founded

| established_date = 1927

| named_for = Athens

| 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_label_position =

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Afiny within Ukraine

| coordinates = {{coord| 47.290833|37.606111||display=inline,title}}

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| area_code_type = Area code

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{UKR}}

| subdivision_type1 = Oblast

| subdivision_name1 = Donetsk Oblast

| subdivision_type2 = Raion

| subdivision_name2 = Mariupol Raion

| subdivision_type3 = Hromada

| subdivision_name3 = Kalchyk rural hromada

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Afiny ({{langx|uk|Афіни}}), known in 1945–2024 as Zoria ({{langx|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 ({{Langx|el|Αθήνα|translit=Athína}}) 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 {{ill|Kremenivka (Ukraine)|ru|Кременевка (Донецкая область)|uk|Кременівка (Кальчицька громада)|lt=Kremenivka}}, Kalchyk and {{ill|Kasianivka (Ukraine)|ru|Касьяновка (Донецкая область)|uk|Касянівка (Кальчицька громада)|lt=Kasianivka}}. Their ancestors were coming in Donetsk, in 1780, from Crimea and from the villages {{ill|Balky|ru|Балки(Белогорский район)|uk|Балки (Білогірський район)}} (131 men & 113 women), {{ill|Chardakly (Crimea)|ru|Чардаклы|lt=Chardakly}} (75 men & 79 women), and {{ill|Bai-su|ru|Байсу|uk|Бай-Су}} (51 men & 56 women). It was renamed Zoria in 1945, but it still keeps the name Afiny for the local minority of the Greeks.[http://www.greeks.ua/languages/rus/fgou/history/kremenevka.php Кременевка] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321094703/http://www.greeks.ua/languages/rus/fgou/history/kremenevka.php |date=21 March 2012 }}

In 2022 captured by Russia during Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In 2024 the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) returned the original name to the village.{{Cite web |title= |script-title=uk:Проект Постанови про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів |trans-title=Draft resolution on renaming individual populated places and raions |url=https://itd.rada.gov.ua/billInfo/Bills/Card/44913 |archive-url= |access-date=2024-09-19}}