To dear Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya on her jubilee UDC 517.54By means of complez rays an explicit analytic expression is obtained for an S*-wave which does not satisfy the classical geometric optics of elastic waves. Bibliography: 11 titles. This paper is devoted to the deduction of an explicit analytic expression for an S*-wave which does not satisfy the classical geometric optics of elastic waves. We have succeeded in this deduction by means of the so-called complex rays. We briefly state basic features of the ray method in a complex domain (see papers [1][2][3][4][5] related to this problem). The problem admits different approaches (see [6] and the bibliography cited therein).