Afanasyev

Afanasyev
Family name
Region of origin	Russia
Language(s) of origin	Russian
Related names	Afanasyeva

Afanasyev (masculine; Афанасьев) or Afanasyeva (feminine; Афанасьева) is a Russian last name. It is etymologically connected to the name Afanasy, which in Greek origin meant "immortal". The last name is shared by the following people:

People

• Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), Russian folklorist
• Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1817–1875), Russian/Ukrainian writer and ethnographer
• Alexey Ivanovich Afanasyev (1910–1978), Soviet naval officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexey Nikolayevich Afanasyev (1916–1968), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Anatoly Afanasyev (1912–2003), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Fyodor Afanasyev (1859–1905), Russian revolutionary
• Georgy Afanasyev (1906–?), Soviet geologist and petrographer
• Mikhail Afanasyev (born 1986), Belarusian footballer
• Ivan Afanasyev (1901–1952), Soviet naval officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Nikolay Fyodorovich Afanasyev (1918–1944), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Nikolay Mikhaylovich Afanasyev (born 1916), Soviet firearms designer
• Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (1820–1898), Russian violinist and composer
• Sergey Afanasyev (engineer) (1918–2001), Soviet engineer and space and defense industry executive
• Sergey Afanasyev (athlete) (born 1964), Russian middle distance runner
• Sergey Afanasyev (racing driver) (born 1988), Russian racing driver
• Stepan Afanasyev (1894–1965], Soviet party figure
• Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian/Dutch mathematician
• Vahur Afanasjev (born 1979), Estonian writer, filmmaker and musician
• Valērijs Afanasjevs (born 1982), Latvian footballer
• Vasily Afanasyev (1843–1913), prominent mechanical engineer of the Imperial Russian Navy
• Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev (1922–1994), Soviet/Russian journalist
• Viktor Mikhaylovich Afanasyev (born 1948), Soviet/Russian cosmonaut
• Yegor Afanasyev, an alias of a Russian revolutionary Yegor Klimanov
• Yelena Afanasyeva (born 1967), Russian athlete
• Yuri Afanasyev, (*1934), Russian historian and politician

Other

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

References

• Unbegaun, B. O. (1972). Russian Surnames. Oxford University Press.