Why are Russian programmers the best in the world? DragonImages; Aleksandr Semenov/Getty Images They regularly win international informatics olympiads, work for IT companies all over the world and create popular online games and mobile apps, ranging from Tetris to Telegram. We look into how Russia has become one of the main production lines for turning out the best programmers in the world.
The uncomplicated video game ‘Tetris’ designed by Soviet programmer Alexey Pajitnov is known all over the world - in 2020 alone, the number of downloads of the official mobile version of the game exceeded 500 million.
Pavel Durov’s messaging service ‘Telegram’ is used by over 500 million people around the world.