[1] Panchenko, a math expert with an interest in ethnomusicology, founded the group during perestroika.
His interest in Kazakh and Turkmen music influenced Tovarisch's folk-punk like sound.
Panchenko and Serhii Myasoyedov created the musical union "Novaya Scena" to fuel the growing underground culture of Kharkiv - the name "novaya scena" went on to be used as a label for the Ukrainian underground culture as a whole in this period among westerners.
[2] The group ended when Panchenko moved to the United States to become an academic researcher.
This album was later listed in Alexander Kushnir's 100 Tapes of Soviet Rock.