Afanasyev

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Afanasyev Family Name
Region of origin	Russia
Language of origin	Russian
Related names	Afanasyeva
Popularity	Behind the Name
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Afanasyev

Afanasyev (masculine; Афанасьев) or Afanasyeva (feminine; Афанасьева) is a Russian last name and may refer to:

People

• Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), a Russian folklorist
• Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1817-1875), a Russian/Ukrainian writer and ethnographer
• Alexei Ivanovich Afanasyev (1910-1978), a Soviet naval officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexei Nikolayevich Afanasyev (1916-1968), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Anatoly Afanasyev (1912-2003), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Fyodor Afanasyev (1859-1905), a Russian revolutionary
• Georgi Afanasyev (1906-?), a Soviet geologist and petrographer
• Mikhail Afanasyev (1986-) Belarusian footballer
• Ivan Afanasyev (1901-1952), a Soviet naval officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Nikolay Fyodorovich Afanasyev (1918-1944), a Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Nikolay Mikhaylovich Afanasyev (b. 1916), a Soviet firearms designer
• Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (1820–1898), a Russian violinist and composer
• Sergey Afanasyev (1918–2001), a Soviet engineer and space and defense industry executive
• Stepan Afanasyev (1894-1965], a Soviet party figure
• Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), a Russian/Dutch mathematician
• Vasili Afanasyev (1843-1913), a prominent mechanical engineer of the Imperial Russian Navy
• Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev (1922–1994), a Soviet/Russian journalist
• Viktor Mikhaylovich Afanasyev (b. 1948), a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut
• Yegor Afanasyev, an alias of a Russian revolutionary Yegor Klimanov
• Yelena Afanasyeva (b. 1967), a Russian athlete

Other

• Afanasyeva (village), a village in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia