Hasan Konopacki
Polish, Russian, Belarusian soldier, politician, and journalist (1879–1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hasan Konopacki (Belarusian: Гасан Амуратавіч Канапацкі, Hasan Amuratavich Kanapatski) (1879–1953) was a Lipka Tatar politician, journalist and military officer that served in the Imperial Russian, Lithuanian and Polish armies. Hasan Konopacki was closely connected with the Belarusian national movement. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) as an artillery colonel and in World War I on the Russian side. He was a commander of Belarusian military units in the Lithuanian Army (1918–1919), Polish Army (1919–1920) and a member of the "Belarusian Military Commission". During the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939) he worked as a politician and a journalist of the Belarusian minority in Poland, advocating the creation of a Belarusian state in close cooperation with Poland.