This settlement became known to the mass audience for one simple reason: it is there that the family of Valyuha and Ivan Stepanovich Budko lives from the popular television series Swat, loved by millions of family movie lovers. So the question arose: “Where did the“ Matchmakers ”shoot?” Kuchugury - the answer will immediately follow. But here is where those Kuchugurs are located, is there really such a place? Or maybe it was all invented by the scriptwriters, and such a village has never been on the planet?
Good day to you!
The third season of “Matchmakers” begins with the arrival of city relatives - the Kovalev family (Yuri Anatolyevich and Olga Nikolaevna) - to relatives, rural matchmakers, who are the same Budko living in Kuchugury. The Kovalevs suddenly came up, because Yuri Anatolyevich simply forgot to warn the matchmakers about his arrival in order to prepare the only and beloved granddaughter Zhenya for school.
And if in the first episodes of this story the Budko family is not particularly happy with the presence of their city matchmakers (they even force them to leave), then by the middle of the tape they live quite amicably, even having time to quarrel with the other heroes of this comedy.
Where is this street, where is this house?
Being completely absorbed in these ups and downs, curious viewers have an interest, but nevertheless, where was the “Matchmaker” filmed? Kuchugurs, of course, Kuchugurs, will answer everyone and everyone. But what kind of settlement is it and how to get there to walk along the streets familiar from the screen and visit the clearing in the fishing line, in which the whole friendly family of the Budko-Kovalevs cooked barbecue?
As the concerned citizens managed to find out, there are several settlements with a completely identical name. In Russia there are as many as three villages bearing such a ridiculous name: in Nizhnedevitsky (Voronezh region), Rivne (Belgorod region) and Temryuk district (Krasnodar Territory). By the way, according to one version, it is the latter option that is correct. This is a small and very cozy village located in the southern district of Russia on the Taman Peninsula, where you can easily reach the Sea of ​​Azov. Every year, hundreds and thousands of tourists come here to relax. A feature of these Kuchugurs are chic vineyard plantations and beautiful sandy beaches.
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So where did the “Matchmakers” shoot? Kuchugury - another Kuchugury - are located in Ukraine. According to another version, it was in this locality that the shooting of the popular series took place. Its location in the Chernihiv region, Koryukovsky district. The village of Kuchugury is located there. Ukraine, where they filmed "Matchmakers", was struck by the variety of beautiful landscapes and hospitality of the local population.
But, no matter how strange it may seem, there is a third version. Taking it into account, it is possible to answer the burning question “Where was the Swatman filmed?” "Kuchugury" will be followed by an answer that will be absolutely true. Only in this answer, the shooting of the series took place not in Chernihiv, but in the Kiev region. It was the village of Moshchun. It was there, at the local forester, that they rented the so-called “Budko family house” for the duration of the filming.
By the way, if you go a little deeper into the name itself, then translated from Ukrainian as “Kuchugur” means “snowdrift”. If we draw a certain parallel, according to which if a snowdrift is a lot of snowflakes collected in one place, then the village itself is like a team of people who, with their own strengths and weaknesses, good deeds and not very good behavior, form the very heap, a specific area where all these people live and interact in one way or another.
Such are they, Kuchugury. Ukraine, where they filmed "Matchmakers", made available to the film crew and many other beautiful places: Yalta, Massandra Park, Alushta, the international camp "Artek", Ai-Petri.
With us or not with us?
If we take as a reference point that everything is happening on the territory of Ukraine, one episode from Swat-6 is surprising. Thanks to him, you can get a tip on where Kuchugury from the series "Matchmakers" are. In this episode, the migration service tried to accuse Ivan Stepanovich of absolutely illegally using the labor of migrants, which meant soloists from the female choir of the Lugansk region. In addition, one can note the uniform of the district police officer, Russian license plates on all cars, a portrait of Medvedev on the wall. These little things directly indicate that it is on the territory of Russia that the cinema Kuchugury is located.
But the directors and scriptwriters never admitted where the village of Kuchugury is located, is this real place or the authors fiction. They said that this question is rather complicated. Each viewer should answer it. To myself. How real is this settlement for everyone, how real are the characters in the series. The main thing is that all the action of the tape takes place in our country. Moreover, the concept of “ours” is comprehensive, broad. Because the story told in the series is about our people, about our children. A settlement with that name really exists, and, as we now know, not even one.