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Alexandra Elbakyan
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Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
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It is catalogued under topics including 1988 births, 21st-century women scientists and Copyright activists.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1988-11-06 ) 6 November 1988 (age 37) , Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union , (now Almaty, Kazakhstan )
- Alma mater
- Satbayev University ( BS ) Saint Petersburg State University ( MS )
- Occupations
- Scientific activist Researcher Security hacker
- Known for
- Sci-Hub and Sci-Net
- Movement
- Open Access
- Fields
- Neural engineering , Computer science
- Website
- sci-hub.ru/alexandra (archived 2025-05-19)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexandra
- Family name
- Elbakyan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Almaty
- Occupation
- activist
- Educated at
- Institute of Philosophy
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Award
- EFF Award
- Notable work
- Sci-Hub
- Field of work
- neural engineering
- Official website
- engineuring.wordpress.com
- Image
- Alexandra Elbakyan at Sochi in 2021 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1988-11-06
- Commons category
- Alexandra Elbakyan
- official blog URL
- engineuring.wordpress.com
- name in native language
- Александра Асановна Элбакян
- birth name
- Александра Асановна Элбакян
- interested in
- global brain
- social media followers
- 113843
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н; Armenian: Ալեքսանդրա Ասանովնա Էլբակյան; born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer, multidisciplinary academic, and the creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers . Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature published before 2020, but a much lower proportion of those published since then.
Elbakyan has been described as "Science's Pirate Queen". In 2016, Nature included her in their list of the top ten "people who mattered" in science. Since 2011, she has been living in Russia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexandra Elbakyan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.