The Spokoiny open-cast mine was in operation in the 1940s-1950s, as part of Dalstroi’s Northern mining department. Sevvostlag prisoners mined gold along the Yugler stream. Those who died were buried in a specially selected and fenced-off area: the burials were marked by wooden stakes with numbers on a wood plaque. The number buried here has not been determined.

The camp burials were discovered in 2005 by geologists from the Stanolit firm in Magadan. Several stakes bearing numbers (about 20 in all) have survived, as have fragments of the fencing poles and barbed wire. In 2010, the Debin businessman V.A. Naiman, studied the cemetery and erected an Orthodox cross there.