Under the terms of the Polish-Soviet Pact signed on 30.07.1941 in London (the so-called Sikorski-Mayski Pact), and then the military agreement signed in Moscow on 14.08.1941, units of the Polish Army under the command of General Władysław Anders were created on the territory of the USSR. The command and staff of the Army were deployed in Buzuluk (the building housing these institutions has survived to the present day). Poles who had been deported by the Soviet authorities after the outbreak of World War II were drawn to join the formed troops from all parts of the USSR. Due to the considerable degree of exhaustion from hunger and disease, the mortality rate in the Polish army was considerable. Among others, on 11.12.1942, Father Kazimierz Woźnicki, the rector of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Lutsk, who had been arrested by the NKVD on 2.06.1940 and sent to labour camps in the Arkhangelsk region, died here from exhaustion. In January 1942, there was a relocation of Polish troops to the Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Kazakh republics. The graves of 6 Polish army soldiers and an undetermined number of civilians gathering with the army remain in the Buzuluk cemetery. This place was called the 'Polish cemetery' for a long time. A large oak cross stood on it, which disappeared completely in the 1970s. In 1995, only an area measuring 2.5 x 3.5 m remained of the former Polish quarters. Today, a bright metal cross stands here on a narrow concrete pedestal, with a slab at its foot into which a plaque with an inscription that reads: 'To the Soldiers of the Polish Army of General Wladyslaw Anders 1941-1942'. The soldiers' graves have been obliterated over time, so a symbolic grave of these soldiers has been placed in the cemetery. The inscription engraved on this memorial reads: "In memory of the soldiers and officers of the Polish Army in the USSR commanded by General Władysław Anders, who died in Buzuluk between 1941 and 1942, resting in this cemetery / in tribute - Compatriots / Lt. Col. Jerzy Jampolski / Lt. Col. Wiesław Powierża age 33 / Sgt. Stanisław Brzozowski aged 45 / Sgt. Julian Cindler aged 48 / Platoon Sergeant Jakub Miliżarek aged 46 / Cpl. Piotr Olszewski aged 55 / and others whose names could not be determined". At the bottom of the slab is engraved text in Russian, not including the names of the soldiers.