The his­to­ry of the Hill of Cross­es is most­ly built from leg­ends. This place is close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with mul­ti­ple wars and upris­ings. The first few dozens of cross­es were installed here in the 19th cen­tu­ry, and a lit­tle more than 100 years lat­er their num­ber was already sev­er­al thou­sand. In Sovi­et times, it was for­bid­den to bring and install cru­ci­fix­es, but res­i­dents of near­by cities and pil­grims did not give in to their faith and con­tin­ued to do so. In 1961, the author­i­ties of the Union began to clean up the entire sacred ter­ri­to­ry. How­ev­er, such a devel­op­ment of events only kin­dled a fire in the souls of believ­ing cit­i­zens.

To date, the peak has more than 100 thou­sand cru­ci­fix­es and their num­ber is con­stant­ly increas­ing. Now this area has finan­cial sup­port from the Fran­cis­can fri­ars and the munic­i­pal­i­ty of the near­by city of Siau­li­ai.