Today ZNU has been held the Ukrainian scientific conference “Steppe Ukraine History of XVIII-XX century “, dedicated to the memory of the founder of this historiographic research direction professor Anatoliy Boyko. The event was organized by Zaporizhzhya National University, J. Nowicki Zaporizhzhya Scientific Society, M.S. Grushevsky Ukrainian Institute of Archeology and Source Studies of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and Zaporizhzhya branch of the Kovalskykh Eastern Institute of Ukrainian Studies.