In 1937-1940, executions and burials of those executed in Cheboksary, the capital of Chuvashia, during and after the Great Terror, took place near the vegetable storage facilities next to the gullies on Kazanskaya and Cheboksary Streets, and also in the courtyard of the former police headquarters on Yaroslavskaya Street.

In 1956, the remains of those executed were reburied in cemetery No 1 (42a Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street). The cemetery was closed in 1965. In 1991 a memorial was placed on the reburial site thanks to the city authorities who proposed and paid for the project. The memorial is a wall of concrete blocks pierced by a star-shaped hole set against metal bars: next to it stands a red granite pillar bearing the words, “To the victims of political repression, 1930s to 1950s”.