The original fountain is believed to have been installed in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union was being adorned with various outdoor architectural works, including similar fountains designed by sculptor Romuald Iodko, a co-author of the Girl with an Oar, an archetype of the Soviet kitsch.
Two replicas of the fountain were installed in 2013 at different locations in Volgograd, one of them nearby the very same railway station.