Students learned that during Nazi occupation of Gorlovka   trains with Soviet war prisoners had passed through city railway junctions. A part of prisoners died of extremely bad conditions of transportation and a large number of wounded. Hitlerites threw out bodies of the dead from cars on railroad tracks. On the station Gorlovka during 1941-1943 there were multiple burials of died war prisoners around the railway embankment.

In 1952 about 100 bodies were reburied at the station square of the station. On November 7, 1961 bodies of war prisoners, found in the territory of concentration camps in the city, were carried into the grave. At that time the monument was erected. In total there were 504 buried persons. There are no data on the dead's names.

Students care of the monument will become one more important link in preservation of memory of the Great Patriotic War and help in youth patriotic education.