Фабрика Звезд: Тарихы мен әйгілі түлектері

Fabrika Zvyozd (Фабрика звёзд, literally "Factory of stars"), sometimes known internationally as Star Factory, is a popular Russian television talent show that aired on Channel One from 2002 until 2007. It was the Russian version of the Endemol format Operación Triunfo. In 2011, the show announced that it would be returning with an eighth, All Star season and in 2012 for the ninth season with the format Star Factory: Russia vs. Ukraine. The programme then went on a hiatus for five years before relaunching the tenth season in 2017 broadcast on Muz TV. Nine out of ten seasons were hosted by Yana Churikova and one by Ksenia Sobchak. Fabrika Zvyozd, meaning Star Factory, stayed true to its name in Russia; many of the contestants, nicknamed as "fabrikanty" (Russian: фабриканты), have established successful careers in the Russian language music world. The show's alumni include Polina Gagarina, Fabrika, Zara, Irina Dubtsova, Timati, Yulia Savicheva, Natalia Podolskaya, Dmitry Koldun, Anastasia Prikhodko, and Elena Temnikova. The show also had a tight connection with the Eurovision Song Contest. In total, seven of the past fabrikanty sang at the contest at some stage between 2004 and 2019. Throughout its run, Fabrika Zvyozd had a high television rating. In 2006, the show was so popular that producers decided to prolong the season by one whole month mid season. This decision was regarded controversial, because contestants had to stay inside the house against their wishes for an extra month. The 2017 series was less successful in its ratings and finished its final with a market share of 1.3%. Fabrika Zvyozd gained a cult status in Russia. It was the first real Russian reality music competition and the first reality show on Channel One Russia. Although it was axed in 2007 in favour of Interzvezda, which was later cancelled in its production phase, the show and its contestants stayed popular long after its axing. In 2017, Channel One Russia featured a special two week special of Segodnya vecherom about Fabrika Zvyozd, celebrating the show's fifteenth anniversary. The episodes mostly focused on the contestants’ fate after the show. In 2020, the show became popular on the internet due to the lockdown in Russia as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic. In August 2020, Channel One Russia made a four hour long special broadcast on Fabrika Zvyozd on the television programme Segodnya vecherom, hosted by Maksim Galkin and Yana Churikova. In this programme, a large share of the successful contestants were re invited to look back on their memories of the time they were on the show. Next to that, Channel One rebroadcast a selection of some of the best performances in the show's history in primetime slots. The broadcasts solely focused on the first seven series, neglecting the revival version that was produced by Muz TV. On 9 January 2022, the producer of the tenth season of the show, Yulia Sumacheva, confirmed that the show is set to return in 2022.

Similarly to Operación Triunfo, in Fabrika Zvyozd a selection of young potential musical stars is boarded in a house together. In this house, they are constantly monitored by cameras, an idea borrowed from another of Endemol's major reality shows Big Brother. In the house, they are "produced" or "manufactured" by an important Russian producer to become household names in the Russian music world once the show is over. In daily summary programmes, viewers are informed about the daily activities of the contestants. After an “opening ceremony” in the first week, every single week, the contestants come together during a so called “reporting concert” on Saturday to show their progress. Each show, one of the contestants gets dropped until a handful remain for the final. The Monday before each concert, three contestants are nominated to be eliminated. These three nominees sing solo numbers on the Friday or Saturday show, while the safe contestants usually sing duets with famous artists. The nominations are based on the verdicts of the producers and can be either a good or a bad sign. At times, nominations are awarded because producers want to see a well performing contestant sing a solo number, while other times, the weaker contestants are nominated. In rare cases, contestants are nominated for displaying poor behaviour. From Monday to Saturday, viewers can vote for their favourite among the nominations. The winner of the televoting gets an automatic pass to stay in the house. The safe contestants determine themselves who gets the final pass to stay and who gets eliminated. Once per season, the producer is allowed to save a contestant from elimination as a veto right, although not all producers have exercised this privilege. Additionally, the audience chooses their favourite overall performer, who receives a prize. In the original run of the show, the final concert was held in the Olympic Stadium in Moscow. In this concert, all of the contestants of the season would return to perform the best songs of the season once again. In 2007, the last series of the original run, the producers opted to hold the final in the usual television studio at the Ostankino Technical Center instead, as all other episodes were taped there. The 2017 revival's final was also held in a television studio rather than in the Olympic Stadium.

+ Series Year Winner Runner up Third place Fourth place Fifth place Sixth place Host Headmaster 12002KorniFabrikaMikhail GrebenshikovYuliya BuzhilovaEkaterina ShemyakinaKonstantin DudoladovYana ChurikovaIgor Matvienko 22003Polina GagarinaYelena TerleyevaElena TemnikovaMaria RzhevskayaYulia SavichevaKristian LeinichMax Fadeev 32003Nikita MalininAleksandr KireevYulia MikhalchikSvetlana SvetikovaRuslan KurikIrina OrtmanAlexander Shulgin 42004Irina DubtsovaAnton ZatsepinStas PiekhaAleksaYuriy TitovTimati Igor Krutoy 52004Victoria DaynekoRuslan MasyukovMikhail VeselovNatalia PodolskayaNot announcedAlla Pugacheva 62006Dmitry KoldunArseny BorodinZaraProkhor ChaliapinAlexandra GurkovaRoman ArkhipovViktor Drobysh 72007Anastasiya PrikhodkoMark TishmanYin YangBiSDakotaKorneliya Mango Nataliya Tumshevits Konstantin MeladzeValery Meladze All Stars 2011 Victoria Dayneko Chelsea Irina DubtsovaNot announcedvarious Russia vs. Ukraine 2012 Russia UkraineNot announced various New 2017 Guzel Hasanova Mastank Sever17Daniil DanilevskyNot announced Ksenia Sobchak Viktor Drobysh 2024 2024Upcoming season

Throughout and especially after its runtime, Fabrika Zvyozd has received a large number of criticism. Russian composer and rock singer Alexander Gradsky was an early critic of the show, as well as Diana Arbenina.

Several past fabrikanty and viewers have accused the show of being fake. In 2012, season two producer Maxim Fadeev revealed that Yelena Terleyeva had actually won the season but the producers preferred that Polina Gagarina would be crowned as the winner as she was "bright, prideful and spoke several languages". 2006 winner Dmitry Koldun said that producers initiated fights between contestants in the house. Next to that, Koldun stated that there had been only one vocal class in the whole sixteen weeks he spent at Fabrika Zvyozd, and that the producers used fragments of that one class throughout the series to deceive viewers that there were regular classes. Rita Dakota, who finished fourth in the seventh series, called the house "a prison" and said everything about the house they lived in was fake. During the live final of the sixth season, producer Viktor Drobysh promised all five finalists to give them 100,000 rubles (equivalent to $4,800.86 in 2021) each, but in the end, he did not pay. However, prior to applying to Fabrika Zvyozd, Zakharenkov had legally changed his name to Prokhor Chaliapin. The show has received criticism for its extensive use for playback, including for the contestants that took part. Most of the songs that were performed on the stage were playbacked with prerecorded and edited vocals.

Fabrika Zvyozd has also received criticism for nepotism. Several contestants have been said to have been admitted to the show based on the fact that they had connections to the producers at that time. Yulia Savicheva, who was a fabrikant in 2003, publicly admitted that she was promised a place on the show by producer Maxim Fadeev as they knew each other from previous efforts.

In the fourth season of 2004, there was a food restriction on several female contestants who had started to gain weight. The 2007 cohort reportedly once slept in a psychiatric hospital and once on the floor of a shop.