Mykhailo Kushnerenko

Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kushnerenko (; 18 August 1938 – 2 April 2021) was a Ukrainian politician. He served as Governor of Kherson Oblast from 1997 to 1998, was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1989 to 1991. Kushnerenko also served on the from 1989 to 1991.

Early life Kushnerenko was born on 18 August 1938 in Strohanivka, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. After graduating from the Kherson Agricultural Institute, he worked as an inspector-organizer for the Kakhovka Production Collective for the kolkhoz there, before later working as a chief agronomist for a state farm in Tsiurupynsk Raion.