The prisoners at the Seimchan camp outpost worked for the southwest mining department of Sevvostlag (Dalstroi) in the 1940s and 1950s, mining gold and cobalt. Those who died were buried along the road to the Lazo mine. The numbers buried there have not been established.

In the 1980s there were still posts bearing numbers. Subsequently the burial ground was destroyed and the area was used for industrial construction. In 2009 P.I. Malushko, a resident of Seimchan, erected a memorial by the roadside. It bears the words: “This stone was put here in memory of all those who suffered unjustly during the years of Stalinist repression.”