This article is devoted to the general characteristics of the super-complex and rather multipolar personal professiogenesis of A. Makarenko. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of professional crisis aspects of the process: the complexity of motivational mechanisms of professional self-actualization of young A. Makarenko, the crisis of his professional self-determination, unrealized educational aspirations, opposition of talent and skill, professional readiness crisis, unfavorable social conditions and lack of professional freedom. It reveals the peculiarities of A. Makarenko's formal and informal educational activity, the complexity of the formation of motivational mechanisms of his personal and professional self-actualization, analyzes the manifestations of destructive factors of his professional activity. It concludes that the leading circumstance of A. Makarenko's professional self-actualization were many years of activity and self-improvement in the field, which did not meet the basic direction of his professional preferences. However, it was A. Makarenko's professional activity as a teacher-educator that determined the content of his further literary work, and the innovative essence, intensity and drama of this activity ensured his great success as a professional writer. A certain paradox of A. Makarenko's professional genesis is that the pedagogical profession, to which he devoted his life only due to objective circumstances, nevertheless became the sphere and condition of his ultimate professional self-actualization – both as an educator-practitioner and as a pedagogical thinker, as an educational manager, and as a writer. Giving these facts, we consider it necessary to emphasize that each of these professional roles of A. Makarenko in its development was not only an important motivating factor for all his other essences as a professional, but certainly generated new forms for expressing their perfection.