The Polish cemetery in the specposiolk Yozhma is located in the Piniega region, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Arkhangelsk Region, Russian Federation. It is a cemetery of Poles deported to Siberia in 1940, resettled from the Eastern Borderlands. The Yozhma settlement itself was established in 1930 by dispossessed peasants displaced from central Russia. By 1940, they had been displaced from there, and their place was taken by Poles: 63 families, a total of 279 people. On the strength of a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on an amnesty for Polish citizens of 12 August 1941, the Poles were allowed to leave the settlement. The cemetery lies in the impassable taiga and is deteriorating due to the passage of years and harsh weather conditions.

Piniega ethnographer G.A. Danilova found the grave in the early 1990s. The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in St Petersburg, in 2008, organised an expedition to the former specposiol. As of 2008, nine vertical crosses and separate fragments of about 20 crosses were preserved in the cemetery. Faintly legible inscriptions remain on four crosses.

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