Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov was born on April 16,1955 and is a Soviet-born American computer engineer and video game designer.
10 Facts About Alexey Pajitnov
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Alexey Pajitnov 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.
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In 1996, Pajitnov founded The Tetris Company alongside Dutch video game designer Henk Rogers.
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Alexey Pajitnov's mother was a journalist who wrote for both newspapers and a film magazine.
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In 1977, Alexey Pajitnov worked as a summer intern at the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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Alexey Pajitnov was employed by Microsoft from October 1996 until 2005.
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Alexey Pajitnov's new, enhanced version of Hexic, Hexic HD, was included with every new Xbox 360 Premium package.
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Alexey Pajitnov moved to the United States in 1991, was naturalized as a US citizen and now lives in Clyde Hill, Washington.
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Alexey Pajitnov was initially noted as a missing person, though his body was found on February 9,2018.
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Alexey Pajitnov was portrayed by Russian actor Nikita Yefremov in the 2023 movie Tetris, a dramatised retelling of the licensing bidding war for Tetris in the late 1980s.