[1] Mykhailo Bondarenko was born in a peasant family in a town of Yelizavetgrad (present day Kropyvnytskyi), central Ukraine.

[2] In 1925–1926 he was a head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CP(b)U) of the Krasnaya Zvezda plant in Zinovyevsk (Kropyvnytskyi).

In 1931–1936 Mykhailo Bondarenko was dispatched to Azerbaijan as a party cadre where he held positions at several local governments.

In 1931–1933 he served as a head of the organizational department of the Baku City Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Azerbaijan.

On 13 October 1937, Bondarenko was arrested during an official trip in Moscow and charged with the belonging to anti-Soviet Trotskyist terrorist and sabotage organization, which acted in the oil industry of the USSR.