Zoria (Зоря), formerly Afiny (Афіни), is a village in Donetsk Oblast,

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with few inhabitants in the area of

Mariupol Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast ( Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russia ...

amongst the villages of the native minority of the Greeks of Mariupol, which was very large amongst the

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. The leading communists of the Greek minority named the kolkhoz "Afiny" on 15 May 1927 after the name of

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: , ) and twenty buildings were constructed in the center of the tiny village. The inhabitants were almost all from the local Tatar-speaking Greek minority. They all came from the villages of ,

Kalchik The Kalchik (Кальчик) is a river in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. It flows from Listvanka into the Kalmius, which it enters near the city of Mariupol. Supposedly it was the scene of the Battle of the Kalka River between the Mongol Empir ...

and . Their ancestors were coming in Donetsk, in 1780, from the Tatar-speaking Greeks 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

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