One of the first works of director Vladimir Degtyarev, where successfully used folk painting.
The animation is based on a Russian folk tale, the character of Father Frost is unchanged here.
1957 - Prize at the XI Edinburgh Film Festival (Scotland).
In the 1990s, the animation was released on videotapes in the collection of the best Soviet cartoons Studio PRO Video, since 1994 - the concern-studio "Union".
In 2006 was published on DVD in the collection of animations.