The Slobodskoi reid special settlement (also known as Slobodskoi splavreid) was located on the left bank of the Vychegda river, about 6 kms north of the Sloboda village. In 1941 families of deported Lithuanian citizens (345 men, women and children) were resettled here. In 1945 Soviet Germans repatriated from Germany were also sent there. The deportees were engaged floating timber down the river. Those who died were buried in the Sloboda village graveyard about 5 kms south of the special settlement. No section was set aside for their dead. The Vilnius-based Centre for the Study of Genocide and Resistance estimates that more than 100 Lithuanian citizens were buried there; their names have not been established. The number of repatriated Germans who died and were buried there is not known.

In the 1960s industrial buildings took over part of the graveyard. On 31 July 1990 a memorial to the exiled Lithuanians was placed over the presumed location of their burial and marked by a border of anchor chain (designers Ju. Sabatauskas and S. Stulpinas). On a black granite plaque in Lithuanian, Russian and Komi are written the words, “1941. To the exiles”.