Korobeiniki

The song "Korobeiniki" is based on the poem of the same name by Nikolay Nekrasov, which was first printed in the Sovremennik magazine in 1861.

[1] Its increasing tempo and the dance style led to it quickly becoming a popular Russian folk song.

[2] Early musical compositions of the song were published by Yakov Prigozhy [ru] and Alexander N. Chernyavsky (Чернявский, Александр Николаевич) in 1898.

After arrangements of "Korobeiniki" first appeared in Spectrum Holobyte's Apple IIGS and Mac versions of Tetris, the song was re-arranged in 1989 by Hirokazu Tanaka[6] as the "Type A" accompaniment in Nintendo's Game Boy version 1.1.

[8] The Tetris Company holds a sound trademark on this variation of the song for use in video games.