During the Great Terror (1937-1938) those shot in Syzran Prison were buried in common graves in the Zausinovsky Ravine. Subsequently the area was abandoned, and the burials were further concealed by domestic rubbish and building debris.

In 2006 on land next to the Church of the Аssumption a commemorative cross was erected in memory of the victims of repression paid for with funds gathered by parishioners. On 30 October 2011 pupils from Syzran school No. 14 created an Avenue of Remembrance at the ravine. Exactly one year later the schoolchildren placed a monument here of the “Tree of Memory”, a tree that had split apart with a cross where it was broken.

In 2014 at Lokomobilnaya Street, less than one kilometre from the Zausinovsky Ravine, another memorial was erected that took the form of a vertical plaque with the following text, “In memory of those who perished during the years of political repression” and a boulder symbolising a stone from the Solovetsky Islands.