Anatoliy Yeliseyev was born in 1918.

He graduated from the flight school in Borisoglebskaya in 1938.

Mladshiy leytenant Yeliseyev took part in the Finnish-Soviet Winter War.
Between December 1939 and January 1940, he served in the mixed aviation regiment 80 SAP flying Polikarpov I-153s. He was then posted to 152 IAP, still flying I-153s. He remained with this unit until the end of the conflict in March.
Yeliseyev didn’t make any claims during the Winter War.

In 1940, he was decorated ”for courage”.

Leytenant Yeliseyev didn’t immediately enter combat when Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 but in October 1941, he was posted to 147 IAP, which was equipped with I-153s and operated on the Karelian Front.

During the winter of 1941-1942, they started to re-equip with Tomahawks.

Six Tomahawks flying a mission between Lake Kuik-Yavr - Lubol - Lake Yal-Yavr became involved in combat with Bf 109s on 13 February 1942, claiming five of them shot down as shared among the pilots. Known pilots taking part where leytenant Yeliseyev, leytenant Aleksei Khlobystov and leytenant Nikolay Yurilin.

On 31 March 1942, he didn’t return from a combat mission.

At the time of his death, Yeliseyev was credited with 1 shared biplane victory and a total of 2.
These had been claimed in 112 combat missions.

Yeliseyev was decorated with two Orders of the Red Banner posthumously (1 May 1942 and 24 August 1942).

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1941
	28/09/41		1/2	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	I-153		Karelian Front	147 IAP
	1942
	13/02/42		1/6	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	Tomahawk		Lake Kuik-Yavr - Lubol - Lake Yal-Yavr	147 IAP
	13/02/42		1/6	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	Tomahawk		Lake Kuik-Yavr - Lubol - Lake Yal-Yavr	147 IAP
	13/02/42		1/6	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	Tomahawk		Lake Kuik-Yavr - Lubol - Lake Yal-Yavr	147 IAP
	13/02/42		1/6	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	Tomahawk		Lake Kuik-Yavr - Lubol - Lake Yal-Yavr	147 IAP
	13/02/42		1/6	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	Tomahawk		Lake Kuik-Yavr - Lubol - Lake Yal-Yavr	147 IAP
1	26/02/42		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	Tomahawk		Karelian Front	147 IAP
	11/03/42		1/2	Bf 110	Shared destroyed	Tomahawk		Karelian Front	147 IAP
2	24/03/42		1	Ju 88	Destroyed	Tomahawk		Karelian Front	147 IAP

Biplane victories: 1 shared destroyed.
TOTAL: 2 and 7 shared destroyed.

Sources:
All aces of Stalin 1936-1953 – Mikhail Bykov, 2014
Soviet Aces 1936-1953
Soviet Fighter Pilots 1936-1953 - Mikhail Bykov