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Ananii Andriiovych Kasyanenko was a Ukrainian artist. Born in 1927 in the village of Predtechyne, Artemivsk district (now Donetsk region, Ukraine), from 1946 to 1952 he studied at the Kharkiv Art School under B.I. Vaks and M.S. Slipchenko. Starting in 1952, he lived and worked in the city of Zhdaniv (now Mariupol). A painter of landscapes and thematic paintings, Kasyanenko was a participant in city and regional exhibitions starting in 1953, and republic exhibitions starting in 1960. He participated in foreign exhibitions on the ships of the Azov Sea Shipping Company. His paintings were exhibited in Lebanon (1973), Egypt (1973), France (1974), and Italy (1974). He died in Mariupol in 1993. His works were kept in the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore.