In May 1933, Polevoe village became a special settlement for dekulakized peasant families, deported from the Penza, Chelyabinsk, Rostov, and Stavropol Regions. The special settlement cemetery was used from 1933 to the mid-1940s, when the inhabitants of Polevoe village began to bury their dead in a new graveyard. The numbers of forced settlers who died and were buried here has not been established; an incomplete list of those who died in 1933 (24 men, women, and children) has been compiled from documents at the civil registry office. Later a repair workshop for the Polevoi State farm was built on part of the old cemetery.

In 2003, staff at the Birilyussky local history museum, with the help of long-term residents of the village, determined the location of the old cemetery. On 25 June 2005, thanks to the efforts of the Birilyussky museum and Father Sergei (Makhanko), incumbent of the Church of the Holy Trinity (Novobirilyussy village), a memorial cross was erected there with a marble commemorative plaque: “This memorial has been erected over the first burial place of those repressed in the 1930s”. In summer 2008, pupils from the Polevoe school helped to put up a metal fence around the memorial and two seats of metal and wood.