Born February 16, 1946 in Petrozavodsk.
In 1969 he graduated from the State Forestry Institute in Leningrad, then - State Literary Institute. M. Gorky in Moscow.
He worked as head of the literary department at the Maly Theater, and then - in his Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky the director Tatyana Doroninoj.
. He was a member of the Communist Party until 1991.
. Since 1990 - deputy chief editor of the newspaper "Day".
. After the defeat of the supporters of the Supreme Soviet of Russia on Oct. 4, 1993 for a short time in hiding, although the prosecution authorities against journalists was not.
. Since November 1993 - deputy editor of the weekly newspaper "Tomorrow."
. In 1994, Vladimir
Bondarenko, as a special correspondent for "The Day - Tomorrow" was in Serbia, . Germany, . United States, . which interviewed a number of political and public figures - the philosopher Alexander Zinoviev, . political scientists, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Pipes, . German national union leader Gerhard Frey and others,
. Since May 1997 - editor of newspaper supplement "Tomorrow" - "Day of the literature.
. Monarchist, a supporter of the enthronement grandson of Marshal D
. K. Egor Zhukov (son of the marshal's daughter Mary).
Member of the Writers' Union of Russia from 1991.
Published in the newspaper "Literary Russia" journal "Our Contemporary".
Married. Son of George learns the history department of Moscow State University. Juvenile's daughter died.