[1] Initially the station was called Aleksandra Vārti (Alexander Gate), after adjacent Arch of Alexander I.

It was renamed in 1928 in honor of Colonel Jorģis Zemitāns, the commander of the Latvian Northern Brigade during the Latvian War of Independence.

During the Nazi occupation of Latvia, the station carried the name Riga-Hohe Brücke (Riga-High Bridge).

Following the re-occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union in 1944, it carried the name Oškalni, in memory of pro-Soviet partisan Otomārs Oškalns.

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