It was issued in 1967 and consists of jazz arrangements of Russian folk songs.

[1] The mixer at recording was Olof Swembel.

The album was originally published by the record company Megafon.

In 2005 a remastered version produced by disc label Heptagon Records was released,[2] with six bonus tracks on the CD and the full recording sessions (around 100 minutes) in a data section as mp3 files.

[3] Jazz på ryska and Jazz på svenska were also compiled together as the single CD Folkvisor in 1988,[4] also reissued on Heptagon 1994.