Background
APPOGA, Ernest was born in 1898.
APPOGA, Ernest was born in 1898.
1924 graduate Higher Academy Courses. 1927 graduate Frunze Military Academy.
Until 1918 worker; from April 1918 in Red Army. 1918-1930 comissar, Staff, Urals Military district. Commander and military comissar, Administration Department, Staff of 10th Army.
Chief of staff, 37th Division. Commander, 9th Don Division. Head, Department of Military Training for Civilians, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Navy.
Head, Signals Board, Red Army Staff. 1930-1937 head, Red Army Signals Corps. Member, Military Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense.
Editor, ’’Military Transport” section, Sovetskaya voyennaya entsiklopediya (Soviet Military' Encyclopedia). 1934-1935 took part in construction of a bridge over the River Volga at Saratov. 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Communist Party member from 1917.
