Stanislau Bulak-Balachovitch

Education

He attended an agricultural school for four years in Belmonty.

Career

After an agricultural school Bułak-Bałachowicz worked as an accountant, and in 1904 became a manager at the Duke Plater farms in Horodziec and Łużki.

1914 - he joined the army and by December the same year he was given command over a group of Cossack volunteers, of whom he formed a cavalry squadron.

On November 1915, Bułak-Bałachowicz was assigned to the special partisan regiment in Northern front headquarters as a squadron commander.

During the Polish Defensive War of 1939, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz volunteered for the Polish army. He created a Volunteer Group that fought in the defence of Warsaw.

Achievements

• For the German campaign Bułak-Bałachowicz was decorated with six orders and three soldier's Georgiev medals.
  
  For his resistance against Bolshevik forces that killed local Belarusian peasantry, members of Belarusian minority in Poland regard him as their national hero.
  
  

Connections

Stanisław had two brothers and six sisters. His parents were servants to a local landlord.