| Industry | Computer and video game industry |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Number of employees
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250 (2016) |
| Divisions | Akella Online |
| Website | akella |
Akella (Russian: Акелла) is a Russian software company specializing in the development, publishing and distribution of video games and multimedia products. The founders of Akella met in 1993 and decided to start a company together, and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprises five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localization team and a quality assurance department; in total, 250 people are employed by Akella.
The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf, and its logo is a wolf.