Alexandra Elbakyan

Alexandra Elbakyan, born on November sixth, nineteen eighty-eight, is a prominent Kazakhstani-Armenian computer programmer and multidisciplinary academic. She is best known as the creator of Sci-Hub, a revolutionary website that provides free access to a vast array of research papers, challenging traditional copyright norms in the academic world.

Since its inception, Sci-Hub has granted access to nearly all scholarly literature published before the year two thousand, although its coverage of more recent publications is notably lower. Elbakyan's work has sparked significant debate regarding the accessibility of scientific knowledge and the ethics of copyright in academia.

Her contributions to science and technology have earned her the moniker