In the 1940s the burial ground of Intalag lay outside Inta settlement in the wooded tundra. Prisoners from the commandant’s camp outpost No. 1 were buried there in the early 1940s; after 1948 it became the burial ground for female prisoners from division 4 and male prisoners from division 6 of Minlag. In 1940-1950 the area was also occasionally used for civilian burials.

By the end of the 1950s all grave-markers had disappeared and by 1979 only external indications of the burials remained: mounds and characteristic areas of subsidence. In the 1980s building of residential buildings began and human remains were repeatedly found during construction work. In August 1990 the Inta Memorial society erected a monument “To the victims of Stalinism” in the courtyard of residential blocks at Nos 26 and 28 on Mir Street on the site of the cemetery.