Nikolay Gondatti died in Harbin in April 1946. He was buried at the New Cemetery, which to this day has not survived. For service, Gondatti was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir, 3rd and 4th classes, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd and 3rd classes, including one for studying the Siberian suburbs, Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, a silver medal in memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III and a bronze medal "For the works on the first General Population Census of 1897". In 1898, the Russian Geographical Society awarded Gondatti the Fyodor Litke Large Gold Medal for Ethnography (for all the work that he transferred during his stay among the Chukchi and for the research already published). In 1901, the Imperial Academy of Sciences – the Big Golden Medal named after Academician Ber (1901). Awards of foreign countries: the Japanese Order of the Golden Kite, the Chinese Order of the Double Dragon, the Bukhara Order of the Golden Star, the French Order of the Legion of Honour. Nikolay Lvovich Gondatti was an honorary citizen of the cities of Beryozovo, Tyumen, Tomsk, Novo-Nikolaevsk, Yekaterinburg, Khabarovsk, Surgut. Nikolay Gondatti was the author of several printed works, which are mainly reports on his scientific trips. One of the surviving photos baked a meeting of the Amur Governor-General Nikolay Gondatti with the family Old Believers. The meeting of the Governor-General with Semeiskie Old Believers – settlers from Transbaikalia in one of the villages near the town of Alekseevsk (present-day Svobodny) is depicted. Part of a series of 5 photos. In the foreground is an arch of poles entwined with branches, decorated with tricolor flags. Under the arch, Nikolay Gondatti and his retinue of immigrant officials, on the edges the group of Old Believers.