During the Civil War he was Chairman of the Rogozhsko-Simonovsky District Council of Moscow and a member of the Presidium of the Moscow City Council. Then he worked at the Dynamo plant first as a locksmith, then as a “red director”. As a capable organizer of production, he was nominated to the post of chairman of the board of the State Electrotechnical Trust. At the 12th Party Congress he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b).