From 1935 to 1953 the central hospital for Volgolag (and subsequent camps) was located near Sterlyadovo village, which is now part of Rybinsk. Prisoners who died in the hospital were buried both in individual and mass graves. The exact numbers buried there are unknown.

Among the dead was the poet and translator Anna Radlova (1891-1949). Her grave was identified by an archaeological team of students from school No 15 in Rybinsk and in September 2005 a marble gravestone was added to mark the site. A wooden cross, with the inscription “To the victims of Volgolag. This is a place of mass burial”, was erected on the former cemetery. On 25 November 2010 the Rybinsk city administration paid for the cross to be replaced by a wrought-iron, open-work metal cross bearing a plaque with the words: “Stop here and bow your heads. Before you is the official burial of those who died in the Volgolag central hospital in 1935-1953.”