He was killed by Yaroslavl (according to one of the versions he was hacked to pieces at the Bristol Hotel) at the very beginning of the Yaroslavl uprising on July 6, 1918. He was buried at the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution on the Field of Mars in Petrograd. From 1918 to 1944, Vladimirsky Avenue and the square in Leningrad were named after Nakhimson. In the project, the Vladimirskaya metro station was called "Nakhimson Square". There are streets of Nakhimson in the cities of Ivanovo, Smolensk, Staraya Russa, Pavlovsk and Petrodvorets (Saint Petersburg), Nevel (Pskov Region), Okulovka (Novgorod Region) and several other cities and towns. One of the streams flowing in Peterhof Park of Peterhof, is called the Nakhimson groove. Since August 1984, the street in Yaroslavl also bears the name of Nakhimson. Until 1993, the street in Rybinsk was named after Nakhimson (now Malaya Kazanskaya).