Forced settlers of various nationalities were based at Vityunino in the forest. In 1940 Polish citizens deported from land occupied by the USSR in autumn 1939 were sent here.

The area in which the deportees were buried today forms part of Vityunino. The graves have not survived; the names of 34 Poles who died and were buried in Vityunino are known. In 2013 a Russo-Polish youth expedition placed a memorial here (see photo). It reads:

“In memory of the Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Jews and people of other nationality who were victims of dekulakisation and deportation in the 1930s and 1940s and whose remains lie in this graveyard”.