 From 1920 to 1921 he was the head of the Irkutsk Guberniya Committee of the RKP(b).In 1922 he was made Secretary of the Dagestan Oblast Committee of the party, a position which he retained through 1924, when he was transferred to Moscow.In the capital, Ryutin was first named the head of the Zamoskvoreche Raion Committee of the Communist Party.