After 1903 year, Georgian social democrates joined the faction Menshevik, except some ones as Staline, Ordzhonikidze or Makharadze.
Several towns and districts in the USSR were renamed Ordzhonikidze after him, such as Vladikavkaz in Russia and Vahdat in Tajikistan (both names later reverted).
Sir John's retirement coincided with a failed frogman mission to investigate the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze that had brought the leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin on a diplomatic mission to Britain, resulting in the death of frogman Lionel Crabb.