photo Aleksei Yeliseyev
First name and last name Aleksei Yeliseyev
Date of birth 13.07.1934
Nationality RUS
Space Agency Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) (RFSA)
Status Retired
Type of astronaut Government agency
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Yeliseyev

Missions:

  • Soyuz 5
  • Soyuz 8
  • Soyuz 10

Additional information Aleksei Yeliseyev

Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (Russian: Алексей Станиславович Елисеев; born July 13, 1934) 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, who died in the Soviet's Gulag as an enemy of the people. Aleksei uses his mother's last name "Yeliseyev" so some regard him as also being a Lithuanian cosmonaut.