Bykova was a Kyiv-based historic preservation architect who specialized in seventeenth-nineteenth-century buildings. Working at Ukrproektrestavratsiya (Ukrainian Preservation Design Institute), between 1967 and 1982, she led the reconstruction of Baroque Vydubychi monastery; eighteenth-century building of Old Academic Building of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (1950-1970), nineteenth-century Kyiv Post Building (1976-1982); eighteenth-century the Great Lavra Bell Tower (1957-1963); and eighteenth-century Trinity Church of Kytaevsky monastery.