The animated film is based on the tale of the same name by Vitaliy Gubarev.
Alla Pugacheva's song was used in the cartoon.
In the 1990s, an audio fairy tale based on the cartoon with the text of Aleksandr Pozharov was released on audio cassettes by Twic Lyrec.
The cartoon was repeatedly released on DVD in cartoons collection: "World of Adventures", "Soyuzmultfilm".