Fabryka Zirok


Fabryka Zirok, 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.
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.

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Seasons & Contestants

Fabryka Zirok 1 (2007-2008)

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

    Fabryka Zirok 2 (2008)

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

    Fabryka Zirok 3 (2009)

  1. Stas Shurins
  2. Oleksiy Matias
  5. Eva Bushmina
  6. Erika
  7. Sabrina Abdullah
  8. Iryna Kristinina
  9. Tetyana Vorzheva
  10. Vasil Nahirnyak
  12. Anastasia Plis
  13. Vitaliy Chirva
  14. Santa Dimopulos
  15. Andriy Philipov
  17. Pavlo Lee

  18. Fabryka Superfinal (2010)

Source:
Selected contestants from the past 3 seasons compete to become the top superstar:
  • Oleksiy Matias Winner
  • 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:
Producer
  • Sergei Kuzin
Jury
Contestants
  • Anna Voloshina
  • Pavel Voronets
  • Snezhana Firsova
  • Sonya
  • Denis Lyubimov
  • Anton Klimik
  • Misha Sokolovskiy
  • Paulina
  • Sergey Klimentyev
  • Kseniya Lanova
  • Dasha Doris
  • Yuriy Klyuchnik
  • Yulia Rudnyeva Winner
  • Yevgeniy Belozerov
  • Masha Goya
  • Dima Kaminskiy

    Criticism, incidents and scandals

The Novyi Kanal 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. 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. 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.
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.