Biography Alexander Lebed

Born on April 20 in the Novocherkassk of the Rostov region - died on April 28 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Russian politician and military leader, lieutenant general. Born on April 20 in the city of Novocherkassk in the Rostov region in a working family. Father, Ivan Andreevich - Ukrainian, from the village of Turnny Nedrigailovsky district of the Sumy region, was in exile as the son of a kulak. After the link, he fought, demobilized - arrived in Novocherkassk, where sisters already lived.

He worked at the school as a labor teacher. He owned specialties: a car mechanic, a carpenter, a painter, a roofer, a stove. Mother, Ekaterina Grigoryevna, nee Maksyakova - originally from the Ryazan region; Since the year, she lived in the city of Novocherkassk and worked all her life on the Novocherkassk city telegraph. In June, as a teenager, he was a witness to the execution of demonstrators in the Square of Novocherkassk.

After graduation, three times, from a year to a year, Alexander Lebed tried to enter the Armavir Lyubov School, but could not go through the medical board due to the exceeding the permissible growth of sitting. He worked as a loader, and then a grinder at the Novocherkassk plant of permanent magnets. In the year he entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, which he graduated from the year.

After graduating from the school, he served there as the commander of a training platoon, and then a company. In the years he took part in the hostilities in Afghanistan: he commanded the first battalion of the separate parachute-long regiment. During the war, he was shell -shocked. In the year he entered the Military Academy named after M. Frunze, which he graduated with honors of the year.

After the Academy, from June to September, he was the deputy commander of the parachute-parachute regiment of the Ryazan of the Airborne Division, from September to December-the commander of the parachute regiment of the city of Kostroma of the same division. From December for the March of the year - Deputy Commander of the Airborne Division of the city since March - the commander of the airborne division, with whom he participated in the hostilities and peacekeeping shares, including the suppression of anti -Soviet speeches in Tbilisi April and Baka January from February to June - simultaneously with the post of commander of the airborne division was the deputy commander Airborne troops on combat training and military educational institutions.

This regiment, together with the armament of the army in the territory of the MSSR, in addition to the zone of the Transnistrian conflict, is the left bank of the Dniester and G. Shaposhnikov to the Republic of Moldova, which created its own national army; Leaving the right in July-September to evacuate to Russia who do not want to swear allegiance to Moldova, including Colonel Alexei Lebed and most officers.

However, this issue of the transition under the oath of the Republic of Moldova did not concern military units located in the zone of the Transnistrian conflict, since it was given a certain status of “military units, under the oath of the CIS” under the general command of the commander-in-chief of the CIS Eltsin are subordinated to the Russian Ministry of Defense, and they were allowed to take the jaws of Russia during April, but of the year Many officers of these units of the Parkan military unit in full force, some of the colonels and lieutenant colonels from the city of Tiraspol preferred in the conditions of the war and the “armed neutrality of Russia” in the May-June of the year to take the oath of allegiance to the multinational people of the Transnistria and enter the structures of the Ministry of Defense of the PMR and still accept the fate in the war.

Netkachev, accusing him of working at the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova during an armed conflict in Transnistria. In an atmosphere of readiness of the vast majority of military personnel of the army, to refuse to accept the oath of the indecisiveness of Russia and their transition, along with the armed for the oath of the multinational people of Transnistria in the context of the Bender tragedy, the swan in the location of the Guards Combined Arms under a stranger in order to maintain the army and its weapons for the Ministry of Defense of Russia and the lack of its crossing Almost in full force for the jurisdiction of the PMR.

Swan accepted the proposal to become the commander of the Guards Combined Arms Army, deployed in Transnistria. Officers from the close circle of Yu. Netkachev, who wished to take the oath of the Republic of Moldova, were transferred to Chisinau to the subordination of Colonel Alexei Lebed for three days, and General Yu. Netkachev was transferred to the military academy in Moscow.

Then he began to openly conflict with the leadership of the PMR, accusing him of corruption. Yeltsin on the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova, which undermined the positions of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, whose residents considered that this is a focused campaign to discredit the PMR, since being unrecognized, it is incomparably greater than the states with official status, largely depended on the favorable or unfavorable public opinion about it, including in Russia.The information received from the Ministry of National Security of Moldova, according to which Alexander Lebed, was assigned the role of “Taran in the reset of the PMR government”.

In October of the year, taking advantage of his deputy status in the PMR, the general went to Va-Bank, and, taking advantage of the current political situation, made a false statement about the participation of military personnel of the Battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PMR “Dniester” as “mercenaries” in the protection of the building of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation.

Swan provided “Popamile lists and personal weapons” of those who, in his opinion, were in Moscow in armed formations of A. Makashova, however, it turned out that it turned out that the “lists are linden”, and they have people who died back in OM in Dubossary or who became disabled during the armed conflict in the PMR in OM in Benders, and the “personal weapons numbers” turned out to be numbers from the arms rooms of the Russian Army headquarters, which could no longer withstand any criticism.

At the same time, General Lebed took scores with those who had gained a new place of residence in Transnistria by former Riga riot police officers, revealing for the “general public” and more specifically for the Latvian special services and biased, anti -conquest media pseudonyms that became Ministers of State Security and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PMR V.

Shevtsov Antyufeev and N. On November, jointly by Latvia and Moldova: three employees of the Riga riot police, with the assistance of the Moldovan police, were taken from Tiraspol to Latvia, where they were imprisoned and tortured. In the winter of the year, A. Lebed divorced with Pavel Grachev in his views on the Chechen conflict. For impeccable service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, gratitude was announced by the same order.

He was awarded the orders of the Red Banner, Red Star, other orders and medals. In April, he joined the Congress of Russian communities, led by Yu. Skokov and D. Rogozin; He was elected deputy chairman of the National Council of KRO. He was a member of the deputy group "Destructivity", was a member of the State Duma Committee on Defense. In the second round of elections, B. Yeltsin supported, receiving during this election agreement on June 18 the post of secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation “with special powers”, became an assistant to the President of the Russian Federation on national security.

With his recommendation, General Rodionov, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, was appointed. From July 15 to October 3 - Chairman of the Commission on Higher Military Positions, the Higher Military and Special Railways of the Council on Presidential Policy under the President of the Russian Federation, plenipotentiary representative of the President of Russia in the Chechen Republic.

After the conflict with the Minister of Internal Affairs A. Kulikov, who accused Lebed of the preparation of the coup, despite the support of A. Korzhakov, on October 17 was dismissed. In December, at the Congress, the Movement and Homeland movement was reorganized into the “Russian People's Republican Party”. Swan became its chairman. After the tragic death, the party was reorganized into the “People's Republican Party of Russia”.

Officially took office on June 5. Until November, a member of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in position, he resigned his authority in accordance with the new Federal Law “On the Procedure for the Formation of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation”. As the governor, he was known for loud statements on the situation in the region and the country as a whole.

It “saw Yeltsin’s replacement,” says one of the Krasnoyarsk journalists of those years. Among the population received the nickname "Governor General." He died on April 28 of the year during the Mi-8 helicopter disaster in the Oiskoye Lake area, Krasnoyarsk Territory on the Buybinsky pass, where he, along with his administration, flew to the opening of a new ski route. The helicopter crashed in the south of the Ermakovsky district 50 km from the village of Aradan, faced with a wire of power lines near the Yenisei highway, in a km from the district center - the village of Ermakovskoye.

Alexander Lebed died of the wounds received. According to the State Commission, the cause of the disaster was the "unsatisfactory preparation of the crew for the flight." There were assumptions that the cause of the disaster could be a sabotage, and there were also conflicting data, that the governor ordered the crew to continue the flight despite imperfect weather, and the denial of this.

As the causes of the accident, the absence of accurate air navigation cards on the existing maps was not indicated. The power line was not indicated. In the year, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court sentenced the commander of the helicopter Tahira Akhmerov to the four years in prison with the serving of a sentence in a penal colony. The second pilot Alexei Kurilovich was convicted for three years conditionally with a test period of two years.

He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.