Alexander Tsybulsky was born in Moscow on 15 July 1979. In 2001 he graduated from the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. From 1996 to 2005, he served in the Russian Armed Forces. In 2006 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Business. Since 2006, he worked in the department of foreign economic relations of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia. In the period from 2008 to 2010 he was an assistant to the Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, Viktor Basargin. From 2010 to 2011 he was the Deputy Director, and in 2011-2013, the Director of the Department of International Relations and Development of Cross-Border Cooperation of the Ministry of Regional Development. From January to March 2013, Director of the Department for Coordination of State Sector Programs of the Ministry of Regional Development. In March 2013, he moved to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, to the post of assistant head of the department, Andrey Belousov. Since June 2013, he became an assistant to the new minister, Alexei Ulyukayev. From September to December 2013, he became the Director of the Department of the activities of the head of the Ministry of Economic Development. On November 19, 2014 Aleksandr Tsybulsky was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation for Alexey Ulyukaev. But after the arrest of Ulyukayev and his resignation in connection with the loss of the president's confidence, on November 30, 2016 he was appointed as Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development, under Maxim Oreshkin. In 2014, he studied at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation under the Master of Business Administration program. Actual state adviser of the Russian Federation of II class. He speaks English, Greek and French. In 2015 he was awarded the medal "For Services to the Fatherland" of the second degree. On September 28, 2017, he was appointed as acting governor of the Nenets Autonomous District, when Igor Koshin decided to leave the post.. He was formally elected as governor on 1 October 2018. On 2 April 2020, he resigned as governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and was appointed as Acting Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast by Russian President Vladimir Putin.