Afanasy
Afanasy is the Russian form of Athanasios, a Greek name meaning "immortal". It may refer to:
People:
- Afanasy Bagration, Prince Adarnase of Kartli, Georgian prince royal and Russian Empire general
- Afanasy Beloborodov, Russian general
- Afanasy Fet, Russian poet
- Afanasy Grigoriev, Russian architect
- Afanasy Nikitin, Russian merchant and traveler
- Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Russian statesman
- Afanasy Razmaritsyn, Russian-Ukrainian painter
- Afanasy Seredin-Sabatin, Russian architect and journalist, first Western architect to live and work in the Korean Empire
- Afanasy Shchapov, Russian historian
- Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub, the main character of Nikolai Gogol's short story The Old World Landowners
The surname Afanasyev is derived from the name. The surname Afonin is derived from Afonya, the short form of the name.
Category:Slavic masculine given names
Category:Russian masculine given names
Category:Masculine given names