| Ambassador From: | Russian |
| Country: | Poland |
| Term Start: | March 2002 |
| Term End: | 23 June 2005 |
| Predecessor: | Sergey Razov |
| Successor: | Vladimir Grinin |
| President: | Vladimir Putin |
| Ambassador From2: | Russian |
| Country2: | France |
| Term Start2: | 18 December 1998 |
| Term End2: | 20 February 2002 |
| Predecessor2: | Yuri Ryzhov |
| Successor2: | Aleksandr Avdeyev |
| President2: | Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin |
| Ambassador From3: | Russian |
| Country3: | Belgium |
| Term Start3: | 24 June 1990 |
| Term End3: | 3 October 1994 |
| Predecessor3: | Feliks Bogdanov |
| Successor3: | Vitaly Churkin |
| President3: | Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
Nikolay Nikolaevich Afanasevsky (Russian: Николай Николаевич Афанасьевский; 1 October 1940 - 23 June 2005) was a Russian diplomat.[1]
Born in Moscow, Afanasevsky graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1964 and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.[1]
From 1990 to 1992, he was the ambassador of the Soviet Union in Belgium and continued as the Russian ambassador until 1994. He served as ambassador to France from January 1999 to March 2002, and was appointed as ambassador of Russia to Poland from March 2002 until his death in Warsaw on 23 June 2005.[1]