It was his entry into the vast network of punitive institutions that he would later name the Gulag Archipelago, after the Russian acronym for the Main Administration of Camps.

• 战争爆发，他加入了军队。在被派往炮兵学院之前，他被委派监督辎重。他在战争中作为一只勘测队的指挥官度过了三年。