Alex Gilbert (born 1 April 1992) is a New Zealand adoption advocate. He is known as the founder of the adoption project I'm Adopted which he established in 2015.The story of his search for, and finally meeting, his birth parents in Russia first aired on New Zealand TV in 2014.Alex Gilbert was born on 1 April 1992 in Arkhangelsk, Russia, to Tatiana Gusovskaia and Mihail Kovkov. Gilbert was placed in a Russian orphanage in Arkhangelsk by his 19-year-old birth mother Tatiana after he was born. (His birth mother had also been placed in an orphanage when she was a child.) His birth father Mihail did not know of his existence until 2013 after hearing through a series of online messages that Gilbert was searching for him. In 1994, Gilbert and his brother Andrei were adopted by his New Zealand parents Mark and Janice Gilbert. He grew up in Whangarei, New Zealand and lived there until he was 18 years. He moved to Auckland at the beginning of 2011. Wikipedia
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