According to information provided by the FSB for the Chuvash Republic, the execution of inhabitants of Alatyr and seven surrounding districts between 1937 and 1942 was carried out at the district headquarters of the NKVD. Those shot were secretly buried in the courtyard.

Since 1975 the building has belonged to the Electrical Instruments factory. The remains of those shot there were first discovered during work in the building in 1973. In the late 1970s one of the burials was accidentally uncovered and the remains were removed to “an unknown location”. In 2002, a memorial plaque was attached to the wall of one of the factory buildings: it reads “May the victims of political repression from 1930 to 1942, buried in Alatyr, never be forgotten”.

In 2009, on the initiative of the Cheboksary-Chuvash Diocese the site of the burials was excavated. Three trenches were discovered, and the remains of 118 individuals were exhumed. Forensic examination confirmed their origin. The following year the remains were reburied [21-04] next to the Chapel of Russia’s New Martyrs and Confessors in the Alatyr town cemetery. On 30 October 2011, a memorial complex dedicated to the victims of political repression was opened there.