Kommersant is a Soviet computer game developed and released by the Kiev company Rada Ltd in 1991. The author of the game is Vladimir Kharchenko, better known as a poet and artist. The game was distributed free of charge through the FidoNet network and was released on bootleg game discs. Kommersant is an economic strategy in which events take place in real time, but are paused to await the user's reaction. The player takes on the role of a merchant, whose goal is to increase wealth through commercial transactions: buying and selling, depositing and loaning funds in a bank, buying from dubious persons at a low price, concluding various transactions, and the like. Less