Суворовское военное училище
General Tsybulenko was born in the village of Vepryk, Fastivskyi Raion, Kyiv Oblast. He graduated from Caucasian Suvorov Military School with a silver medal. He is also an alumnus of the Leningrad Higher Military-Command School, the Frunze Military Academy, and the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In 1992, he was elected as a member-correspondent of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine with a specialty of communications. He served on command positions in various military districts of Soviet Union and abroad.