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The earliest mention of the term balalaika dates back to an AD 1688 Russian document.

The term " balabaika " was widely used in Ukrainian language documents from 1717 to 1732.

According to one theory, the term was loaned to Russian, where-in literary language-it first appeared in " Elysei ", a 1771 poem by V. Maikov.