Kyiv International Airport Renamed After Famous Ukrainian Aircraft Designer

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At a meeting of the Kyiv City Council on March 22, deputies decided to name the Kyiv International Airport after the aircraft designer, Igor Sikorsky.

All the necessary procedures for the name change have been completed,Ukrainska pravda reported.

‘The staff of the airport, the parliamentary commission for rebranding and three committees of the Kyiv City Council, approved this decision,” the deputy chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration, Oleksii Reznikov said.

From now on, the airport will be called Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport.

Sikorsky was an outstanding designer of helicopters and fixed-wing aircrafts. He was of Ukrainian origin. His first success came with the S-2, and his fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition. Both were fixed-wing aircrafts. Sikorsky studied at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He produced six models of planes and helicopters in Kyiv betwen 1908 and 1912.