The cemetery of the NKVD Special Hospital No. 4791 was established in August 1945 on the basis of a permit issued by the local authorities on 13.08.1945 to set aside an area for the burial of deceased prisoners. There is no information in the documentation about the date of the official closure of the cemetery, but according to the census of the buried people burials were carried out there until May 1949.

A total of 284 people are buried at the cemetery, including 200 Germans, 46 or 47 Poles, 10 Hungarians, 8 Austrians, 1 Belarusian, 1 Czech, 1 Lithuanian, 1 Moldovan, 1 Romanian, 1 Kalmuk and 12 unidentified. Among the buried were soldiers of the Home Army, transported to Skopin from the camp in Ryazan-Diagilev, and the commander of the Lublin District of the Home Army, Brigadier General Kazimierz Tumidajski, pseud. "Marcin", born 1897, died 4.07.1947. As a result of the efforts of his daughter Wanda, he was exhumed to Lublin on 18.07.1991.

The fate of the cemetery in the period after 1949 is not known. In 1991 the existence of the cemetery was revealed by the Ryazan branch of the Memorial Association. The necropolis was renovated in 1996 at the expense of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance and the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (National Association of German War Graves Care). Soon afterwards, on 20.10.1996, an act of vandalism was carried out on the renovated cemetery - all the Polish crosses and some of the German crosses were destroyed. Iron pipes that were part of the fence were stolen. The damage was repaired in 1999.

The cemetery, located approximately 2.5 km north-west of the village of Nowikowo, occupies a square measuring 100 x 60 m and is divided into two parts: in the south-eastern part there are 203 graves in 8 rows, in the north-western part there are 3 plots with 25 graves each. 3 plots with 25 graves each and 1 plot with 1 grave. In the Polish section there are 47 crosses with the names of the buried and the dates of their lives and a plaque informing about the exhumation of General Tumidajski with the inscription: "Commander of the Lublin District / of the Home Army / Gen. Kazimierz Tumidajski / 1897-1947 / exhumed in 1991 / Rests in Lublin". In addition, in the cemetery there is a cross dedicated to the Hungarian prisoners of war and a central cross, and at its foot there are two inscription plaques; one of them, with an inscription in Polish and Russian, reads: "Cemetery of the NKVD Special Hospital No. 4791 / Here rest in eternal sleep / prisoners of war and internees / 201 Germans, 46 Poles, 9 Hungarians, 8 Austrians".