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Biography of Aleksei Yeliseyev - Astronaut
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Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (Russian language|Russian: Алексей Станисл& #1072;вович Елисеев; born July 13, 1934 in Zhizdra) was a Soviet Union|Soviet astronaut|cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. A graduate of the Moscow State Technical University|Bauman Higher Technical School in Moscow, 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.

