Since its inception, the band has participated in a variety of Russian musical festivals — from the underground (such as Babye Leto and Moguchaya Kuchka) to the major events (Nashestvie, Maxidrom, Krylya), as well as touring extensively domestically and abroad.

The majority of the songs in the band's repertoire is written by Arbenina and Surganova, but some use the poetry of such famous authors as Joseph Brodsky, Anna Akhmatova, and Federico García Lorca.

[1] The official date of Nochnye Snaipery's creation can be considered August 19, 1993 when Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova met in Saint Petersburg.

Soon afterwards, they performed as an acoustic duo at the Second All-Russian Bard Song Festival, after which Arbenina returned to her home city of Magadan, and the creative project was placed on hiatus.

In May 1994, Nochnye Snaipery won a regional round of the All-Russian Musical Competition "Student Spring" and traveled west to Samara for the finals, eventually moving back to St. Petersburg.

Getting more notoriety, Arbenina and Surganova sought help from the bands Ulme and Kuzya-band in recording some of their songs, which later would make up the album Detskiy Lepet ("Child's Babble"), published in 1999.

In the summer of 1998, they used an auditorium at the St Petersburg Zoo to record their first official album Kaplya Diogtia/V Botchke Meda ("Drop of tar/In a barrel of honey"), which was sold on audio tapes.

Loseva also introduced Nochnye Snaipery to bassist Igor Kopylov and drummer Albert Potapkin, musicians from the iconic Russian rock group Nautilus Pompilius, who began to perform with the band.

Nochnye Snaipery gave their first real international concerts in Germany and United States, where the group's popularity was assured by the large numbers of immigrant youth.

[citation needed] Surganova's departure called for a radical change in the musical style of the band – instead of replacing the string instruments with another musician, Nochnye Snaipery acquired a keyboardist (first Alexei Samarin, then Airat Sadykov).

Diana Arbenina performed in multiple memorial concerts as an acoustic solo musician, including Svoya Koleya ("Own Track"), commemorating Vladimir Vysotsky and In Memoriam Bulat Okudjava in Peredelkino.