Alexander Lebed

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Russian general (1950-2002)

PoliticiansLived 1950 to 2002 · aged 52

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Fame61.7

Momentum22.9

Languages28

In century#3,985

Also inDeutsch

Photos 5

Lebed with President Vladimir Putin, 2002

Lebed on a 2007 stamp of Transnistria

Lebed on a 2017 stamp of Transnistria

Statue of Aleksandr Lebed in Bender, Moldova

Awards 19

1998Peace Prize of Hesse

Order of the Red Banner

Order of the Red Star

Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 2nd class

Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class

Medal "For Courage in a Fire"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For Impeccable Service"

Badge "To a Warrior-Internationalist"

Medal "To a Warrior-Internationalist from the Grateful Afghan People"

Order of Suvorov

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class

Russian Federation Government Certificate of Honour

In their orbit 1

SiblingAleksey Lebed

Connected to Alexander 6

Alexander RutskoyAlso won Order of Suvorov

Martti AhtisaariAlso won Peace Prize of Hesse

Dzhokhar DudayevAlso won Medal "To a Warrior-Internationalist from the Grateful Afghan People"

Aslan MaskhadovAlso won Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 2nd class

Anatoly SobchakAlso won Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"

Edita PiekhaAlso won Medal "To a Warrior-Internationalist from the Grateful Afghan People"

About this person

Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the Airborne Forces before running for president in the 1996 Russian presidential election. He did not win, but placed third behind incumbent Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, with roughly 14% of the vote nation-wide. Lebed later served as the Secretary of the Security Council in the Yeltsin administration, and eventually became the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, the second largest Russian region. He served four years in the latter position, until his death following an Mi-8 helicopter crash.