

Ward 13 in a hospital in South Central Asia in the U.S.S.R.After his release from a hospital in Tashkent and a year after Khrushchev was appointed Soviet primier (1961) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in Novyi Mir. During his stay in Kok-Terek he wrote in secret and by the age of 42 had a large collection of writings but had published nothing.

There he developed stomach cancer and was operated on for a tumor and kept from knowing his diagnoses. Solzhenitsyn was released from a a specialized prison in Marfino for inmates who performed mathematical and scientific research in 1953 and was exiled to a village in Kazakhstan to a forced labor camp.
