The song was authored by Marija Nikolaevna Griškina (born: Lel′khova), a Tugijany resident of Paštory birth. Of the old woman's own relatives, only her older sister was alive. On the occasion of a New Year, she decided to visit her native village with her sister and spend the holiday with her childhood girlfriend. She had a joyful welcome in the village, young people also joined their company. The song preserves the memory of this New Year celebration party in the early 1950s. The habit of occasional improvisation during partying (and drinking) is alive among the older generation of Ob-Ugric people to this day. Such songs may contain motives from the author's other songs (most often from the introductory part), and the parts describing the occasion and praising the company are connected to these. In longer works, the author touches on his or her social relations and own status, as well as the wider context: the motives are taken from the appropriate song types with a more permanent text (conflict, self-praising, village praising, etc. songs) and organised in a new unity. Songs improvised during partying, hosting guests do not really have thematic constraints, but the likelihood of the occurrence of certain themes is greater in keeping with the occasion. All the songs are characterised by a subjective, expressive tone and a loose method of structuring, simple sentence construction and metric solutions resulting from the improvisation. The general Ostjak term for the songs is: wŭna jaśti ar ʽwine/vodka drinking song'. The present song belongs to the main type of these, which is characterised by not diverting very much from the theme offered by the occasion (thus it is also shorter than the average Ostjak song) and is meant especially as a gift for the host and the whole company in exchange for the good atmosphere. The performance of songs and improvising usually takes place in the second half of the party, when the mood is more elevated. Participants sing independently from each other (often simultaneously), basically to themselves. Listeners in the literal sense rarely emerge – apart from the case when a well known song is "ordered" from one of the better singers. When someone wants to perform a song of "public interest", they can request silence from the participants, but if the listeners find the song to be too long, they continue the disrupted conversation after a while. The present song type gets more than average attention because it is short, fits the occasion and it is a gift. Some of the people present remember it right away, which increases the chances of its survival. The song can be performed, that is, re-improvised on other similar occasions (e.g. if an earlier party is mentioned later among the same circumstances). They keep record of its authorship, another person can also sing it remembering the creator. The author can change the core text as he or she pleases, adapting it to a new occasion. The performer heard the present song when he was traveling to Polnovat on a horse-drawn sleigh, and the author was traveling with her sister to Paštory at the same time, singing. This was probably not his only opportunity for getting to know the song. Josif Griškin's performance style is improvised, it probably does not reflect the full text. The simple sentence structure and the repetition of words in the verbal lines may also come from the performer.