The “Victims of War and Repression” Memorial Complex is located in the cemetery of NKVD central camp No 178-454 for Prisoners of War and internees, known as Ryazan-Dyagilevo or the German Cemetery. The complex was created in 1990-1994 through the joint efforts of the Ryazan Memorial Society, the Roks joint stock company, the German National Union for Preserving the Graves of War Victims, Munster city council and the Polish Council for the Preservation of the Memorials to Struggle and Martyrdom. The project was supported by the Ryazan city administration and the administration of the Ryazan Region.

On 26 May 1993, the remains of two hundred people shot during the Great Terror were reburied here in a common grave. They had been found during the building of residential accommodation on the wasteland adjoining the Lazarevskoe cemetery [62-04]. With the agreement of the city administration, the reburial took place in the southern part of the Memorial Complex where there were no graves of prisoners of war or internees. An orthodox cross was placed on the common grave. That same year it was stolen. Subsequently, three commemorative signs erected by the Ryazan Memorial Society in 1994, 1996 and 2001 were also removed.

In 2003, Ryazan Memorial placed a new commemorative sign over the grave, reading “Two hundred Soviet citizens are buried here”. On 30 October 2012, a memorial (designed by V. Gorbunov and P. Boyarinov) to inhabitants of Ryazan [and the Ryazan Region] who were victims of political repression was erected here. The initiative behind the latest commemorative sign came from the regional commission “for Restoring the Rights of Rehabilitated Victims of Political Repression”, with support from the city administration. This commemorative site has been included in the educational tour, “Ryazan: The Topography of Terror”.