The special settlement at Safonovo was established in the early 1930s for dekulakized peasant families. In 1944 they were joined by deportees from the Crimea: Armenians, Greeks, Bulgarians and Crimean Tatars  (see Deportees in the Alexandrovsk district). The deportees who died here were buried in individual and mass graves. Their exact number is unknown.

In 2004, a wooden post bearing an explanatory board was erected at the graveyard by members of the Perm Youth Memorial, taking part in a “Rivers of Memory” expedition. In 2007, members of Perm Youth Memorial, again part of a Rivers of Memory expedition, and the Olympus hiking club from Alexandrovsk, replaced the first sign with a cross made of birch. The attached board reads:

“In memory of the victims of political repression. In the 1930s to 1950s the Safonovo special settlement was located here. About two hundred families of dekulakized peasants and deported citizens from Crimea (about 700 people in all) were here; many of them never left. This commemorative sign was erected by participants of the Rivers of Memory expedition in August 2007.”