The camp in Szybotowo (Szybatov) was one of the six sub-camps in the camp complex No. 270 Borovichi, established by the NKVD in 1941. It was numbered 18, and was located amidst marshes in the valley of the Msta River, north-east of Borovichi. Prior to the arrival of the Poles, as in the other camps of Board 270, there were Germans here, who called this camp Morlager (camp in the marshes). The first transport of Poles arrived in Szybotow on 20.11.1944. In the middle of 1946 all internees were transported to the Ural Mountains to the Kamionka camp near Sverdlovsk. After this transport was cleared, there were no Poles in Szybotow for almost a year. Their place was taken again by German prisoners of war, who were sent home from there. In the spring of 1947, Poles began to be brought to the camp from camps located in various regions of the Soviet Union. Poles stayed in the camp until January 1949.

The cemetery of this sub-camp was established in November 1944 and operated until 1948. After its closure, the cemetery was transferred in 1949 to the further custody of the Borovichi district branch of the Soviet Ministry of the Interior (MVD). In the 1950s the cemetery was liquidated. Its area was razed to the ground and handed over to the kolkhoz "Krasnyj Keramik". A total of 46 people were buried in the cemetery, including 31 Poles, 14 Germans and 1 Austrian.

The cemetery was located in a swampy area, about 3 km east of the village of Szybotowo. It occupied a rectangular area measuring 18 x 20 m and was divided into two plots with a total of 46 individual graves.

In September 1994, as part of the ceremonies in Borovichi, the burial place of Poles was permanently marked with a high wooden cross, the surroundings of which were paved with flagstones. A few dozen metres in front of the cross is a granite plaque placed in 2002 on a low foundation of fieldstones. The plaque was funded by the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites. The inscription (in Polish and Russian) reads: "To the memory of the Polish soldiers of the Home Army imprisoned in 1944-1947 who died in NKVD-MVD gulags No. 270 buried in this cemetery. Compatriots 2002".