[1] He earned 3 caps for the Russia national speedway team.

[2] Born 16 February 1982 in Togliatti,[3][4] his brother Pavel is also a former speedway rider, and their uncle Anatoly Bondarenko was twice world ice speedway champion.

[6] Bondarenko also spent four years racing in the Team Speedway Polish Championship from 2007 to 2010.

[7] Bondarenko was twice the bronze medalist of the Russian Individual Speedway Championship in 2004 and 2009.

[8] In 2011, he rode for Leicester Lions in the British Premier League, where he spent the 2011 Premier League speedway season with fellow Russian Sergey Darkin.