A camp outpost at the Elgen state farm existed from 1935 to 1957. It supplied food to the coal-mining operation of the North mining department of Dalstroi (Sevvostlag). Most of the workforce were women and a children’s home was organised here for all infants born in the Dalstroi camps. Those prisoners who died were buried nearby in the woods, as were children who died in the home. From the mid-1950s onwards, the village graveyard where free workers were buried adjoined that of the prisoners and the two became mixed.

Part of the burial ground was ploughed up and lost in the 1970s. Today a significant number of the camp burials of the 1940s-1950s have been preserved, as has part of the children’s cemetery.