Kononenko Sergey Alexandrovich (height 185 cm.) Was born in the city of St. Petersburg, February 6, 1981. He entered the Russian Ballet Academy in 1991, graduated in 1999. During his studies in junior classes he performed pas de trois from the ballet The Nutcracker and several other solo parts. In the senior classes under the guidance of teachers N.M. Dudinskaya, L.A. Kunakova, I.B. Zubkovskaya, and artistic director of the Academy of Russian Ballet Vaganova - I.D. Belsky were prepared and performed: the Prince's party in the ballet The Nutcracker, Pierrot's party in the ballet The Fairy of Dolls, the grand pas from the ballet Don Quixote, the pas de deux from the ballet Coppelia, the pas de deux from the ballet "Corsair", the pas de deux of Diana and Actaeon from the ballet "Esmeralda", the classical pas de deux of George Balanchine. In 1999 he was accepted into the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater (Kirov Ballet).
In 2006, he was at the international prize "Franca Bartolomei", Italy, Rieti.