Outpost No. 1 of the Kuibyshev Region’s corrective-labour camps was set up in 1939 near the Gavrilova Polyana settlement. It existed until 1954 and twice changed its subordination to other camp systems. By status it was intended for the disabled: prisoners with respiratory diseases and category 2 invalids were transferred there. According to Samara historian V. Yerofeyev the prisoners at the outpost worked at a sawmill and made boots of leather and felt. On 1 January 1950 the outpost had 2,487 inmates. Those who died were buried between the Podgory and Gavrilova Polyana settlements not far from the camp. At present grave mounds have survived and there is subsidence over the burials. In summer 1990 members of the Kuibyshev (now Samara) Memorial Society erected a commemorative cross with a name plate over the burials.

On 10 July 2011 participants in the “Belukha” gathering at the burial site raised and consecrated a memorial in the guise of a brick wall. The inscription on the plaque reads: “Traveller, bow your head before a place where an enormous number of innocents slain at Gavrilova Polyana in 1939-1954 lie buried… Remember this location: Samarskaya Luka, the Belukha burial, Borisov Stone. It must never happen again”. The organisers of the event were: the informal local study group at the metal foundry of the Volga automobile works in Togliatti led by Galina Taranova; the Parkway organisation in aid of Russia’s national parks; the Volzhsky district museum of history and local studies (director Yelena Chertova); the EcoLuka hiking club (Samara); and the Samara regional branch of the Molodaya gvardiya organisation. In 2012 a stylised barred window in wrought iron made at the Volzhsky district museum was added to the memorial.

On 2 June 2015 yet another memorial was added to the cemetery of the prisoners of Neftestroilag. It was dedicated to 18 generals and high-ranking figures from the defence industry who were shot near the Barbish settlement by the NKVD on 28 October 1941 without investigation or trial. Among them were nine generals including four Heroes of the Soviet Union, one of whom had twice been decorated with the award. Permission to place the monument in the cemetery had been obtained earlier A.V. Balandin, from the head of the Volzhsky municipal district administration. The Obelisk memorial enterprise laid the foundations and erected the monument.