Tamaš Hryb was born into a peasant family in the village of Paliany[1] in what is now the border region of Belarus and the Republic of Lithuania.

[1] After the February Revolution, he became a full-time politician organising Belarusian soldiers and workers in the western part of the Russian Empire.

[1][3] Alongside Paluta Badunova and Jazep Mamońka, Hryb co-founded the Belarusian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries [be-tarask] in 1918[1][2] and became its leader.

[4] After six issues, the Rodny kraj newspaper was closed and its editor arrested by the occupying Polish authorities.

[5] After 1921, Tamaš Hryb settled in Prague, where he received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Charles University in 1928.