Alexey Pajitnov Net Worth

Background and career

Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born April 17, 1955) is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. 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 (now the Russian Academy of Sciences).

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