In 1937 and 1938, during the Great Terror, mass executions and burials of prisoners from Vologda Prison took place on the outskirts of Chashnikovo village. Local historians believe that no less than a thousand bodies are buried here (the exact number is unknown).

In 1990 the prosecutor’s office and the Vologda Region KGB exhumed the remains of those executed and subjected them to forensic expertise. In 1997 a commemorative cross was raised on the site. In 2007 a wooden chapel dedicated to St. Anastasia of Sirmium was built next to the cross. The building was funded by a nun from the Orthodox nunnery in Bussy-en-Othe (Burgundy) and the chapel comes under the Archepiscopal metochion in Vologda. On the outer wall of the chapel is a memorial plaque dedicated to Anastasia, a nun shot in Vologda in January 1938; inside the chapel there is information about priests from the region who were shot during the Great Terror.