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

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"), 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

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, in the town of

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

Stanislaviv Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Obl ...

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 Ukra ...

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

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, 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. ...

, 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 ...

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