Nina Evgenievna Zhukovskaya-Bok, an artist - their marriage lasted 20 years. son Andrei (1933). son Nikolai (1940) Interesting Facts Zelinsky did not patent the gas mask he invented, believing that one should not profit from human misfortunes, and Russia transferred the right to produce it to the Allies. The only surviving copy of the first gas mask is in Zelinsky's apartment. During an internship in Germany before the start of the war, Zelinsky synthesized chloropicrin for the first time, and became the first person to experience its toxic effects. Later, chloropicrin, discovered by Zelinsky, was widely used as a chemical warfare agent. Awards corresponding academician of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (1934) Hero of Socialist Labor (06/10/1945) four Orders of Lenin (05/07/1940; 06/10/1945; 02/05/1946; 02/05/1951) two PrOrders of the Red Banner of Labor (03/29/1941; 04/03/1944) USSR State Prize from the seizure of the chemicalization of the national economy of the USSR (1934) USSR State Prize of the first degree (1942) - for outstanding scientific works on organic chemistry, published in the collection of selected works of the author in 1941 USSR State Prize of the second degree (1946) - for the development of a new method for obtaining aromatic hydrocarbons USSR State Prize of the first degree (1948) A. M. Butlerov Prize of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society (1924) Recognition The Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences is named after him since 1953; In 1961, a postage stamp was issued in honor of N. D. Zelinsky in the USSR; One of the Moscow streets is named after him, as well as streets in the cities of Voskresensk (Moscow region), Tiraspol, Chisinau, Tyumen, Yaroslavl, Veliky Novgorod, Orsk, Karaganda, Daugavpils, Alma-Ata and Mariupol; On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the scientist, the State Unitary Enterprise “Marka Pridnestrovya” issued a series of stamps and envelopes; The large chemical auditorium of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University is named after Zelinsky; The crater Zelinskiy on the Moon is named in his honor (since 1970); On June 2, 2014, the name of Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky was given to an enterprise producing personal and collective protective equipment - JSC Elektrostal Chemical and Mechanical Plant; May 19, 2016 in St. Petersburg on the building of the Research Institute of Metrology. D. I. Mendeleev (Moskovsky Prospekt, 19) a commemorative plaque was installed (sculptor-artist V. A.