Aleksei Yeliseyev
| Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev | |
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| Cosmonaut | |
| Nationality | Soviet |
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July 13, 1934 Zhizdra, Russia |
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Other occupation
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Engineer |
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Time in space
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8d 22h 20m |
| Selection | Civilian Specialist Group 2 |
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Total EVAs
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1 |
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Total EVA time
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37 minutes |
| Missions | Soyuz 5, Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10 |
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Mission insignia
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Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (Russian: Алексей Станиславович Елисеев; born July 13, 1934 in Zhizdra) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. Aleksei's father was Lithuanian with the last name Kuraitis and Aleksei uses his mother's last name "Yeliseyev" so some regard him as also being a Lithuanian cosmonaut.
A graduate of the Bauman Higher Technical School (1957) and postgraduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1962). Yeliseyev worked as an engineer in Sergey Korolev's design bureau before being selected for cosmonaut training.
Following his retirement from the space programme in 1985, he took up at an administrative position at the Bauman school for several years before retiring fully.
His awards include:
Foreign awards:
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