Alexey Pajitnov

Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born April 16, 1955) is a Russian computer engineer and video game designer who 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). After Tetris was released internationally in 1987, he released a sequel in 1989, entitled Welltris.

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
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov

(1955-04-16) April 16, 1955
Moscow, Russian SFSR, 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

In 1991, he moved to the United States and later became a U.S. citizen. In 1996, Pajitnov founded The Tetris Company alongside Dutch video game designer Henk Rogers. Pajitnov did not receive royalties from Tetris prior to this time, despite the game's high popularity.

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