Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a Alexander Lebed i te taone o Novocherkassk, i te rohe o Rostov, i te tau 1950. I tona tamarikitanga ehara ia i te akonga kino engari he pai ki a ia te mekemeke me te chess. I tipu ake ia i roto i te rawakore. Ko tōna pāpā he kamura, i whiua ki te whitu tau i roto i tētahi puni mahi Gulag mō te taenga wawe ki te mahi e rua ngā wā, ā, i kite ia i te
Te kohurutanga o Novocherkassk i te tau 1962. I taua wā i mahi ia i tētahi wheketere. I whakatauhia ia kia noho hei paratrooper ka uru atu ia ki te Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School i te 1969, ka noho hei kaihauturu me te rangatira o te kamupene i a ia i reira. I te tau 1982, hei rangatira mo nga Ropu Rererangi o te Soviet, i riro a Lebed hei rangatira o te ope i Afghanistan i te pakanga a Soviet i reira. I a ia e noho ana i Afghanistan, i rongonui a Lebed ki nga hoia i raro i tana whakahau. I mau ia i tenei tuunga tae noa ki te 1982 i taua wa i haere ia ki te Frunze Military Academy. I roto i ana mahi ko te mema o te tari tangihanga i te wa o te mate maha i waenga i te gerontocracy Soviet, tae atu ki nga rangatira Soviet e toru.