Alexey Pajitnov
Soviet and Russian computer engineer (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov[lower-alpha 1] (born April 16, 1955)[1] is a Soviet computer engineer and video game designer who lives in the United States.[2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences).[3] After Tetris was released internationally in 1987, he released a sequel in 1989, entitled Welltris.
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Born | Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (1955-04-16) April 16, 1955 (age 69) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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Alma mater | Moscow Aviation Institute |
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Employer(s) | Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre The Tetris Company Microsoft |
Known for | Creator of Tetris |
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In 1991, he moved to the United States and later became a U.S. citizen.[2] In 1996, Pajitnov founded The Tetris Company alongside Dutch video game designer Henk Rogers. Despite the game's high popularity, Pajitnov did not receive royalties from Tetris prior to this time, with the Soviet government being the only Russians who had made money from it.[4]