Kachorovska

The Ukrainian shoe brand Kachorovska combines three areas: an atelier, a shop and a cafe. The company was founded in the middle of the last century, however, if then it was the manufacture of shoes at home, today it is a workshop, two brick cafes and an online platform.

Kachorovska cafe

Kachorovska is a family business started by Leonida Kachorovskaya in the 1960s in Zhytomyr. During USSR times, fashionable shoes were in short supply, so Leonida, who at that time worked at a state-owned shoe factory, began taking private orders. Later, her daughter Elena began to help her in this, who managed to transform the atelier into a real business. But later, her daughter Alina and her son-in-law Ruslan Ocheretyan helped Elena to go beyond private tailoring in online and offline retail. Alina thought about what to do after graduating from the Kiev-Mohyla Academy and realized that her own business was the best solution.

Now three people manage the business - Elena, Alina and Ruslan. Elena Kachorovskaya is the chief production technologist, she is constantly in Zhytomyr. Alina is responsible for planning collections and production, trips to exhibitions, suppliers of leather and components, personnel management. Her husband deals with the arrangement of shops and issues related to equipment in production.