Kononenko, Kharytia [Кононенко, Харитя], b 18 October 1900 in Mykolaivka, Kremenchuk county, Poltava gubernia, d 15 October 1943 in Rivne, Volhynia. Civic leader. An agronomist by profession, she was active in the Ukrainian women's movement in Czechoslovakia and Galicia, for example, in the National Council of Ukrainian Women. In the 1930s she organized the Farm Women’s Section of the Silskyi Hospodar society in Lviv. In 1941 she was the head of the Ukrainian Red Cross and the Ukrainian Relief Committee in Rivne. She was executed by the Nazi German police.

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