“Zhara” was founded in 2016 by Grigory Leps, Sergey Kozhevnikov, and Emin Aghalarov.

[2] One of the main guests of this festival was Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian Federation's president.

This time even more CIS stars such as Valeriya, Loboda, Sergey Lazarev, “Gradusy” band, Timur Rodrigues and others joined the festival.

Special guest Steven Seagal sang in a duet with Emin Aghalarov.

[5] After 3 years of the festival's creation, it was also held in Dubai, UAE.