From the mid-1930s up until 1953 corrective-labour colony No. 8 was based at the 47th kilometre of the Cherlaksky Road. One of the camp burial grounds was on land (around School Street) that subsequently became part of the Rechnoi settlement. In the 1960s-1980s construction of residential and commercial buildings took over part of the land. For decades the local inhabitants came across human remains on their allotments.

In 1991 an Orthodox cross was erected and consecrated on the site of the burial ground on the territory of the soon to be restored neighbouring nunnery. The following year part of the remains were gathered and preserved in a symbolic common grave [55-11] in the lower side-chapel of the Achair Nunnery church. In 2011 more of the remains recently found in Rechnoi settlement were reburied at the foot of the cross.

The next year a memorial bearing the inscription, “To the victims of mass repression from Gulag labour colony No. 8” was placed next to the cross. It was paid for by funds raised by the pupils of the Rechnoi middle school.