Kononenko, Mytrofan

Kononenko, Mytrofan [Кононенко, Митрофан], b 17 June 1900 in Kaharlyk, Kyiv county, Kyiv gubernia, d 1 January 1965 in Kharkiv. Stage actor specializing in heroic roles. Graduating from the Lysenko Music and Drama Institute (1923), he worked in the Berezil theater and then in the Kharkiv Ukrainian Drama Theater. His principal roles were Hapon in Les Kurbas’s and Stepan Bondarchuk’s Proloh (Prologue), Satan in Ivan Dniprovsky’s Iablunevyi polon (Apple-Blossom Captivity), the professor in A. Sullivan’s Mikado (text by Mykola Khvylovy, Maik Yohansen, and Ostap Vyshnia), Velzevul in Allo na khvyli 477 (Hello on Frequency 477; by the same authors), Gianettino in Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller’s Die Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua, and Tur in Oleksander Korniichuk’s Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]