In 1941, in response to the 16 May 1941 Politburo resolution, deported Lithuanians were allocated to the Ozernoe village in the Ongudaisky district. Their exact number is unknown. Those who died were buried according to Catholic rites in a separate section of the graveyard, with crosses and name plates on their graves. The total numbers who died have not been established; only ten names are known. In 1965, a former deportee Julija Čekanauskienė who had stayed behind in Ozernoe, erected a memorial in the graveyard to fellow Lithuanians who had died there in exile: it took the form of a cairn surmounted by a Catholic cross.

In 1990, former deportees and their relations visited the graveyard and put up a wooden commemorative cross there. In 1991, Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna studied the graveyard,  carried out a photo survey, uncovered 12 graves with surviving headboards, and drew up a plan of their layout. In August 2012, members of the “Destination, Siberia” youth expedition from Lithuania worked in the graveyard. They cleared the territory, restored the 1965 monument, raised the 1990 cross which had fallen down, and painted the fence around Julija Čekanauskienė’s grave.