Star Factory
Star Factory (Russian: Фабрика звёзд, Fabrika zvyozd) is a Russian television show aired on Channel One since 13 October 2002. The show 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. The 7th season was sponsored by singer Alla Pugacheva, who had starred in a TV musical mocking the Star Factory, together with Maxim Galkin and Verka Serduchka. In March 2011, the show announced that it would be returning with an 8th All-Star Season. The 8th season would include 4 composers that had previously produced a season of the show: Igor Matvienko (1 and 5), Igor Krutoi (4), Victor Drobysh (4 and 6), and Konstantin Meladze (7).Each composer would have 3 singers that they had previously produced after the show. All 12 would be competing against each other to win money for charity.
First Season (2002)
- Korni (winner)
- Pavel Artemiev
- Aleksandr Astashenok
- Aleksandr Berdnikov
- Aleksei Kabanov
- Fabrika (2nd place)
- Mikhail Grebenshikov (3rd 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 (2nd place)
- Elena Temnikova (3rd 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 (2nd place)
- Yulia Michalchik (3rd place)
- Irina Ortmann
- Maria Vebber
- Roamn Barsukov
- Nikolay Slichenko
- Svetlana Svetikova
- Ruslan Kurik
- Irina Zhelnova
- Anastasia Krainova
- Kseniya Valeeva
- Dmitriy Golubev
- Oleg Dobrinin
- Lesya Yaroslavskaya
- Sofiya Kuzmina
Producer: Aleksandr Shulgin
Fourth Season (2004)
- Irina Dubcova (winner)
- Anton Zacepin (2nd place)
- Stas Pjecha (3rd place)
- Timati
- Nataliya Korshunova
- Ivan Breusov
- Aleksandr Breslavskiy (Dominick Joker)
- Kseniya Larina
- Anastasia Kochetkova
- Nadezhda Igoshina
- Nataliya Polyanskaya
- Victoria Bogoslavskaya
- Evgeniya Volkonskaya
- Yuriy Titov
- Anton Yampolskiy (Paul)
- Ratmir Shishkov
- Aleksandra Chvikova (Aleksa)
Producer: Igor Krutoi
Fifth Season (2004)
- Victoria Dayneko (winner)
- Ruslan Masyukov (2nd place)
- Natalia Podolskaya (3rd place)
- Mikhail Veselov (3rd 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)
- Dmitriy Koldun (winner)
- Arseniy Borodin (2nd place)
- Zara (3rd place)
- Aleksei Khvorostyan
- Aleksei Korzin
- Prokhor Shalyapin
- 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)
- Anastasiya Prikhodko (winner)
- Mark Tishmann (2nd place)
- Yin Yang (3rd place)
- BiS (3rd place)
- Dmitriy Bikbaev
- Vlad Sokolovskiy
- 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)
Igor Matvienko
- Fabrika
- Victoria Dayneko
- Korni
Igor Krutoi
- Anastasia Kochetkova
- Dominick Joker
- Irina Dubcova
Victor Drobysh
- Zara
- Natalia Podolskaya
- Chelsea
Konstantin Meladze
- Mark Tishmann
- Vlad Sokovskiy
- Yin Yang
Winners:
- Victoria Dayneko (1st)
- Chelsea (2nd)
- Irina Dubcova (3rd)
- Mark Tishmann (Producer's Award)
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Locations of different versions of Star Academy.
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