Alexandre Koriakine

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Alexandre Koriakine (Russian: Коря́кин Алекса́ндр Никола́евич) is a native of Moscow Oblast, Russia. He graduated from Plekhanov Academy of Economics in 1998 and then studied French language and culture at the University of Lyon (Université Lumière, Lyon 2).

In 1986 he became a member of the Young Pioneer organization, and in 1988 he was expelled from it because of anti-communist expressions.

In November 1997 he became one of the founders of the Plekhanov Academy student organisation (Studsovet).

In April 2001 he created a site for the local city community of a small scientific city, Troitsk, Moscow Oblast. In a few years this site became one of the top-twenty Russian city portals.

Currently, Alexandre Koriakine is a Russian cartographer and internet entrepreneur. He is best-known internationally as the co-founder of WikiMapia, a project to annotate Google Maps by using a wiki system.


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