Vasiliy Vasilenko was born on March 24, 1867 in Sumy, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sumy oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Ostap Bandura (1924), Dymovka (1926) and U pazurakh radanskoyi vlady (1926). He died in 1930 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine].