In January and February 1942, the redeployment of the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR (General Anders' Army) from the Russian Federative Soviet Socialist Republic to the Central Asian republics took place. Units of the 7th Infantry Division were located in what was then the Navarre region. Karmana was home to Epidemic Hospital No. 2 and Soviet Hospital No. 4460.
Many soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division and civilian Poles died as a result of the typhus epidemic, as well as general exhaustion. Of those who were laid to rest in the Karmana-Stacja cemetery, the majority died in epidemic hospital No. 2. They were buried in a dedicated area surrounded by an earth embankment.
A visit by staff of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance in 1999 resulted in the discovery of clear traces of a Polish military quarter near the railway station, next to the tracks, in the former Orthodox cemetery. The regular rows of earthen graves, their layout and position in relation to the railway line were consistent with the archival map. However, it was not possible to locate the exact resting places of individual soldiers and isolate the graves.
The scope of the reconstruction work in 2001 was to surround the 1510 m2 cemetery with a low stone wall, to erect a monument where the central element had stood during the war, to restore and wall the rows of graves and to lay tombstones with the relief of a cross and the alphabetised names of the buried soldiers at the beginning of each row, on the approach side of the monument.
The current central monument is a milepost with a distinctive rectangular shape, uniform to all rebuilt cemeteries in Central Asia, topped by an eagle bas-relief. Its form refers to the soldier's wandering. Engraved on the monument is the text: Here rest / Poles / 444 soldiers / of the Polish Army / in the East / of General Wl. Anders/ and civilians / former prisoners of war / prisoners / of Soviet camps / who died in 1942 / on their way to their homeland / Honour their memory/.
In 2014. The OPWiM Council replaced the name plates in order to make them more legible. On this occasion, the inscription was corrected, and additional plaques included the then established names of civilians resting in this cemetery. The plaques now commemorate 443 soldiers and 267 civilians.
Following the abolition of the OPWiM Council, the care of the cemetery is funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In 2017. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage replaced the plaques at the entrance to the cemetery, informing about the institution taking care of it (two plaques - in Polish and Uzbek).
The Ministry is conducting research to establish a census of civilians buried in cemeteries in Central Asia. The acquisition of new sources will allow the lists of the buried to be re-verified. This is important in the case of the two cemeteries in Karmana, as there are discrepancies in the available documentation regarding the location of some burials.

Compiled by R. Piątek / MKiDN, X 2025