The east burial ground of Intalag arose in the mid-1940s next to camp outpost No. 2 and was located 1.5 kms away. The prisoners were buried in individual graves marked by posts bearing numbers. From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s this was part of the city cemetery where the inhabitants of Inta, including exiles, were buried. Common graves of miners who died in accidents were to be found here.

In 1956 imprisoned Latvians erected a memorial to their deceased compatriots before returning to Latvia. The memorial “Dzimtenei” (Motherland) was designed by the sculptor Edvards Sidrabs, then still a prisoner, and the former prisoner Adolf Puntulis, who was then in “perpetual exile” in the town. The work was done in secret; the memorial was created from concrete sections and erected in the course of a single night. It was unveiled on 29 July 1956 before an audience of almost 200, consecrated by Latvian priest, to the singing of the Latvian national anthem. In 1962 the cemetery was closed and abandoned.

In 1989 an action group from the Vostochnaya (eastern) mine cleared and tidied the burial ground and restored the surviving monuments. On 18 August 1990 the “Rupintojelis” (lamenting Christ) memorial was erected by the Vilnius Society of Political Exiles: it was consecrated by Bishop Kazimir Vasilauskas, a former Intalag prisoner. The sculptor was Jonas Judisus, son of brigadier-general I. Judisus who died in captivity in Abez. The inscription, in the Lithuanian, Komi and Russian languages, reads:

“To Those Who did Not Return” (Negrižusįems / Тiянлы, кодъяс эз воны бöр / «Невернувшимся» Lietuva)