After graduating, he founded and for ten years ran a computer equipment repair company.

Suraykin worked as a lecturer at the Department of Management of Moscow State University of Railways.

In June 2002, he was elected Secretary of the Central Committee of the all-Russian public organization "Union of Communist youth of the Russian Federation" (SKM RF) on organizational and personnel work.

In 2013, Suraykin was nominated as a candidate at Moscow mayoral election, but he was not registered due to late submission of documents.

[citation needed] After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he proposed expelling foreign professional athletes from Russia as a retaliation against international sanctions.

[6] On 18 March 2022, an extraordinary congress of the Communists of Russia voted to oust Suraykin for his alleged connections with "unfriendly countries", fraud, and "bourgeois way of life".

[9] On 28 May 2017, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the "Communists of Russia" nominated Suraykin as candidate to participate in presidential election in 2018.

[11] During the election campaign, Suraykin strongly criticized the Communist party for the nomination of businessman Pavel Grudinin as presidential candidate.

Therefore, it is clear that a large part of the potential electorate would not support such a candidate.Also, he criticized the leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov for supporting Grudinin:[13] Pavel Grudinin – he is a true oligarch, a very rich man, and believe that all their activists it perceives as its employees.