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Also known as Zorja, Zoria

Afiny (), known in 1945–2024 as Zoria (), is a village in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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postal code
87042
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1927-00-00
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Afiny (), known in 1945–2024 as Zoria (), is a village in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

Since the October Revolution, it has been a Soviet kolkhoz with few inhabitants in the area of Mariupol amongst the villages of the native minority of the Greeks of Mariupol, which was very large amongst the Greeks in Russia and the Soviet Union. The leading communists of the Greek minority named the kolkhoz "Afiny" on 15 May 1927 after the name of Athens, Greece () and twenty buildings were constructed in the center of the tiny village. The inhabitants were almost all from the local Greek minority. They all came from the villages of , Kalchyk and . Their ancestors were coming in Donetsk, in 1780, from Crimea and from the villages (131 men & 113 women), (75 men & 79 women), and (51 men & 56 women). It was renamed Zoria in 1945, but it still keeps the name Afiny for the local minority of the Greeks.

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