The Russian Mathematician who created
Tetris. One of the really sad stories of the cold war. The
story says that he did not make a
penny creating Tetris. The Russian
government took all the rights for the game and left him with little. He migrated to the
United States to work on other projects.
He currently is a game designer for
Microsoft, and together they released a fairly decent
puzzle package called Pandora's Box.
His name is oftentimes spelled incorrectly, as i have seen several version on the Tetris variants that bear his name.