Tryzuby Stas
Stanislav Ivanovych Shcherbatykh (Ukrainian: Станіслав Іванович Щербатих, Russian: Станислав Иванович Щербатых) (24 February 1948 – 24 January 2007), better known by his stage name Tryzuby Stas (Ukrainian: Тризубий Стас, romanized: Tryzubyi Stas, "Trident Stas"), was a Ukrainian musician, and author of Ukrainian anti-communist political satire.[1]
Tryzuby Stas Тризубий Стас | |
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| Birth name | Stanislav Shcherbatykh |
| Born | 24 February 1948 Aleysk, Altai Krai, (RSFSR) |
| Died | 24 January 2007 (aged 58) Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Genres | folk, pop |
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| Instrument(s) | Guitar |
| Years active | 1991–2007 |
Biography
Shcherbatykh was born in Altai, in the town of Aleysk. His father was Russian and his mother Ukrainian. After his father was killed, the Shcherbatykh family moved to Stanislaviv, Ukrainian SSR, in the summer of 1949. Shcherbatykh graduated from a Russian-speaking school.
In 1976, Shcherbatykh married the Kyivan poet Maria Huk. In 1977, they traveled to Kamchatka, 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. Around this time, he adopted the stage name "Tryzuby Stas" (Trident Stas). He humorously explained that it represented the "three teeth" he had: [lower-alpha 1] the Komsomol, the Communist party, and trade unions. 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.[2]
Notes
- To have teeth for something is a play-on-words meaning to have a grudge against something.
References
- 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
- Halyna Vakar. Tri-dental Stas suffered three heart attacks (Тризубий Стас переніс три інсульти). Hazeta po-ukrayinsky. 22 February 2008
External links
- List of works (in Ukrainian)
- Fan blog (in Ukrainian)