Girls with Makarov (Russian: Девушки с Макаровым), also known as Makarov and the Girls, is a Russian comedy television series produced by Comedy Club Productions. The main roles are played by Pavel Maykov, Alevtina Tukan, Vladislava Ermolaeva, Valeria Astapova and Elena Polyanskaya.[1]

Girls with Makarov
Written byAnton Morozenko

Alexey Slushchev

Ilya Ipatov
Directed byKonstantin Smirnov (1st season)
Radda Novikova (2nd 3rd, 4th and 5th seasons)
Country of originRussia
Original languageRussian
Production
ProducersAnton Morozenko

Taimuraz Badziev
Andrey Levin
Artur Dzhanibekyan
Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov
Alexey Slushchev (creat.)
Ilya Ipatov (creat.)
Zaur Bolotaev (creat.)

Ella Skovorodina (ling.)
Original release
ReleaseMarch 9, 2021 (2021-03-09) –
present

The series is about a tough police major Pavel Makarov who's in charge of the women's police division in Butovo.[2] The show's title is a pun on the lead characters name and on the Makarov pistol.

The first season aired on TNT from March 9 to April 1, 2021. In the summer of 2021, new episodes were filmed for the second season. The second season premiered on January 31, 2022.

The series has been compared to Interns which was also made by the Comedy Club team, including director Radda Novikova.[3][4]

Plot

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The head of the criminal investigation department in Butovo, police major Pavel Makarov, is sent four young graduates of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The newly minted lieutenants are very different both in appearance and in temperament: the ambitious brown-haired woman with honours Anna Turkina, the daring brunette Alexandra Popova, and the kind naïve single mother Olesya Verba, who thinks more about her three-year-old son than her work. At the same time, they all have one thing in common: with their inexperience, they greatly annoy their boss, who recently broke up with his beloved girlfriend (head of the Investigation Department, Olga Romanova). Despite Makarov's opposition, the young employees strive to prove that they are not in vain serving in the police.

Cast

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Main roles

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Actor Role
Pavel Maykov Pavel Sergeevich Makarov

Criminal Investigation Department in Butovo, Police Major

Olesya Sudzilovskaya Olga Viktorovna Romanova

Head of the Investigation Department, Major of Justice

Alevtina Toucan Anna Andreevna Turkina

Operative, Denis' girlfriend

Elena Polyanskaya Olesya Viktorovna Verba

Operative, Mother of Vitalik

Vladislava Ermolaeva Alexandra Petrovna Popova

Operative

Valeria Astapova Ekaterina Dmitrievna Sinitskaya

Operative

Minor roles

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Actor Role
Georgy Dronov Roman Danilovich Zhilin

Deputy Head of the Butovo District Department of Internal Affairs for the Protection of Public Order, Police Major

Dmitry Lysenkov Denis Kurenkov

criminologist, Anna's boyfriend

Sergie Astakhov Vitaly Leonidovich Salamatin

Police Colonel, Head of the Butovo District Department of Internal Affairs

Andrey Finyagin Belov

lieutenant colonel of police, deputy head of Moscow for operational work{{{1}}}

Andrei Pinzaru Anatoly Kostylev

senior lieutenant of police, on duty

Ivan Zhvakin Maxim Alexandrovich Vershinin

investigator, senior lieutenant of justice

Denis Shabiliy Police captain
Anton Schwartz Kravtsov
Maxim Ivanov Vitalik

Son of Olesya

Nelly Nevedina Olesya's mother and Vitalik's grandmother
Peter Romanov Nikolai

Olesya's ex-husband and Vitalik's father

Igor Khripunov Shulya

Burglar, Recidivist

Alexey Sokolkov Drug addict

Dealer in stolen equipment

Series

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Season Series Broadcast period
1 Season 1-20 (20 episodes) March 9 - April 1, 2021
2 Season 21-40 (20 episodes) January 31 - February 24, 2022

Soundtrack

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Band Compositions
Warrant Cherry Pie
Andy Powell & Emily Taylor The Best You've Had
Ben Cocks Unforgettable

References

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  1. ^ "О чем сериал «Девушки с Макаровым»?" [What is the series "Girls with Makarov" about]. Argumenty i Fakty. March 9, 2021.
  2. ^ "Опера в юбках: как новую комедию ТНТ про полицию «Девушки с Макаровым» спасает Павел Майков" [Opera in skirts: How the new TNT comedy about the police "Girls with Makarov" is saved by Pavel Maikov]. Telemagazin. March 5, 2021.
  3. ^ "«Девушки с Макаровым». «Интерны», но про полицию" [Girls with Makarov: Interns, but about the police]. Anews. March 9, 2021.
  4. ^ "Сериал «Девушки с Макаровым»: какие они в жизни?" [The series "Girls with Makarov": What are they like in life?]. Hearth. April 20, 2021.
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