Nikolay Afanasevsky

{{Short description|Russian diplomat}}

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| ambassador_from = Russian

| country = Poland

| term_start = March 2002

| term_end = 23 June 2005

| predecessor = Sergey Razov

| successor = Vladimir Grinin

| president = Vladimir Putin

| ambassador_from2 = Russian

| country2 = France

| term_start2 = 18 December 1998

| term_end2 = 20 February 2002

| predecessor2 = Yuri Ryzhov

| successor2 = Aleksandr Avdeyev

| president2 = Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin

| ambassador_from3 = Russian

| country3 = Belgium

| term_start3 = 24 June 1990

| term_end3 = 3 October 1994

| predecessor3 = Feliks Bogdanov

| successor3 = Vitaly Churkin

| president3 = Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|10|01}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|06|23|1940|10|01}}

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| alma_mater = Moscow State Institute of International Relations

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Nikolay Nikolaevich Afanasevsky ({{langx|ru|Николай Николаевич Афанасьевский}}; 1 October 1940 – 23 June 2005) was a Russian diplomat.{{cite web| script-title=ru:Афанасьевский Николай Николаевич| publisher = Information-Analytical Portal "Heritage"| url = http://www.nasledie.ru/naslHTTP/cs/OUT_DOC/ID/176| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130417061036/http://www.nasledie.ru/naslHTTP/cs/OUT_DOC/ID/176| url-status = dead| archive-date = 2013-04-17| accessdate = 2008-07-20 |language=ru}}

Born in Moscow, Afanasevsky graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1964 and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.

From 1990 to 1992, he was the ambassador of the Soviet Union in Belgium and continued as the Russian ambassador until 1994. He served as ambassador to France from January 1999 to March 2002, and was appointed as ambassador of Russia to Poland from March 2002 until his death in Warsaw on 23 June 2005.