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.

This decision was regarded controversial, because contestants had to stay inside the house against their wishes for an extra month.

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.

[8] 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.

[10] 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 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 very first series of Fabrika Zvyozd was commissioned by Channel One with the interest of Igor Matvienko, who wanted to create a new platform for young musical talent after Morning Star had ended a year earlier.

[12] During the first episode, all contestants and star duet partners sang live, unlike later seasons of the show.

Eventually, the producers persuaded Antonov to perform with Burlak, but they rescheduled the duet to a later moment in the show.

For winning the third season, Nikita Malinin received a music video and the opportunity to sing at a festival.

For finishing third, Yulia Mikhalchik received the proposal to record an album and release a music video.

Being unhappy with that, Channel One decided to let the contestants be signed with musical producers Viktor Drobysh and Iosif Prigozhin in the end.

Producer: Alexander Shulgin The fourth season of the show was led by Igor Krutoy, one of the founders of New Wave.

However, Viktor Drobysh and Igor Nikolaev were also involved in the creative direction of the season as Krutoy could not take the heavy workload on his own.

[29] The show came under fire in April 2004 after two contestants had an intimate relationship and performed sexual acts live on television.

Aleksa showed herself non-participative at several times, hiding from guest star Lara Fabian by climbing underneath her bed.

[36] Meanwhile, the season attracted media attention when the boyfriend of Irina Dubtsova proposed to her during one of the concerts and their wedding took place mid-season.

[37] Ratmir Shishkov was the first Fabrika Zvyozd contestant to die after being killed in a car crash at the age of 18 in March 2007.

[41] As a result of Alexander Shulgin and Maxim Fadeev's non-participation, there were no competing acts from the second and third season of the show.

The show received criticism for its judging panel, which at one moment drew straws to make a decision with regards to the elimination of one of the nominated contestants.

The main show ran on Saturdays with diaries of the project broadcast on weekdays from Monday to Friday at three time slots per day.

Producer: Victor Drobysh 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.

[47] 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.

[48][49] However, prior to applying to Fabrika Zvyozd, Zakharenkov had legally changed his name to Prokhor Chaliapin.

[53] 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.

[53] In season 7, Rita Dakota was told "not to cry" and "not to downpour the mood in the house" after a family member had suddenly passed away.

[47] In the tour that followed the sixth and seventh series, artists were reportedly underpaid and had to sustain in poor conditions.