Sub-camp No. 3 of the gulag complex No. 270 Borovichi was established by the NKVD in 1941 and was located about 2 km south of Borovichi. Initially Germans were imprisoned there, and in 1945 also Hungarians and Finns. The first Poles were taken there on 4 February 1945. In total, some 1,500 Poles passed through the camp. The prisoners worked mainly at the "Krasnyj Keramik" ceramics combine, as well as in the nearby mines and in timber floating. In the spring of 1945, a dysentery epidemic broke out in the camp and the camp was briefly closed. In the second half of 1945, Polish prisoners reappeared in the camp and stayed there until early 1946.

The cemetery of this sub-camp was located near the village of Szybotowo, was established (according to the burial register) in 1944 and functioned until July 1951. There is no information about its fate after closure. The cemetery occupies an irregular area 70 m long and 32 m wide. It contains 235 graves in which 916 people are buried.

A total of 916 people are buried in the cemetery, including 686 Germans, 91 Austrians, 67 Poles, 35 Hungarians, 8 French, 7 Estonians, 6 Czechs, 3 each of Dutch, Yugoslavs and Romanians, 2 Lithuanians, a Latvian, a Finn, a Spaniard and a Luxembourger.

In September 1994, as part of a ceremony in Borovichi, the burial place of the Poles was permanently marked with a cross. In 2002, with funds from the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance, a plaque with an eagle sign and Polish and Russian inscription was placed on the stone foundation: "To the memory of Poles / soldiers of the Home Army / imprisoned in 1944-1947 / died in NKVD-MVD camps No. 270 / buried in this cemetery / Compatriots 2002".

In the immediate vicinity of this commemoration are three low granite crosses, commemorating German prisoners of war.