Aleksei's father was Lithuanian with the last name Kuraitis, who died in the Soviet's Gulag as an enemy of the people.

[1] Aleksei uses his mother's last name "Yeliseyev"[2][3] so some regard him as also being a Lithuanian cosmonaut.

[4][5][6] 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.

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