* 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. Sivakov) with the text: “Here, in 1915, the outstanding scientist Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky invented a coal gas mask”