About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Tetris, Aeroflot, Moskvitch, Volga, Lada, Zenit, GAZ-24, Voice of Russia, Vostok watches, Stolichnaya, Consumer goods in the Soviet Union, Zaporozhets, Kalev, Automobile model numbering system in the Soviet Union and Russia, Belarus, GUM, LOMO, Poljot, List of Soviet computer systems, Sberbank, Sovetskoye Shampanskoye, GAZ-21, Melodiya, Laima, Raketa, Elektronika, TIA-MC-1, Minsk, Petrodvorets Watch Factory, Dnepr, State Quality Mark of the USSR, Vana Tallinn, Brilliant Green, BelAZ, Ararat, Slava watches, Belomorkanal, Minus Cube, Svema, SeAZ, Aviaarktika, Strela candy, Moskovskaya vodka, Zhigulevskoye, KVN-49, VEF Spidola, Rot Front Open Joint-Stock Company, Chaika watches, Java, Elektronika 7, Kiev cake, Voskhod motorcycle, Yukon Optics, Bolshevichka. Excerpt: Tetris (Russian: ) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces, known as Tetrominoes, contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. However, even the enumeration of pentominoes is dated to antiquity. The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network music players and even as an Easter egg on non-media products like...
