In 1942-1947, forced settlers from the Leningrad Region (mainly Finns), and deported Lithuanians were sent to Bykovsky Mys. There was high mortality among the deportees in 1942 and 1943. A plot for a graveyard was selected on the seaward side of the settlement, and cracks in the permafrost were used for graves. In the second half of the 1940s the fishery closed, the settlers dispersed and the graveyard was abandoned. The numbers buried there have not been established; a list of Lithuanian deportees has been published in Lithuania. Over time a considerable part of the graveyard was washed into the sea and a majority of the graves were lost.

In 1989, an expedition of former Lithuanian deportees visited the area and erected individual and collective commemorative signs in the cemetery. They also put up a memorial in the village with an inscription in four languages (Lithuanian, Russian, Yakut and Finnish) which reads: “Forcibly torn from their native land, fallen but not forgotten”.