Sergei Yeliseyev (admiral), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sergei Yeliseyev (admiral)

vice-admiral of the Ukrainian Navy

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1961

Place of Birth: Noginsk, Russia

Profession: naval officer

Nationality: Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sergei Yeliseyev (born 24 October 1961, Noginsk, Moscow Oblast) is a Vice Admiral, former First Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Navy who defected to Russia in 2014.
He graduated from a Soviet naval school in Kaliningrad in 1983 and previously served with the Russian Pacific Fleet.In 1993 Yeliseyev joined the Ukrainian Navy and in 1999–2001 he was a commander of Ropucha-class landing ship U402 Kostyantyn Olshanskyi. In 2010 he was appointed the First Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Navy.From 19 February – 1 March 2014, Yeliseyev was an acting Commander of the Ukrainian Navy as the First Deputy Commander.
In early 2014, he left the military oath of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and sided with the Russian Federation against Ukraine along with another high-ranking military officer Denis Berezovsky in the wake of the Crimean Crisis.
Since July 2014, he has been serving as a Deputy Commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet.