Belarusian History and Culture. Commemorative coin dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of Yanka Kupala. KUPALA, Yanka (pen name of LUTSEVICH Ivan Daminikavich; 1882–1942), Belarusian poet, playwright, publicist, translator, classic of Belarusian literature, one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature and literary language. First People's Poet of Belarus (1925), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR (1928) and of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1929), public figure.