Alexandra Elbakyan

Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub

Born: 6 November 1988, Almaty
Age: 37
Birth name: Александра Асановна Элбакян

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Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (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.

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