[2][3] Bondarenko was born on 4 December 1952 in the village of Okhinky, in Chernihiv Oblast of what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1998, he graduated from the same university, law faculty, with qualification of lawyer[5][6] From 1976 to 1977, he was a history and geography teacher at Kalynivska 8-year school, Gorodyshchensky district, Cherkasy region.

In April 1996, he became the People's Deputy of the 2nd convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Leningradsky electoral district No.

He was a member of the State Committee on national construction and local self-government issues in June 2002, and was the Chairman of the subcommittee on election laws and citizens associations.

At the 2006 national parliamentary elections his Reforms and Order Party won in an alliance with PORA 1.47% of the popular vote and no seats.

He was the Deputy member of the permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

He was the Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with China, Chile, Japan, [[Canada], [[South Africa], Afghanistan, and Italy[14], In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bondarenko was Batkivshchyna's candidate in single-member districts number 219 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Kyiv; with 44.2% of the votes he was reelected into parliament.

Bondarenko was the owner of an ethnographic complex "Ukrainian Village" just outside Kyiv, a careful reconstruction of rural life in 19th-century Ukraine.

As well, the origin of the wealth of the daughter, Ms. Oksana Velychko, have been under severe judicial and press scrutiny, and her credibility as an anti-corruption activist put in doubt [25][26][27]