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The aim of this work is to describe all locally homogeneous two-dimensional surfaces in three-dimensional affine geometry. We divide the problem into two parts: (1) Classification of all surfaces whose symmetry algebra is at least three-dimensional. (2) Classification of all surfaces whose symmetry algebra is exactly two-dimensional. To solve the first part of the problem, we develop an algebraic analog of Cartan's method of moving frames. In partaicular, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a subalgebra in \({\mathfrak a}(3)\) to be a symmetry algebra of a locally homogeneous surface in \(\mathbb{A}^3\). Then we describe a procedure that allows to obtain all these subalgebras and implement it for the three-dimensional affine geometry. The second part is solved by a description of all two-dimensional subalgebras in the Lie algebra \({\mathfrak a}(3)\) and their two-dimensional orbits. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0901.00043].