Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (russian: Алексей Станиславович Елисеев; born 13 July 1934) is a retired

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

cosmonaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...

who flew on three missions in the

Soyuz programme The Soyuz programme ( , ; russian: link=no, Союз , meaning "Union") is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a So ...

as a flight engineer:

Soyuz 5 Soyuz 5 (russian: Союз 5, ''Union 5'') was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on 15 January 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. It was the first docking of two crewed spacecraft of any na ...

, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. He made the world's eighth

spacewalk Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft. In the absence of a breathable Earthlike atmosphere, the astronaut is completely reliant on a space suit for environmental support. EVA inc ...

during Soyuz 5 in 1969. Aleksei's father was Lithuanian with the last name Kuraitis, who died in the Soviet's

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as an

enemy of the people The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a designation for the political or class opponents of the subgroup in power within a larger group. The term implies that by opposing the ruling subgroup, the "enemies" in question are ac ...

. Aleksei uses his mother's last name "Yeliseyev" so some regard him as also being a Lithuanian

. A graduate of the Bauman Higher Technical School (1957) and postgraduate of

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; russian: Московский Физико-Технический институт, also known as PhysTech), is a public university, public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. I ...

(1962). Yeliseyev worked as an engineer in Sergey Korolev's design bureau before being selected for cosmonaut training. "Foothold in the Heavens: The Seventies" book by Ben Evans, Springer Science and Business Media, 2010
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.

Awards and honors

Soviet Union

*Twice

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

(22 January 969 and 22 October 1969) *

Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR The honorary title Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (russian: Летчик-космонавт СССР) was a state award of the Soviet Union presented to all cosmonauts who flew for the Soviet Space Agency. Usually accompanying the distinction ...

*Four

Orders of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration ...

(22 January 1969, 22 October 1969, 30 April 1971 and 15 January 1976) *

Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" The Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (russian: Медаль "За заслуги в освоении космоса") is a state decoration of the Russian Federation aimed at recognising achievements in the space program. It was established ...

(12 April 2011) – for the great achievements in the field of research, development and utilization of outer space, many years of diligent work, public activities *

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin" A jubilee is a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term is often now used to denote the celebrations associated with the reign of a monarch after a milestone number of y ...

* State Prize of the USSR (3 November 1980)

Foreign states

Hero of the German Democratic Republic Following the 1949 establishment of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR) the new state prohibited the wearing of all pre-1945 German decorations and created a new system of awards inspired in part by those of the Awards and decoratio ...

* Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria * Order of Georgi Dimitrov (People's Republic of Bulgaria)

References

Literature

* S. P. Korolev. Encyclopedia of life and creativity" – edited by C. A. Lopota, RSC Energia. S. P. Korolev, 2014
The official website of the city administration Baikonur - Honorary citizens of Baikonur
1934 births Living people People from Kaluga Oblast Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni 1969 in spaceflight 1971 in spaceflight Soviet cosmonauts Lithuanian cosmonauts Lithuanian astronauts Heroes of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the USSR State Prize Heroes of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Recipients of the Order of Georgi Dimitrov Soviet engineers Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni Employees of RSC Energia Spacewalkers {{hero-USSR-stub