 He was promoted to head of the more important Krasnaya Presnya Raion Committee in 1927.Ryutin was elected as a delegate to the 14th Congress (December 1925) and 15th Congress (December 1927) of what was by then known as the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks), the VKP(b).The latter elected him a candidate (non-voting) member of the Central Committee of the VKP(b).