diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/avro3k/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/avro3k/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index adfbe1b3b232..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/avro3k/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchPypi,
-  setuptools,
-  isPy3k,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "avro3k";
-  version = "1.7.7-SNAPSHOT";
-  pyproject = true;
-  disabled = !isPy3k;
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "15ahl0irwwj558s964abdxg4vp6iwlabri7klsm2am6q5r0ngsky";
-  };
-
-  # setuptools.extern.packaging.version.InvalidVersion: Invalid version: '1.7.7-SNAPSHOT'
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace setup.py \
-      --replace-fail "1.7.7-SNAPSHOT" "1.7.7"
-  '';
-
-  build-system = [ setuptools ];
-
-  doCheck = false; # No such file or directory: './run_tests.py
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Serialization and RPC framework";
-    mainProgram = "avro";
-    homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/avro3k/";
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 39c48cbcf876..34f25a967ca9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ mapAliases {
   audio-metadata = throw "'audio-metadata' has been removed as it's unmaintained since 2020"; # Added 2026-03-12
   autotrash = throw "'autotrash' has been renamed to/replaced by 'super.pkgs.autotrash'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-29
   av_13 = throw "'av_13' has been renamed to/replaced by 'av'"; # Added 2026-02-01
+  avro3k = throw "'avro3k' was removed because it's unmaintained since 2014"; # added 2026-06-18
   awesome-slugify = throw "'awesome-slugify' has been removed as it was unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2026-06-14
   Babel = throw "'Babel' has been renamed to/replaced by 'babel'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-29
   backports-functools-lru-cache = throw "'backports-functools-lru-cache' has been removed from nixpkgs as it was not longer used in python2"; # Added 2026-01-14
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b46df1489f11..03bd046dead4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1333,8 +1333,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   avro-python3 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/avro-python3 { };
 
-  avro3k = callPackage ../development/python-modules/avro3k { };
-
   avwx-engine = callPackage ../development/python-modules/avwx-engine { };
 
   aw-client = callPackage ../development/python-modules/aw-client { };