In 1940 families of Polish citizens deported from the western regions of Ukraine were resettled in the Nizhnyaya Glushitsa and Lyokshor special settlements. The settlements were close together. The deportees worked in the forest and grew potatoes. A graveyard was organised on higher ground, 500 metres from the settlement. The Polish families left in May 1944 after which the Nizhnyaya Glushitsa forestry outpost was closed. An old inhabitant M.A. Rubtsov recalls that about 30 Catholic crosses were still standing in the graveyard in the 1970s.

Today no grave markers survive, and the site is overgrown with trees and grass. The total number buried there has not been established and no lists of names are available. The burials were discovered and investigated in June 2009 by an expedition of pupils from the Mutnitsa and Letskaya schools, led by V.M. Masaltsev.