It all started in the 1960s with an amateur band created by four schoolchildren who lived in the same street and would spend their evenings together in a garage – playing their guitars and pioneer drums and listening to the radio-gramophone for inspiration. A word got by that their music was really good, and the headmaster of the local school invited them to rehearse at its platform and even arranged for their official transfer to his institution.

The "Bonvarnon" held their first concert on September 9, 1971, in Tskhinval city park. The evening was a tremendous success: the audience got extremely passionate about their performance, and chose to express their excitement by crashing half of their chairs with bare hands. Until the end of the year, 12 more concerts followed.

The "Bonvarnon" members sang their covers of the greatest hits by "The Beatles", "Led Zeppelin" and "Deep Purple", sometimes passing them off as "songs of the English miners" to appease the vigilant Communist party.

Soon, they would start adding their own compositions into the mix, more and more every time. The band members noticed that the rock-n-rollesque rendition fits the traditional Ossetian music like a glove, and so proceeded to record several rock covers of folk songs and wrote music to accompany numerous poems by Ossetian poets.

In 1974, the "Bonvarnon" was declared a State Ensemble, which meant recognition of their professionalism on the official level. By 1978, when the All-Union Rock Festival was held in Tbilisi, the band came second in the competition, losing only to the "Time Machine".

Now most of the ensemble members are pursuing solo careers or playing in new bands.