At the end of 2025, the A. Yu. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies of the NAS of Ukraine held an online roundtable titled "Eastern Europe in the Time of Ahmad ibn Fadlan: On the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of A. P. Kovalivsky."
Andriy Petrovych Kovalivsky (1895–1969) was a prominent Ukrainian orientalist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, and honored scientist of the Ukrainian SSR. He became known in the scientific world primarily due to his research on the work ("Notes") of the medieval Arab-Muslim author Ahmad ibn Fadlan about the journey of the caliph al-Muqtadir's embassy from Baghdad to Volga Bulgaria (921–922) — a unique written monument that became an indispensable source of information about the peoples of Eastern Europe in the early Middle Ages. The best years of A. P. Kovalivsky’s life are connected with Ukraine, particularly Kharkiv, where he worked productively at Kharkiv State University (now V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University).