- Wrote The Gulag Archipelago, based on autobiographic story of his own imprisonment in the Stalin's labor camps.
- In 1970, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
- Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. In 1994 returned back to Russia and settled in Moscow.
- One of the most famous dissidents in the former Soviet Union, alongside Mstislav Rostropovich and Andrei Sakharov.
- Earned two degrees, in mathematics and in physics.
- Has three sons named Yermolai (b. 1970), Ignat (b. 1972) and Stephan (b. 1973).
- Appears in the movie "Cloud Atlas", as an information page, with his photograph, name and "The Gulag Archipelago" on it, which Sonmi-451 accesses on a futuristic Holographic Internet while her voiceover says "Education was a mirror in which to find yourself".
- One of the Compare the Market Meerkats is named after him.
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