Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev (Russian: Вячеслав Михайлович Лебедев; 14 August 1943 – 23 February 2024) was a Russian lawyer and jurist who served as the Chief Justice of Russia from 1989 until his death in 2024.

[3] He attended the law faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1968.

[4] Lebedev began work in 1969 as a human resources functionary of a department of the Ministry of Industrial Construction of the USSR.

[5] On July 26, 1989, Lebedev was appointed Chairman of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR.

In May 1993, Lebedev was part of the working commission tasked with refining the presidential draft of the Constitution.