Stepan Vasilievich Shagaida (, real name Stepan Shagardin; 9 January 1896 – 12 January 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet theater and film actor.

Biography

He served in the

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His stage career began during the years of the

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in the regimental Drama Theatre of the 45th Infantry Division. In 1922, he studied at the Drama Studio theater ''Berezil'' (now Kharkiv Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Academic Drama Theatre). He began acting in films in 1924. In 1928, he became an actor of the Odessa and Kiev studios. He appeared in the films of

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and

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(The writer and director of

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(1935)). In the summer of 1928, he left the theater to work in cinema. In 1927–1930, at the Odesa Film Studio, he starred in the films A Child from the Forest, The Gem of the Seven-Sided Stone, Walking in the Way, The Museum Guard, The Digging Ground, I Give You a Gift, and Five Brides. In 1930, he played the lead role in the historical drama Karmelyuk, which Lopatinsky began staging at the Odesa studio and completed at the Kyiv Film Factory. Together with Shagaid's film crew, he moved to Kyiv, where he continued to work for the next few years. At the end of 1937 he was arrested along with many Ukrainian film makers and shot in early 1938. П. Медведик, Л. Щербак. Шагайда Степан Васильович // Тернопільський енциклопедичний словник. — Тернопіль: видавничо-поліграфічний комбінат «Збруч», 2004—2010. — , том ІІІ, 2008

Selected filmography

* 1924 – ''Vendetta'' as Deacon Gordiy Svyatoptitsyn * 1926 – ''Vasya reformer'' as Mitya Kutsy * 1931 – '' Karmelyuk'' as Karmelyuk * 1932 – ''

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'' as Ivan's father * 1935 – ''

'' as Stepan Glushak * 1937 – ''Rich Bride'' as hairdresser Sidor Vasilyevich Balaba

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shagaida, Stepan 1896 births 1938 deaths People from Ternopil Oblast Soviet male actors 20th-century Ukrainian male actors Ukrainian male film actors Ukrainian male stage actors People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm