In 1942-1947 forced settlers, mainly Lithuanians and Finns deported from the Leningrad Region, were based on the Trofimovsk Island in the delta of the Lena river. They were put to work, preparing and processing fish. Those exiled there recall that half the settlement’s population died in 1941-1943. The first burials were in common graves, shared by Finns and Lithuanians. The numbers who were buried then has not been established; lists of the Lithuanian deportees have been published in Lithuania. In 1949 the factory closed. In the mid-1950s the settlement was shut down and the cemetery abandoned.

Storms destroyed the burial area. In 1989 a Lithuanian expedition erected a memorial at the cemetery. An inscription in four languages (Lithuanian, Russian, Yakut and Finnish) reads: “Forcibly torn from their native land, fallen but not forgotten”. There were reports that, as of 2014, neither the burials nor the memorial had survived since the island had sunk beneath the water.