According to official sources, the northeast cemetery in the city’s Tractor Factory district was opened at the end of 1941. Between then and 1944 many who built the Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory were buried there: Bakallag prisoners, forced labourers, those who died in the evacuation hospital, German, Rumanian and Hungarian POWs. The numbers of forced labourers buried there has not been established, a few of their names are known. The last burial dates to 1962 after which the cemetery was not used. It fell into disrepair and by the early 2000s few grave markers had survived.

In 2001 a chapel dedicated to the Beheading of John the Baptist was built in the centre of the cemetery and part of its territory was cleared and tidied. In 2010 the city administration decided to move the cemetery and create a green area in its place. In 2010-2011 remains were transferred en masse to the Pokrovskoe cemetery. In spring 2011 a park was laid out in the old cemetery: paths were created, and more than a hundred trees were planted.