Famous People with Name Kolas

Yakub Kolas            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Yakub Kolas: was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.

Yakub Kolas, Jakub Kolas            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Yakub Kolas, Jakub Kolas: was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.He wrote collections of poems Songs of Captivity (1908) and Songs of Grief (Belarusian: ??????-??????, 1910), poems A New Land (Belarusian: ????? ?????, 1923) and Simon the Musician (Belarusian: ?????-??????, 1925), stories, and plays. His poem The Fisherman's Hut (Belarusian: ???????? ????, 1947) is about the fight after unification of Belarus with the Soviet state. His trilogy At a Crossroads (1954) is about the pre-Revolutionary life of the Belarusian peasantry and the democratic intelligentsia. He was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1946 and 1949.

Adam Kolasa            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Adam Kolasa: is a Polish pole vaulter.He finished eighth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton in a personal best of 5.75 metres, won the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie, finished fourth at the 2002 European Indoor Championships in Vienna and ninth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris. Participating at the 2004 Olympics, he failed to qualify from his pool.

Marian Kolasa            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Marian Kolasa: is a retired Polish pole vaulter. He won two medals at the European Indoor Championships. His personal best was 5.80 metres, achieved in September 1986 in Kamp-Lintfort.

Sebastian Kolasinski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Sebastian Kolasinski: is a Polish ice dancer. With partner Sylwia Nowak, he is a multiple Polish national champion. They competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics. They were the 1994 World Junior Champions.Early in his career, he skated with Agnieszka Domanska briefly, and then teamed up with Sylwia Nowak with whom he competed for the remainder of his eligible career.