diff --git a/Cargo.lock.msrv b/Cargo.lock.msrv
index 8e18ce9123..05324b38b0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock.msrv
+++ b/Cargo.lock.msrv
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ version = "3.2.25"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ae6371b8bdc8b7d3959e9cf7b22d4435ef3e79e138688421ec654acf8c81b008"
 dependencies = [
- "heck 0.4.1",
+ "heck",
  "proc-macro-error",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -656,15 +656,6 @@ version = "0.14.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2c6201b9ff9fd90a5a3bac2e56a830d0caa509576f0e503818ee82c181b3437a"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "heck"
-version = "0.3.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6d621efb26863f0e9924c6ac577e8275e5e6b77455db64ffa6c65c904e9e132c"
-dependencies = [
- "unicode-segmentation",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "heck"
 version = "0.4.1"
@@ -1369,12 +1360,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "rustversion"
-version = "1.0.14"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7ffc183a10b4478d04cbbbfc96d0873219d962dd5accaff2ffbd4ceb7df837f4"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "rustyline"
 version = "9.1.2"
@@ -1463,8 +1448,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "smallvec",
  "snap",
  "socket2",
- "strum",
- "strum_macros",
  "thiserror",
  "time",
  "tokio",
@@ -1655,25 +1638,6 @@ version = "0.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "73473c0e59e6d5812c5dfe2a064a6444949f089e20eec9a2e5506596494e4623"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "strum"
-version = "0.23.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cae14b91c7d11c9a851d3fbc80a963198998c2a64eec840477fa92d8ce9b70bb"
-
-[[package]]
-name = "strum_macros"
-version = "0.23.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5bb0dc7ee9c15cea6199cde9a127fa16a4c5819af85395457ad72d68edc85a38"
-dependencies = [
- "heck 0.3.3",
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "rustversion",
- "syn 1.0.109",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "1.0.109"
diff --git a/scylla/Cargo.toml b/scylla/Cargo.toml
index dda2d12427..665679c8e7 100644
--- a/scylla/Cargo.toml
+++ b/scylla/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ openssl = { version = "0.10.32", optional = true }
 tokio-openssl = { version = "0.6.1", optional = true }
 arc-swap = "1.3.0"
 dashmap = "5.2"
-strum = "0.23"
-strum_macros = "0.23"
 lz4_flex = { version = "0.11.1" }
 smallvec = "1.8.0"
 async-trait = "0.1.56"
diff --git a/scylla/src/transport/topology.rs b/scylla/src/transport/topology.rs
index e7a2adcff2..667e164fc9 100644
--- a/scylla/src/transport/topology.rs
+++ b/scylla/src/transport/topology.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
-use strum_macros::EnumString;
 use tokio::sync::{broadcast, mpsc};
 use tracing::{debug, error, trace, warn};
 use uuid::Uuid;
@@ -255,8 +254,7 @@ pub struct MissingUserDefinedType {
     pub keyspace: String,
 }
 
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, EnumString)]
-#[strum(serialize_all = "lowercase")]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum NativeType {
     Ascii,
     Boolean,
@@ -280,6 +278,40 @@ pub enum NativeType {
     Varint,
 }
 
+/// [NativeType] parse error
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct NativeTypeFromStrError;
+
+impl std::str::FromStr for NativeType {
+    type Err = NativeTypeFromStrError;
+
+    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
+        match s {
+            "ascii" => Ok(Self::Ascii),
+            "boolean" => Ok(Self::Boolean),
+            "blob" => Ok(Self::Blob),
+            "counter" => Ok(Self::Counter),
+            "date" => Ok(Self::Date),
+            "decimal" => Ok(Self::Decimal),
+            "double" => Ok(Self::Double),
+            "duration" => Ok(Self::Duration),
+            "float" => Ok(Self::Float),
+            "int" => Ok(Self::Int),
+            "bigint" => Ok(Self::BigInt),
+            "text" => Ok(Self::Text),
+            "timestamp" => Ok(Self::Timestamp),
+            "inet" => Ok(Self::Inet),
+            "smallint" => Ok(Self::SmallInt),
+            "tinyint" => Ok(Self::TinyInt),
+            "time" => Ok(Self::Time),
+            "timeuuid" => Ok(Self::Timeuuid),
+            "uuid" => Ok(Self::Uuid),
+            "varint" => Ok(Self::Varint),
+            _ => Err(NativeTypeFromStrError),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 enum PreCollectionType {
     List(Box<PreCqlType>),
@@ -315,8 +347,7 @@ pub enum CollectionType {
     Set(Box<CqlType>),
 }
 
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, EnumString)]
-#[strum(serialize_all = "snake_case")]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum ColumnKind {
     Regular,
     Static,
@@ -324,6 +355,24 @@ pub enum ColumnKind {
     PartitionKey,
 }
 
+/// [ColumnKind] parse error
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct ColumnKindFromStrError;
+
+impl std::str::FromStr for ColumnKind {
+    type Err = ColumnKindFromStrError;
+
+    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
+        match s {
+            "regular" => Ok(Self::Regular),
+            "static" => Ok(Self::Static),
+            "clustering" => Ok(Self::Clustering),
+            "partition_key" => Ok(Self::PartitionKey),
+            _ => Err(ColumnKindFromStrError),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 #[allow(clippy::enum_variant_names)]
 pub enum Strategy {