The Sikorsky Estate is an important historic complex in Kyiv connected to the Sikorsky family.
It is associated with Ivan Sikorsky, a physician and professor at the medical faculty of Imperial University of St. Vladimir, and his son Igor Sikorsky, the world-renowned aviation pioneer.
In the estate’s garden, above Afanasiivskyi Yar (now Oles Honchar Street), Igor Sikorsky set up a workshop in 1909–1910 where he built the first helicopters in the Russian Empire. The aircraft were later transported to the Syrets military airfield for testing. Today, a public installation dedicated to the engineer stands in the estate courtyard.
The estate also holds significant cultural importance. Beginning in 1904, one of its buildings housed the Music and Drama School of Mykola Lysenko, which became a major center of Ukrainian music education after his death.
It was later reorganized into an institute and, in 1934, divided into what became the Kyiv Conservatory and the Kyiv Institute of Theatre Arts.
The Sikorsky Estate therefore unites the histories of science, aviation, and Ukrainian culture.