In 1736 Darkemen became a garrison town. In April 1892 here came the Battalion of 59. Infantry Regiment. The soldiers were quartered on private flats and in October 1892 they were moved to the barracks built on ul. Pograniczna (Pogranichnaya). During the next few years the building of the garrison had been continued. The last building – a lazaretto – had been finished in 1901. The garrison was dissolved according to the resolution of the Treaty of Versailles of 1915, and after that, the buildings were used for social purposes. From 1918, the citizens who had lost their houses have inhabited them.