The three-story building inside one of the blocks on Yaroslaviv Val Street in Kyiv was built in 1903 by order of the psychiatrist Ivan Sikorsky. In addition to living quarters, the doctor opened a hospital here and ran a private practice.

The son of a doctor, Ihor Sikorsky, who later became a prominent aircraft designer and inventor of the rotorcraft, built the first models of his flying machines in the yard of his father's estate.

In the 1970s, the outstanding cybernetic scientist Viktor Hlushkov, the creator of the country's first computers of the "Dnipro" and "Svit" series, lived here.

The building is currently in a state of disrepair. The restoration and creation of the Ihor Sikorsky Museum of the History of Aeronautics and Aviation is p ...

The three-story building inside one of the blocks on Yaroslaviv Val Street in Kyiv was built in 1903 by order of the psychiatrist Ivan Sikorsky. In addition to living quarters, the doctor opened a hospital here and ran a private practice.

The son of a doctor, Ihor Sikorsky, who later became a prominent aircraft designer and inventor of the rotorcraft, built the first models of his flying machines in the yard of his father's estate.

In the 1970s, the outstanding cybernetic scientist Viktor Hlushkov, the creator of the country's first computers of the "Dnipro" and "Svit" series, lived here.

The building is currently in a state of disrepair. The restoration and creation of the Ihor Sikorsky Museum of the History of Aeronautics and Aviation is planned.