Schmidt Island [SEP] named after
Schmidt Island
Schmidt Island () is one of the islands of the Severnaya Zemlya group in the Russian Arctic and was named after Soviet scientist and first head of the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, Otto Schmidt. It is located at the far northwestern end of the archipelago and lies slightly south of the Arctic Cape on Komsomolets Island.
Geography.
Schmidt Island is significantly detached from the rest of Severnaya Zemlya regarding the relative proximity of the other main islands to each other.
It measures and is almost
, Russia was called "Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge" in memory of Pyotr Schmidt from 1918 to 2007.
- In 1924 a fisherman discovered the spot where Schmidt and other revolutionaries had been shot dead. The remains were buried in Sevastopol, and in the 1960s a 15-metre-high stela was placed on the island of Berezan.
- After the Russian Civil War streets in several Soviet cities were named after Lieutenant Schmidt: in Astrakhan, Bataisk, Vinnitsa, Vologda, Vyazma, Berdyansk, Tver (boulevard), Vladivostok,