Elektronorgtechnica
Elektronorgtechnica (also spelled "Electronorgtechnica", ), better known abbreviated as ELORG (Элорг), was a state-owned organization with a monopoly on the import and export of computer hardware and software in the Soviet Union. It was controlled by the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR from 1971 to 1989. The company was associated with the export of Soviet design calculators, Electronika being one brand that was exported, rebranding them as ELORG products. Elorg also marketed the Agat computer, and imported IBM computers into the Soviet Union, starting with the IBM System/360 Model 50 in 1971. In 1991, as the Soviet  Union was being dissolved, Elorg was turned into a private business by its director, Nikolai Belikov. Elorg was sold to The Tetris Company in January 2005 for $15 million. Robert Maxwell pressured Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to cancel the contract between Elorg and Nintendo concerning the rights to the game "Tetris". Tetris. ELORG was responsible for the licensing of the popular video game "Tetris". "Tetris" was written by salaried programmers at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, which was not allowed to carry out commercial activities directly. As the game was owned by the state, all rights to the  game worldwide were handled by ELORG. In 1996 ELORG was reportedly a privatised Russian company which has retained the rights to the "Tetris" trademark. ELORG was a partner in The Tetris Company which licenses the "Tetris" name to game companies, along with "Tetris" creator Alexey Pajitnov and businessman Henk Rogers. Elorg was a 50 percent owner in the company until Rogers and Pajitnov bought ELORG's remaining rights around 2005.