Hassan Konopacki

Hasan Konopacki (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 and was a commander of Belarusian military units in the Lithuanian Army (1918–1919), Polish Army (1919–1920) as well as a member of the Poland-close Belarusian Military Commission. Before that, he participated in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) as an artillery colonel and in World War I on the Russian side. 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.