I only know that my grandpa, of whom I never saw yet I was told, was extremely talented person and sharp politician who served for the county court in Lubny over an extensive period of time as a secretary.Childhood Naumentko spent in Novhorod-Siverskyi and Bila Tserkva.

Since 1875 he was its treasurer, while in 1876 Naumenko became among that group of dozen who after publishing the Ems Ukaz adopted decision to move their activities abroad.

In 1893 to 1906 Naumenko was a chief editor of historic-ethnographic and literature monthly magazine Kievskaia starina (Russian: Кіевская старина).

During the times of Naumenko, Kievskaia starina transformed from a pure popular science publishing to a representative body of Ukrainophilia, on pages of which was unfolding a struggle for free development of the Ukrainian literature.

There is a famous polemic that Naumenko conducted it on pages of the magazine with Timofey Florinskiy who refused to recognize Ukrainian as a separate language rather than a Little-Russian dialect.

[citation needed] Volodymyr Naumenko entered history of Ukrainian Pedagogy not only as a brilliant practical teacher, but also as an experienced Methodist-innovator and theoretic.

Naumenko systematically was conducting methodic classes with pedagogues of Sunday school of the Kyiv Grammar Society serving as its chairman in 1897-1907.

In the Vernadsky Institute of manuscripts are preserved the text of lectures from different years that Volodymyr Naumenko read to teachers of people's schools.