Alyoshka: one of Ivan’s bunk mates, he is known as “the Baptist.”
Buynovsky: a well-educated prisoner, known as “the captain” due to his former military rank
Der: the construction site foreman
Eino: one of the two Estonians
Fetyukov: a scavenger and scrounger
Gopchik: a 16-year-old imprisoned for providing milk to rebels hiding in the forest
Stepan Grigorich: the know-it-all doctor
Kildigs: a Latvian bricklayer
Senka Klevshin: a former inmate of Buchenwald
Kuzyomin: Ivan’s former gang boss who taught him the rules of the prison
Limpy: the mess hall attendant with an injured leg
Tsezar Markovich: a cinematographer
Moldavian: a prisoner missing at evening roll call
Panteleyer: a prisoner missing from morning roll call
Pavlo: the respected deputy gang foreman
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov: he escaped from a German prison camp only to be considered a spy by the Russian government.
Tartar: a thin, hairless guard
Andrei Prokofyevich Tyurin: the gang boss
Kolya Vdovushkin (Nikolai Semyonich): a medical assistant who writes poetry
Volkovoy: a cruel and much feared disciplinary officer
Content last updated: April 30, 2006
