A special settlement called Mogilny Yar was set up for dekulakized peasant families in 1933. After 1939 it was known as the Novy Vasyugan village. In the 1940s deportees from the Baltic States and the Caucasus were brought there. The men, women and children who died were buried in common and individual graves in a separate graveyard on the banks of the Vasyugan river. Subsequently most of the area was used for building and allotments and only a small section covered in young pine trees remained.

In 1989 Yu. Lehtrandt and K. Tuulik came there from Estonia. Former inmates of the Togursky and Aipolovsky children’s homes for orphaned deportees, they erected a cross in the graveyard in memory of their dead compatriots bearing the word “Memento”. In 1996 former exiles erected a memorial to all who died in Vasyugan; the costs were covered by the Tomsk Regional and Kargasoksky district administrations. The next year Tomsk writer V.N. Maksheyev, himself a former forced settler put up a monument (designer V.N. Moroz), paid for by the district administration, “In memory of the victims of political repression, 1931-1951”. During the 2000s personal memorials were placed in the graveyard for those who died in exile: O.F. and S.N. Maksheyeva (1936-1942), M.V. Karamzina (1940-1942) and N. Paulsen.