Happy 35th birthday Tetris! The game was introduced on June 6, 1984.
Tetris was created by Soviet IT engineer Alexey Pazhitnov. It was based on the game of Pentamino that he read about in ‘Science and Life’ magazine. Pazhitnov wrote the game for Electronika-60 computer, it was then customized for IBM PC by 16 y.o. Vadim Gerasimov.
When I was a kid, I had portable Tetris and spent hours playing it.
Have you ever played Tetris (in any form)?
DIY paper frog (1986)
Moscow punks (1988)
Love this! I remember having the same reaction as a kid, I always anticipated a balloon would pop!
May Day (1984). Photo by Vladimir Sokolayev.
Artek, the most famous pioneer summer camp in the Soviet Union. Illustration by E. Gorokhovsky (1985)
May Day in 1980
A little poem called “The Benefits of Oatmeal” by Tim Sobakin, illustrated by O. Astafyeva (1988)
Vintage ads. Cereals, coffee, cocoa, flour by the Mikoyan Moscow Food Factory (1939) ()
As I sorted some old books out the other day, I found a folder full of old pictures and documents. Some of them were really interesting. This is my grandfather on father’s side and letters he received from military archives (and also a handwritten letter he wrote to one of them). His brother Leonid, 14 years older than him, went missing in the war in 1943 and there’s no information about what happened to him. Grandfather tried to find out anything, at least a place where he was buried. Unfortunately, even to this day, there’s nothing.
Here’s my friend Olya. She’s wearing a WWII outfit and she was in one of the historical trucks in the parade. I think I want to do that too next year. I’m coming to terms with the idea of wearing war uniform (but it still terrifies me.)