In 1940-1942 prisoners who died in infirmary No. 5 of Sevpechlag were buried in common graves in the cemetery. From 1942 to 1946 a children’s cemetery for mothers and infants under two years old existed there as part of camp outpost No. 25. They were buried in individual graves marked by stakes carrying a number. Forced settlers and, sometimes, free workers were also buried there. The cemetery then covered 9,750 square metres. The total number of buried prisoners is unknown; the cemetery was closed in 1946 but burials continued until 1949.                           

In 1954 a water tower was built on the site. Crosses on graves survived into the 1960s and later but the territory did not have the status of a cemetery and was not protected. Residents of Pechora began to use the land for allotments. In the 1970s a sub-district of the town came into being there: a residential block and a square were built on the site. In 2007 an Orthodox cross was erected in the square in memory of those who suffered during the years of repression. In 2009 a chapel dedicated to Russia’s New Martyrs and Confessors was consecrated there.