The stairs’ name was taken from the battleship Potyomkin and was to be memorialized in the famous film of that name by the Russian producer Sergei Eizenstein.
The stairs ’ jina alichukuliwa kutoka vita ya Potyomkin na ilipaswa katika kumbukumbu katika filamu maarufu ya jina hilo na Urusi uzalishaji Sergei Eizenstein.