In 1942-1947, forced settlers from the Leningrad Region (mainly Finns), deported Lithuanians and forcibly mobilised inhabitants of Yakutia’s Churpanchinsky district, were all sent to the Muostakh headland to work in the fishing industry. There was high mortality among the deportees in the winter of 1942/1943 due to hunger, cold and infectious diseases. The graveyard was built on a high bank above the sea and the dead were buried in individual graves. The numbers buried there have not been established; a list of Lithuanian deportees has been published in Lithuania. At the end of the 1940s the fishery closed, the settlers dispersed, and the graveyard was abandoned. Storms destroyed much of the graveyard and many of the burials were washed into the sea.

In 1989, an expedition from Lithuania erected a monument in the graveyard. The inscription in four languages (Lithuanian, Russian, Yakut and Finnish) reads: “Forcibly torn from their native land, fallen but not forgotten”.