Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer, born in Moscow on 16 April 1955. 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. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Pajitnov moved to the United States and became a U.S. citizen, and in 1996 he founded The Tetris Company with the Dutch video game designer Henk Rogers.
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April 16, 1955
Article body: Game Developers Choice Award
In March 2007, he received the Game Developers Choice Awards First Penguin Award.
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video game designer
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