Stepan Vasilievich Shagaida (Ukrainian: Степан Васильович Шагайда, real name Stepan Shagardin; 9 January 1896 – 12 January 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet theater and film actor.
[1] His stage career began during the years of the Russian Civil War in the regimental Drama Theatre of the 45th Infantry Division.
[1] He appeared in the films of Les Kurbas and Alexander Dovzhenko (The writer and director of Aerograd (1935)).
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.