[2] In 1957 she performed at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow with an amateur ensemble under the direction of Yury Saulsky and was awarded a Laureate prize.

[3] Wide popularity came to her starting in the early 1960s when she recorded the song "Dva Berega" ("We are Two Banks of the Same River") from the 1959 movie Thirst.

[4] Maya Kristalinskaya toured the country a lot, worked with the jazz orchestras of Eddie Rosner and Oleg Lundstrom, with the ensemble of Evgeny Rokhlin.

[7] In 1984, after the death of Kristalinskaya’s second husband, Eduard Barclay (he died on June 15, 1984, from a stroke caused by complications of diabetes), the singer’s illness worsened.

[8] Nikolai Ovchinnikov (Afisha) in the article "10 best and most amazing albums with Soviet songs" described Kristalinskaya's debut LP as "an ideal portrait of the main singer of the sixties", who was equally subject to waltz, jazz, and movie buffs.