A trident is an ancient stabbing weapon. It has a long shaft, crowned by an iron tip with three barbs. The trident was made like a fishing tool — a gaff. Each barb of the gaff, unlike the trident, ended with a point and had serrations that held the fish. A gaff was used for fishing in spring: during the spawning season pikes, common carps and pike perches were caught directly from the shore. Also in winter, people were used to hit fish in the ice-hole with it. Gaffs with two barbs were called “sadovya” or “sandovya”.

The trident was used in the same way as a spear: to strike the enemy with it or to take away the weapon.

The residents of Pogar supported the Cossacks from the Zaporizhian Sich. In addition to tridents, in the fights, they used improvised tools like scythes and axes. That time there was a mass “Cossack-conversion” of the population: everyone who supported the rebels could become a Cossack and join the army. However, even ordinary citizens, who did not become Cossacks, carried “shablas” (sabers) and kept battle tridents in their dwellings. Later the citizens of Pogar took an oath of allegiance to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov in February 1654, when Ukraine became part of Russia. 462 people took the oath: a colonel, a clerk, an esaul (Cossack captain), a standard-bearer (Cossack rank equal to second lieutenant), 24 atamans (title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack armies), 344 Cossacks, a headman and 89 petty bourgeois.

The trident, which is presented in the Radogoshch museum, was kept in the Cossack family Kraevoy as a family relic. One of the representatives of the Cossack family donated this trident to the collection.