Alexander Ivanovich Lebed short biography. How Alexander Lebed died. Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory: a new round in the biography
Alexander Ivanovich Lebed. Born April 20, 1950 in Novocherkassk Rostov region- died April 28, 2002 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Russian politician and military leader, lieutenant general.
Father, Ivan Andreevich (1926-1978) - Ukrainian, from the village of Terny, Nedrigailovsky district, Sumy region, was in exile as the son of a fist. After the exile, he fought, demobilized - he arrived in Novocherkassk, where the sisters already lived. He worked at the school as a labor teacher. Owned specialties: car mechanic, carpenter, painter, roofer, stove-maker.
Mother, Ekaterina Grigorievna (1926-2014) (nee Maksyakova) - originally from the Ryazan region; since 1939 she lived in the city of Novocherkassk and worked all her life at the Novocherkassk city telegraph.
In June 1962, as a teenager, he witnessed the execution of demonstrators on Novocherkassk Square.
After graduating from high school three times, from 1967 to 1969, Alexander Lebed tried to enter the Armavir Flight School, but could not pass a medical examination due to exceeding the permissible height while sitting. He worked as a loader, and then as a grinder at the Novocherkassk plant of permanent magnets.
In 1969 he entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, graduating in 1973. After graduating from college, he served there as a commander of a training platoon, and then a company.
In 1981-1982 he took part in the fighting in Afghanistan: he commanded the first battalion of the 345th separate airborne regiment. During the war he was shell-shocked.
In 1982 he entered the M. V. Frunze Military Academy, from which he graduated with honors in 1985. After the academy, from June to September 1985, he was deputy commander of the 137th airborne regiment (Ryazan) of the 106th airborne division, from September 1985 to December 1986 - commander of the 331st airborne regiment (Kostroma) of the same division.
From December 1986 to March 1988 - Deputy Commander of the 76th Airborne Division (Pskov).
Since March 1988 - commander of the 106th Airborne Division, with which he participated in hostilities and peacekeeping operations, including the suppression of anti-Soviet protests in Tbilisi (April 1989) and Baku (January 1990).
From February 1991 to June 1992, simultaneously with the post of commander of the 106th Airborne Division, he was Deputy Commander of the Airborne Forces for combat training and military educational institutions.
On August 19, 1991, following the order of the State Emergency Committee in the person of the commander of the Airborne Forces P. Grachev, at the head of a battalion of Tula paratroopers, he surrounded the building of the white house of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, but the very next day he went over to the side of Boris Yeltsin's supporters, deploying tanks already in defense of the Supreme Soviet against the GKChP.
The general's brother, Colonel Alexei Lebed, commanded the 300th Airborne Regiment, located in the capital of Moldova in Chisinau. This regiment, together with the armament of the 14th army on the territory of the MSSR (except for the zone of the Transnistrian conflict - this is the left bank of the Dniester and the city of Bendery), during February-April 1992, Russia (as the assignee of the USSR), represented by General E. Shaposhnikov, donated the Republic of Moldova, which created its own national army; leaving the right in July-September 1992 to evacuate to Russia who do not want to swear allegiance to Moldova (including Colonel Alexei Lebed and most of the officers).
However, this issue of the transition under the oath of the Republic of Moldova did not concern the military units located in the zone of the Transnistrian conflict, since they were given a certain status of “military formations under the oath of the CIS” under the general command in Moscow of the CIS Commander-in-Chief E. Shaposhnikov. From 04/01/1992, the remaining military units "under the oath of the CIS" were subordinated to the Russian Ministry of Defense by decree of B. Yeltsin, and they were allowed to take the oath of Russia during April-July 1992, but many officers of these units (Parkanskaya military unit V in full force, part of the colonels and lieutenant colonels from the city of Tiraspol) preferred in the conditions of war and "armed neutrality of Russia" in May-June 1992 to take an oath of allegiance to the multinational people of Transnistria and enter the structures of the Ministry of Defense of the PMR and still take part in the war.
On June 23, 1992, under the call sign "Colonel Gusev", General Lebed arrived in Tiraspol with an inspection trip from the Ministry of Defense of Russia, since the officers of the army headquarters from 06/23/1992 refused to obey the commander of the 14th Guards Combined Arms Army, General Yu. Netkachev, accusing him of working for the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova during the armed conflict in Transnistria. In the context of the readiness of the overwhelming number of military personnel of the 14th Army to refuse to take the oath of Russia, which had shown its indecision, and their mass transition, along with weapons under oath, to the multinational people of Transnistria in the conditions of the Bendery tragedy of 19-22.06.1992, A. I. Lebed was sent to the location 14th Guards Combined Arms Army under a false name in order to preserve the army and its weapons for the Russian Ministry of Defense and prevent its transition (almost in full force) under the jurisdiction of the PMR.
On June 27, 1992, A. I. Lebed accepted an offer to become commander of the 14th Guards Combined Arms Army stationed in Transnistria. Officers from the inner circle of Y. Netkachev, who wished to take the oath of the Republic of Moldova, within three days were transferred to Chisinau under the command of Colonel Alexei Lebed, and General Yu. Netkachev, who compromised himself, was transferred to serve at the Military Academy in Moscow.
From September 12 to October 31, 1993, Alexander Lebed was a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. At the same time, he began to openly clash with the leadership of the PMR, accusing him of corruption. General Lebed went on an open attack on the leadership of the PMR, fulfilling B. Yeltsin's instructions on the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova, which undermined the positions of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, whose inhabitants considered that this was a targeted campaign to discredit the PMR, since, being unrecognized, it was incomparably greater degree than the states with official status, largely depended on the favorable or unfavorable public opinion about it, including in Russia. More and more confirmation was received by the information received from the Ministry of National Security of Moldova, according to which Alexander Lebed was assigned the role of "a battering ram in the dumping of the PMR government."
In October 1993, using his deputy status in the PMR, the general went for broke, and, taking advantage of the current political situation, made a false statement about the participation of military personnel of the Dniester battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PMR as "mercenaries" in protecting the building of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation . At the session of the Supreme Council of the PMR, A. I. Lebed provided "surname lists and numbers of personal weapons" of those who, in his opinion, were in Moscow in the armed formations of A. Makashov, but in fact it turned out that the "lists are fake", and in them there are people who died back in 1992 in Dubossary or became disabled during the Armed Conflict in the PMR in 1992 in Bendery, and the “numbers of personal weapons” turned out to be the numbers of machine guns from the weapons room of the headquarters of the 14th Army of Russia, which is already did not withstand any criticism.
At the same time, General Lebed was settling scores with former employees of the Riga OMON who had found a new place of residence in Pridnestrovie, revealing to the “general public” (and more specifically, to the Latvian special services and biased, anti-Pridnestrovian media) the pseudonyms of the ministers who became ministers state security and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PMR V. Shevtsov (Antyufeeva) and N. Matveeva (Goncharenko), former employees Riga OMON.
This was already done in November 1991 jointly by Latvia and Moldova: three officers of the Riga OMON, with the assistance of the Moldovan police, were taken from Tiraspol to Latvia, where they were imprisoned and tortured.
In the winter of 1994, A. I. Lebed disagreed with Pavel Grachev in his views on the Chechen conflict. In the summer of 1995, disagreeing with the order to reorganize the 14th Army into a peacekeeping OGRF as part of the SMS in the PR of the Republic of Moldova, he submitted a resignation letter; On June 15, 1995, by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on personnel No. 231, in pursuance of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 591 of June 14, 1995, he was relieved of his post and early dismissed from the ranks armed forces in the rank of lieutenant general in the reserve with the right to wear military uniforms. For impeccable service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, gratitude was declared by the same order.
He was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, the Red Star, other orders and medals.
He became interested in politics at the end of perestroika: in 1990 he was elected a delegate to the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU and the founding congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (CP RSFSR), at which he was elected a member of its central committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.
In April 1995, he joined the Congress of Russian Communities, headed by Yu. Skokov and D. Rogozin; He was elected Deputy Chairman of the National Council of the KRO.
In October 1995, he organized and headed the all-Russian public movement "Honor and Motherland", in December the movement was nominated as a candidate for the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the second in the top three of the Congress of Russian Communities (Skokov / Lebed / Glazyev) and ran in parallel in a single-mandate constituency from Tula .
On December 17, 1995, he was elected to the State Duma of the 2nd convocation from the Tula single-mandate constituency No. 176. He was a member of the People's Power deputy group, and was a member of the State Duma Defense Committee.
On January 11, 1996, at the next congress of the Congress of Russian Communities, an initiative group of delegates nominated a candidate for the presidency of Russia. During the first round of the presidential elections on June 16, 1996, as an independent candidate, he won 14.7% of the votes and took third place. In the second round of the elections, he supported B. N. Yeltsin, having received the post of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation "with special powers" during this pre-election agreement on June 18, and became the Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation for National Security. On his recommendation, General Rodionov was appointed Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.
From July 15 to October 3, 1996 - Chairman of the Commission on Highest Military Positions, Highest Military and Special Ranks of the Council on Personnel Policy under the President of the Russian Federation, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Chechen Republic. On August 31, 1996, together with Aslan Maskhadov, he signed the Khasavyurt agreements. After a conflict with the Minister of Internal Affairs A. Kulikov, who accused Lebed of preparing a coup d'etat, despite the support of A. Korzhakov, on October 17, 1996, he was dismissed.
In December 1996, at the congress, the Honor and Motherland movement was reorganized into the Russian People's Republican Party. Lebed became its chairman. After the tragic death, the party was reorganized into the People's Republican Party of Russia.
From May 17, 1998 - Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, won 59% of the votes in the second round. Officially took office on June 5th. Until November 2001, ex officio member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, resigned in accordance with the new federal law "On the procedure for forming the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation." As governor, he was known for loud statements about the situation in the region and the country as a whole. “They saw Yeltsin’s successor in him,” notes one of the Krasnoyarsk journalists of those years. Among the population he received the nickname "Governor-General".
He died on April 28, 2002 in a Mi-8 helicopter crash near Lake Oiskoe, on the Buibinskiy Pass (Krasnoyarsk Territory), where he, along with employees of his administration, flew to open a new ski slope. The helicopter crashed in the south of the Yermakovsky district, 50 km from the village of Aradan, colliding with a power line wire near the M-54 Yenisei highway, 100 km from the regional center - the village of Yermakovskoye. Alexander Lebed died from his wounds. According to the state commission, the cause of the disaster was "unsatisfactory preparation of the crew for the flight." It has been suggested that sabotage may have been the cause of the crash, and there are conflicting reports that the governor ordered the crew to continue flying despite bad weather, and denial of this. The lack of accurate aeronautical charts was also cited as the cause of the accident (the power line was not indicated on the available maps).
In 2004, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court sentenced helicopter commander Takhir Akhmerov to four years in prison to be served in a colony-settlement. Co-pilot Aleksey Kurilovich was sentenced to three years probation with a two-year probationary period.
He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
Family of Alexander Lebed:
Wife: Inna Alexandrovna Lebed (nee - Chirkova)
Children: Alexander (1972), Ekaterina (1973), Ivan (1979)
Brother: Lebed, Alexey Ivanovich
On Wednesday, the man responsible for the death of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, General Alexander Lebed, was released. The Sverdlovsk District Court of Krasnoyarsk granted the petition for parole of Takhir Akhmerov, the first pilot of the helicopter in which the Governor-General and seven other people accompanying him crashed to death on April 28, 2002. Takhir Akhmerov served half of the 4 years of imprisonment imposed on him as a punishment in a colony-settlement. He still does not consider himself guilty. As the pilot said immediately after his release, now he intends to try to return to flight work again.
Takhir Akhmerov worked as a driver in the colony - he drove the crew of the personal helicopter of the head of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in a "six". He says that he does not consider the sentence handed down to him light, and the punishment - proportionate. That is why he applied for parole. The leadership of the colony supported him. For 2 years, as the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Territory told Izvestia, the pilot has proven himself from the best side. This means that the outcome of the case was practically a foregone conclusion - the court had no reasons for refusal.
Akhmerov came to the court session without an escort. Everything was decided in 40 minutes. After that, the convict was taken to the colony, papers for parole were issued and released. Joyful Takhir Akhmerov said that after he improves his health, he will try to return to work. Although it is unlikely that a 53-year-old pilot will ever be allowed to sit at the helm.
The swan did not put pressure on the crew
Akhmerov still considers himself innocent, says that while flying the helicopter, he did not see any danger to its passengers. The pilot gave his first interview at large to Izvestia correspondent Alexander Makarov.
Izvestia: Takhir, clarify whether Alexander Lebed is to blame for what happened? After the disaster, many said that it was he who put pressure on the crew, insisting that you continue flying, although the weather conditions were bad.
Takhir Akhmerov: I already said in court that Lebed came into the cockpit only once - when he set the task for the flight.
Izvestia: Maybe you were oppressed by a sense of responsibility that you could not complete the task?
Akhmerov: I'm not a boy - 30 years of flight experience behind me. The prevailing conditions made it possible to continue the flight. If I saw that there was a real security threat, I would have deployed the helicopter.
Izvestiya: How did the prisoners treat you?
Akhmerov: Fine. 60 percent there are drivers who committed a crime through negligence. There was an accident, a person died, someone must be punished for this. The investigation found that it was they who exceeded the speed limit. Nobody is immune from this.
Izvestia: Two years ago, the court ordered you to pay legal costs. It was a serious amount. Did you manage to pay off?
Akhmerov: I have to pay 80,000 rubles as compensation for legal costs. I paid, it seems, 10 thousand. Money was automatically deducted from my salary. The victims have no financial claims against me - they are suing the airline. I read that Elena Lopatina (a journalist who flew with Lebed) won the lawsuit - she should be paid 500 thousand rubles. But her husband considered that this was not enough, and filed an appeal.
Izvestia: What will you do when you leave the colony?
Akhmerov: Health.
Lebed's associates still believe that he was killed
One of the associates of Alexander Lebed, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region Oleg Zakharov still believes that the governor was the victim of sabotage.
Remember, when it became known about the death of Alexander Ivanovich, the whole country exhaled: "They killed the Swan." At that time I was skeptical about this version. But then I met former GRU officers at the Novodevichy Cemetery. They, on their own initiative, went to the crash site and came to the unequivocal conclusion that it was a special operation. Several grams of explosives were attached to the propeller blades. The charge was activated from the ground. Under normal conditions, such damage to the helicopter is not terrible - it will simply "fall" into the air pocket by 10-20 m and again gain altitude or gently land. But here there was a collision with a power line - despite the skill of the pilots, who did everything that was humanly possible, the wire wound around the tail rotor.
How did Governor Lebed die?
On April 28, 2002, a Mi-8T helicopter with 17 passengers, headed by Governor Lebed, was on its way to the presentation of a new ski slope in the Yermakovsky region. According to the materials of the court, that flight at first took place with violations. There were more passengers than seats in the cabin, the flight map was old and too large, the weather forecast was unfavorable, and the pilots did not know the route to the landing point.
According to eyewitnesses, the fog in the mountains was a solid wall. However, "windows" periodically appeared in the sky. Since the pilots did not know the route well, Vasily Rogovoy, the head of the administration of the Yermakovsky district, was sent to them as a guide.
A thick wire of a high-voltage power line appeared just a few tens of meters in front of the windshield of the helicopter absolutely unexpectedly. The helicopter began to fall. According to experts, Akhmerov made a mistake - the car went up too sharply. The lead screw could not withstand the load - its blades bent and began to "chop" the tail of the helicopter. A moment later, one of the surviving tail rotor blades "wound" the lightning conductor wire. The car collapsed from a height of 66 m. Eight people died on the spot.
What happened after the accident?
Alexander Lebed is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery. A bronze monument was erected on the grave. Funds for it were collected by the entire Krasnoyarsk Territory, however, according to unofficial information, Oleg Deripaska, the head of Russian Aluminum, allocated most of the necessary amount. The Krasnoyarsk Cadet Corps, the streets in the village of Novouspenka, Ermakovsky District, Krasnoyarsk Territory, and in the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, are named after General Alexander Lebed.
Together with him, the deputy governor for social issues Kolba Nadezhda Ivanovna, the head of the regional tourism department Chernov Lev Yakovlevich, the head of the Ermakovskiy district Vasily Rogovoy, an employee of the Shushenskoye sanatorium Lev Konzinsky, the cameraman of the Krasnoyarsk state television and radio company Gareev Igor Vasilyevich, a correspondent for the television company "7th channel" died Pivovarova Natalya Viktorovna, correspondent of "Today's newspaper" Konstantin Stepanov.
Many of the survivors of this tragedy became disabled. Yelena Lopatina, a journalist for the Krasnoyarsky Rabochiy newspaper, suffered more than anyone else in that plane crash. She underwent 7 operations, but still moves with great difficulty. In order not to go crazy in four white walls, Elena Lopatina performs some duties in her newspaper. “The accident occurred due to general laxity and irresponsibility,” she says. “I can’t look at these people [pilots]. It was quite possible to sit down in the nearest settlement and drive by car.
Alexander Lebed is a Russian military man and politician. The general visited the war in Afghanistan, participated in the events of 1991, personally signed the Khasavyurt agreements, and, as governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, fought desperately against banditry, corruption and drunkenness of the inhabitants. Once in his youth he dreamed of a career as a pilot, but it was the sky that killed him.
Childhood and youth
Alexander Ivanovich was born into a family of workers in Novocherkassk (Rostov Region). Father, a native of Ukraine, spent two years in the camp for two 5-minute delays to work, went through the Great Patriotic War. In peacetime, being an excellent car foreman, painter and carpenter, he taught labor lessons to schoolchildren. Mom worked all her life at the local telegraph office.
At the age of 5, Sasha had a younger brother Alexei, who in the future also made a career as a military man and politician. Alexander from his youth was friends with sports, was fond of boxing and played chess masterfully. He also dreamed about the sky, he was going to become a pilot. After school, he surprised me with his loyalty to his dream - for three years in a row he stubbornly tried to conquer admission committee Armavir flight school.
However young man each time the doctors were rejected educational institution- in a sitting position exceeded the norms of permissible growth. Between admissions, he earned money as a loader in a store. And then he became a student at the Polytechnic University and worked for a year as a grinder at a factory in his native city.
Military service
In the piggy bank of a man are several certificates of education. The desire to become a pilot resulted in a military career. Lebed sat down at the desk of the Ryazan Airborne School, where he later remained in command of a training platoon and a company. Another diploma, and with honors, he received at the Military Academy. Frunze.
Alexander Ivanovich went through the Afghan war as a battalion commander of paratroopers, where he even received a shell shock. In the 1980s, he expanded his service record with the ranks of commander and his deputy of the airborne regiments of Ryazan, Kostroma and Pskov. And before perestroika, he participated in the suppression of riots against the Soviet regime that broke out in Azerbaijan and Georgia. In 1990, Lebed rose to the rank of major general.
During the coup d'état in August 1991, the man was the deputy commander of the Airborne Forces and was directly involved in historical events- Together with the Tula paratroopers, he besieged the building of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. However, not even a day had passed before Lebed joined his comrades-in-arms.
After that, Alexander Ivanovich led the liquidation of the armed conflict in Transnistria for three years, trying to save the army and weapons for the Russian Ministry of Defense. And in 1995, they put an end to the military career, having already dismissed the lieutenant general in the reserve. Lebed himself filed a report, disagreeing with the idea of reorganizing the troops. The paratrooper reserved the right to wear a military uniform and opened the door to big politics.
Policy
By the end of 1995, a former communist, a party member, was already sitting in the chair of a State Duma deputy from the Tula constituency, and a month later he announced his own candidacy in the presidential elections.
Success accompanied Alexander Ivanovich - according to the results of the first round, he made it to the top three, gaining almost 15% of the vote. But at the second stage, he expressed support for Yeltsin in exchange for the post of Secretary of the Russian Security Council, while receiving "special powers." The status of Assistant to the President for National Security was added to the post.
In a new role, Alexander Lebed participated in the development of the Khasavyurt agreements - in the documents regulating relations between the Russian Federation and Chechnya and the cessation of hostilities on Chechen lands, there is also his signature. In autumn, a terrible political scandal erupted. At the suggestion of the Minister of Internal Affairs Anatoly Kulikov, the military man was falsely accused of preparing a military coup d'état and dismissed.
In 1998 political biography Lebed was supplemented by the post of governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. 59% of the population voted in his favor. The elections were held with high-profile scandals - they found a lot of violations on the part of applicants for the position, even a couple of criminal cases were opened.
The new governor took over the leadership of the region at the beginning of the summer and immediately quarreled with the top of the Norilsk Nickel Plant, who paid only a third of taxes to the regional budget. The plant actually stood on the lands of the region, but the Norilsk Mining Company was registered in Taimyr, which took the lion's share of taxes. To eliminate injustice, Alexander Ivanovich did not have enough authority.
The head of the region tried to apply radical measures to a number of issues. The general limited the sale of alcohol, announced the delay in salaries for employees of the regional administration until the issue of debts to representatives is resolved public sector, came into conflict with business, convicting entrepreneurs of criminal ties with bandits.
Alexander Lebed had his own view on the management of the state and regions. The man believed that the bulk of the income of the regions should remain “at home”, economic issues should be resolved only by the locals, otherwise it would be impossible, because Russia is too big. The swan mentioned a famous joke:
“Until the signal from the head of the dinosaur reaches the tail, it must be turned in the opposite direction, and there is no feedback at all.”
The people treated Lebed differently. Someone brought down loud criticism of him, accusing him of ignorance of local problems, because the governor's team consisted mainly of Muscovites. Others appreciated the contribution to development native land, because during the economic crisis, when neighboring regions experienced a terrible decline, the Krasnoyarsk Territory felt good against their background.
Personal life
Alexander Ivanovich met his future wife, a mathematics teacher by education, when he worked as a grinder at a factory. After four years of meetings, in 1971, Inna Alexandrovna agreed to marry a young man.
Three children were born in the family. The eldest son Sasha graduated from the Tula Polytechnic University and devoted his life to the field of cybernetics. Daughter Ekaterina is also a graduate of this university, married to a military man. The youngest son Ivan studied at the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman. The children gave their parents three grandchildren.
Alexander Lebed was known as a supporter of a healthy lifestyle, since 1993 he completely abandoned alcohol. He joked that now he is the only fundamentally sober person in the country. Every day the man went for a run, and in winter he went skiing. In his free time, he liked to sit in silence with a book, he preferred the classics of Russian literature - he liked the works of and.
Yes, and Alexander Ivanovich himself tried his hand at writing. Two books came out from under his pen - "It's a shame for the state" and "The ideology of common sense."
In November 1996, Lebed visited America and made friends there with. The men kept in touch until the general's death. The actor even came to the Krasnoyarsk Territory to support a friend in the elections.
Death
April 28, 2002 - the date of the death of Alexander Lebed. The general flew to the presentation of the newly built ski slope. A helicopter with the governor and members of the administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory crashed near the village of Aradan, colliding with a power line.
The blame for the tragedy was placed on the inexperienced crew of the Mi-8. However, there was room for other assumptions. One of them - several grams of explosives were attached to the blades of the helicopter propeller.
The widow of the deceased general expressed condolences to the entire top of the government, from and ending with the Minister of Defense. Alexander Lebed rests in the capital of Russia at the Novodevichy cemetery.
Awards
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of the Red Star
- Two Orders "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Order of Suvorov
- Golden double-headed eagle with diamonds (the highest award of the Russian Academy of Arts)
In the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, in a family of workers. After graduating from high school in 1967, he tried to enter the Kachinsky Flight School, but did not pass the medical board. After that, he worked for a year as a grinder at the Novocherkassk plant of permanent magnets.
After repeated failure with the Kachinsky School (did not pass in terms of "sitting growth") and an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Armavir Aviation School, he worked for a year 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.
He graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School named after Lenin Komsomol in 1973, the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze in 1985.
In 1973-1981, Alexander Lebed was a platoon commander, company of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (VVDKU).
From February 1991 to June 1992, he was deputy commander of the Airborne Forces (VDV) for combat training and military educational institutions. During the coup attempt on August 19-21, 1991, following the order of the commander of the Airborne Forces, the battalion of the Tula Airborne Forces under the command of Alexander Lebed guarded the building of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.
From June 1992 to May 1995, Lebed commanded the 14th Army stationed in Transnistria. Engaged in the elimination of 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. Since 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 3rd 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 on Highest Military Positions, Highest Military and Highest Special Ranks of the Council on Personnel Policy under the President of the Russian Federation, then Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Chechen Republic. With his participation, the Khasavyurt agreements were developed and signed - "Principles for determining the foundations of relations between Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic.
On May 17, 1998, Alexander Lebed was elected governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (officially took office on June 5, 1998).
Was a member of the Federation Council Federal Assembly 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").
Led the interregional public organization"Peacekeeping mission in the North Caucasus", established on June 27, 1998 in Pyatigorsk. By early 1999, the mission had released 43 people.
He was the organizer and leader of the Russian People's Republican Party (RNRP).
During the years of service, Alexander Lebed was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of War, the Order of the Red Star - for Afghanistan, "For Service to the Motherland" of the 2nd and 3rd degrees, the cross "For the Defense of Transnistria", and medals.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from open sources
The absurd death of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, General Alexander Lebed, will be overgrown with a mountain of rumors and speculation in the coming days. There is still little reliable information, but everything that is known about the circumstances of yesterday's state of emergency indicates that it was a tragic accident.
The Mi-8 helicopter, in which Alexander Lebed was flying, took off from the Cheremshanka airport in Krasnoyarsk at 7.45 am local time. Only the crew was on board, commanded, according to the airport administration, by "one of the most experienced pilots - pilot Akhmerov." "They went to the village of Sosny, where the residence of our governor is located, they took him and other passengers there and flew to Ermakovskoye," an employee of the Cheremshanka transportation department told an NG correspondent: in addition to employees of the regional administration, film crews were also on board the governor's helicopter groups of the news program "X" of the Krasnoyarsk State Television and Radio Company (KSTR), the seventh TV channel and employees of several newspapers in Krasnoyarsk.
In Krasnoyarsk itself, according to our interlocutor, the weather was wonderful: "It was sunny, warm and clear for us - there were no obstacles for the flight." Having picked up the governor and accompanying people in Sosny, Akhmerov's helicopter headed towards the village of Ermakovskaya: in its vicinity, not far from the Buibinskiy pass, a ski slope was to be opened that day.
At this time, in the area of the village, according to its residents, sleet and rain fell and nothing was visible within a radius of 25 meters. According to the participants in the investigation into the circumstances of the disaster, it was the weather that caused the tragedy. At 10:15 local time, the governor's helicopter, descending under the snow, hit the power lines with its blades and crashed to the ground on the 604th km of the Krasnoyarsk-Kyzyl highway near Lake Olskoye. Residents of the village of Ermakovskaya, near which the Mi-8 crashed, told an NG correspondent that while the helicopter was flying, nothing special happened: “There were no flashes, no pops, no explosion. Everything happened suddenly, for no reason at all We really didn’t understand ... "
As the NG correspondent was told in the Department of Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Republic of Khakassia, as soon as the incident became known (the accident was witnessed by police officers on duty on the highway), an ambulance helicopter was sent to the accident site. It was he who was supposed to deliver Alexander Lebed, who was dying, to the intensive care unit of the city hospital of Abakan. Local doctors were already preparing the operating room, but the governor died on the way to the Abakan airport. "The injuries received by Alexander Ivanovich as a result of the disaster were incompatible with life," the rescuers noted.
Immediately after the news of what happened in Krasnoyarsk, a headquarters was created to investigate the causes of the disaster under the leadership of the first deputy governor of the region Nikolai Ashlapov (it is he who, according to the Charter of the region, will now act as governor) and the chairman of the regional Legislative Assembly Alexander Uss. At 16:00 local time, they held a press conference at which the first results of the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy were announced.
19 people were flying on board the crashed Mi-8. Yesterday, the death of eight of them was confirmed. Opens the list of victims of the disaster Governor Alexander Lebed. In addition to him, among the dead are the governor's press secretary Gennady Klimik, the deputy governor for social issues Nadezhda Kolba, the deputy chairman of the regional sports committee Lev Chernov, the head of the administration of the Yermakovsky district Vasily Rogovoy, the operator of the X program Igor Goreev, the operator of the seventh TV channel Stanislav Smirnov and journalist of "Today's newspaper" Konstantin Stepanov. All other passengers, including the chairman of the regional sports committee, Gennady Tonachev, the journalist of the KGTR, Emma Mamutova, and the deputy editor-in-chief of the Krasnoyarsky Rabochiy newspaper, Elena Lopatina, were taken to intensive care in a serious condition.
To investigate the circumstances of the death of Alexander Lebed and other participants in the flight yesterday, by order of the government, a commission was set up under the leadership of Minister of Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu. Last night, he was supposed to fly to Krasnoyarsk to participate in the work of investigators at the scene of the emergency. In addition, the CIS Interstate Aviation Committee will also investigate the crash: its commission is headed by Valery Chernyaev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, the United Russia party, as well as many political and military leaders of Russia and the CIS countries expressed their condolences to the widow and brother of Alexander Lebed, as well as to the families and friends of the victims. As Alexander Lebed's brother Alexei said yesterday, the family of the deceased governor intends to bury him in Moscow. However, it is still unknown when the general's body will be delivered first to Krasnoyarsk, and then to the capital.
