Саксен-Альтенбург
Born in a village of Hryazne (today Chernechyna) of Okhtyrka county on November 8, 1888, Kovenko finished his school near Kharkiv in Liubotyn in 1899. Later Kovenko emigrated to Germany where he finished a technical school in Altenburg (Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg) and Technische Universität Darmstadt in Darmstadt (Grand Duchy of Hesse) in 1910.