Stanislav Ivanovych Shcherbatykh ( uk, Станіслав Іванович Щербатих, russian: Станислав Иванович Щербатых) (24 February 1948 – 24 January 2007), better known by his stage name Tryzuby Stas ( uk, Тризубий Стас, translit=Tryzubyi Stas, "Trident Stas"), was a Ukrainian musician, and author of Ukrainian anti-communist political satire.Andrei Arkhangelskiy.
Former KGB agents will feel sorry yet that one day they missed the Tri-dental Stas (Бывшие кагэбэшники еще пожалеют, что в свое время проглядели тризубого стаса)
'. Fakty. 1 October 1999

Biography

Shcherbatykh was born in Altai, in the town of

Aleysk Aleysk (russian: Але́йск) is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Aley River ( Ob's tributary), southwest of Barnaul. Population: 32,000 (1968). Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divis ...

. His father was Russian and his mother Ukrainian. After his father was killed, the Shcherbatykh family moved to Stanislaviv,

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, in the summer of 1949. Shcherbatykh graduated from a Russian-speaking school. In 1976, Shcherbatykh married the

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

an poet Maria Huk. In 1977, they traveled to

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, where Maria gave birth to a son, Volodymyr. In 1980, the family returned to Ukraine. There, Shcherbatykh worked in the film industry. At the end of the decade, he joined the theatrical studio Ne zhurysya! in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

. Around this time, he adopted the stage name "Tryzuby Stas" (Trident Stas). He humorously explained that it represented the "three teeth" he had: the

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

, the

Communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

, and

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

s. At the beginning of the 1990s, Shcherbatykh began writing songs that were critical of the government. Shcherbatykh died on 24 January 2007 in his Kyiv apartment, from a heart attack.Halyna Vakar.
Tri-dental Stas suffered three heart attacks (Тризубий Стас переніс три інсульти)
'. Hazeta po-ukrayinsky. 22 February 2008

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stas, Tryzuby 1948 births 2007 deaths People from Altai Krai People from Ivano-Frankivsk Russian people of Ukrainian descent Russian emigrants to Ukraine Ukrainian male poets Ukrainian anti-communists 20th-century Ukrainian poets 20th-century Ukrainian male singers