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Alexey Pajitnov
Video Game Designer
1956 –
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Who is Alexey Pajitnov?
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer, who developed the popular game Tetris while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center.
He only started to get royalties from his creation in 1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed The Tetris Company.
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- Born
- Mar 14, 1956
Moscow - Also known as
- Alekseï Leonidovitch Pajitnov
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Russia
- Profession
- Employment
- Microsoft Corporation
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on July 23, 2013
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