Key facts
- Born
- ( 1934-07-13 ) 13 July 1934 (age 91) , Zhizdra , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Engineer
- Status
- Retired
- Time in space
- 8d 22h 20m
- Selection
- Civilian Specialist Group 2
- Total eva time
- 37 minutes
- Missions
- Soyuz 5 / 4 , Soyuz 8 , Soyuz 10 (failed docking with Salyut 1 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Zhizdra
- Occupation
- flight engineer
- Educated at
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Image
- The Soviet Union 1969 CPA 3811 stamp (Aleksei Yeliseyev (Soyuz 8)).png
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- Soyuz 10
- Commons category
- Aleksei Yeliseyev
- date of birth
- 1934-07-13
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- time in space
- 12860
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Encyclopedic overview
Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (Russian: Алексей Станиславович Елисеев; born 13 July 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. He made the world's eighth spacewalk during Soyuz 5 in 1969.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aleksei Yeliseyev” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.