In 1940 families of Polish citizens (“settlers”) deported mainly from the Drogobych Region of Ukraine were relocated to the Verkhnyaya (upper) Glushitsa special settlement. The deportees were mainly engaged in forestry work, growing potatoes and preparing bricks. The commandant’s office also responsible for the special settlements of Nizhnyaya (lower) Glushitsa and Lyokshor [11-109] was located there. A graveyard was created one kilometre from the settlement. The numbers buried there are unknown; no lists of names are available. Polish families left in May 1944.

The settlement was abandoned in the early 1950s. An old inhabitant M.A. Rubtsov recalls that about 30 Catholic crosses were still standing in the graveyard in the 1980s. Today no grave markers survive. The burials were discovered and investigated in June 2008 by an expedition of pupils from the Mutnitsa and Letskaya schools, led by V.M. Masaltsev. They drew up a diagram of the special settlement.