Drofyne (Ukrainian: Дрофине; Russian: Дрофино; Crimean Tatar: Mesit) is a village in Nyzhniohirskyi Raion of Crimea.

Drofyne is located in the south of the district, in the steppe Crimea, near the border with the Bilohirsk Raion, the altitude is 62 m. The neighboring village: Jastrebski 2.5 km to the West, Strepitosa to the south and Sady to the North-East.

The closest railway station is Nyzhniohirsk (on line Dzhankoi — Feodosia).

[2] The villages of Maly Matis and Bolshoy Matis appeared, apparently, in the 1930s, as in the List of settlements of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union of 17 December 1926.

In the Statistical Handbook of Taurida province in 1915 Tabulinskiy parish Simferopol Raion featured a Russo-German farm, with a population of 36 people, including 8 Germans.