Places Named After Pyotr Schmidt
- Blagoveshchensky Bridge, a major bridge across the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russia was called Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge in memory of Pyotr Schmidt in 1918 – 2007.
- In 1924, a fisherman discovered the spot where Schmidt and other revolutionaries were shot dead. The remains were buried in Sevastopol, and in 1960s a 50-meter-high stela was placed on the island of Berezan.
- After the Russian Civil War, a street in virtually every Soviet city was named after Lieutenant Schmidt.
- On December 31, 1922 the old (1899) torpedo boat Svirepy of the Sokol class was renamed Lieutenant Schmidt. It was decommissioned in 1927.
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