After the Russian February Revolution, Paval Zhauryd was elected as his regiment's committee president.

He was a delegate at the First All-Belarusian Congress in December 1917, where preparations for the declaration of independence of the Belarusian People's Republic had been initiated.

In July 1920 Zhauryd was mobilised by the Bolsheviks into the Red Army and was appointed aide to the commander of the Slutsk cavalry unit.

He later migrated to East Belarus and worked in his parents' place, in the villages Bor and Zarechcha near Slutsk.

Along with several other Belarusian intellectuals, Paval Zhauryd was arrested by the GPU on July 18, 1930, as part of the Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus.