Alexey Pajitnov

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Leonidovich and the family name is Pajitnov.
Alexey Pajitnov
Алексей Пажитнов
Pajitnov in 2024
Born (1955-04-16) April 16, 1955 (age 69)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Citizenship
  • Soviet Union (until 1991)
  • Russia
  • United States
Alma materMoscow Aviation Institute
Occupations
Employer(s)Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre
The Tetris Company
Microsoft
Known forCreator of Tetris
Awards

Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov[a] (born April 16, 1955)[1] is a Soviet (now Russian)-born American 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.

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]


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  1. ^ "Corporate Bio". Tetris. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Sapieha, Chad (March 23, 2006). "Tetris' Alexey Pajitnov". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  3. ^ "Tetris | video game | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved April 19, 2023.
  4. ^ "Tetris: a history". Atarihq.com. Retrieved May 6, 2012.