Song: За Седьмым Перевалом
Recommend a cover by Plamenev: https://youtu.be/NJvpt7swmk8?si=LFIN6fdaE0cYYKLj

History explanation:

After the October Revolution and further Civil war in Russia 1917-1922, in place of the overthrown Russian Empire, built on the "superiority of the Russian nation" (like all empires), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed with the introduction of new features not previously inherent in politics. One of them was "The right of a people to self-determination". Based on this, even during the Civil War, the formation of small national institutions and regions began. In 1918, the People's Commissariat for Education issues the resolution "School and higher education of small nationalities", according to it the schools and universities in new-formed national republics and regions have a right to study and teach in their native languages."

In 1935, the All-Union Central Executive Committee issued a decree on "Preserving the culture of the national minorities of the USSR". First of all, the decree concerned cultural exchange.

According to it, in 1936, the People's Commissariat for Education issued a all-union literature project "Fairy tales of the peoples of the USSR". Project was a collection of books collected folklore of each nationality of the USSR. The first collection was published in 1939 and was a 350-pages book with tales of 32 nationalities. Later new publications were getting new tales and some nationalities received the whole separate books. One of them was "Fairy tales of the Altaians" (a group of tribes of the Altai Mountains on the border of modern Russia and Mongolia).

Among these tales was one named "Torko-Chachak" (which means a silk paintbrush) about the girl of the same name who traveled for a magical flower collected and translated by a soviet child literature writer Anna Graph and an altai writer Pavel Kuchiak. This tale was turned into a doll-made cartoon by the same name in 1977 and since now this is one of the most recognizable soviet song for kids