History: "Tetris is a popular game that was developed in 1984-86 by Alexey Pajitnov (Pazhitnov), Dmitry Pavlovsky, and also by me. Mr. Pajitnov and Mr. Pavlovsky were computer engineers at the Computer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. I was a 16-year-old high school student. My computer science teacher Arkady Borkovsky brought me to the Computer Center of the Soviet Academy of Sciences where I worked and played with IBM PCs. I quickly learned  programming and enjoyed working on various fun computer projects..."   From Vadim Gerasimov's website

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