diff --git a/modules/core/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/core/CMakeLists.txt
index 62bddbb413..a341c6a837 100644
--- a/modules/core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/modules/core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ if(HAVE_CUDA)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "CUDA: OpenCV requires enabled 'cudev' module from 'opencv_contrib' repository: https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib")
   endif()
   if(ENABLE_CUDA_FIRST_CLASS_LANGUAGE)
-   ocv_module_include_directories(${CUDAToolkit_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+   list(APPEND extra_libs CUDA::cudart${CUDA_LIB_EXT})
   endif()
   ocv_warnings_disable(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS -Wundef -Wenum-compare -Wunused-function -Wshadow)
 endif()
@@ -209,7 +209,11 @@ if(HAVE_OPENMP AND DEFINED OpenMP_CXX_LIBRARIES AND OpenMP_CXX_LIBRARIES)
   ocv_target_link_libraries(${the_module} LINK_PRIVATE "${OpenMP_CXX_LIBRARIES}")
 endif()
 
-ocv_add_accuracy_tests()
+set(test_libs "")
+if(HAVE_CUDA AND ENABLE_CUDA_FIRST_CLASS_LANGUAGE)
+  list(APPEND test_libs CUDA::cudart${CUDA_LIB_EXT})
+endif()
+ocv_add_accuracy_tests(${test_libs})
 ocv_add_perf_tests()
 
 ocv_install_3rdparty_licenses(SoftFloat "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/SoftFloat/COPYING.txt")
diff --git a/modules/dnn/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/dnn/CMakeLists.txt
index cd83684f77..a2d8c957d6 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/modules/dnn/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ if(OPENCV_DNN_CUDA AND HAVE_CUDA AND HAVE_CUBLAS AND HAVE_CUDNN)
   endforeach()
   unset(CC_LIST)
   if(ENABLE_CUDA_FIRST_CLASS_LANGUAGE)
-    list(APPEND libs ${CUDNN_LIBRARIES} CUDA::cublas${CUDA_LIB_EXT})
+    list(APPEND libs CUDA::cudart${CUDA_LIB_EXT} ${CUDNN_LIBRARIES} CUDA::cublas${CUDA_LIB_EXT})
     if(NOT CUDA_VERSION VERSION_LESS 10.1)
       list(APPEND libs CUDA::cublasLt${CUDA_LIB_EXT})
     endif()
diff --git a/modules/photo/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/photo/CMakeLists.txt
index f65cf9e678..1d970f28f4 100644
--- a/modules/photo/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/modules/photo/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ endif()
 
 ocv_define_module(photo opencv_imgproc OPTIONAL opencv_cudaarithm opencv_cudaimgproc WRAP java objc python js)
 
-if(HAVE_CUDA AND ENABLE_CUDA_FIRST_CLASS_LANGUAGE AND HAVE_OPENCV_CUDAARITHM AND HAVE_OPENCV_CUDAIMGPROC)
-  ocv_target_link_libraries(${the_module} PUBLIC "CUDA::cudart${CUDA_LIB_EXT}")
+if(HAVE_CUDA AND ENABLE_CUDA_FIRST_CLASS_LANGUAGE AND HAVE_opencv_cudaarithm AND HAVE_opencv_cudaimgproc)
+  ocv_target_link_libraries(${the_module} PRIVATE CUDA::cudart${CUDA_LIB_EXT})
 endif()
diff --git a/modules/photo/src/denoising.cuda.cpp b/modules/photo/src/denoising.cuda.cpp
index d9e265cda9..12735dfbf6 100644
--- a/modules/photo/src/denoising.cuda.cpp
+++ b/modules/photo/src/denoising.cuda.cpp
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@
 
 #include "opencv2/opencv_modules.hpp"
 
+#if !defined (HAVE_CUDA) || !defined(HAVE_OPENCV_CUDAARITHM) || !defined(HAVE_OPENCV_CUDAIMGPROC)
+#include "opencv2/core/private/cuda_stubs.hpp"
+#else
+#include "opencv2/core/private.cuda.hpp"
+#endif
+
 #ifdef HAVE_OPENCV_CUDAARITHM
 #  include "opencv2/cudaarithm.hpp"
 #endif
@@ -59,15 +65,12 @@ using namespace cv::cuda;
 
 #if !defined (HAVE_CUDA) || !defined(HAVE_OPENCV_CUDAARITHM) || !defined(HAVE_OPENCV_CUDAIMGPROC)
 
-#include "opencv2/core/private/cuda_stubs.hpp"
 void cv::cuda::nonLocalMeans(InputArray, OutputArray, float, int, int, int, Stream&) { throw_no_cuda(); }
 void cv::cuda::fastNlMeansDenoising(InputArray, OutputArray, float, int, int, Stream&) { throw_no_cuda(); }
 void cv::cuda::fastNlMeansDenoisingColored(InputArray, OutputArray, float, float, int, int, Stream&) { throw_no_cuda(); }
 
 #else
 
-#include "opencv2/core/private.cuda.hpp"
-
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 //// Non Local Means Denosing (brute force)