In 1941, in response to the 16 May 1941 Politburo resolution, more than 250 deported Lithuanian men, women and children arrived in Tenga village. The adults worked in the fields, logging timber and at a vegetable-growing State farm (sovkhoz). Those who died were buried in a separate section of the village graveyard according to Catholic rites, and crosses and name plates were placed on their graves. The total numbers who died then are not known.

In 1990, former deportees and their relations visited the graveyard and put up a wooden commemorative cross. In 1991, Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna studied the graveyard,  carried out a photo survey, and uncovered two graves with surviving headboards. In August 2012, members of the “Destination, Siberia!” youth expedition from Lithuania worked in the graveyard. They cleared the territory and raised the fallen crosses.