Original TETRIS - from 1984тетрис

In 1979, Alexey Pajitnov joined the Computer Center of the Soviet Academy of Sciences as a speech recognition researcher. While he was tasked with testing the capabilities of new hardware, his ambition was to use computers to make people happy. Pajitnov developed several puzzle games on the institute’s computer, an Electronika 60, a scarce resource at the time. For Pajitnov, “games allow people to get to know each other better and act as revealers of things you might not normally notice, such as their way of thinking”.

In 1984, while trying to recreate a favorite puzzle game from his childhood featuring pentominoes, Pajitnov imagined a game consisting of a descent of random pieces that the player would turn to fill rows.  Pajitnov felt that the game would be needlessly complicated with twelve different shape variations, so he scaled the concept down to tetrominoes, of which there are seven variants. Pajitnov titled the game Tetris, a word created from a combination of “tetra” (meaning “four”) and his favorite sport, “tennis”.

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Russian AlphabetРусский алфавит

The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit,[a] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka,[b] more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It comes from the Cyrillic script, which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language, Old Slavonic. Initially an old variant of the Bulgarian alphabet,[2] it became used in the Kievan Rusʹ since the 10th century to write what would become the Russian language.

The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: twenty consonants (⟨б⟩, ⟨в⟩, ⟨г⟩, ⟨д⟩, ⟨ж⟩, ⟨з⟩, ⟨к⟩, ⟨л⟩, ⟨м⟩, ⟨н⟩, ⟨п⟩, ⟨р⟩, ⟨с⟩, ⟨т⟩, ⟨ф⟩, ⟨х⟩, ⟨ц⟩, ⟨ч⟩, ⟨ш⟩, ⟨щ⟩), ten vowels (⟨а⟩, ⟨е⟩, ⟨ё⟩, ⟨и⟩, ⟨о⟩, ⟨у⟩, ⟨ы⟩, ⟨э⟩, ⟨ю⟩, ⟨я⟩), a semivowel / consonant (⟨й⟩), and two modifier letters or “signs” (⟨ь⟩, ⟨ъ⟩) that alter pronunciation of a preceding consonant or a following vowel.

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Nu, pogodi!Ну, погоди!

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Russian Space ExplorationКосмос

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Cheburashka and Crocodile GenaЧебурашка и Крокодил Гена

Cheburashka is an iconic Russian classic cartoon character who later became a popular character in Russian jokes (along with his friend, Gena the Crocodile). According to the creator of the character, Eduard Uspensky, Cheburashka is an “animal unknown to science”, with large monkey-like ears and a body resembling that of a cub, who lives in a tropical forest. He accidentally gets into a crate of oranges, eats his fill, and falls asleep. The crate is eventually delivered to a grocery store in an unnamed Russian city (hinted to be Moscow), where the rest of the main story unfolds.

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Moscow MetroМосковский метрополитен

Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles), it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the east.

The Deepest Tunnel For A Subway 130 M

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Moscow Metro Station Komsomolskaya. (Sokolnicheskaya Line, Ring Line)
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Russian ArtРусское Искусство

Russian futurism, rayonism, constructivism, and suprematism, the latter founded by Kasimir Malevich. Marc Chagall, known as one of the greatest Russian-Jewish artists of all times, explored various styles such as fauvism, surrealism, and expressionism.Jul 26, 2019

 

Trans-Siberian RailwayТранссибирская магистраль

Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles), it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the east.

Russia Has 11 Time Zones!11 часовых поясов

There are eleven time zones in Russia (within its internationally recognized borders), which currently observe times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00.