The song was authored in the early 1940s by Marija Jefimovna Smolina. In the Ob-Ugric folklore material that has become known so far, the present song is the only proof that personal songs could also be created in the name of another person. The story of the song's creation is as follows. The author's husband went to his hunting area higher up along the Little Sos′va and to the summer hunting lodge standing there by boat. Marija Jefimovna and her 12-year-old son stayed at home in Tunzingort village, this was where they expected the head of the family to return. On the morning of the day of the arrival, the little boy came up with the idea of composing a song in his father's name. They looked for the adequate tune first, which they quickly found in an old personal song motive. In the morning, Marija Jefimovna roughly shaped the text, which they sang together with the little boy to make it polished by the time the father's arrival. Later on, the boy also practiced it on a dombra, and when Smolin arrived at sundown, they already performed it for him with instrumental accompaniment. The song was to his liking, he even learned it, but during collection it never even occurred to him to perform it as his own song, all the more so as he authored longer personal songs than this one himself, Marija Jefimovna sang it as her own creation, with the label ʻMy song made for my husband'. The song is a typical man's ʻroad song' (similar ones are sometimes mentioned by the name ʻhunting song' by collectors), with a loose, impressionistic structure composed of well-known formulas.