Mykola Tsybulenko
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Mykola V. Tsybulenko (1942-1998) was a Ukrainian major general.

Gen. Tsybulenko
Tsybulenko
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 was born in the village of Veprik, Fastivskyi Raion
Fastivskyi Raion
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, Kiev Oblast
Kiev Oblast
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. He graduated from Caucasian Suvorov military school with a silver medal, the Leningrad higher military-command school, Frunze Military academy, Academy of Armed forces of Ukraine. Gen. Tsybulenko had a Ph.D. in military science and was an associate professor. 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.

After the collapse of Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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, Gen. Tsybulenko made a major contribution to the creation of the armed forces of newly independent Ukraine
Ukraine
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, especially in Crimea
Crimea
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. He was an active participant of the Union of Officers of Ukraine.

Gen. Tsybulenko was the founder and the first chief of the Odessa Army Institute. He was the first head of the foreign affairs department of the Ukrainian General Staff.

Gen. Tsybulenko took part in several armed conflicts. He had numerous decorations and medals of Soviet Union, and many foreign states. He was decorated with the Cross of the Union of former Ukrainian warriors in Canada, and with the Cross of the Union of Officers of Ukraine for patriotism and fidelity to the Ukrainian State (posthumously).

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