Alexander Lebed went down in the history of Russia as a military man and politician, whose activities fell on a turning point in the life of the country. He participated in operations known to the whole world: Afghan, Transnistrian and Chechen. He did not have to stay in the governor's office for long and solve the problems of a peaceful region. The tragic death interrupted the flight of the Swan in its midst.

Childhood and youth

Lebed Alexander Ivanovich began his life path April 20, 1950 in Novocherkassk. Russian by nationality. True, his dad, Ivan Andreevich, was a native of Ukraine. He came to Russia as a member of the family of an exiled kulak. After exile, war and demobilization he settled in Novocherkassk, where he worked as a "trudovik" at school. Alexander's mother, Ekaterina Grigorievna, was a nee Don Cossack. She worked at the telegraph office.

Having received a school certificate in 1967, Alexander Lebed tried to make his childhood dream come true - to become a conqueror of heaven. Three times he entered the flight schools of Armavir and Volgograd, but he was not accepted. The medical board over and over again pronounced the verdict: "sitting height exceeds the norm."

In between receipts, he worked as a loader and a worker at a permanent magnet plant in Novocherkassk (position - grinder).

Military career

In 1969, luck smiled at the stubborn guy. Alexander Lebed was enrolled in the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School. After graduation, the young and zealous specialist remains to work within the walls of the alma mater, where he first commands a platoon, and then a company.

Of course, Lebed, as a professional military man, could not escape Afghanistan. From 1981 to 1982, he fought with the "dushmans" as a battalion commander. I returned home after a shell shock.

The war did not push Alexander Ivanovich away from the chosen path. On the contrary, he decides to realize himself even more fully in this field and becomes a student at the Military Academy. Frunze immediately upon his return from Afgan. In 1985 he graduated with honors. And the nomadic barracks life began to flow, of which Lebed Alexander Ivanovich had time to "gorge himself" in plenty.

In 1985, he replaces the regiment commander in Ryazan, in 1986 he commanded the Kostroma parachute regiment, until 1988 he served as the deputy commander of the Pskov division and until 1991 inclusively commanded the airborne division in Tula. In this position, A. Lebed had the opportunity to take part in the Azerbaijani and Georgian peacekeeping operations.

In 1990, the efforts and loyalty of Alexander Ivanovich were rewarded - he was elevated to the rank of major general.

Swan politician

And troubled times were coming in the USSR. Collapse was approaching. A prominent military leader could not stay away from the turbulent political events. However, he did not forget about his profession, successfully combining one with the other.

In 1990, Alexander Lebed was elected a delegate to the 28th Congress of the Communist Party and the founding congress of the Communist Party of Russia. And soon he managed to become a member of the Central Committee of the latter.

At the end of winter 1991, Lebed replaces the commander of the airborne troops for universities and combat training. Summer brought everyone, including him, a lot of trials.

When the putsch "burst out" in August, Alexander Lebed first executes the commands of the State Emergency Committee. But he quickly reoriented and deployed the weapon in the direction of the rebels. Most likely, if it were not for his actions, a lot of bloodshed would not have been avoided.

The next year was also difficult for Lebed. In June 1992, he arrived in Tiraspol to stabilize the situation (an armed conflict was in full swing there). And in September 1993 he was even elected to the Supreme Soviet

In the early summer of 1995, after a conflict with Pavel Grachev over Chechen issues, Aleksandr Lebed submitted his resignation and was dismissed ahead of schedule. In the same year he became the head of the All-Russian movement "Honor and Homeland" and a deputy of the State Duma of the second convocation.

In 1996, he was nominated as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation. And the result of the electoral race made me happy - Lebed came third, receiving 14.7 percent of the vote. In the second round, he supported Yeltsin, for which Boris Nikolayevich, having won the victory, thanked him with the post of Secretary of the Security Council and Assistant to the President of Russia on national security issues.

In this position, he took part in the end of the military conflict in Chechnya. He was dismissed by decree of Yeltsin in the middle of autumn of the same 1996.

Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory: a new round in the biography

In May 1998, retired Lieutenant General Alexander Lebed was elected. Citizens remember this position for numerous loud statements concerning the situation in the region and in the state in general. In particular, he told the whole world that its government may well be the organizer of terrorist acts in Russia ...

Personal life

Alexander Lebed had one marriage, concluded in February 1971. He met his wife Inna Aleksandrovna Chirkova in his early youth - while working as a grinder at a magnet factory in Novocherkassk. The couple gave birth to and raised three children: sons Alexander and Ivan and daughter Catherine.

Tragedy: how Alexander Lebed died

Leadership of one of the Siberian regions of Russia was the last mission of this courageous and straightforward man, most devoted life to military affairs. Perhaps his seditious speeches or just evil fate played a role ... But on April 28, 2002, the governor Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Lebed died.

It so happened that the sky, which he dreamed of since childhood, ruined him. Together with his subordinates, the governor flew to open ski slope... Their helicopter crashed over the village of Aradan. According to the official version, he crashed into a power line.

The pilots survived and have already served their sentences. And Alexander Lebed, whose death then shook the whole country, remained only in memories and memorabilia. So, one of the streets of Novocherkassk bears the name of the general today. Another one of the same is located in Kuragino. In honor of Lebed, a cadet corps was named in the regional center and even the top of the Ergaki ridge in the Western Sayan Mountains.

Part 1. Peacemaker

Hero of Transnistria

They started talking about General Lebed in Russia as a possible President of Russia after his role in the events of 1992 in Transnistria.

At that moment, the fire of interethnic conflict was already flaring up there. The newly minted Minister of Defense Grachev appointed Lebed the commander of the fourteenth army, which was crumbling before our eyes. By this time, the task of enlightening and separating the belligerents was no longer set, it was only necessary to save the remnants of the army and its huge ammunition depots. Realizing the complexity of the problem, Lebed decided to go for broke.

The winners, as you know, are not judged, and after a little preparation, he independently took the order to open fire. Despite the significant superiority of the armed forces of the Moldovans, their positions were swept away by artillery fire, and with them the crossings across the Dniester. After the threat to turn Chisinau into a heap of ruins, the resistance ceased.

Since then, in Transnistria, he has been a legend and a national hero.

In Pridnestrovie, in 1992, Swan was awarded the title of "Person of the Year".

Russian society was delighted with the general, and the Kremlin did not punish the hero, although Lebed was hinted that further career have to give up. No one gave the order to open fire to Lebed, and the Kremlin did not plan to recognize the independence of Transnistria.

Here is the kind of correspondence between Lebed and Grachev history has preserved:

Lebed - about the President of the Republic of Moldova Mircea Snegur:

"... Instead of a sovereign leadership, he organized a fascist state, and his clique is fascist ..."

After that, a very temperamental blitz correspondence took place between the minister and the army commander. The secret archive of the General Staff contains encryption messages telling about its contents. Let's take a look at them.

Grachev to Lebed:

“I categorically prohibit speaking on radio, television and in print, assessing the current events. Get in touch by phone with the President of Moldova Snegur. Exchange your opinion with him on the current situation. "

Swan to Grachev:

“In the current situation, I consider it unacceptable and erroneous on my part to have any contacts and conversations with the President of Moldova, who stained his hands and conscience with the blood of his own people.”

Grachev to Lebed:

“You were ordered to enter into negotiations with the President of Moldova, but you, without deeply analyzing political situation in Lately between the presidents of Russia and Moldova, you behave extremely short-sighted.

Based on the above, I order:

To fulfill my demand, regardless of your subjective opinion, to contact the President of Moldova Mircea Snegur.

To report on the clarification of the task received. "

Swan to Grachev:

“With all due respect to you, I will not enter into negotiations with Snegur. I am a general of the Russian Army and I do not intend to betray it. "

You can read about other correspondence with Grachev of the rebellious general.

Debunking the hero

With his harsh statements and actions, Lebed initially won the favor of the "irreconcilable" communist-patriotic opposition. A convinced "enemy of the Democrats" television journalist Alexander Nevzorov in December 1992 said in an interview that he would like to see him President of Russia (later, in 1994, Nevzorov did not want to make his final judgment about Lebed, saying that, in his opinion, Lebed "still did not choose between good and evil ").

In the fall of 1992, the attitude of the communists and part of the national patriots towards Lebed changed due to the fact that he accused the inner circle of the President of the Pridnestrovian Republic Igor Smirnov of corruption.

Undertaken through the mediation of the colonel Victor Alksnis an attempt to reconcile the general with Smirnov was unsuccessful.

Then the persecution began. In early 1993, Aleksandr Prokhanov's newspaper Den accused Lebed of ambivalent behavior during the attempted coup d'etat in August 1991, that is, of failure to comply with the order of the State Emergency Committee. Alksnis himself went even further, debunking the significance of Lebed's role in the Transnistrian conflict:

The role of Lebed in the settlement of that conflict is greatly exaggerated. First of all, by themselves. He became commander only in the summer of 92. By that time, the situation had stabilized even without him thanks to the heroic resistance of the Pridnestrovians themselves, and The swan only consolidated someone else's success... By his order, the artillery struck at the positions of the Moldovan troops, and there was, as they say now, the urge of Chisinau to peace. There was certainly a certain merit of the general in this, but after the ceasefire, Lebed decided to bring the Transnistrian leadership under control in order to pacify Tiraspol. He had a clear instruction from Yeltsin: Transnistria should be part of Moldova, no independence. The former president of the republic, Smirnov, of course, did not want this. And Lebed began to prepare a military coup - he persuaded the local chiefs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB to seize power. But they publicly announced Lebed's proposals, there was a scandal, the plan failed.

After that, Alksnis personally accused the general of betraying the interests of Russia:

It was February 93rd, and I arrived in Tiraspol on a private visit at the invitation of Smirnov. I myself asked Lebed to meet. We talked in the recreation room located behind his study. And I openly told him that his position is a betrayal of the country. He jumped up at once, stretched out at attention in full height(and he was not small) and rapped out: "I was, is and will be an officer, faithful to my oath!" But there was some kind of rehearsal in all this, as if he was not speaking from the heart, but playing a performance.

I do not want to comment on Alksnis here, but he should be ashamed of these words. The role of Swan was key in those events.

From the first day of Lebed's stay in Transnistria, the rear services and VOSO began to operate in full force. Together with the TMR authorities, the evacuation and temporary accommodation of the civilian population of the city of Bender, food and medical care for refugees were organized. The wounded began to enter the deployed military hospitals, the seriously wounded were sent from Tiraspol by air to Moscow. The war continued ...

On June 25, the situation escalated sharply in the "north" - the Moldovan side subjected Dubossary and nearby villages to powerful artillery fire. Houses were destroyed, many civilians were killed. In Grigoriopol, one of the shells hit Kindergarten... By order of General Lebed, under the cover of hundreds of Cossacks, a mortar battery, four BM-21 Grad installations and four 152-mm self-propelled guns 2SZ Akatsiya were urgently deployed there. On June 26, in order to prevent the possibility of regrouping and transferring Transnistrian forces to Bendery, units of the national army of Moldova, after a powerful artillery barrage, began to attack positions on the Cocieri and Koshnitsa bridgeheads. Lebed gave the order to immediately send one tank and two motorized rifle battalions there. Apparently, there was not enough blood for Bendery Moldova - on the Chitcan bridgehead, threateningly looming over Tiraspol from the south, the "Romanians" began to pull troops together. One tank and one motorized rifle battalion of the 59th division were sent there, near Slobodzeya and Dnestrovsk.

By order of General Lebed, the Tiraspol military commandant's office began to actively engage in the fight against crime throughout the Left Bank - it has already "got it"! .. The commandant's staff was significantly increased due to part of the PMR law enforcement officers called up to serve in the army. "I deployed this commandant's office completely, captured the city, all the shooting stopped immediately, all robberies immediately stopped, all drunken men with weapons were detained and isolated." To help the commandant's office, Lebed gave a battalion of special forces of the Airborne Forces under the command of Colonel Prokopenko - reinforced patrols were introduced, all roads to settlements were blocked during the day.

Few people know that Lebed's brother Alexei also took part in those events.

This "operation" - a brilliantly carried out and already legendary in the history of military art - an operation to misinform the enemy, who was taught that it was a response to the blockade of the 300th parachute regiment surrounded on all sides by Moldovan troops, to attacks and incessant pickets, and rallies of the PFM nationalists at his checkpoint, and anti-Russian hysteria in the media against his servicemen. Here, they say, Lebed Sr. and agreed with his brother to free him, simultaneously hit from both sides. Allegedly, having crossed the Dniester, the 14th army will move in three tank columns, and the regiment of Alexei Lebed, breaking the frail Moldovan blockade with all its firepower, will break through in the direction of Tiraspol ...
…Adventure? Or a well-calculated move? “All my life experience suggests that good adventurism is deeply thought-out adventurism” ...
To enhance the effect of this "operation" General Lebed gave the order "secretly" in three places to begin reconnaissance of the crossing of the Dniester. But from the right bank it was "spotted". Just as the tanks were "noticed", their preparation for the crossing. They believed ... And how! It is not for nothing that on this day, before flying to Moscow, the frightened Mircea Snegur publicly announced his intention ... to join the partisans. To which many laughed heartily: "I also found a kind of" commandante "Fidel in Codri! ..".

The 300th Airborne Regiment of the Russian Airborne Forces really found itself in a very difficult situation - in the deep rear of a foreign, even hostile state, waging a war with the left-bank Transnistria, where the 14th Russian army is stationed, many former Soviet servicemen and their families lived.
Realizing that it was impossible to come to an agreement with Colonel Lebed, on May 15, 1992, nationalist-minded elements, with the connivance (and support!) Of the authorities, literally laid siege to the 300th regiment. All exits were littered with foundation blocks, filled with tractors and trucks. Pickets were set up at the checkpoints. ...
The picketers' delegates declared in an ultimatum:
- We offer you to leave the territory of sovereign Moldova within 24 hours. We are allowed to take only personal belongings with us - all property and weapons must remain on the territory of the regiment ”...
The commander and the entire personnel of the regiment decided, firstly, to continue serving in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, secondly, to save the regiment's equipment and send it to Russia, and thirdly, in no case to give the Moldovan nationalists the opportunity to provoke on the territory adjacent to the regiment, any conflict with the residents of Chisinau.

But the situation was heating up every day. The picketers, changing each other and shouting insults at the Russian servicemen, could at any second turn to more decisive actions. ... The picketers, incited by the agitators, finally realized that you couldn't take the paratroopers by the throat, and proceeded to take decisive actions, presenting the regiment commander with an ultimatum: either you get out of Chisinau, or we will seize the regiment's territory by storm. At this critical moment, Aleksey Ivanovich went out to the picketers and announced:
- The territory of the regiment is Russian territory, and we will defend it to the last soldier and officer. If you want - storm.
... From the morning of July 4, army artillery worked at the Koshnitsky and Kochiersky bridgeheads. But ... the guns fired with propaganda shells, thickly covering the positions of the OPON and the National Army. The restless warriors were warned - the general meaning of the text of the leaflets, figuratively speaking, was as follows: "basta, little kids, the dancing is over" ... bring home, if you don't understand, it will be worse for you! - Thinking ...
It was in the following days, interacting with the 14th Army, the artillery of Transnistria in the Causeni direction covered an advancing Moldovan convoy of more than 500 people and two dozen trucks and armored vehicles. As a result, the column was partially destroyed, and most of it was dispersed, so that about 70 people arrived at their destination - in Bender. The artillery column in the Chisinau direction, the accumulation of equipment in the Varnitsa area was also destroyed.

I do not know how to treat Alksnis after that. V. Alksnis told the Postfactum agency that “rumors about corruption in Transnistria are greatly exaggerated” and that the corruption charges brought against the PMR leadership by A. Lebed have no confirmation, although, in his opinion, “there is no smoke without fire”. Local authorities blamed the commander interfering in internal affairs Transnistria (remember).

Every Saturday A. Lebed had a reception day on personal matters. He received everyone: both military personnel and members of their families and civilian population PMR. Moreover, the civilian population hoped more for the help of A. Lebed than for the help of the local authorities. He helped a lot of people.

The popularity of the Swan grew among local residents, and the higher this popularity was, the more the local authorities feared him. At first, they began to flirt with him, trying to play on his principles of "sovereign". But, since the PMR was an unrecognized republic, no one stood above the local leadership, and therefore they did whatever they wanted in their fiefdom. The ideas and slogans under which they came to power were forgotten, and a process of personal enrichment and complete indifference towards the people who defended this power in 1992 began.

For A. Lebed, this was unacceptable, and he became inconvenient and disagreeable to the local authorities.

The initial emergence of the conflict between Lebed and the leadership of the Pridnestrovian republic arose at the end of 1992. According to Alexander Ivanovich himself, the beginning of the conflict was associated with the detention by the 14th Army at the request of the PMR prosecutor “battalion commander Nikolai Kostenko,” accused of many grave crimes and connected with the highest the leadership of the republic. When Kostenko was detained in July 1992, the paratroopers disarmed a battalion of the Transnistrian guard. Kostenko himself was detained much later and was killed under hitherto unclear circumstances, and the murder was attributed to servicemen of the 14th Army.
Another reason for the conflict was the disagreement of the TMR leadership with the participation of the 14th Army in the maintenance of public order and the fight against crime in the region.
And the third reason, and perhaps the most important, was the reluctance of the TMR leadership to sign acts of acceptance of weapons from the 14th army, which they captured before the start of the Bendery massacre and which they did not return after the deployment of the 14th army units during active hostilities.

In December 1992, there were reports in the press about a confidential agreement between Lebed and President Smirnov on the transfer to Transnistria of some of the weapons and military equipment of the 14th Army. On September 27, 1992, A. Lebed denied these reports in a speech on local TV, where he called them "nonsense and fabrications."
According to him, by this time he and Smirnov were in "extremely confrontational relations", although he admitted "that Smirnov really wrote him pitiful notes, where he asked to give him 139 tanks, 650 trucks, 124 mortars."
Lebed answered Smirnov, “I have 121 tanks in total. Do I have to give up all the tanks and have 18 more left. I quickly explained to him that it was mine. Mine is mine, yours is ours. "

On October 31, 1992, a sharp exchange of views took place between Lebed and Smirnov about the policy pursued by the TMR leadership (Lebed expressed his dissatisfaction with the "series of holidays", the proliferation of ministries and departments, the collapse of the guard).

In January 1993, President I. Smirnov's entourage was publicly accused of corruption by opposition leaders Svetlana Miguli and Vladimir Gorbov. S. Migulya and V. Gorbov were supported by General A. Lebed, who also accused I. Smirnov of sabotaging negotiations on the settlement of relations between the PMR and Moldova and suggested I. Smirnov to resign. On March 5, 1993, A. Lebed made a statement about illegal commercial operations by the Minister of Security of the PMR Vadim Shevtsov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Matveyev, the head of the President's bodyguard Valery Gratov and the manager of the Transnistrian Republican Bank Vyacheslav Zagryadskiy.

In 1993, Lebed's book was published, where he talks about the "throwing" of Pavel Grachev in August 1991, and blames Yeltsin for the destruction of the country.

In 1993, the first attempt was made to remove A. Lebed completely from the political scene and, under a plausible pretext, he was nominated by Grachev for the post of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces for combat training, although the proposal itself was made as if in passing: ? ".

I didn’t peck.

At the end of June 1993, a group of People's Deputies of Russia, who paid a working visit to the PMR, prepared a letter addressed to the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation R. investigation of illegal activities Commander of the 14th Army Lieutenant General A. Lebed and Commandant of Tiraspol M. Bergman. "

However, the women of Transnistria, headed by S. Migulya, arrived in Moscow and staged a picket in front of the building of the Russian Ministry of Defense, where for a month they demanded to leave A. Lebed as commander of the 14th Army, and he himself did not agree to leave the post of commander and did not wanted to abandon the people who believed him, and with whom he established peace on this earth.

In September 1993, Lebed was elected a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic from Tiraspol in the by-elections, having received 87.5% of the district's votes.

It is difficult even now to figure out the pile-up of lies, but knowing the nature of Lebed, I have no doubt that he was straight, like a tank, and did not obey anyone. There is a possibility that he began to consider himself the master of Transnistria, seeing the attitude of its inhabitants towards him. One way or another, the confrontation with Smirnov could simply turn into rejection of nothing. If he is, then I owe it differently.

Shooting of parliament

During the events of September 21 - October 4, 1993, Alexander Rutskoi turned to Lebed for support and offered him the post of defense minister.

I think Lebed, who knew Rutskoi from the events of 1991, and also "appreciated" the revelations of Prokhanov and Alksnis in his address, could hardly accept this proposal. What could the deputies rely on, who several months earlier had been scribbling denunciations of his "illegal activities"?

Speaking on October 2 on Tiraspol cable television, Lebed said that both the president's supporters and the "team of Rutskoy and Khasbulatov" had invited him to come to Moscow, but he did not intend to participate in these showdowns, since he believed that the army should keep neutrality. The best way out of this situation, he called the simultaneous re-election of both branches of power and the creation of a small professional parliament - that is, as if he joined the "zero option" Zorkin - Volsky - Yegor Yakovlev.

Yeltsin's representative suggested A. Lebed to make an appeal to the people and the Armed Forces of Russia in support of B. Yeltsin. Lebed replied that he was only the commander of the army and that it was not within the competence of the commander of the army to address the people.

General Valery Yevnevich, his successor as commander of the 14th Army, later called his "executioner" for his active participation in the storming of the White House. However, then, immediately after the capture of the White House by troops loyal to Yeltsin, General Lebed on October 5, 1993 arrived at the chairman of the PMR Armed Forces Grigory Marakutsa and demanded to apologize to Russia for interfering in her internal affairs- sending volunteers to help Rutskoy and Khasbulatov. Someone later called it the fulfillment of an order from Moscow, but it is quite obvious that this is a response to a similar statement by Smirnov after a meeting with Alksnis.

The local authorities did indeed send a group of armed servicemen from the police battalion to Moscow special purpose“Dniester” to help the Supreme Soviet besieged in the “White House”, however, after Yeltsin shot the Supreme Soviet with tanks, the Transnistrian authorities abandoned the people they sent to Moscow.

Both V. Shevtsov, the Minister of State Security and G. Marakutsa, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the PMR, at the session of the Supreme Council, stubbornly tried to prove that no one had sent anyone anywhere.

In response, Lebed presented a video recording of the events that took place in Moscow near the White House, the Ostankino TV tower, and the officers of the Dniester battalion with weapons in their hands were clearly visible on the tape. Vendetta, so vendetta.

To investigate these events, the President of the PMR I. Smirnov appointed a commission chaired by Kirichenko, which in the course of its work "revealed" that the officers shown went on vacation from September 25 to October 10, 1993 and all together left for Moscow or its environs ...

Naturally, the commission did not find any crime and this whole story went into oblivion. There were simply no guilty ones. After some time, Kirichenko died under mysterious circumstances.

On October 14, 1993, at a session convened on the initiative of Lebed, the Pridnestrovian Supreme Council tried to achieve the resignation of "power" ministers "for their involvement in the events in Moscow." When this failed, he resigned as a deputy of the Supreme Council in protest. Lebed spent only a month as a deputy.

I think there is no contradiction here with the declared position of neutrality. He condemned everyone who participated in this from both sides. But there is also another circumstance. Moscow was well aware of the participation of armed Pridnestrovians in the October events on the side of Rutskoi, and the Kremlin blamed Lebed for this. It is clear that the Kremlin was very annoyed with Smirnov, but especially with Lebed, who allowed this to happen. They could not forgive him for the declared neutrality. The independence of the general began to irritate many, while others tried to saddle the general.

Execution cannot be pardoned

In the fall of 1993, Alexander Ivanovich accused the Minister of State Security V. Shevtsov and the Prosecutor of the PMR B. Luchik of corruption and abuse of office and said that the Transnistrian authorities were illegally transferring currency to Austrian banks. The presence of foreign currency accounts of the PMR in these countries was later confirmed by the chairman of the Pridnestrovian Republican Bank V. Zagryadskiy, speaking on December 19, 1993 on local television.

In January 1994, Smirnov, in response, accused General A. Lebed of preparing a coup d'état in the PMR and issued a decree on the introduction of a special situation (A. Lebed called these accusations "bullshit", according to the general, the leaders of the PMR, "implicated in abuses, trying to shift the blame for their own miscalculations and worsening economic situation on the Russian military ").

As it turns out now, Lebed was absolutely right about Smirnov:
Traces of fugitive Oleg Smirnov were found in Ukraine

From 1994-1995, the "irreconcilable patriotic opposition" in Moscow accused Lebed of collusion with the "new bourgeoisie" of the PMR, which disliked President Smirnov's course of independence.
However, the quarrel with Smirnov does not in any way affect the popularity of Lebed in Transnistria itself.
The very same PMR Lebed calls "banana republic" ...

They decided to undermine Lebed from the other side. On the part of Grachev, who is clearly unhappy with the popularity of Lebed.

Requests are being written to Moscow to various authorities to remove A. Lebed from Transnistria.
A pilgrimage to the 14th Army of various commissions begins in order to find incriminating evidence on its commander.

The counterintelligence of the 14th Army and the special services of the PMR are organizing a number of provocations against A. Lebed. But all attempts to discredit the commander do not bring success.

On June 25, 1994, at the headquarters of the 14th Army, there was a meeting of the Director of the FSB of Russia, Lieutenant General Sergey Stepashin and the head of the Ministry of National Security of Moldova, Brigadier General Vasily Kalmoy, with Alexander Lebed. Soon after this two-hour meeting, the head of the special department of the army, Colonel Nikolai Zlygostev, who knocked on Lebed in Moscow, was transferred to Russia for further service.

In July, a second attempt was made to remove A. Lebed from the 14th Army, and to liquidate the army itself.

On July 19, 1994, A. Lebed was sent on vacation, and on August 3, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Colonel-General E. Vorobyov, arrived in Tiraspol with a directive of the General Staff of July 22. “The administration of the 14th Army should be disbanded by September 1. By August 10, submit lists of officers wishing to resign or transfer to Russia. To entrust the commander of the 59th motorized rifle division with the authority to command the grouping. "

A. Lebed interrupted his vacation, returned to Tiraspol and officially announced that he had assumed the duties of an army commander, and told reporters that “I consider the disbandment of the army management a crime. I foresee the whole mess that will begin here. I took over the collapsed army. I spent three years building it brick by brick. Now I am invited to take a hammer and smash everything into shards on a grand scale. I will not destroy what I have created. Nothing has been decided here, not a single echelon has left, nothing has been reduced, people have remained, equipment has remained, ammunition, and those who can, must and must do this are dispersed. This is completely unprecedented. Withdrew the Western Group of Forces. Who was the last one to leave? Burlakov. This is logical. They handed over everything, sold it, signed the act, handed over the documents to the archive, then they leave. Here, the logic is aimed at acceleration, at creating chaos - and nothing else. "

A. Lebed is again offered a position with a promotion, the commander of the peacekeeping forces in Tajikistan, and again he refuses. With regard to Tajikistan, the general told Grachev that he did not understand why he had to “beat one half of the Tajiks at the request of the other,” adding that “they didn’t do anything bad to me.”

The Minister of Defense, of course, understood that this was a riot - but he could not simply expel the obstinate subordinate. In Russia, the brutal general was equally popular. According to various rumors, in the period from 1992 to 1995. Lebed was offered eight positions, ranging from the commander of the Airborne Forces and ending with the Western Group of Forces.

After the signing in August 1994 of the Russian-Moldovan agreement on the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Moldova within three years, Lebed was summoned to Moscow for a confidential conversation with Defense Minister Pavel Grachev (the issue of replacing Lebed as commander of the 14th Army and transferring him to another position). After the meeting, Grachev said that Lebed would remain in Transnistria.

In October 1994, Defense Minister Pavel Grachev instructed his Deputy Colonel-General Matvey Burlakov (against whom charges of corruption were renewed at that moment) to inspect the 14th Army. Having received news of this, Lebed sharply opposed such an inspection, calling Burlakov "a banal swindler for whom all prosecutors in Russia cry." A few days later, President Yeltsin removed Burlakov from his duties as deputy minister pending an investigation into the accusations against him.

However, the experienced bureaucrat Grachev still outplayed the general.

Chechnya

Lebed called the entry of troops into Chechnya in December 1994 "foolishness and stupidity," and said that servicemen of the 14th Army "under no circumstances" would take part in hostilities in Chechnya. When asked about the possibility of transferring to the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and leading an operation in the North Caucasus, he replied that "if the conversation is about the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya, then I am ready to lead this operation."

A. Lebed gives a very harsh assessment of the actions of the federal center in Chechnya. " Chechen conflict can only be resolved through diplomatic negotiations, ”he said in a telephone interview from his headquarters in Tiraspol. In Chechnya, the Afghan version is being repeated one to one. We risk starting a war with everything the Islamic world... Lone fighters can endlessly burn our armored vehicles, destroy soldiers with single shots. In Chechnya, we stepped on the same rake as in Afghanistan, and this is very sad. Well fortified Grozny with a large amount of reserves is capable of providing long-term and serious resistance. "

Lebed recalled that General Dudayev in Soviet army commanded a division of strategic bombers capable of waging a war on a continental scale, and "fools were not appointed" to such posts.

He popularly explained what such non-professional actions on the part of the federal center can lead to. “It's hard for me to understand how and what the Minister of Defense wanted to win. But we have lost a lot. The whole world has become aware of the main Russian military secret: the reform of our Armed Forces under the leadership of "the best minister of defense of all times and peoples" ended in their complete failure. It is strange and bitter to realize that Russia no longer has an army, but only amusing military formations that are not capable of much. It is amazing, but true, in Chechnya all the mistakes made by the Soviet troops in Afghanistan were repeated. Complete disregard for local specifics and local conditions, national, religious and other peculiarities. One gets the impression that absolutely no one in the Russian General Staff was planning this military operation, everything started in Russian at random. And no wonder: in last years The Ministry of Defense mainly withdrew its troops in Mercedes and completely forgot how to bring them in on standard equipment. "

A. Lebed allowed himself to criticize the Ministry of Defense for the collapse of the army, for sending untrained soldiers to Chechnya. The "hawks" from the Ministry of Defense, the Government and the State Duma of the Russian Federation immediately took up arms against him.

In January 1995, A. Lebed offered to personally lead the regiment from the children of government members, deputies of the State Duma and put things in order in Grozny.

Swan was already just scoffing. All this could not continue indefinitely. They could not stand such insolence.

In 1995, when his confrontation with Pavel Grachev reached "the most unbalanced", and various Duma commissions, at the suggestion of the Moldovan Foreign Ministry that "the activities of General Lebed threaten stability in the eastern regions of Moldova and good relations between our countries", will zealously tackle " investigation of the illegal activities of the commander of the 14th Army, Lieutenant-General Alexander Lebed and the commandant of Tiraspol, Colonel Mikhail Bergman, "blaming for" the intervention of the Russian military in the internal affairs of other states "(to which, by the way, Lebed will answer:" Those who consider me on this earth a foreigner, they are just idiots. They will achieve that they will come to me with a translator from Russian into Russian ") - Boris Yeltsin will dismiss him from the army ...

In April 1995, the General Staff issued a new directive (Directive of the RF Ministry of Defense dated April 18, 1995, No. 314/2/0296), in which the 14th Army was renamed into the Operational Group of Russian Forces in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, department 14 was disbanded th army, and the post of army commander is eliminated.

In accordance with this directive, the management of the army was reduced by half, all posts in the new state were reduced by three or four grades, and, accordingly, official salaries were reduced in accordance with these grades.

The directive of the Ministry of Defense pushed the army personnel to resign according to this directive, because if you stay in the army, then in the future (in 3-4 years) you will be dismissed from a lower position and, accordingly, with a lower pension.

Lebed again criticizes the Ministry of Defense and declares that he will not serve in the army commanded by the Minister of Defense, whom you despise, and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, whom you do not believe.

He writes a report addressed to the President of Russia B. Yeltsin (as Supreme Commander-in-Chief) that this directive was written without in-depth analysis and taking into account the consequences that may occur as a result of reducing the command of the army, however, the report did not reach Yeltsin, because he was intercepted in the presidential administration.

At the end of May 1995, a commission under the leadership of the chief military inspector Colonel-General K. Kobets arrived in Tiraspol in order to check the level of combat training and field training of personnel and, based on the results of the inspection, the commission was forced to state very high level combat training of units and subdivisions of the 14th Army.

A. Lebed again criticizes the decision of the Minister of Defense to abolish the command of the army and declares that with his own hands he will not destroy what he himself created.

June 1 Lebed again writes a report addressed to the President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin. This report was taken personally by the head of the 6th department of the army, Colonel Serebryakov S.I., and with the assistance of the former chief of intelligence of the 14th army, Colonel Kharlamov S.F., he transmits it to B. Yeltsin's reception.

In early June, A. Lebed was summoned to Moscow to the Ministry of Defense. First, he was received by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Colonel-General V.M.

After a lengthy conversation between Lebed and Semyonov, the latter refused to sign the 14th Army commander's report on his dismissal. Then Lebed went to the Chief of the General Staff M. Kolesnikov, where he was asked either to write a letter of dismissal, or to carry out the directive of the General Staff to eliminate the command of the army.

A. Lebed chose dismissal:

I'm glad to serve, but I'm not fit to be a lackey

P. Grachev immediately signed the report. In any civilized country, including Russia, there is a law that not a single warrant officer, officer, and even more so a general can not be dismissed from the army without the conclusion of a military medical commission, a preliminary conversation with the dismissed his immediate superior. But this is in a civilized country and in normal armed forces, but not in Russia. Nobody talked to Lebed and he did not pass the VVK. He was simply dismissed, even without a declaration of gratitude in the order of the Minister of Defense.

On June 14, 1995, B. Yeltsin signed a decree on the dismissal of A. I. Lebed from the armed forces.

The commander of the 14th Army was appointed Evnevich, who participated in the shooting of the White House in 93, and whom Lebed will call "the executioner."

The arrival of V. Yevnevich began with the blocking of the airfield by women from Transnistria, which led to the landing of the plane in Limanskoye.

Upon V. Yevnevich's arrival in Tiraspol, Lebed surrendered his position during the day and his phone was immediately cut off in the hotel, and the women locked Yevnevich in the hotel room, propping up the door of the room with a sofa, and did not let him out until Lebed asked them to release Yevnevich.

This was the end of Lebed's military career, but his political one began.

But more on that later in the second part of our story "General Swan. Part 2. Traitor".

Alexander Lebed

Lieutenant General, Secretary of the Security Council, who signed the agreements in Khasavyurt in August 1996, completing the First Chechen war... 1998-2002 - Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Biography

After graduating from school (1967), he tried several times to enter aviation schools, where he was not taken because of his high growth and for other medical reasons.

In 1969-1973 he studied at the Ryazan Higher Military Airborne School, where his commander was Pavel Grachev.

After serving in Afghanistan (1981-1982), entered and graduated with honors Frunze Military Academy (1985).

In 1985-1988 he served as deputy commander and commander of airborne divisions in Kostroma, Pskov, Tula.

In 1988 he took part in the prevention of the Armenian pogrom in Baku, in 1989 - 1990 he participated in the suppression of anti-Soviet protests in Baku and Tbilisi.

During the August 1991 coup, Lebed went over to the side of Boris Yeltsin, giving the order to defend the White House, where the Supreme Council was located.

In June 1992, General Lebed was appointed commander of the 14th Guards Combined Arms Army, stationed in Transnistria. Thanks to his efforts, it was possible to end the armed conflict.

During the First Chechen War

Dismissal from the army

In the winter of 1994-1995, Alexander Lebed differed in views with Pavel Grachev on conducting an operation in Chechnya.

General Lebed called the entry of troops into Chechnya in December 1994 "foolishness and stupidity", stating that servicemen of the 14th Army "under no circumstances will" take part in hostilities in Chechnya. "

Answering the question about the possibility of transferring to the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and leading the operation in the North Caucasus, Lebed replied that "if the conversation is about the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya, then I am ready to lead this operation."

In the summer of 1995, disagreeing with the order to disband the 14th Army and reorganize it into a peacekeeping Operational Group of Russian Forces as part of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in Transnistria, General Lebed submitted a letter of resignation.

On June 15, 1995, he was dismissed from his post and early discharged from the ranks of the Armed Forces.

Political activity

In October 1995 he headed the public movement "Honor and Homeland", and in December 1995 he became a deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation.

In January 1996, he took part in the presidential elections and in the second round he supported Boris Yeltsin.

On June 17, 1996, Alexander Lebed received an offer from Boris Yeltsin to take the post of Secretary of the Security Council. Lebed also insisted on the resignation of the Ministry of Defense of Pavel Grachev, with whom he refused to work and the appointment of Igor Rodionov to his place.

In the evening of the same day, Lebed said that he had prevented an attempt by "circles close to the former Minister of Defense" to organize a "GKChP No. 3" after Grachev was dismissed and "gave the command to the Central Command Post of the General Staff not to transmit orders and instructions from the dismissed Grachev."

On June 18, Lebed officially assumed the post of Secretary of the Security Council of Russia "with special powers," and also became the Assistant to the President of Russia for National Security.

On August 10, 1996, on the fourth day after the seizure of Grozny by the separatists and the capture of Gudermes and Argun, Lebed was appointed the plenipotentiary representative of the President of Russia in Chechnya.

On August 11, Lebed met with Aslan Maskhadov, agreeing to resolve issues related to the cessation of hostilities and the beginning of the withdrawal of federal forces.

On August 16, at a press conference on the results of his trip to Chechnya, Lebed demanded that Boris Yeltsin remove the Minister of Internal Affairs Anatoly Kulikov from his post and delegate the command of the federal forces in Chechnya to the Security Council Secretary: “You, Boris Nikolayevich, have a difficult choice - either Lebed , or Kulikov ... "," ... two birds cannot get along in one den ".

On August 17, General Konstantin Pulikovsky signed an order to end hostilities throughout the republic.

Khasavyurt agreements

On August 31, Alexander Lebed and Aslan Maskhadov met in the Dagestani Khasavyurt and signed a joint statement on " Principles for defining the foundations of the relationship between The Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic ".

The Principles called for the conclusion Russian army from the republic and the signing between Russia and Chechnya of a political agreement on the "postponed" status of the Chechen Republic until the end of 2001.

The agreements with the separatists and the de facto recognition of the independence of Ichkeria were sharply criticized by the left opposition and the Minister of Internal Affairs.

Criticism and resignation

On October 2, 1996, the Duma heard the reports of Alexander Lebed and Anatoly Kulikov. Kulikov, in particular, said that "the Khasavyurt agreements are fiction, they are a cover for unilateral, unlimited concessions in the most humiliating and destructive forms," turn of national treason "and compared the logic of the supporters of agreements with the logic of Vlasov and Petain.

Follow-up activities

In 1998, Alexander Lebed won the gubernatorial elections in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In his post, he tried to carry out reforms in the region, unsuccessfully fought the oligarchs - Vladimir Potanin, who headed Norilsk Nickel, and Anatoly Bykov, who controlled the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant, criticized the system of government in the country, and so on.

On April 28, 2002, the governor was killed in the crash of an Mi-8 helicopter near Lake Oyskoye.

Notes (edit)

1. A.I. Lebed It's a shame for the state ... M .: "Moskovskaya Pravda", 1995. P.10.
2. A.I. Lebed It's a shame for the state ... M .: "Moskovskaya Pravda", 1995. P.13.
3. A.I. Lebed It's a shame for the state ... M .: "Moskovskaya Pravda", 1995. P.54-160.
4. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
5. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
6. A.I. Lebed It's a shame for the state ... M .: "Moskovskaya Pravda", 1995. pp. 382-406.
7. General A.I. Swan. Tiraspol 1992 // Youtube, September 1992.
8. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
9. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
10. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
11. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
12. Pavel Grachev - "Komsomolskaya Pravda": "I am sorry that I agreed to become Minister of Defense" // Komsomolskaya Pravda, 23.09.2012.
13. Presidential Decree No. 1035 of July 17, 1996 "On the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation" // Yeltsin Center.
14. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
15. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
16. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
17. Chronicle of the armed conflict. Compiled by A.V. Cherkasov and O.P. Orlov. M .: HRC "Memorial". S.83-84.
18. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
19. Lebed Alexander Ivanovich // Panorama, July 1998.
20. Alexander Lebed died in a plane crash // Lenta.ru, 28.04.2002.

Born in Novocherkassk in a working class family.

In 1973 g. Graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Assault twice Red Banner School. Lenin Komsomol.
Then he served there as the commander of a training platoon.
1981-1982- was the commander of a limited contingent paratrooper battalion Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
1982-1985- studied at the Military Academy. M. Frunze, graduated with honors.

He was appointed deputy commander of an airborne regiment, then commander of an airborne regiment in Kostroma.
1986 - early 1988- Deputy commander of an airborne division in Pskov.
Since March 1988- Commander of the Tula Airborne Division.

Took part in operations in "hot spots" on the territory of the USSR:
late 1988 - early 1989... - Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Baku;
April 1989 - clashes in Tbilisi;
early 1990- unrest in Baku and a number of other cities of Azerbaijan.

1990 year- Delegate to the 28th Congress of the CPSU and the founding congress of the Russian Communist Party. He was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Central Committee of the RCP).
1990 year- received the rank of major general.
February 1991... - Appointed Deputy Commander of the Airborne Forces (Airborne Forces) for combat training and universities.
In August 1991 g. during a failed coup attempt, he took part in organizing the protection of the building of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in Moscow.
June 23, 1992 arrived in Tiraspol to liquidate the armed conflict in the region. Soon he was appointed commander of the 14th Guards Combined Arms Army in Transnistria.
June 1995 - transferred to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant general.
December 1995- Elected a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Tula constituency.

Participated in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation on June 16, 1996; won 14.7% of the vote, dropped out of the election campaign.

June 18, 1996 appointed Secretary of the Security Council, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation for National Security.
In July 1996 g. Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Higher Military Positions and Higher Special Ranks of the Council for Personnel Policy under the President of the Russian Federation.
Summer 1996 led the Russian delegation at the negotiations on the cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of federal troops from Chechnya.
Autumn 1996 removed from the post of secretary of the Security Council.

May 17, 1998 elected governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, having received about 60% of the votes in the second round of voting.
June 5, 1998 took office.

On April 28, 2002, he was tragically killed in a Mi-8 helicopter crash in the Ermakovsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Order of the Battle Red Banner, Red Star, "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" II and III degree, medal "For courage in a fire", silver personal medal of Honfleur (France, 1997), cross "For the defense of Transnistria" , a golden two-headed eagle (the highest award of the Russian Academy of Arts) for active participation in the development of the culture of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Laureate of the "Peace Prize" of the Hessian Institute for the Study of Peace and Conflict Situations for peacekeeping activities to end hostilities in Transnistria and Chechnya.
Laureate of the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation Prize - for the revival of the cadet movement.

Wife: Lebed Inna Aleksandrovna.
Children: sons Alexander and Ivan, daughter Catherine.

20.04.2010

Alexander Ivanovich Lebed was born on April 20, 1950 in the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov region in a family of workers. After graduation high school in 1967 he tried to enter the Kachin Flight School, but did not pass the medical examination. After that, he worked for a year as a grinder at the Novocherkassk permanent magnet plant.

After repeated failure with the Kachin school (did not pass in terms of "sitting growth") and unsuccessful attempt to enter the Armavir Aviation School for a year he worked as a loader in the Central grocery store of Novocherkassk. In the summer of 1969, after another failure with the Armavir Aviation School, he entered the Ryazan Airborne Command School.

Graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School named after the Lenin Komsomol in 1973, the Frunze Military Academy in 1985.

In 1973-1981. Alexander Lebed was the commander of a platoon, a company of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (VVDKU).

In 1981-1982. - commanded a battalion in Afghanistan. During the war he was wounded.

After graduating from the Military Academy from June to September 1985, Alexander Lebed served as deputy regiment commander in Ryazan.

From September 1985 to December 1986 he commanded an airborne regiment in Kostroma.

From December 1986 to March 1988, he was deputy division commander in Pskov.

From March 1988 to February 1991, Lebed commanded the Tula airborne division, with which he participated in hostilities and peacekeeping actions: in Baku (November 1988), Tbilisi (April 1989), Baku (January 1990) .).

In 1990, Alexander Lebed was promoted to the rank of Major General.

From February 1991 to June 1992, he was deputy commander of the Airborne Forces (Airborne Forces) for combat training and military educational institutions. During the attempted coup d'état on August 19-21, 1991, following the order of the commander of the Airborne Forces, a battalion of the Tula Airborne Forces under the command of Alexander Lebed took under protection the building of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.

From June 1992 to May 1995, Lebed commanded the 14th Army stationed in Transnistria. He was engaged in the elimination of the armed conflict in the region.

In June 1995 he was transferred to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant general.

Since December 1995, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in the Tula single-mandate constituency. In January 1996, he became a member of the State Duma Defense Committee.

In 1996, Alexander Lebed ran for the presidency of the Russian Federation, took third place in the first round (14.71% of voters voted for him - about 11 million people).

From June 18 to October 17, 1996, Lebed was Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation for National Security, Chairman of the Commission for Higher Military Positions, Higher Military and Higher Special Ranks of the Council on Personnel Policy under the President of the Russian Federation, then Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in Chechen Republic... With his participation, the Khasavyurt agreements - "Principles for determining the foundations of relations between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic" were developed and signed.

On May 17, 1998, Alexander Lebed was elected governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (he officially took office on June 5, 1998).

He was a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (from 1998 to November 2001; resigned as a member of the Federation Council in accordance with the new law "On the procedure for forming the Federation Council").

Supervised the interregional public organization"Peacekeeping Mission in the North Caucasus" established on June 27, 1998 in Pyatigorsk. By early 1999, the mission had freed 43 people.

He was the organizer and leader of the Russian People's Republican Party (RNRP).

Over the years of service, Alexander Lebed was awarded the Order of the "Battle Red Banner", "Red Star" - for Afghanistan, "For Service to the Motherland" 2nd and 3rd degree, the Cross "For the Defense of Transnistria", medals.

He was a laureate of the "Peace Prize" of the Hessian Institute for the Study of Peace and Conflict Situations (Germany) for peacekeeping activities to end hostilities in Transnistria and Chechnya (1998), laureate of the international prize of the Andrew the First-Called Foundation (2000).

Alexander Lebed was awarded the Golden Double-Headed Eagle with Diamonds - the highest award Russian Academy arts. He became the first official to receive an award from the Russian Academy of Arts for supporting artists and active participation in the development of culture in the Krasnoyarsk Territory (1999).

The Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Lebed, died on April 28, 2002 during the accident of the Mi-8 helicopter, on board of which he was. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow on April 30, 2002. On the anniversary of the death of Alexander Lebed, a bronze monument was unveiled at his grave.

Alexander Lebed is survived by a wife and three children (two sons and a daughter).

In the homeland of Alexander Ivanovich, in Novocherkassk, a street is named in his honor. On September 30, 2002, the name of Alexander Lebed was given to a newly built street in the regional center of Kuragino. In the Krasnoyarsk regional center, there is a cadet corps named after A. Lebed. A museum of the general was opened under him, where, in particular, his military awards are exhibited.

On February 8, 2003, by the decision of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the nameless summit of the Ergaki ridge of the Western Sayan Mountains was named "The Summit of Alexander Lebed".