People · Kyivans in history

Famous KyivansEngineers and designers

Princes and saints, poets and aviators, patrons and adventurers — people who were born, lived or worked in Kyiv. Biographies, addresses and places to visit.

56 people
11 categories
12 centuries (X–XXI c.)

Engineers and designers

4 people

Igor SikorskyAircraft designer1889–1972Kyiv-born creator of the world’s first four-engine aircraft and first mass-produced helicopter. He built his first helicopters and planes in the courtyard of the family home on Yaroslaviv Val.
Yevhen PatonBridge engineer1870–1953Bridge engineer and Kyiv Polytechnic professor from 1904. He designed the park footbridge over Petrivska Alley, founded the Electric Welding Institute and gave his name to an all-welded Dnipro bridge.
Oleh AntonovAircraft designer1906–1984Chief aircraft designer whose bureau was based in Kyiv from 1952, creating the An-10, An-12, An-22 Antei, An-24 and An-124 Ruslan.
Serhiy KorolyovRocket designer1907–1966Zhytomyr-born chief designer of Sputnik and the Vostok spacecraft. In 1924–1926 he studied at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, where he took up gliding.