The history of the Department of Botany of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) University has almost two hundred years of history. During this time, the department was headed by more than 10 scientists. Each of them made a significant contribution to both botanical science and the educational process at the department. What they did is invisibly present at the department to this day. One of them was V.M. Schmidt. He headed the Department of Botany for more than a decade (1978–1990), trained several generations of botanists. They left a mark in statistical data processing, floristry and plant morphology. The article provides data on the main scientific areas of Vladimir Mikhailovich Schmidt's work and a list of his publications.