Maxim Rust was born in Ukraine in 1988. He went to school at the Belarusian Lyceum for Humanities until the institute was closed down in 2003 for ideological reasons. After finishing his high school studies via correspondence course he went to Poland in 2006 to study at university. Maxim Rust is currently a student of political sciences at Warsaw University and works as an assistant at the Warsaw office of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.