diff --git a/apps/electron-backend/src/app/database/operations/content-search.util.sqlite.spec.ts b/apps/electron-backend/src/app/database/operations/content-search.util.sqlite.spec.ts
index a4c74af9f..b732fd191 100644
--- a/apps/electron-backend/src/app/database/operations/content-search.util.sqlite.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/electron-backend/src/app/database/operations/content-search.util.sqlite.spec.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ const TITLES = [
     'Şan Ve Şeref',
     'Первый канал HD',
     'ПЕРВЫЙ КАНАЛ',
-    'Ёлки ТВ',
+    'Ёжик ТВ',
     'Йога для всех',
     'Матч ТВ',
     'Ελλάδα Σήμερα',
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ describe('content-search.util against SQLite', () => {
     it.each([
         ['Первый', 'первый', ['Первый канал HD', 'ПЕРВЫЙ КАНАЛ']],
         ['ПЕРВ', 'перв', ['Первый канал HD', 'ПЕРВЫЙ КАНАЛ']],
-        ['Ёлки', 'ёлки', ['Ёлки ТВ']],
+        ['Ёжик', 'ёжик', ['Ёжик ТВ']],
         ['Йога', 'йога', ['Йога для всех']],
         ['Ма', 'ма', ['Матч ТВ']],
         ['ΕΛΛ', 'ελλ', ['Ελλάδα Σήμερα']],
diff --git a/libs/services/src/lib/tmdb/tmdb-matcher.ts b/libs/services/src/lib/tmdb/tmdb-matcher.ts
index e7c862292..6c966bb5b 100644
--- a/libs/services/src/lib/tmdb/tmdb-matcher.ts
+++ b/libs/services/src/lib/tmdb/tmdb-matcher.ts
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ function stripLeadingLanguageToken(raw: string): string | null {
 /**
  * One search candidate: what to SEND to TMDB and what to COMPARE its
  * answers against. The two differ on purpose — see `cleanTitleForSearch`:
- * a folded query ("леика") finds nothing on TMDB while the folded key is
- * exactly what the confidence gate and the cache need.
+ * folding rewrites letters TMDB matches on, so the folded form finds nothing
+ * there, while it is exactly what the confidence gate and the cache need.
  */
 export interface SearchTitleVariant {
     /** Provider spelling with tags/brackets/season/year stripped */
diff --git a/libs/shared/database/src/lib/tmdb-search-cache-cleanup.spec.ts b/libs/shared/database/src/lib/tmdb-search-cache-cleanup.spec.ts
index 4a74ccea5..44352764e 100644
--- a/libs/shared/database/src/lib/tmdb-search-cache-cleanup.spec.ts
+++ b/libs/shared/database/src/lib/tmdb-search-cache-cleanup.spec.ts
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ it('drops only retired search rows across skipped, previous, pre-person, fresh a
         hooks.runMigrations(skipped);
         const skippedAfter = snapshot(skipped);
         // Next startup: a row written meanwhile under the current key survives
-        skipped.prepare("INSERT INTO tmdb_metadata (media_type, lookup_key, language, tmdb_id) VALUES ('tv', 'title:гудовы|year:2026|v4', 'ru-RU', 101103)").run();
+        skipped.prepare("INSERT INTO tmdb_metadata (media_type, lookup_key, language, tmdb_id) VALUES ('tv', 'title:сосенка|year:2026|v4', 'ru-RU', 101103)").run();
         hooks.runMigrations(skipped);
         const repeated = snapshot(skipped);
         // Previous release: the earlier cleanups already ran; only v3 rows go
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ it('drops only retired search rows across skipped, previous, pre-person, fresh a
             markers: [V2_MARKER, V3_MARKER, V4_MARKER],
         },
         repeated: {
-            keys: [...survivors, 'title:гудовы|year:2026|v4'].sort(),
+            keys: [...survivors, 'title:сосенка|year:2026|v4'].sort(),
             payloads: detailsPayloads,
             markers: [V2_MARKER, V3_MARKER, V4_MARKER],
         },