Fabrika Zvyozd
Fabrika Zvyozd (Russian: Фабрика звёзд, literally Star Factory) is a Russian television talent show that aired on Channel One from 2002 until 2011. It is the Russian version of the Endemol format Operación Triunfo.
The show has had seven seasons, all of them hosted by Yana Churikova. The show's alumni include Timati, Yulia Savicheva, Natalia Podolskaya, Dmitry Koldun, and Elena Temnikova.
In 2011, the show announced that it would be returning with an eighth, "All-Star" season and in 2012 for the ninth season, the format "Star Factory: Russia-Ukraine", with Russian and Ukrainian previous graduates of Factory competed. The programme then went on a hiatus for many years before relaunching the 10th season in 2017 broadcast on Muz-TV.
First season (2002)
- Korni (winner)
- Pavel Artemiev
- Aleksandr Astashenok
- Aleksandr Berdnikov
- Aleksei Kabanov
- Fabrika (second place)
- Sati Kazanova
- Aleksandra Savelyeva
- Irina Toneva
- Maria Alalykina (former member)
- Mikhail Grebenshikov (third place)
- Konstantin Dudoladov
- Gera Tuzikov (Gera Levi)
- Sherif Musa (JAM)
- Zhanna Cherukhina
- Nikolai Burlak
- Anna Kulikova
- Ekaterina Shemyakina
- Yulia Buzhilova
Producer: Igor Matvienko
Second season (2003)
- Polina Gagarina (winner)
- Yelena Terleyeva (second place)
- Elena Temnikova (third place)
- Yulia Savicheva
- Evgeniya Rasskazova
- Kristian Leinich
- Marianna Belezkaya
- Maria Rzhevskaya
- Aleksei Semenov
- Mikhail Reshetnikov
- Pier Narciss
- Dmitriy Astashenok
- Irakliy Pirzhalava
- Yuliya Volkova
- Gennadiy Lagutin
- Dmitriy Praskovjin
Producer: Maxim Fadeev
Third season (2003)
- Nikita Malinin (winner)
- Aleksandr Kireev (second place)
- Yulia Mikhalchik (third place)
- Irina Ortman
- Maria Veber
- Roman Barsukov
- Nikolay Slichenko Jr.
- Svetlana Svetikova
- Ruslan Kurik
- Irina Zhelnova
- Anastasia Krainova
- Ksenia Valeeva
- Dmitry Golubev
- Oleg Dobrinin
- Lesya Yaroslavskaya
- Sofiya Kuzmina
Producer: Alexander Shulgin
Fourth season (2004)
- Irina Dubtsova (winner)
- Anton Zatsepin (second place)
- Stas Piekha (third place)
- Timati
- Nataliya Korshunova
- Ivan Breusov
- Aleksandr Breslavskiy (Dominick Joker)
- Anastasia Kochetkova
- Nadezhda Igoshina
- Nataliya Polyanskaya
- Victoria Bogoslavskaya
- Evgeniya Volkonskaya
- Yuriy Titov
- Anton Yampolskiy (Paul)
- Ratmir Shishkov
- Aleksandra Chvikova (Aleksa)
- Yaroslav Illarionov
Producer: Igor Krutoy
Fifth season (2004)
- Victoria Dayneko (winner)
- Ruslan Masyukov (second place)
- Natalia Podolskaya (third place)
- Mikhail Veselov (third place)
- Andrey Shumskiy
- Elena Kukarskaya (Elena Sergeevna)
- Konstantin Legostaev
- Aleksandra Balakireva
- Elena Kaufmann
- Darya Klushnikova
- Radion Zabolotskiy (Roger)
- Irson Kudikova
- Julianna Karaulova
- Mike Mironenko
- Aksinya Verjak
- Miguel
- Kirill Garnik
- Lerika Golubeva
Producers: Alla Pugacheva, Igor Matvienko, Maxim Fadeev
Sixth season (2006)
- Dmitry Koldun (winner)
- Arseniy Borodin (second place)
- Zara (third place)
- Aleksei Khvorostyan
- Aleksei Korzin
- Prokhor Chaliapin
- Dan Petrov
- Arina Ryzhenkova
- Anastasia Shevchenko
- Roman Arkhipov
- Yulia Lysenko
- Aleksandra Gurkova
- Sogdiana Fedorinskaya
- Mila Kulikova
- Viktoriya Kolesnikova
- Olga Voronina
- Sabrina Gadzhikaibova
- Chelsea
Producer: Victor Drobysh
Seventh season (2007)
The seventh season was sponsored by singer Alla Pugacheva, together with Maxim Galkin and Verka Serduchka.
- Anastasia Prikhodko (winner)
- Mark Tishmann (second place)
- Yin-Yang (third place)
- Yulia Parshuta
- Sergey Ashikhmin
- Tatyana Bogacheva
- BiS (third place)
- Dmitriy Bikbaev
- Vlad Sokolovsky
- Gergiy Ivashenko (Pups)
- Alexei Kuznetzov (Aleksei Svetlov)
- Margarita Gerasimovich (Dakota)
- Korneliya Donato Mango
- Nataliya Tumshevits
- Ekaterina Zipina
- Anna Kolodko
- Phil Chinyanga (Phil Yang)
Spares:
- Elena Mizuk
- Vitaliy Chirva
- Leonid Panov
- Yulia Zemskaya
Producers: Konstantin Meladze, Valery Meladze
Eighth season (2011)
On March 12, 2011, a project called "Фабрика звёзд. Возвращение" (literally "Star Factory. Returning" was launched. It was not strictly competition of new talent, but rather competition between earlier graduates and finalists from previous Star Factory seasons.
The eighth season included four composers that had previously produced a season of the show: Igor Matvienko (one and five), Igor Krutoi (four), Victor Drobysh (four and six), and Konstantin Meladze (seven). Each composer had three singers that they had previously produced for.
Igor Matvienko
- Fabrika
- Victoria Dayneko
- Korni
Igor Krutoi
- Anastasia Kochetkova
- Dominick Joker
- Irina Dubcova
Victor Drobysh
- Zara
- Natalia Podolskaya
- Chelsea
- Mark Tishmann
- Vlad Sokolovskiy
- Yin-Yang
Winners:
- Victoria Dayneko (first)
- Chelsea (second)
- Irina Dubcova (third)
- Mark Tishmann (Producer's Award)
Ninth season (2012)
In 2012, there was a continuation of the 2011 project called "Star Factory: Russia-Ukraine", in which the best graduates of the Russian and Ukrainian versions of the "Factory" competed.
National Team of Russia
- Polina Gagarina
- Victoria Dayneko
- Dominik Joker
- Dmitriy Koldun
- Vlad Sokolovskiy
National Team of Ukraine
- Max Barskix
- Eva Bushmina
- DiO.filmy
- Stas Shurins
- Erika
Producers: Igor Matvienko, Maxim Fadeev, Igor Krutoy, Victor Drobysh, Konstantin Meladze , Natalia Mogilevskaya
Tenth season (2017)
After a hiatus from 2012 to 2017, a new 10th season was launched on Muz-TV. The premiere took place on September 2, 2017 [13]. The main show ran on Saturdays with diaries of the project broadcast on weekdays from Monday to Friday at three time slots per day. The show would be rebroadcast on Saturdays and Sundays on the alternative U channel (repetitions of the reporting concerts are broadcast on Saturdays at 11:00 and on Sundays at 22:00 on the "U" channel (Ю in Russian).
- Andrey Beletskiy
- Radoslava Boguslavskaya
- Elvira Brashchenkova
- Maria Budnitskaya
- Samvel Vardanyan
- Lolita Voloshina
- Daniil Danilevskiy
- Marta Zhdanuyk
- Elman Zeynalov
- Vladimir Idiatullin
- Nikita Kuznetsov
- Zinaida Kupriyanovich (Zina Kupriyanovich)
- Anna Saltykova (Anna Mun)
- Daniil Ruvinskiy
- Ulyana Sinetskaya
- Evgeniy Trofimov
- Gusel Khasanova
Producer: Victor Drobysh