Kononenko, Hryhorii

Kononenko, Hryhorii [Кононенко, Григорій], b 13 March 1938 in Zolota Nyva, Velyka Novosilka raion, Donetsk oblast, d 5 May 2006 in Kyiv. Theater director. Graduating from the Kharkiv Institute of Arts (1965), he joined the Kharkiv Ukrainian Drama Theater as a director. In 1969 he was appointed principal director at the Dnipropetrovsk Young spectator's theater, and then in 1985 at the Kyiv Russian Drama Theater. He staged such plays as Taras Bul'ba, an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s novel, Natalia Zabila’s Koly misiats' ziide (When the Moon Rises), Pavlo Zahrebelny’s Khto za, khto proty (Who’s For, Who’s Against), and Skarby Flinta (Flint’s Treasure, an adaptation of Robert Stevenson's Treasure Island).

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