Anton Aŭsianik

Antoni Owsianik was a leftist politician, national activist, and engineer of Belarusian nationality, a state activist of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, from 1918 to 1919 a member of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, the Presidium of the Belarusian Democratic Republic Council, the Convention of Seniors of the Belarusian Democratic Republic Council, and the People's Secretariat of Belarus; one of the initiators of the creation of Belarusian military units within the Polish Armed Forces, from 1919 to 1920 a member, and later vice-chairman, of the temporary presidium of the Belarusian Military Commission; in 1920 a plenipotentiary representative of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in the Republic of Lithuania; a representative of the Belarusian national minority in the Second Polish Republic, from 1922 a deputy to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland in its first term. In the 1930s he moved to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, was arrested and probably killed by order of the Soviet authorities.