Fabryka Zirok

This article is about the Ukrainian TV show. For other topics, see Star Factory.

Fabryka Zirok (Ukrainian: Фабрика зірок – Star Factory), is a Ukrainian televised talent show, which began in 2007 that features a group of young male and female candidates, aged 16 or older, across the country.

Fabryka Zirok
Fabryka Zirok title card
Ukrainian	Фабрика зірок
Created by	John de Mol
Presented by	Andriy Domansky (season 1) Dmitry Shepelev (season 2) Andriy Domansky & Masha Efrosinina (season 3 & Superfinal) Erika (season 4) Oleksandr Pedan (season 4)
Country of origin	Ukraine
Production
Production locations	Kyiv, Ukraine
Camera setup	Multiple-camera setup
Running time	Varies
Original release
Network	Novyi Kanal
Release	7 October 2007 (2007-10-07) – 23 May 2010 (2010-05-23)

The show became a huge success and a must-watch event for its fans. It is the Ukrainian adaptation of the French television show Star Academy, which is produced by Endemol. Fabryka Zirok is produced by Dutch company Endemol and Ukrainian Novyi Kanal. The show is based on the Spanish format called Operación Triunfo.

The show basically revolves over 16 contestants that go live in an isolated penthouse apartment, with one of the contestants getting eliminated every week. The contestants get to showcase their talents in a weekly concert in which the contestants get to perform on stage with various designs, dancers, solo performances, a cappella on piano and sharing the stage with the most popular singers in Ukraine and the CIS. The contestants were required to be aged 16 or older at the time of the contest.

Teachers

• Vocals: Olena Grebenyok^[1]
• Choreography: Olena Kolyadenko
• Acting Instructor: Roman Viktyok
• Fitness: Lilya Podkopayeva
• Stylist: Angela Litsiya, Volodimir Tarasyok
• Psychiatrist: Vadim Kolesnikov

Series overview

Series	Year	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Fifth place	Sixth place	Host	Headmaster
1	2007	Olga Tsybulska Oleksandr Bodyanskiy	Kristina Kim	Vitaliy Bondarenko	Yuliya Borzaya	Dasha Astafieva	Evhen Tolochnyi	Andriy Domanskiy Vasilisa Frolova	Yuriy Nikitin
2	2008	Volodymyr Dantes Vadim Oleynik	Alisa Tarabarova	Boris Aprel	Vlad Darwin	Regina Todorenko	Max Barskih	Dmitriy Shepelev	Natalia Mohylevska[2]
3	2009	Stas Shurin	Oleksiy Matias	Kolya Serga	Borisenko Brothers	Eva Bushmina	Anastasiya Kochetova	Andriy Domanskiy[3] Maria Efrosinina	Konstantin Meladze
All stars	2010	Oleksiy Matias	Anastasiya Kochetova	Dmytro Kadnay	Stas Shurins	Volodymyr Dantes	Borisenko Brothers		—
4	2011	Yuliya Rudneva	Evhen Belozerov	Sonya Sukhorukova	Dasha Doris	Serhiy Klementiev	Anton Klimik	Anastasiya Kochetova Oleksandr Pedan	Serhiy Kuzin

• Winners
• 
  Olga Tsybulska (1st season)^[4]
• 
  Volodymyr Dantes (2nd season)
• 
  Vadim Oleynik (2nd season)
• 
  Stas Shurin (3rd season)

Seasons & Contestants

Fabryka Zirok 1 (2007-2008)

Source:^[5]

• Olga Tsibulska Winner^[4]
• Katya Velaskes
• Sasha Ilchyshyn
• Vitaliy Yarouviy
• Elizabeth Anum-Dorkhuso
• Christina Kim
• Jeka Milkovskiy
• Yulia Borza
• Vitaliy Bondarenko
• Dasha Astafieva^[6]
• Arina Domsky
• Taras Chernyenko
• Dima Kadnay
• Evgen Tolochniy
• Oleksander Bodyanckiy
• Dasha Kolomiets

Fabryka Zirok 2 (2008)

Sources:^[7][8]

• Duet Vladimir Dantes - Vadim Oleynik Winner
• Anastasia Vostokova
• Kira Shaytanova
• Regina Todorenko
• Alisa Tarabarova
• Mark Savin^[9]
• Ganna Mukhina^[10]
• Lina Mytsuky
• Olena Vinogradova
• Boris Aprel
• Kara Kay^[9]
• Denis Dekanin
• Vlad Darvin
• Max Barskih
• Gurgen

Fabryka Zirok 3 (2009)

Fabryka Zirok 3 title card

1. Stas Shurins^[11][12]
2. Oleksiy Matias
3. Mykolai Serga [uk]^[13]
4. Borysenko Brothers [uk]
5. Eva Bushmina
6. Erika^[14]
7. Sabrina Abdullah
8. Iryna Kristinina
9. Tetyana Vorzheva
10. Vasil Nahirnyak
11. Artem Mekh [uk]
12. Anastasia Plis
13. Vitaliy Chirva
14. Santa Dimopulos
15. Andriy Philipov
16. Alina Astrovska [uk]
17. Pavlo Lee
18. Lybov Yunak [uk]

Fabryka Superfinal (2010)

Fabryka Superfinal title card

Source:^[15]

Selected contestants from the past 3 seasons compete to become the top superstar:

• Oleksiy Matias Winner^[16]
• Maxim Barskikh
• Olga Tsibulska
• Mykola Serga
• Vitaliy Bondarenko
• Vadim Oleynik
• Stas Shurin
• Vladimir Dantes
• Elizabeth Anum-Dorkhuso
• Eva Bushmina
• Boris Aprel
• Borisenko Brothers
• Dima Kadnay
• Erika
• Regina
• Alisa Trabarova

Fabryka Zirok 4 (2011)

Sources:^[17][18]

Producer

• Sergei Kuzin

Jury

• Masha Efrosinina
• Iryna Bilyk
• Alyona Mozgovaya^[19]
• Vitaliy Drozdov

Contestants

• Anna Voloshina
• Pavel Voronets
• Snezhana Firsova
• Sonya
• Denis Lyubimov
• Anton Klimik
• Misha Sokolovskiy
• Paulina
• Sergey Klimentyev^[20]
• Kseniya Lanova
• Dasha Doris
• Yuriy Klyuchnik
• Yulia Rudnyeva Winner
• Yevgeniy Belozerov
• Masha Goya
• Dima Kaminskiy^[21]

Criticism, incidents and scandals

The Novyi Kanal (Ukrainian: Новий Канал) TV channel and Konstantin Meladze consider the appearance of a foreign performer at the Star Factory to be a miracle, and have appropriated the artist who miraculously appeared from Riga at the casting in Kyiv.^[22] Despite the resonance of the case, none of the organisers and producers of the Ukrainian Star Factory project confirmed the theft of Stas Shurin from the global talent agency TUARON and its Swedish talent manager Anton Sova.^[11] According to the Ukrainian music publication Muzvar, the case of the artist and the manager was included in the TOP-5 most famous cases of breakdowns in the Ukrainian music industry.^[12]

Acknowledging that the artist had a manager would have meant that the artist would have lost his place in the contest and would have had legal consequences for all parties. The artist himself denied any business relationship with the Swedish talent manager Anton Sova and the global talent agency TUARON in order to keep his place in the "Star Factory-3" competition, which he eventually won.^[23]