Ptukha served as the First Secretary of the Stalingrad Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1928 and then served as the Executive Secretary of the Stalingrad District Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was a delegate to the 15th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.