In August 1991, during the construction of a private house on the outskirts of Solvychegodsk (44 Proletarskaya Street) the remains of 35 individuals were discovered, buried in a common grave. According the Kotlas Sovest (conscience) society, during winter 1930/1931 dekulakized peasant families were being transferred on foot from the Makarikha distribution centre in Kotlas to their allotted places of exile. The road skirted around Solvychegodsk. Those who died on the way or during an overnight stay in one of the transit points of their journey were buried in mass pits by local peasants.

Forensic examination (20 April 1992, Leningrad Region Office of Forensic Medicine) confirmed that the burial of those found in Solvychegodsk took place in 1930. The Kotlas Sovest society took on the task of reburying the remains with the support of the city administration. The ceremony took place on 6 November 1992 in the city cemetery. In August 1994 a memorial (designer, A.M. Saburov) was raised over the grave with the inscription, “To the victims who died on foot in the 1930s”.