The cemetery on the right bank of the Small Northern Dvina, close to the Zaovrazhe railway station on the Kirov line and within the boundaries of the town of Kotlas, emerged in 1939 as a camp cemetery that was used by the hospital of one of the subdivisions of the Kotlas camp (KotlasLag). Between 1941-1943 it was the burial site for prisoners, special settlers and labour army workers who were building the Kotlas railway bridge (object No.10). They were buried in mass graves. Approximately 20,000 people are buried here (their names and the exact number of those buried are not known). From the late 1940s inhabitants of the village of Bor were buried here. In the late 1950s part of the cemetery was closed and an industrial plant was built on the territory. In 1995, the general consulate of the Republic of Poland in St Petersburg and the Kotlas-based society “Sovest’” [“Conscience”] initiated the erection of a catholic cross in the memory of those who were killed or died in the camps of Kotlas. In 2005, human remains that had been found during road works were reburied in the cemetery. In 2006 the “Sovest’” society initiated the erection of a memorial to those to died during the building of the bridge. (Photograph 5 June 2009).