# Girls with Makarov

Girls with Makarov (Russian: Девушки с Макаровым, romanized: Devushki s Makarovym), 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.
The series is about a tough police major Pavel Makarov who's in charge of the women's police division in Butovo. 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.

## Plot

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
### Main roles

| 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

| 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

| 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 |
| 3 Season | 41-60 (20 episodes) | October 24 - November 23, 2022 |
| 4 Season | 61-80 (20 episodes) | December 11-26, 2023 |
| 5 Season | 81-100 (20 episodes) | January 20 — February 19, 2025 |

## Soundtrack

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