The book “Karim Khakimov: The Chronicle of Life (about the fate of Islam and communism in Russia)” by Oleg Ozerov, Russian Foreign Ministry-at-Large, Head of the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, was published in Moscow. The long and unique work of the Russian diplomat who has worked in diplomatic missions to Syria, Tunisia and France and as the Russian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Head of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, is dedicated to the life and work of Karim Khakimov, a native of the Republic of Bashkortostan and Soviet diplomat.
By the decree of the President of the Republic, the 130th anniversary of Karim Abdraufovich Khakimov is celebrated in 2020.
Earlier, in autumn of the year 2019, as part of a meeting of the Strategic Vision Group “Russia - Islamic world” in Ufa, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of the Russian Islamic University - the former madrassah “Galiya”, where Khakimov studied. At the end of 2020, a large-scale conference dedicated to Karim Khakimov is planned to be held in the republic, and on May 27, an international video conference “At the Origins of Modern Diplomatic Relations with the Islamic World: the Life and Fate of K. A. Khakimov and N. T. Torekulov” was held.