- "Aleksey was a very good friend. He and I were very close and I would've wished I showed him Wakanda before his death happened."
- ―Azzuri
Aleksey Lebedev was a Russian and Soviet war hero who was the first person to take on the mantle of the Red Guardian and a good friend to Prince Azzuri of Wakanda. Before World War II, he was among a number of specially trained male and female soldiers that were part of Project Rebirth, in which they were given a variant of the Super-Soldier Serum that was created by Doctor Lyudmila Antonovna Kudrin, who was a friend to Doctor Abraham Erskine. However, Aleksey was killed during the Great Terror in 1937.
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Aleksey Lebedev on the Marvel Wiki