Alexander Makogon explained why in the passport "Ukrainian" specified a nationality

"My mother – the Russian, the father – the Ukrainian. When I received the passport, it was possible to choose a nationality, and then I asked to write down me the Ukrainian", – the known actor Alexander Makogon remembers. He was born and grew in Donetsk, and today it has there mother with whom it speaks every day by phone under sounds of explosions. About why Alexander Makogon did not become Russian according to the passport, he told on air TV channel "Rossiya". According to him, the crucial role at a choice of a nationality was played by the surname which has got from the father. "At me all schoolmates wrote "Russian", but I for some reason counted...