Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Daga farkon 1920s har zuwa ƙarshen 1940s a duk lokacin tsarkakewar Stalinist, gwamnatin Soviet ta kwashe gawarwakin fursunonin siyasa da aka azabtar da su zuwa gandun daji na Pine a wajen ƙauyen Bykivnia kuma suka binne su a cikin kabari wanda ya mamaye. Ya zuwa yanzu, an gano kaburbura daban-daban guda 210 ta masana kimiyyar kayan tarihi na Poland da Ukraine da ke aiki a wurin. A lokacin da Soviet ke janyewa a farkon matakan Operation Barbarossa, sojojin Red Army sun daidaita ƙauyen zuwa ƙasa. Jamusawa ne suka gano wannan wurin da aka binne mutane da yawa tare da sauran wuraren a duk faɗin Tarayyar Soviet. Koyaya, bayan gano kisan gillar Katyn, wuraren binne na Bykivnya ba su zama wani ɓangare na farfagandar Jamus ba. Bayan da Soviet ta sake kama yankin a lokacin yakin basasa na Soviet.
Yakin Kiev na biyu a 1943, NKVD ya sake sanya shafin a matsayin sirri. A cikin shekarun 1950 an sake gina ƙauyen a matsayin ƙauyen Kyiv. A cikin shekarun 1970s hukumomin Soviet sun shirya gina babban tashar bas a wurin da aka binne gawawwakin, amma an yi watsi da shirin.