diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow-estimator/1_15_1.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow-estimator/1_15_1.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..39c667357c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow-estimator/1_15_1.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage
+, numpy
+, absl-py
+, mock
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "tensorflow-estimator";
+  version = "1.15.1";
+  format = "wheel";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    pname = "tensorflow_estimator";
+    inherit version format;
+    sha256 = "1fc61wmc0w22frs79j2x4g6wnv5g21xc6rix1g4bsvy9qfvvylw8";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ mock numpy absl-py ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "TensorFlow Estimator is a high-level API that encapsulates model training, evaluation, prediction, and exporting.";
+    homepage = http://tensorflow.org;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jyp ];
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/default.nix
index 9e5acca4749..5422503173c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/default.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 , future, setuptools, wheel, keras-preprocessing, keras-applications, google-pasta
 , functools32
 , opt-einsum
-, termcolor, grpcio, six, wrapt, protobuf, tensorflow-estimator
+, termcolor, grpcio, six, wrapt, protobuf, tensorflow-estimator_1_15_1
 # Common deps
 , git, swig, which, binutils, glibcLocales, cython
 # Common libraries
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ in buildPythonPackage {
     numpy
     six
     protobuf
-    tensorflow-estimator
+    tensorflow-estimator_1_15_1
     termcolor
     wrapt
     grpcio
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index ebe69a1b14c..90e80890c6f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6657,6 +6657,7 @@ in {
   zerobin = callPackage ../development/python-modules/zerobin { };
 
   tensorflow-estimator = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tensorflow-estimator { };
+  tensorflow-estimator_1_15_1 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tensorflow-estimator/1_15_1.nix { };
 
   tensorflow-probability = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tensorflow-probability { };