The meeting was founded by world record-breakers Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie in 2016.

Its creation was a response to the cessation of the annual Pole Vault Stars meeting in Donetsk (also organised by Bubka) due to the War in Donbass.

[1][2] Organiser Lavillenie was the first men's winner at the competition, setting a meet record of 6.02 m (19 ft 9 in),[3] which was the second best indoor mark that year.

Katie Nageotte won the women's competition on countback, with both her and Anzhelika Sidorova setting a meet record of 4.86 m, while Ninon Guillon-Romarin set a French record of 4.76 m.[6] Piotr Lisek of Poland won the 2019 meet with a world leading performance of 5.93 m while Anzhelika Sidorova and Angelica Bengtsson shared the women's title with clearances of 4.81 m (a Swedish record for Bengtsson).

[7] In 2022 Anzhelika Sidorova set a new meet record on the women's side with a 4.87 m jump.