After the October Revolution, he served in the Red Fleet, took part in the suppression of the Kerensky–Krasnov Uprising in Petrograd, which lasted from October 26 to October 31, 1917. From October 25 to 27 was a member of the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. He also served as chairman of the Naval Revolutionary Committee and head of the military-political department of the Supreme Maritime College. On April 10, 1918 he was appointed Deputy People's Commissar for Maritime Affairs of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. On June 18, 1918 he took part in the flooding of the Black Sea Fleet in the Tsemes Bay, and served as chairman of the Defense Council of the Arkhangelsk Region. He was one of the leaders of the Struggle of the Red Army Against the Army of the British Empire in Northern Russia. In the fall of 1918, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic appointed Vakhrameev to the following posts: Fleet Supply Commissioner, Assistant Manager of the Maritime Commissariat, Representative of the Maritime Department at the Ural factories and Head of the Admiralty of the Sevastopol Port.