The burial ground for prisoners building Vorkutlag mineshafts Nos. 5 and 7, living at nearby camp outposts, was located in the Severny (northern) settlement, at the confluence of the Vorkuta and Ayach-Yaga rivers. They were buried in both individual and common graves.

In the mid-1990s, the Ukrainian Association of the Repressed erected a memorial cross in the cemetery bearing a headboard that read, in Ukrainian: “Never forget the Victims of Communist Terror, Warriors for Ukraine’s Freedom”. In 2007, a monument was added to the cemetery commemorating Hungarian POWs who died in the camps of Vorkuta. Two years later Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna studied the cemetery, carried out a photo survey, and drew up a plan of the disposition of the Lithuanian burials. Four graves with headboards were discovered.