Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born 14 March 1956) is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer who developed "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. Pajitnov was born on 14 March 1956 in Moscow, in the Soviet Union. He studied applied mathematics at the Moscow Aviation Institute. He then went on to work on speech recognition at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre where he would develop Tetris.
Alexi Ivanov Alexi Ivanov Alexi Ivanov (born Alexe Bădărău on October 22, 1922 in Mihail Kogălniceanu, Tulcea – June 9, 1997 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian politician. He was born to a Romanian father and Bulgarian mother. In 1940 he and his family went to Bulgaria, where Alexe Badarau unofficially changed its name to Alexi Ivanov.In 1943, Alexi Ivanov started his regular military service in the Bulgarian army - motorized troops and in 1944- 1945 a participant as a soldier in the war Battle of the Transdanubian Hills, Nagykanizsa–Körmend Offensive and Austrian operations in the composition of the First Army (Bulgaria) until