The Most Famous
GAME DESIGNERS from Russia
This page contains a list of the greatest Russian Game Designers. The pantheon dataset contains 77 Game Designers, 1 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 8th most number of Game Designers behind France, and Germany.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Russian Game Designers of all time. This list of famous Russian Game Designers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Alexey Pajitnov (b. 1956)
With an HPI of 60.57, Alexey Pajitnov is the most famous Russian Game Designer. His biography has been translated into 39 different languages on wikipedia.
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born April 16, 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). After Tetris was released internationally in 1987, he released a sequel in 1989, entitled Welltris. In 1991, he moved to the United States and later became a U.S. citizen. In 1996, Pajitnov 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, with the Soviet government being the only Russians who had made money from it.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Russian game designers born between 1956 and 1956. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Russian game designers include Alexey Pajitnov.
