At the beginning of 1930 the labour settlement at Sukhaya was set up by dekulakized peasant families – Russians, Belorussians and Ukrainians. (The Kirov Region Book of Remembrance lists members of the Mylnikov family who were deported in 1931; several more were born in the settlement.)

Later they were joined [displaced] by Latvia, Estonian and Soviet German deportees. As of 1939 they came under the Solikamsk district special NKVD commandant. Information from national and regional archives states that there were 489 forced settlers (133 families) at Sukhaya on 1 July 1939. Four years later, in 1943 there were 388 individuals making up 127 families.

It is not known when the settlement closed down officially. Between the 1930s and 1950s those forced settlers and deportees who died were buried in a separate cemetery in individual graves. Their total number is unknown. On 22 July 2004 members of Perm Youth Memorial Society taking part in the “Rivers of Memory” expedition raised a 3-metre-high commemorative cross in the cemetery with a wooden board that reads: In Memory of the Victims of Political Repression. To the forced settlers of Sukhaya village, 1930s to 1950s). The memorial was designed by Robert Latypov. Today the inscription is hard to read and needs renovation.