Afanasyev
Afanasyev or Afanasyeva is a Russian last name. It is derived from Afanasy which is etymologically directly connected to Athanasios, a very common Greek masculine first name that means "immortal". As a Russian last name, it is shared by the following people:
People
- Aleksey Afanasyev, Russian painter and illustrator
- Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist
- Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky, Russian/Ukrainian writer and ethnographer
- Alexey Ivanovich Afanasyev, Soviet naval officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Alexey Nikolayevich Afanasyev, Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Anatoly Afanasyev, Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Egor Afanasyev, Russian ice hockey player
- Fyodor Afanasyev, Russian revolutionary
- Georgy Afanasyev, Soviet geologist and petrographer
- Mikhail Afanasyev, Belarusian footballer
- Ivan Afanasyev, Soviet naval officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian olympic gymnast
- Nikolay Fyodorovich Afanasyev, Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Nikolay Mikhaylovich Afanasyev, Russian firearms designer
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Afanasyev, Russian Orthodox theologian
- Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev, Russian violinist and composer
- Nina Afanasyeva, Russian/Sami politician and language activist
- Sergey Afanasyev (engineer), Soviet engineer and space and defense industry executive
- Sergey Afanasyev (athlete), Russian middle-distance runner
- Sergey Afanasyev (racing driver), Russian racing driver
- Stepan Afanasyev, Soviet party figure
- Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician
- Vahur Afanasjev, Estonian writer, filmmaker and musician
- Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist
- Valērijs Afanasjevs, Latvian footballer
- Vasily Afanasyev, prominent mechanical engineer of the Imperial Russian Navy
- Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev, Soviet/Russian journalist
- Viktor Mikhaylovich Afanasyev, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut
- Yegor Afanasyev, an alias of a Russian revolutionary Yegor Klimanov
- Yelena Afanasyeva (athlete), Russian athlete
- Yevgeny Afanasyev, Russian diplomat
- Yuri Afanasyev,, Russian historian and politician
Other
- Afanasyeva (rural locality), a rural locality in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia