The 2.0 km circular track with a 200 m long branch into the depot was opened on 6 June 1954 as one of the many pioneer railways in the USSR.

A 1.73 m high concrete wall was built 1½ to 2 metres away from the rails in the mid 1970s, to mitigate the risk of erosion.

Members of the Komsomol supported the project, which was also reviewed with great interest by the General Director of the South Sakhalin Railways Michail Olona.

The track in the park for culture and relaxation, which is named after the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was inaugurated on 6 June 1954.

Nikita Khrushchev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union reacted adversely about its construction, which he saw as a waste of public resources, as it became known only 40 years later.