This song was very fond of my father. But neither he nor many others who knew and loved this beautiful song, so in tune with a certain period of Soviet history, did not know that she is a native of the United States that its author did not live in the Soviet Union in the first half of the 20-ies of the last century, yes, and it was established only in the early 30s. 



it is considered by the author Herman Yablokov, winner of the Dutch-German name and the Russian-Slavic names, which actually was Chaim Yablonik, a native of West Belarusian city of Grodno.