Vladislav Churilov was born in Pokrovsk and received his education in Donetsk. Together with his wife, they lived in Bakhmut, where they started a business growing plants.
For over 10 years, the couple has been engaged in growing seedlings of decorative and fruit-berry plants. Their enterprise "Eco-Country" is both an online store and a service providing various types of landscaping work (drainage, automatic watering, planting, territory maintenance, and services for processing and treating trees, shrubs, and flowers). Not far from his hometown, the man had a large nursery covering 17 hectares. His seedlings are known in Odesa, Lviv, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, and other cities.
Currently, fighting is taking place in that area, and the Russian army has destroyed everything in its path. In total, they managed to save no more than 2-3% of the property.
In 2019, the entrepreneur created a garden center in Kyiv region (the village of Kolonshchyna). It is there that he relocated his business after the full-scale invasion.
"We have one hectare of land, and during the season, 30 people work here. Almost all of them are our colleagues from Donetsk region," the entrepreneur shares.
Currently, Vladislav plans to expand the territory not only in Kyiv region. He has a small nursery in Volyn, where there are plants that he managed to transport from Bakhmut. Vladislav also wants to cultivate a rare berry that is not found in Ukraine at all.
During the entire existence of "Eco-Country," more than 500 contracts for landscaping design and greening have been concluded and implemented, and the total area of planted plants has reached more than 500 thousand trees and 1.5 million shrubs and flowers.
Vladislav Churilov's business also serves as a base for a public organization with the same name, whose goal is to assist military personnel, internally displaced persons, and implement greening projects in Ukraine.
"We help children's homes, parks in small towns and villages, restore green areas in cities near the front lines. We implement initiatives to improve the ecological state of the country and protect nature. We raise funds for equipment, gear, weapons, and transport for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, especially those stationed in the Bakhmut direction. We also provide psychological and material support to internally displaced persons. For example, we launched the sale of some seedlings with a markup. All additional profits went to the construction of housing near Kyiv for IDPs. The project is called — 'Plants of Resilience from Bakhmut,'" Vladislav shares.
"After the liberation of Donetsk region and stabilization of the situation, we plan to return. We will clear the mines, rebuild, and restore the business and life," the man says.
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