The special settlements, Nizhnaya Glushitsa and Lokshor, were established to house Polish citizens deported in 1940 from the Polish territories annexed to the USSR in 1939. Both settlements were located in the forest, 10 km from each other. The settlers worked mainly in logging. The special settlement regime was abolished after the amnesty of 12.08.1941. The last Polish families left in May 1944 and the settlements were abandoned.
The cemetery for the dead deportees was arranged in the coniferous forest on a hill. According to a resident of a nearby settlement, mounds and Catholic grave crosses were still preserved in the cemetery in the 1970s. None of them have survived to this day. Neither the number nor name lists of those buried in the cemetery can be established.

Compiled by T. Zachara / MKiDN, VI 2025

Teresa Zachara (MKiDN)