Churilov Ivan Kuzmich was born in 1902, in the village of Gorodishche in Soviet district. He graduated from Timsk Pedagogical School. He was appointed to the village of Fitizh, Lgovskiy district, then transferred to the Breeding School, where he worked as a mathematics teacher and head teacher. He married Nina Kharitonovna Kozyrenko in 1936. He was drafted by Lgovskiy district military commission to Red Army in September 1941. Churilov, technician-lieutenant, served in Chemical Reconnaissance during entire war and was head of chemical laboratory. Ivan Kuzmich worked hard preparing divisional chemists, took part in training of freelance chemical instructors, observers and chemist-recons