Ihor Ivanovich Sikorsky

Ihor Ivanovich Sikorsky was born on June 6th, 1889,

Kyiv, Russian Empire. He was an outstanding aircraft
designer of Polish-Ukrainian origin who worked in the
Russian Empire and the United States of America. He
created the world's first aircraft: the four-engine
Russian Knight (1913), a heavy four-engine bomber and
passenger plane "Ilya Muromets" (1914), “transatlantic
seaplane” (1934), serial single-screw helicopter (1942),
“Sikorsky S-29-A”. Designer of the first US amphibious aircraft.
He was born in Kyiv, in the family of Ivan Sikorskyi, a professor of the
department of neurology and psychiatry of the medical faculty of Kyiv
University, an honorary member of the Kyiv club of Russian nationalists, an
active opponent of the Ukrainian national revival, who was accused of
cooperation with the Russian secret police. Ivan Sikorsky conducted an
examination in the Baylis case, in which he proved that a ritual murder for the
purpose of obtaining Christian blood could have happened.
The maiden name of the mother of aircraft designer Maria Stefanivna is
Temryuk-Cherkasova. The godparents of Igor Sikorsky were Grand Duke Peter
Mykolayovych Romanov and Grand Duchess Oleksandra Petrivna Romanova.
The first known ancestor of Igor Sikorskyi was the Orthodox priest Hryhoriy
Sikorskyi, who lived approximately 1705–1760. It is known that in 1686 the Kyiv
Orthodox Metropolitanate was subordinated to the Russian Orthodox Church,
and the right-bank Kyiv region itself was part of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth.
Ihor Sikorsky wrote in a letter, in English, dated August 30, 1933,
to Vasyl Halych:
"My family, which comes from a village in the Kyiv region, where my grandfather
and great-grandfather were priests, is of pure Ukrainian origin. However, we
consider ourselves Russians as coming from one of the parts of Russia,
considering the Ukrainian nation to be an integral part of Russia in the same way
that Texas or Louisiana are an integral part of the United States"
This is the only known document signed by Igor Sikorsky, where he indicates his
nationality. The impetus for studying his genealogy was the fact that Sikorsky
was very sensitive to not being considered a Pole, but a Ukrainian.